User:Allison.heredia

About Me

I am an undergraduate student originally from Scottsdale, Arizona currently enrolled in the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University and pursuing a BSE in Mechanical Engineering.

Grand Challenges for Engineering Article

The following article addresses the recent spike in investing in Fusion Energy Research, one of the Grand Challenges for Engineering:

Suddenly, Nuclear Fusion Is An Attractive Investment Andy Tully, OilPrice.com, updated 27 August 2014, accessed 13 September 2014 (Provide energy from fusion)

Favorite MATLAB Demonstration

My favorite MATLAB demonstration I came across was Earth's Topography. Up to this point, my experience with MATLAB had been assigning numbers to variables and making the command window spit numbers and matrices back out to me. It had essentially appeared to me as merely a calculator I typed in. Seeing the program take real data about the Earth's surface, and create a topographic 3D model of it was eye-opening to the capabilities of MATLAB, which stretch far beyond simply multiplying two matrices together.