Team-MechE
MechE Subteam
Member Bios
Aleksey Andriyenko
Aleksey is a freshman in the College of Engineering at Cornell University. His current intended major is Mechanical Engineering. His role on the team is to build the arm and fix any technical difficulties encountered. Aside from enjoying solving interesting problems, engineering related or not, he enjoys bowling, watching action movies, gaming and most importantly hanging out with friends.
Fred Ballyns
Fred Ballyns is a mechanical engineer. What interests him the most about working on this project team is coming up with simple solutions to complicated problems. Understanding the limitations of the team members' assumptions and testing whether or not they hold is a critical part of the design process. In the future he hopes to be able to contribute in technological advancements that help those with missing limbs.
Tunc Ertan
Tunc is an international sophomore student from Turkey majoring in Mechanical Engineering. He is a part of the mechanical subteam of Snakearm. He has a profound interest in history and he likes to spend his free time with photography.
Johnattan Llanos
Johnattan was born on November 15,1990 in Hackensack, New Jersey although he has hispanic root descents from Bolivia. He is the son of Efrain and Marina Llanos, and has a younger brother. He attended Bergen County Technical High School in Teterboro New Jersey where he majored in Pre-Engineering and has worked as part of Samsung's Technical Support Team. His main interests is mechanical/aerospace engineering and soccer. Currently, he is enrolled in the College of Engineering and pursuing a Mechanical Engineering Bachelor Degree.
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 Archiv 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.