JEAN CHRISTIAN BRUTUS

Christian left Haiti four years ago to develop new relationships and a career at Stony Brook University while in the mechanical engineering undergraduate program. These opportunities, such as the the MARC program, encouraged him to pursue a Ph.D in mechanical engineering also at Stony Brook.

With a major in design and manufacturing and a minor in thermodynamics, the knowledge acquired in graduate school will help him succeed in his continuing research on the “Turbo-cool Turbo-Expansion” cooling concept with Dr. Lin-Shu Wang.

Christian is President of the Stony Brook Motorsports team which took 2nd place out of an international field of 120 collegiate teams at the 2008 Baja SAE competition in Montreal, Canada. The Baja SAE is a four-day event that simulates real-world engineering design projects in which teams of engineering students are tasked to design and build an off-road vehicle that will survive the severe punishment of rough terrain.

“I am extremely proud and honored to have had the opportunity to work with such talented and hardworking teammates", stated Christian after the event.