User:Mel43

I am a biomedical engineer at Duke University.

About Me

I have two cats, Jones and Lucy, a younger brother, Eric, and an even younger sister, Grace.

Interests

Science is cool. So are sports (particularly basketball).

Grand Challenges

This is a neat article about a material that could help make solar power economical. A Material That Could Make Solar Power Dirt Cheap, Kevin Bullis, MIT Technology Review, created 8 August 2013, accessed 3 September 2014 (Make Solar Power Economical)

Favorite MATLAB Demo

My favorite demo in MATLAB was the Loma Prieta Earthquake demo. The majority of the demos were simply reiterations of lessons we had learned in class or read as part of the MATLAB help section. The Loma Prieta Earthquake demo, however, showed how powerful MATLAB can be in using the basics to create complex plots and in manipulating data. Furthermore, rather than dry, meaningless examples, this demo used data from a real-life event. While there were other demos that followed that similarly applied real data, this was the first one I did, and as such it became my favorite.