MECHANICAL
Our mechanical team handles design, manufacturing, and validation of the car.
Jason Mathew is a Junior from Ellicott City, Maryland, studying Mechanical Engineering and Robotics. Don't tell anyone, but he's secretly adding a jet engine to the back of the car that turns on with the push of a button.
Josh is a Junior from Irvine, CA, majoring in Mechanical Engineering. He is a member of Mechanical subteam. He has consumed so much lactose that he is no longer lactose intolerant.
Stella Lin is a Senior from the SF Bay Area studying Materials Science and Engineering. She is a member of the mechanical team. She likes high voltage work but wishes the gloves came in smaller sizes.
Ethan Liu is a Sophomore from the SF Bay Area majoring in Mechanical Engineering. He loves smooth layups both on the basketball court and in the lab.
Jake is a Sophomore from Bethesda, Maryland majoring in Mechanical Engineering with minors in Math and Engineering Entrepreneurship. He enjoys 3D Printing, spending time with his family, and baguettes.
David Vexler is a Sophomore from Buffalo, New York studying mechanical engineering and computer science. He is on the mechanical team and is also our #1 Driver (No he's not, we'd never let him anywhere near the car).
Josh Leshinskie is a Senior from Gilbertsville, Pennsylvania majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics. He is a member of the powertrain subteam. He worked on a farm, learned to drive a tractor when he was 6, and still loves building with Legos!
Winston is a Sophomore from Hong Kong majoring in Mechanical Engineering. He is a member of the mechanical team. He once spent 8 hours with a second year ER resident trying to fix his dislocated pinky (unsuccessfully).
Owen Shaffer is a Senior from Nashville, TN, majoring in Mechanical Engineering. He is a member of the mechanical team. He once went to explore ancient Egyptian tombs in search of forbidden knowledge, and succeeded. He returned with 1500 lines of code and a 12-DoF transient vehicle model.
Jonas Ho is Senior from Newark, Delaware, majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Robotics. He is a member of the mechanical team and focuses on the drivetrain subsystem. He likes to climb rocks for some reason.
Jun is a Senior from East Brunswick, NJ majoring in Mechanical Engineering and minoring in Computer Science. He is a member of the Mechanical Team and does drivetrain stuff. He likes going to cheap band shows and buying expensive shirts.
Marissa Teitelbaum is a Senior from Morganville, New Jersey, majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics. Marissa is a member of the mechanical team and specifically the accumulator subsystem who enjoys building and designing, but somewhat ironically isn't the biggest fan of driving, cars on the road.
Peter is a Senior in MEAM doing a master’s in robotics. He loves to work out, run, and play video games. He eats a lot of food at alarmingly fast speeds. Once Barack Obama waited on him to use a porta-potty.
Tobia Ruth is a senior from Montclair, NJ, majoring in Physics and Materials Science Engineering with a minor in Mechanical Engineering. He is on the mechanical subteam, working mainly on the accumulator. There's a secret message in the captions of his Instagram posts, but it may take a few more posts for the message to fully develop...
Vedansh Goenka is a Senior from the San Francisco Bay Area studying Computer Science & Robotics. He's a member of the mechanical team and loves F1, going on runs, and taking photos. He's only started a fire in his garage twice...sorry mom.
Theodor is a Junior from Iași, Romania, studying Computer Engineering. He started his PER journey in Aero, transitioned to Vehicle Dynamics, and is very excited to explore Electrical on the DashDAQ subteam this year. A fun fact about Theodor is that he is fluent in 2 languages, can understand a third, and is trying to learn a 4th, 中文.
Henry Zhao is a Junior from Vancouver, Canada, majoring in Mechanical Engineering. He is a member of the mechanical team. He enjoys machining and traditional hand tools.
Maggie is a Junior from the Bay Area, CA majoring in Computer Science. She is a member of mechanical team. She had to take her driver's license test 4 times before passing but she still hopes to one day drive the PER car!
Sophia Wang is a Sophomore from Jenkintown, PA (Philly Suburb), majoring in architecture. She is part of the mechanical team, and ironically, is not legally allowed to drive a car.
Ethan Ho is a Sophomore majoring in Mechanical Engineering. He is member of Mechanical Team.
Caiden is a Sophomore majoring in Mechanical Engineering with minor in Economics. He is member of Aero Sub Team. He only has 1 kidney.
Elijah Jeoung is Sophomore majoring Mechanical Engineering. He is member of Drivetrain subteam. He is trilingual.
Arjun Suryawanshi is a Sophomore from West Chester, Pennsylvania, studying Bioengineering and Computer Science, working on the Suspension and Vehicle Dynamics subteams. He is a big fan of trying new foods (though halal cart will forever be his Philly favorite)!
Corina Chen is a Sophomore from Fremont, CA, studying mechanical engineering and business in the M&T program. By day she's part of the suspension subteam, and by night she can be found glass working for fun-- with a small army of capybara figurines to show for it.
Katherine Ke is a Sophomore from Irvine, CA, majoring in Mechanical Engineering. She is a member of the Mechanical team. She enjoys sports and any outdoor activities.
Xavier is a Sophomore from Haymarket, Virginia, Studying Mechanical and electrical engineering. He is a member of the mechanical team working mostly on the structural integrity of the chassis. He also loves doing intramural sports and binge-watching Star Wars and Marvel movies. He is almost always listening to music; you may have to scream to get his attention.
Martin Pan is a sophomore from Irvine California, majoring in Mech E. He rides a motorcycle.
Keira Goggin is a Sophomore from NYC studying Mechanical Engineering. She is a member of the mechanical team. She loves to ski (almost) as fast as the car can drive!
Victor Dang is a Sophomore from Palo Alto, California majoring in mechanical engineering. He belongs to the mechanical team, and works primarily on chassis/driver interface. He was neighbors with Donkey from Shrek(at least, the live donkey used as the physical model for the character by the animators), who was not nearly as chatty as the films would suggest.
Alexander Tong is a sophomore majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics. He is Town Hall 15 in Clash of Clans.

