User:Kperusse
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About
This wiki page is about Kperusse, a Pratt student currently enrolled in EGR103.
Interests
Kperusse's interests include tennis, drinking coffee, learning, reading and binge-watching TV series.
Favorites
Quotes
Her favorite quotes include:
"Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations." - Henry David Thoreau[1]
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” - Frederick Douglass[2]
Movies
Kperusse's favorite movies are Clueless, Forest Gump and The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Books
Her favorite books are Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens.
Grand Challenges for Engineering
The National Academy of Engineering has established 14 Grand Challenges for Engineering. These challenges are goals which are set in order to use science and math concepts to help solve urgent issues. One of these challenges is to reverse-engineer the brain. Attached is an article about advancements in reverse-engineering the brain. Two challenges that go hand-in-hand are enhancing virtual reality and advancing personalized learning. This article discusses how virtual reality will transform education and the learning process.
MATLAB Demonstration
Although Kperusse found all of the MATLAB help demonstrations to be interesting, her favorite demonstration would have to be "Viewing a Penny." It was intriguing to see how different the outcomes of the plotting techniques were, even though all of the plots used the same measurements. The surface plot with a colormap was the most fascinating, since the final plot did not look like Kperusse expected it to look like. It was very impressive to view the range of MATLAB's different plotting techniques.
References
External Links
- Neuromorphic Chips Could Help Reverse-engineer the Human Brain, Dario Borghino, Gizmag, updated 5 August 2013, accessed 8 September 2014 (Grand Challenge)
- 5 Ways Virtual Reality Will Change Education, Kate Abrosimova, Hypergrid Business, posted 7 September 2014, accessed 8 September 2014 (Grand Challenge)
