User:Noahsark

NoahsArk

Noahs Ark is a user registered in the Pratt pundit. This is a wiki page about him.

Interests

Curricular

He is studying mechanical engineering an is interested in learning about mechanics, design, innovation, and entrepreneurship. He also finds that he enjoys learning how to do basic programming.

Extracurricular

Outside of class he likes playing frisbee, swimming, playing piano and saxophone (though not simultaneously, yet), eating, reading, sleeping, and studying (within reason).

Favorites

Books

Some of his favorite books are Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, and For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway.

Movies

He also enjoys such movies as Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?, Cars, and basically anything directed by either the Coen Brothers or Pixar.

Quotes

One of his favorite quotes is:

• "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." - Martin Luther King Jr.

Grand Challenges for Engineering

The National Academy of Engineering for the US has issued 14 Grand Challenges for Engineering to the world's scientific community. These deal with cutting edge technologies and scientific/engineering methods that will greatly influence the direction of our collective future. Linked is an article that briefly introduces the idea of the grand challenges and presents both a history of their development as well as a summary of the different genres of challenge that exist.

MATLAB Help Demonstrations

Of all of the MATLAB help demos, Noahsark found the one concerning the MATLAB analysis of the Loma Prieta Earthquake to be the most engaging. He was fascinated by the use of MATLAB's wide variety of functions to scientifically analyze the forces at play in an earthquake through the use of matricies, coding, and graphical quantitative analysis. It is so much more interesting to study something when the practical applications of it in real-life situations are clear. This one in particular used the graphical capabilities of MATLAB to generate and display graphs that mapped out a variety of different data sets using different colors, scales, and plotting techniques.

External Links

1. Grand Challenges and Great Opportunities in Science, Technology, and Public Policy Gilber S Omenn, Science Magazine, created December 15, 2006, accessed September 3, 2014.