Austin Mabrey

Function: Research Engineer

Biography

Austin Mabrey is a Mechanical Engineer with 7 years of private industry work in hybrid-electric vehicle repowers. He started his engineering career while an undergraduate at UT Austin by interning on a Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle (FCEV) repower project for private industry in collaboration with UT-CEM. He led the project to success by CAD modeling the vehicle chassis, designing and validating sub system designs, assembling the repowered vehicle, and successfully demonstrating on-road performance which cumulated in real world package delivery service with UPS. This project success led to a second phase of 15 FCEV repowers. Austin worked within a team of mechanical and electrical engineers through phase 2 vehicles updates, he led technicians in vehicle repower work, and lastly, he trained the UPS vehicle operators and maintenance staff which resulted in the safe deployment of all 15 vehicles. In 2024, Austin joined the UT-CEM team of researches in their Hydrogen Energy studies. He is the lead operator of the H2@Scale Hydrogen proto hub where data is collected and analyzed from the manufacture and end use of Hydrogen with respect to electrical grid energy resiliency and zero emission mobility. 

Research Areas / Areas of Interest

Austin is focused on research of Hydrogen Gas in application to energy storage and zero emission mobility. He has a lifelong interest in automotive technologies and hopes to see Hydrogen gain public adoption and awareness for its viability in transportation application. 

Education

University of Texas at Austin – Bachelors of Science Mechanical Engineering. 2017