Hi, I’m
Jada Brown
Summary
Highly involved student with unique experiences in lab research and both rocketry and formula racing
student clubs, bringing hands-on experience with machining equipment and manufacturing techniques.
Seeking internship positions focused on design, analysis, and/or testing in the aerospace industry.
Overview
1
year of professional experience
Work History
Hypersonics Laboratory
Research Lab Assistant
09.2023 - Current
Job overview
- Collaborative design with graduate research team to analyze acetone at low pressures and low temperatures flowing at mach 3 through a converging diverging nozzle using Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF)
- Assisting graduate students in operating wind tunnel control system, and aligning the pulse burst laser and optical components for the Mach 7.2 Ludwieg Tube
- Develop customized components in SolidWorks for experiments that utilize a 6-way vacuum chamber, such as designing attachable high pressure tubes for the blanks that hold the nozzle in place
- Fabricating diaphragms using mill in on campus machine shop for varying burst pressures up to 400 psi during wind tunnel operations.
U-Haul
Preventive Maintenance Technician
08.2023 - Current
Job overview
- Carry out vehicle preventive maintenance such as quality inspections, oil changes, fixing lights, inflating tires, refilling coolant, etc
- Conducting thorough inspections on vehicles and equipment both pre and post-utilization
- Dispatching vehicles and other moving equipment.
Education
University of Texas at San Antonio
Bachelor of Science from Mechanical Engineering
05.2025
Skills
- Machining
- Soldering
- Project Management
- OpenRocket
- SolidWorks
- MATLAB
- Leadership
- Product Design
- Prototyping and Testing
- Communication
- Problem solving
- GT-Power Software
Projects
Ludwiegthe vehicle nose cone and carbon fiber body panels through utilizing CAD, and advanced fabrication methods.
Investigating different flow passageway designs for air intake to better distribute airflow to components for improved efficiencies using SW and Ricardo flow simulations.
Aeronautics and Rocket Club
- Designing and simulating a high powered, H motor class, rocket using OpenRocket Simulator that will be independently manufactured using in house fabrication capabilities as part of the L1 certification requirements.
- Served as a ground support assistant in several hotfire campaigns of various solid propulsion test articles, using different sized expansion nozzles, to investigate the effectiveness of the nozzles to produce target thrust levels.
Organizations
- Society of Women Engineers
- Formula SAE
- Aeronautics and Rocket Club
- The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Timeline
Research Lab Assistant
Hypersonics Laboratory
09.2023 - Current
Preventive Maintenance Technician
U-Haul
08.2023 - Current
University of Texas at San Antonio
Bachelor of Science from Mechanical Engineering