Undergraduate Research Assistants

 

Barry Ethan Scharfman

 

Barry is a senior dual-majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics and Operations and Information Management in the Wharton School. He is also pursuing a minor in Mathematics. Barry has been a member of the Penn Electric Race Team, has written for the Penn Triangle, has worked for Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems in Newtown, Pa, and is currently also working at the Institute for Medicine and Engineering at Penn. He is the Penn Complex Fluids Lab's webmaster and is also researching elastic instabilities in microchannels.

 

 

Laura Anne Cramer

 

Laura Anne is a fourth year Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics Undergraduate. She assists Dr. Arratia with research on drop breakup in microchannels. Outside of the lab she studies hard and plays hard with Penn’s Formula SAE team.

 

 

 

Cindy Lee

 

Hello! I am a senior here at the University of Pennsylvania and I am studying Mechanical Engineering with minors in Economics and Mathematics. I am originally from Boston and with that of course loyalty to the Red Sox. My research project under Professor Arratia is studying what is the fluid dynamics of a drop impact upon a curvilinear surface. There is great abundance of research of the drop impact on a solid surface and while there may not be any difference with a curvilinear surface, this area of research is quite new.

 

 

 

Joel Tchoufag

 

Joel Tchoufag is a one-year exchange student at Penn, coming from UTC (Universite de Technologie de Compiegne) in France. Although he is majoring in Mechanical Engineering, he has always been interested in research since he started learning Physics. All of the theorems and complex laws of nature have always fascinated his curiosity. He enjoys learning new things and has a real passion for soccer.