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| − | My name is Nihir Patel, and I am currently a freshman in the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University planning on majoring in Biomedical Engineering. I am interested in photography and civic engagement as well as Engineering World Health. Go DUKE!
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| − | == How to Say "Nihir Patel" ==
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| − | It's not as hard as it looks. Nihir Patel = Nee-Heer Puh-tell.
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| − | == Grand Challenges in Engineering ==
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| − | Below is a link to a page that describes some of the efforts that are being made by scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in order to better detect nuclear threats and curb the possibility of nuclear terrorism.
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| − | [https://www.llnl.gov/str/JanFeb06/Bernstein.html Monitoring Nuclear Reactors with Antineutrinos], Adam Bernstein, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, updated 13 January 2006, accessed 15 September 2010 (Grand Challenge)
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| − | == MATLAB! ==
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| − | Out of all of the demonstrations, my favorite was the construction of a 3-D topographic map of the earth's surface from a 2-D topographic map. I found it very interesting that MATLAB could create data sets such as these by performing complex functions on large data sets.
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