User:Slc50

About Me

My name is Sofia Calicchio and I am currently a student at Duke University pursuing a degree in Mechanical Engineering.

Name Pronunciation

My name is pronounced similar to Pinocchio. (SO-fee-uh KUH-lick-ee-oh). If you look carefully my last name, Calicchio, and Pinocchio only differ in spelling by 4 letters.

Current Courses

I would love to meet up with people who have these same courses. Obviously we all share EGR 103, but I am also taking Chemistry 101, Math 212 (yay multivariable -_-) and Writing 101 (Environmental Communications).

Interests

I love being outside and living in the Gothic Wonderland. I am a big Harry Potter fan (if you are too check out this link Cool Harry Potter Facts). Also, I really enjoy working with LaTeX, which is probably weird but that's ok. At least the labs are fun for me! I also am interested in becoming fluent in Italian and Spanish.

Grand Challenge Article

Solar Manufacturing: Not So Sunny, Kate Galbraith, The New York Times, created 14 January 2009, accessed 10 September 2012 (Make solar energy economical)

MATLAB Demos

My favortie demo(s) were the 3-D Plots and the 3-D Surface Plots. I know the instructions for the homework assignment said to pick a favorite, but these two demos were very closely related. I liked these demos the best because I've always enjoyed looking at 3-D graphs but have never known how to make them. I was rather excited when I saw that MATLAB has the capability to make these plots. The remind me of Einstein's various theories about the fabric of the universe. I had seen a show that tried to describe his theory about General Relativity (or I think it was over this theory) using one of these 3-D plots, but wasn't able to understand what the plot meant. Now, through MATLAB, I will be able to understand how to read these graphs.