Members

Guillermo Gomez | Team Lead

Guillermo, or “Gulli,” as teammates have affectionately dubbed him, is a junior double-majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Political Science. His entrance to the solar car world was in materials testing and encapsulation for the Luminos array, followed by a long summer of business, finance, and mechanical team work before the 2013 race. Guillermo is now the team lead for the 2015 cycle*, and is looking forward to the ride* ahead. (Guillermo also likes bikes. *puns!)

Darren Chen | Engineering Lead

Darren is a senior (and recent co-term!) in Mechanical Engineering. This is Darren’s third year with SSCP, after playing a strong role on the Luminos mechanical team and helping race the car across Australia in 2013. For this next cycle, his responsibilities have grown to include managing the integration and overall design work of each of the car’s subsystems. Outside of solar car, Darren’s interests include lamps and lambs.

Eric Thong | Embedded Code Lead

Eric is a senior majoring in Computer Science. Eric’s code was responsible for running many of the boards on Luminos, ranging from driver controls to MPPT interfacing. After joining the team as a freshman, Eric became a core member of the code team and helped race Luminos during WSC 2013. He’s returned this cycle as the Embedded Code Lead, and has been setting unsigned ints to over 9000 since winter of 2011.

Anna Olson | Mechanical Lead

Anna is a junior that fell for the trap of “driving a solar car across the Outback!”. Hooked since joining the Luminos mechanical team as a freshman, she’s now majoring in Mechanical Engineering and has returned this cycle as one of the team’s Mechanical Leads. In addition to the mechanical aspects of the project, Anna is also involved with the team’s unofficial aerodynamics, media, and outreach teams. And despite spending over 30 hours in the very aerodynamic box they called the “solar car,” Anna still doesn’t think it was a trap.

Harry Johnson | Electrical Lead

Harry’s year in school is ambiguous, as a transfer student who just returned from time off of school to work at Google [x], but his major is undoubtedly Electrical Engineering. Harry joined the team for the Luminos cycle, where he soon stepped in to fill the role of Electrical Lead. After a short stint as resident Lead Car Radio Operator in Australia during the 2013 race, Harry has returned again as the team’s Electrical Lead. In his spare time, Harry is also the official unofficial convoy vehicle outfitter and is probably currently pining the absence of his pet, the team van.

Jamie Goldfield | Composites Lead

Jamie is a senior majoring in Mechanical Engineering. Jamie’s pursuits in solar car began with joining the Luminos mechanical team and have since grown to include tire seating, composites, and befriending other solar car teams in middle of the Outback. Following the 2013 race, Jamie returned as the team’s Composites Lead for the upcoming cycle, where it will be his job to oversee materials testing, selection, and the layups processes for the next car. Jamie is a well-rounded solar car man–good topics to ask Jamie about include the bead blaster, torque team, and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.

Matthew Matera | Array Lead

Matthew is a junior from New York City studying Mechanical Engineering. As a freshman, Matthew joined the Array Team, helping to construct the Luminos solar array. Matthew also worked summer 2013 with the Mechanical Team, doing race reliability, stability, anddynamic load testing before the 2013 World Solar Challenge. This cycle, Matthew has taken on the role of Array Team Lead, testing new encapsulation materials and perfecting manufacturing procedures for our next car’s solar array. In his free time, Matthew enjoys climbing, running, and skiing. In addition to the Solar Car Project, he also works at the Stanford Climbing Wall, is co-president of Stanford Climbing Team, and is president of Stanford Alpine Club.

Rachel Midori Abril | Business & Logistics Lead

Rachel is a senior in Mechanical Engineering. Rachel joined the Luminos mechanical team as a sophomore, working on both the construction of the car as well as various business and outreach action items. For this next cycle, Rachel is continuing her involvement with the mechanical team while also specializing in meshing for the Aero Team and managing logistics–which includes everything from test drives to giving a TEDx talk (watch Life Lessons from a Solar Car here). In her spare time, Rachel shoots (cameras), blogs, and runs–all with very conscientious use of the Oxford comma.

Aravind Arun | Mechanical Lead

Aravind is a first-year coterm in Mechanical Engineering, having just finished his Mechanical Engineering undergraduate degree. He joined the mechanical team at the beginning of the Luminos cycle, and has worked on a variety of design projects since then. This cycle, Aravind has taken on new member mechanical training as well as suspension design for the next car as one of the team’s Mechanical Leads. Aravind has also been known to occasionally write great poetry about mech team open shop hours.

Kelsey Josund | Financial Officer & Code Team Member

Kelsey is a senior in Computer Science originally from Seattle. She’s been part of SSCP for three years and originally did mainly finances and sponsor relations before building Arctan’s telemetry system and various embedded code projects this year. When she’s not doing solar car, Kelsey loves running, travel, and generally being outdoors.

Max Drach | Code Team

Max joined the team at the beginning of the Arctan cycle. He wrote code for the car’s battery management system and worked on various other embedded projects. When he is not working on the solar car, he likes to discuss the meaning of life, the universe, and everything – in Chinese – in order to improve his foreign language skills.