User:Hl232
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About me
Hello, my name is Howard; this is my user page that I am creating for EGR103 Homework Assignment 1. Here are some quick facts:
- I am a first-year undergraduate student at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering.
- Currently, I am most interested in majoring in Biomedical Engineering.
- (I'm not going to write anything too personal because this is a public page and I do not want strangers stalking me)
Grand Challenges for Engineering Articles
One part of my user page is to include an article about the Grand Challenges for Engineering. These are basically the 14 problems that have been identified as most pressing issues that need to be solved (hopefully through engineering) in the near future. My article focuses on the "Engineering better medicine" challenge. Essentially, it discusses CRISPR, which is a revolutionary tool for gene engineering.
- CRISPR: A game-changing genetic engineering technique, Science in the News (SITN), Harvard Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences, 31 July 2014, 9 September 2015 ( Grand Challenge )
MATLAB Demonstrations
A part of assignment 2 is to look at the MATLAB help interface and read some of the demonstrations they provided. My favorite one is the page on Displaying Complex Three-Dimensional Objects. I think that it's really cool that you can use MATLAB like a studio-design program. For example, they use a teapot in the demonstration, but they are able to manipulate the teapot and look at it from different angles, with different surfaces, etc. This seems useful in engineering to have a digital 3D object to work with, but it also seems useful in designing products or tools. The only downside is that you have to program what the 3D surface looks like, which might take an unfortunate amount of time.
Other cool things in MATLAB
I found a lot of easter eggs inside MATLAB that I think are fun/interesting. For example, typing penny produces a 3D image of a penny. Typing why produces a random philosophical output. Typing spy produces a picture of a dog. life produces a game of life generator. Finally image produces an upside down picture of a boy, which is actually a bit creepy.
