User:Noahsark
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NoahsArk
Noahs Ark is a user registered in the Pratt pundit. This is a wiki page about him.
Interests
Curricular
He is studying mechanical engineering an is interested in learning about mechanics, design, innovation, and entrepreneurship. He also finds that he enjoys learning how to do basic programming.
Extracurricular
Outside of class he likes playing frisbee, swimming, playing piano and saxophone (though not simultaneously, yet), eating, reading, sleeping, and studying (within reason).
Favorites
Books
Some of his favorite books are Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, and For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway.
Movies
He also enjoys such movies as Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?, Cars, and basically anything directed by either the [the Coen Brothers] or [Pixar].
Quotes
- "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." [1]
Grand Challenges for Engineering
The National Academy of Engineering for the US has issued 14 Grand Challenges for Engineering to the world's scientific community. These deal with cutting edge technologies and scientific/engineering methods that will greatly influence the direction of our collective future. Linked is an [article] that briefly introduces the idea of the grand challenges and presents both a history of their development as well as a summary of the different genres of challenge that exist.
References
- ↑ Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from the Birmingham Jail, 16 April 1963.
External Links
- Grand Challenges and Great Opportunities in Science, Technology, and Public Policy Gilber S Omenn, Science Magazine, created December 15, 2006, accessed September 3, 2014.
