User:Bojia.Chen

About Me

I am a student in the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University. Currently, I am planning on pursuing a major in Electrical and Computer Engineering with a double in Economics.

Interests

My favorite hobby is to disassemble/assemble electronics... which should explain my choice of major. I also enjoy building projects, especially robotics and working with the Arduino Microprocessor. Computers are a major part of my life; I primarily work with hardware, but I also do some programming (primarily in Java).

Outside of the electonics world, I mountain bike, camp, ski, swim, and whitewater raft.

Extracurriculars

I'm currently employed by IBM in RTP as a Systems Administrator. While onsite, I provide hardware/software support and assist with deploying/maintaining Virtual Machines. When working remotely from school, I write programs to analyze system logs to create usage statistics. I recently joined the Duke Crew team... not much else about that.

Name Pronunciation

Eh, this should be fun. My legal name is pronounced with a long "o" and short "j." So it's kinda like BOE-jia. The most common mistake is swapping the "j" and "i" which, for some reason, is a more natural pronunciation for people. Boija? And then there are others who just gave up, which is why I'm also called: Bo, Bobo, Bojangles, Boga, Boboboboboboobo, Nick (inside joke), and Luke (unofficial name). As for my last name... Chen? I'm not sure how to further simplify that.

Grand Challenges for Engineering

Does Broadband Need a Stimulus?, Saul Hansell, The New York Times, updated 21 January 2009, accessed 17 September (Restore and improve urban infrastructure)

Matlab Demo

My favorite Matlab demo was the one for plots under "Graphics." I chose this simply because its content was most applicable to me at the time. It helped me with Lab3 and a couple of things for Math 103. The number of different plotting styles was also interesting.