Aidan Stewart

B.S. Manufacturing & Mechanical Engineering Technology

Texas A&M University — College Station, TX

Deputy Lead

The Fab Lab — Texas A&M

• Own and solely maintain the lab's website, tfl.aidanstew.art.
• Continually develop and improve the lab to make it the most capable makerspace on campus.

Teaching Assistant, Prototyping for Engineers

The Fab Lab — Texas A&M

• Manage, teach, and design a class focused on providing students with the hard skills they need to effectively prototype designs.

Staff

The Fab Lab — Texas A&M

• Helped build Texas A&M's first free, open-access, student-led engineering makerspace.

Founder

Bent Rods Racing

• Applied my intuitive understanding of mechanical and systems engineering to suspension, drivetrain, safety, and diagnostic systems to build a low-budget endurance race car designed to run at its mechanical limits for 24 continuous hours.
• Having never raced before, we placed 9th out of 27 teams in our class and won the Organizers' Choice award out of ~130 teams for our performance, sportsmanship, and "everything a rookie team should do in a fresh build."

Team Lead

Aggies Create — Texas A&M

• Founded and led a team exploring the use and market fit of thermoelectric power for novel applications.

Team Member

Aggies Create — Texas A&M

• Worked with a team to develop a cost-effective hog deterrent to alleviate America's billion-dollar feral hog problem.

Founder

Fulshear High School 3D Printing Club

• Explored the intricacies and applications of fused deposition modeling.
• Developed optimization strategies for bulk production of products sold to further fund club activities and equipment.

First Place

Chemistry Poster Symposium

• Researched, designed, and presented my poster Modern Aviation Alloys and Their Characteristics to a panel of judges.
• Refined my skills in public speaking, research, and presentation of unfamiliar fields to new audiences.

Droplet Generator Design Intern

ASML — San Diego, CA

• Explored novel vacuum component fabrication techniques, redesigned two production components for future systems, and submitted an invention disclosure.

Machinist

Precision Manufacturing — Rosenberg, TX

• Fabricated hundreds of custom parts for large corporations and local businesses alike, performing the entire fabrication process with both CNC and manual tooling.

Front of House

Chick-Fil-A — Fulshear, TX