Alex Brendel

I was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. In the basement of the house where I grew up were all my fathers tools, which I quickly learned to use. I learned my machine tool expertise at Diablo Valley College.

Here are a few highlights of my professional experience:

Lawrence Berkeley Lab / Building Superconducting magnets and

positioning magnets for the construction of the new Advanced Light Source - Lawrence Berkeley Lab

http://www.lbl.gov/MicroWorlds/teachers/quickfacts.pdf

Stanford Linear Accelerator/ Worked on High-vacuum beamlines.

Solar Car Project 1200 mile race with cars powered only by sunlight. Team won 3rd place in 1997.

I built "SAM", the "solar array maximizer", a fixture for holding the car while it is in charge mode.
SAM is designed to tilt, following the moving sun, keeping the car's solar array as perpendicular to the sunlight as possible.
SAM must also hold the lightweight, $250,000+ car from blowing away in high wind conditions!