User:Vipers10
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About Me
I am a freshman at Duke University, graduating in the year 2014. I am from Seattle, Washington but have lived in Florida and Colombia. I plan on majoring in Mechanical Engineering and am looking forward to my following years at Duke.
Pronunciation
The way my family and I pronounce my name, "Daniel Concha" is DAN-yell CONE-cha. Thats Dan as in van with a "d," yell as in to scream, cone as in ice cream cone, and cha like the cha cha.
Grand Challenges for Engineering Article
Getting Solar Off the Ground, Lee Billings, Seed Magazine, created 28 July 2009, accessed 20 September 2010
Favorite Matlab Demo
My favorite Matlab demonstration was the "Earth's Topography" Demo. I found it very interesting how something like a spherical replica of the globe containing elevation can be created on Matlab, and thus enjoyed how Matlab can be used to create a graphical representation of relevant data. By simply intaking the topo and topomap1 files one could then take steps to create the final spherical globe. By first including the the elevation data from the topo file, "contour" allows for the creation of a blank map on which the continents are outlined. Next, one can add the topomap1 file to insert the corresponding color for each elevation and create a two dimensional color map with "image." My favorite part of the demo is the use of the "sphere" function, which not only plots the topo file onto x,y,z coordinates (to create a sphere) but even adds sources of light to illuminate the sphere.
