Overview
Brandon has built his career in the aviation industry for over 15 years, spending the most recent 13 years in NIAR’s Full-Scale Structural Test Lab. While at NIAR, he has worked on or led several commercial and DoD full-scale testing projects as the research engineering manager. Most recently, Brandon has moved into the directorship for the Full-Scale team, providing leadership and guidance to an excellent experienced staff of student assistants, test technicians, instrumentation professionals, research engineers, program managers, technical writers and supervisors within the lab.
A proud graduate of Wichita State University, Brandon earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and MBA. He is committed to continuing education, assisting in furthering the professional growth and development of the great staff he has, and investigating ways to combine new tools with proven techniques to expand the capabilities of Full Scale testing for both the aviation and many other related industries.