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== About Me ==
 
== About Me ==
I am a student in the Pratt School of Engineering double majoring in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Duke University. I am an international student from Bahrain. However, I attended two years of high school at The Hun School of Princeton, New Jersey.
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I am a student in the [http://www.pratt.duke.edu Pratt School of Engineering] double majoring in [http://www.ee.duke.edu Electrical and Computer Engineering] and [http://www.cs.duke.edu Computer Science] at Duke University. I am an international student from Bahrain. However, I attended two years of high school at [http://www.hunschool.org/ The Hun School of Princeton], New Jersey.
  
 
== Current Classes ==
 
== Current Classes ==
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== Favorite Demonstration ==
 
== Favorite Demonstration ==
My favorite demonstration is 3D-Surface Plots. This demonstration illustrates one of the most powerful features of MATLAB. MATLAB can be used to plot 3D surfaces that are hard understand, zoom in, rotate, and then do many operations on them, such as finding intersections and tangent vectors.
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My favorite demonstration is 3D-Surface Plots. This demonstration illustrates one of the most powerful features of MATLAB. MATLAB can be used to plot 3D surfaces that are hard understand, zoom in, rotate, and then do many operations on them, such as finding intersections and tangent vectors. It also provides the options to change colors and designs to look at the surfaces from different perspectives. I can already see this 3D feature coming handy and applicable in other classes and activities.

Latest revision as of 03:39, 16 September 2013

About Me

I am a student in the Pratt School of Engineering double majoring in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Duke University. I am an international student from Bahrain. However, I attended two years of high school at The Hun School of Princeton, New Jersey.

Current Classes

  • EGR 103L: Computational Methods in Engineering (Lecture 2, Lab 9)
  • Math 212: Multivariable Calculus (Dr. Daubechies Section 1)
  • CompSci 201: Data Structures and Algorithms
  • Writing 101: Uncreative Writing

Clubs and Activities

  • Duke University Motorsports
  • Intramural Soccer

Hobbies

Soccer, Playing the Guitar, Coin Collecting.

Grand Challenges for Engineering Articles

Next stop for solar cell technology: your clothing, perhaps, The Hindu, updated 12 September 2011, accessed 15 September 2013 (Make solar energy economical).

Favorite Demonstration

My favorite demonstration is 3D-Surface Plots. This demonstration illustrates one of the most powerful features of MATLAB. MATLAB can be used to plot 3D surfaces that are hard understand, zoom in, rotate, and then do many operations on them, such as finding intersections and tangent vectors. It also provides the options to change colors and designs to look at the surfaces from different perspectives. I can already see this 3D feature coming handy and applicable in other classes and activities.