I am David Exiga, a  senior Mechanical Engineering student with a Robotics Concentration at The University of Texas at Austin. I am really passionate about design. There is something just really interesting about using fundamental physics to create engineering feats that appear like magic. It is this passion that makes me so interested in multi-disciplinary fields such as robotics and consumer electronics.

I interned as a Hardware Engineer at Maidbot, a robotics company focused on building cleaning robots for the hospitality industry. I will be primarily focused on designing and implementing tests to verify these post-production robots.

I interned at Texas Instruments as a Mechanical Design Engineer where I got to work on the mechanical components of a 160-watt Near-Infrared Laser Prototype. This prototype was designed using off-the-shelf components that were 10x cheaper for the 3D Resin Printing Market. 

While interning as an Applications Engineer at Wilder Systems Robots, I had the opportunity to work on mechanical components (a sensor mount and a chemical enclosure) to support the robotic washing of an F-35 jet.

At UT, I have taken as many robotic and software engineering electives as I could take including Mechatronics (Graduate), Data Science Lab, Robot Mechanism Design, and Elements of Computers and Programming.  I have also spent 3 years with the Solar Vehicle Team where we fully designed and manufactured a solar-powered vehicle for competition in the Formula Sun Grand Prix.  As the team's Lead Dynamics Engineer, I was responsible for the Unsprung Mass, Suspension, and Steering subsystems. 

Outside of engineering, I really enjoy soccer, cooking, and movies!