Michael Heighes is an R&D Engineer at Idaho National
Laboratory. After seven years as an ASE certified automotive technician,
Michael went on to receive his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from
Idaho State University in 2011. Michael has qualified training by Instron and experience
on both servo-electric and servo-hydraulic load frames and relevant software.
He continues to maintain and look to increase the capability of the irradiation
assisted stress corrosion cracking equipment at the Idaho National Laboratory.