The Team

Duke University Motorsports is made up of around 29 undergraduate and graduate students. The team provides a holistic engineering experience to its members; many members assume multiple responsibilities within the organization and everyone shares the common objective of improving upon past designs to create our best car yet. Our members also frequently take independent studies with team advisers and other faculty members to blend advanced science and engineering into our design and manufacturing processes.

The Team

Other team activities include participating in education and community building by forming partnerships with other organizations at Duke and by participating in events in the surrounding area. Team sponsors reap the benefits of these highly visible activities which range from our yearly car unveiling party to volunteering with young local students in the Duke-Durham School Days program or the K-12 Engineering Outreach Initiative. They also include several yearly trips to local autocross competitions where the car performs very competitively and draws the interest of hundreds of curious onlookers and fellow enthusiasts.

2008-2009 Roster
Name
Alex Berghorst
EAC Rep
Jason Ethier
EAC Rep
Hardy Shen
Ivan Wang
James Montupet
Chief Engineer
Justin Mullen
David Coccarelli
Will Gardner
Ryan Sellers
Willie Du
Ryan Bird
Thomas Holsaeter
Alex Hunter
Brian Zorb
Thomas Gallmeyer
Michael Spohn
Preston Porter
Jon Klaassen  
Ben Shelton  
Brett Cook  
Bochong Li  
Yink Teo  
Brandon Jones  
Blake Hechtman  
Mark Elstein  
Nikita Khlystov  
George Rossin  
Jake Bender  

Up Close: Chief Engineer

Junior James Montupet, a mechanical engineer, has the task of making sure that the entire team stays on schedule. Prior to his current duties, James worked on the car's suspension, utilizing industry standard CAD software to optimize its performance.