User:Jwman92

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About Me

Hello to all, my name is Joshua Robert Waldman, and I am a freshman in the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University. I aspire to be an Electrical Computer Engineer, with a double major in Computer Science.




Name Pronunciation

My name is pronounced JAH-shoe-uh WALLED-man. Waldman is of German origin, meaning "Forest Man". According to the IPA, it is pronounced dʒɑ́ʃuə wɑ́ldmən .




Engineering Grand Challenges

Global Nitrogen: Cycling out of Control, Scott Fields, Environmental Health Perspectives, updated July 2004, accessed 23 September 2011 (Grand Challenge)




Demonstrations

My favorite demonstration was the 3D Plots demo. I have always been extremely intrigued by 3-Dimensional drawings, and looking at the different ways that these 3D plots could be modeled using Matlab was very interesting for me.