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== Grand Challenges for Engineering ==
 
== Grand Challenges for Engineering ==
  
Challenge: Restore and Improve Urban Infrastructure
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Challenge: Make Solar Energy Economical
  
[http://www.nibs.org National Institute of Building Sciences], updated 2012, accessed 6 September, 2012 (Grand Challenge)
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[http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443589304577637333545350176.html Sun Peeks Through in Solar], The Wall Street Journal, updated 9 September 2012, accessed 9 September 2012 (Grand Challenge)
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== My Favorite MATLAB Demo ==
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My Favorite MATLAB demo is Coloring Mesh and Surface Plots. I like this demo because I learned how to better understand and interpret graphs made on MATLAB by altering their colors. The '''colorbar''' function is helpful because it displays a bar of color that represents the vertical axis so that it is easier to see where the points on your graph are along the axis based on their colors.

Latest revision as of 23:36, 9 September 2012

About Me

I am a freshman studying mechanical engineering at the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University. I decided that I want to study mechanical engineering my junior and senior years of high school because of how much I enjoyed my physics and math classes. Born and raised in White Plains, New York, I live with my two older brothers, my mom, and my dad.

Favorites

-Book: Harry Potter and The Scarlet Letter

-Movie: The Sound of Music

-Sport: Swimming and Lacrosse

-Sports Teams: Yankees (Baseball), Bulls (Basketball), Giants (Football), Rangers (Hockey), Everton (Soccer)

-TV Show: Modern Family and Pretty Little Liars

Grand Challenges for Engineering

Challenge: Make Solar Energy Economical

Sun Peeks Through in Solar, The Wall Street Journal, updated 9 September 2012, accessed 9 September 2012 (Grand Challenge)

My Favorite MATLAB Demo

My Favorite MATLAB demo is Coloring Mesh and Surface Plots. I like this demo because I learned how to better understand and interpret graphs made on MATLAB by altering their colors. The colorbar function is helpful because it displays a bar of color that represents the vertical axis so that it is easier to see where the points on your graph are along the axis based on their colors.