Bradley Kramer

Dr. Brad Kramer is the Department Head and Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering at Kansas State University.  He holds the Ike and Letty Evans Engineering Chair and served as the IMSE Department Head for more than thirty years.  He co-founded the Technology Development Institute and led it to become fully soft-funded with more than $3M in annual expenditures. During his career, he has earned more than $30M in competitive funding and has been recognized with awards for outstanding teaching, outstanding advising, and for being an outstanding academic department head.  He and his wife, Joyce, have been married for 47 years.  They have three children and eleven grandchildren.