Brother Brad Edwards has been featured in several magazines and penned a few books of his own for his patent pending space elevator research. He has been made an example to his others from his hard work and determination in the field of engineering.
Today he ’s President of X Tech, Inc. a small company formed to address space elevator related research issues. He is also President of Carbon Designs, a small company developing high-strength materials, and a board member at Spaceward, Colony Fund I, and Bakkura. He recently switched from his position as Director of Research for the Institute for Scientific Research. There he was responsible for technical direction of the multidisciplinary research institute. His projects there included the space elevator, intelligent flight control systems, in-space propulsion development, power generation systems including nuclear gas core reactors, high-performance computing and simulations, and development of sensors for UAV and space missions. He was also responsible for the direction of research, management of 70 researchers, financial tracking, staffing and new business.
Brother Edwards is a co-founder of HighLift Systems and former senior scientist at Eureka Scientific. At both facilities he led development of a space elevator system, acquired NASA funding, and was responsible for technical development He was also responsible for managerial, recruiting and administrative activities.
Prior that Brother Edwards was a Technical Staff Member at Los Alamos National Laboratory. There he led the multi-institutional Europa Ocean Discovery mission development program, directed development of the world’s first optical cryocooler, and spearheaded development of a superconducting tunnel junction detector research program.
His distinctions include; Distinguished Performance Award from Los Alamos National Laboratory, Letter of Commendation from the Department of Energy, Program committee for SPIE conferences in 1997, participant on NASA ’s Science Definition Team for NASA’s Europa mission, sat on the NASA Constellation-X technology review panel, and was the Conference organizer for three space elevator conferences, Space and Robotics 2002, Space Exploration 2005, SPIE, and IAC 2004.
He is currently on track to hold more than a score of patents. While an undergraduate, Brad was a scholastic star studying Physics and he did his part to improve the house ’s academic standards and reputation on campus. In addition, Brad served as an editor on Th e Exponent Th e Exponent, Purdue’s newspaper.
We can ’t wait to see brother Edwards representing our organization for brothers around the country the next time he’s asked to be on TV or in the newspaper.
