User:Dy46

About Me

My name is David Yang and I am a freshman from Princeton, New Jersey. I'm currently undecided in my major, but I'm leaning slightly towards Mechanical Engineering.

Grand Challenges for Engineering

UN in call for basic sanitation, BBC, updated 17 July 2008, accessed 15 August 2008 (Provide access to clean water)

MATLAB Demonstrations

My favorite demonstration was the Traveling Salesman problem. It highlights how powerful MATLAB can be by solving such a difficult optimization problem so quickly. It's also interesting how the program tries out various ways to connect the points and calculates which one of the ways is shorter.