Biographies


Group Members

Daniel Belote                             dbb59@drexel.edu

 Daniel is a first year Mechanical Engineering undergraduate interested in automotive engineering. In the winter of 2018, Daniel worked with robotics and programming in his engineering design lab, writing a code to control a supercapacitor-powered car.





Hongchen Huang           hh537@drexel.edu

Hongchen, with his nick name "Tom", is a first year undergraduate student of Mechanical Engineering in Drexel University. He is very fond of studying and progressive. In the fall of 2017, Tom worked in the fundamentals of engineering and, in the winter of 2018, he worked with robotics and programming. Therefore, he had good experience in mechanical assembling and repairing.


Vion Quan                       vq25@drexel.edu

 Vion is a first-year student at Drexel University as Business and Engineering major.In the period 2017-2018, Vion has extended his knowledge of programming such as MATLAB and the theories behind business and economics. In the winter of 2018, Vion worked on programming a NXT Mindstorms robot.




Jennifer Zhang                            jz595@drexel.edu

Jennifer is a first year undergraduate student at Drexel University majoring in Architectural Engineering. In the winter of 2018, she worked in team on redesigning the Tacony-Palmyra bridge in the engineering design lab. She helped with the stimulation of different bridge designs on the Visual Analysis software and with the data collection.

Drexel Faculty

Professor Caroline Schauer        CLS52@drexel.edu

 Professor Schauer works in the Materials Science and Engineering department at Drexel.

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