Jay Seidel

Jay Seidel is a professor and the director of the Fullerton Drone Lab at Fullerton College where he trains pilots and helps to develop workforce skills. He is a Part 107 certified UAS Pilot, and an AUVSI TOP (Level 3) UAV Instructor who guided the Fullerton program to become an ASTM Certified Training Center and the establishment of the country’s first registered apprenticeship proram in drone piloting.  Jay is a representative of the FAA’s Safety Team where he is the Drone Pro for Orange and Los Angeles counties. He regularly speaks across Southern California communities about drone safety, regulations, and drone education. He is president of the California Chapter of AUVSI (Association for Uncrewed Vehicle Systems International) and is also a certified thermographer and trains students on acquiring and interpreting thermal images and data. He has taught drone courses at Cal State Long Beach and Cal State Channel Islands and has authored the drone training textbook Drones: Training and Applications to Digital Imaging, now in its fourth edition.