In addition to Center Campus Coordinator he serves as the PI and director of the NSF SPACT REU site. Prior to joining SDSMT in 2011, Crawford worked first as a senior engineer and later as an engineering manager in an advanced microelectronic packaging research and development organization at Intel Corporation. He has served as major professor for 10 grad students (3 Ph.D., 7 M.S.) and directly advised 13 undergraduate researchers.