Team-Business
Business Subteam
Member Bios
Eric Burel
Eric Burel joined CU SnakeArm in spring 2009 and is currently the Co-Business Team Lead with Anuj Rastogi. He is a junior majoring in Applied Economics & Management in the College of Agricultre and Life Sciences. Eric is an active entrepreneur and the President & Co-Founder of the Strategic Investment Group (SIG). He also enjoys Tennis, Ice Hockey, Skiing, and the Financial Markets.
Anuj Rastogi
Anuj Rastogi is a junior AEM and Natural Resources major in CALS. He joined CU Snakearm spring of 2009 and is currently the co-business team lead along with Eric Burel. Anuj enjoys listening to TED talks and is a loyal Federer fan.
Sixing Chen
Sixing is a member of the Business Team. He is sophomore in the College of Engineering and is planning to major in Operations Research. His interests include statistics, computer hardware and guitar.
Charles Cho
Charles is specializing in entrepreneurship and finance, and his dream includes a start-up company that does something he is passionate about. He is still discovering what his passions are but hopes to find solid ground within a few years upon graduating. He is very involved on campus in the Pi Sigma Epsilon business fraternity and the social fraternity Sigma Alpha Mu, is VP of a newly founded club called Strategic Investment Group (SIG), and is an associate of The Mutual investment Club of Cornell (MICC). Snake Arm has been a great way to meet people he would not have otherwise met, who share both different and similar interests and aspirations that he does.
Nik Kumar
Nik Kumar is from New York City. As a senior in the Cornell ILR school, he became very interested in CU Snakearm while looking for a student project where his involvement could have a large impact on the direction and scope of the team's final product. In his free time, he enjoys sports, music, reading, and travelling. Nik also serves as the Director of Finance for Cornell Action Tank, a non-profit group on campus. He intends to work in the financial services industry after graduation.
Sponsor
Francis C. Moon is a Chaired Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. He is an elected member of the US National Academy of Engineers. He is also a Fellow of ASME. Moon is Curator of the Reuleaux Collection of Kinematic Models at Cornell University. His research specialty includes chaotic dynamics, dynamics of machines and structures as well as magneto-mechanical devices. He has lectured recently in "Introduction to Robotics" for seniors and "Applied Dynamics" for graduate students. He was the recipient of a Humboldt Prize award in 1988 and 2001. In 2001 he was a visiting scholar at the Archive of the Deutsches Museum, where he studied the papers of Franz Reuleaux. Moon is a member of the commission on the History of Machines and Mechanisms (HMM) of the International Federation for the Theory af Machines and Mechanisms (IFToMM). He has published over 140 research papers and holds five patents. He was the Director of the School of Mechanical and Aerospace engineering at Cornell University from 1987-1992.
Latest News
CU Snakearm at BOOM 2009
We were well received at the BOOM with people appreciating our Robotic arm as well as our progress towards the ultimate goal of designing an arm capable of performing remote surgery.
Check out the pics of the event here.
CU Snakearm at BioExpo 2009
Our mission of producing an accurate, flexible and low-cost robotic arm able to perform remote surgery works towards solving a big humanitarian crisis by enabling the best medical support to reach the less developed parts of world. Our motto and progress were well appreciated by people from academia and the medical community.