User:Alp40

About Me

Hi, my name is Aubrey Presnell. I hail from Lakeland, FL which is right between Tampa and Orlando for the majority of you who probably don't have any idea where Lakeland is. Right now, my prospective major is BME, not as a pre-med program though. As for interests, I like reading, singing (to myself), and playing with my dachshunds back at home. Not really sure that there's much more to say...

Name Pronunciation

My name, Aubrey Presnell, is pronounced "AH-bree PRESS-nell." Not too difficult, although I must admit I've heard my last name pronounced in some pretty strange ways.

Grand Challenges for Engineering Articles

I'm posting the following article under the category of the Grand Challenges for Engineering, specifically Engineering Better Medicine. The article is an interview with Biomedical Engineer Dr. David Kaplan, from Tufts University. He is working with silk as a way to store vaccines without the need for refrigeration in the hopes of providing people in undeveloped areas with better access to these vaccines.

[[1] Silk Stretches Drugs' Shelf Life to New Lengths] National Public Radio, updated 13 July 2012, accessed 13 September 2013 (Grand Challenge)

MATLAB Demonstrations My favorite Matlab demonstration was the one called Earth's Topography. I hadn't considered all the things that you could do with Matlab before hand, nor had I realized you could make such a detailed 2-D and 3-D image using this program.