User:Knb15
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About Me
My name is Kayla Bakhshian. I am a current freshman from Dallas, Texas. I attended Plano West Senior High School where I was involved in numerous clubs and student activities. I chose to attend Duke because of it's amazing engineering program and overall atmosphere. I am loving it so far!
Pronunciation
My first name is pronounced like it is spelled: Kay-la. My last name is pronounced Back-she-on.
Studies
As of now I plan on majoring in Environmental Engineering and obtaining the Markets and Management Certificate.
Interests
I have interests in a wide variety of areas such as, music, sports, french, cooking, and math. I play piano in my spare time and enjoy working out at the gym.
Grand Challenges for Engineering: Prevent nuclear terrorism
Preventing nuclear terrorism, Oliver Kamm, 30 March 2008, accessed 18 September 2011 (Prevent Nuclear Terrorism)
Favorite Matlab Demo
My favorite of the demos in the Matlab help section was the bending truss demo. My junior year of high school, I had to create a bridge for my physics class, but looking at this demo I realize how little I knew about the constructions of bridges when I was making mine. The fact that coding on a computer can create something like that is so fascinating. I have always thought that it was so cool that engineers could design bridges that people would use in everyday life and this was an example of that design process on a small scale.
