Dylan Crocker was born in Lebanon, MO in 1988 and was homeschooled before starting college at Ozarks Technical Community College in 2007. He was awarded a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology in December 2011 and is currently pursuing the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Missouri S&T. He is working in the area of embedded sensing with Dr. Kristen Donnell and the Applied Microwave Nondestructive Testing Laboratory (amntl). Dylan lives in Rolla, MO with his wife Grace and daughter Karis.