About W. Talion Edwards

BSME 1997, UMR

MSME 2000, Washington University

Talion is the Senior Technical Fellow for 3D Measurement and Reverse Engineering and is the Chief Engineer for the Boeing Product Teardown Team. He is a member of the Board of Directors for the Coordinate Metrology Society (CMS), where he founded an effort to establish a central industry certification for measurement practitioners. He holds 25 U.S. patents on topics including 3D imaging, X-ray backscatter, non-destructive evaluation, FOD detection, and feature recognition.

Talion lives in New Melle, MO, and has three daughters. Evie is a computer engineer working at Boeing. Neely and Grace are both currently at Mizzou and studying large animal veterinary medicine and nursing respectively. In his spare time, Talion enjoys brewing beer, working on high performance cars, traveling, CrossFit, and triathlon, where he is currently training for an Ironman.