User:YilinYang

About me

I am a student in the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University. I'm thinking about majoring in Biomedical Engineering, and doing premed (possibly) (hopefully?).

Name Pronunciation

My name is a Chinese name, and Chinese names don't have stress. Back in China, my name sounds like "Young Yeeleen" (we do last names first). But feel free to do it like "YEE-leen" since putting the stress on "Yi" sounds less weird and more like the Chinese version.

Current Courses

For 2015 Fall, I'm taking the typical first-year-Pratt-life courses, which are:

EGR 103: Computational Methods in Engineering

MATH 212: Multivariable Calculus

CHEM 110: Honors Chemistry

WRITING 101: Academic Writing-Science Fails (fun fact: most people in my class are future scientists and engineers)

Grand Challenges for Engineering Article

Weill Cornell experts publish review of genetic medicine, Weill Cornell experts, News-Medical.net, 3-Apr-2006, accessed 14-Jan-2009 (Grand Challenge)

Favorite MATLAB Demo

My favorite MATLAB Demo was 'Displaying Complex Three-Dimensional Objects', in which MATLAB actually draws a teapot. I like it for 3 reasons:

1. The teapot has 4608 vertices and 3872 faces. It is really impressive that MATLAB can handle and display the data.

2. MATLAB actually knows how to orient a 3-d object, as if it were a person holding the real object and knew how to rotate it.

3. The built-in commands such as 'copper' and 'shiny' are very interesting; they make MATLAB more than a pure mathematical tool, but also a very practical one that can be used across various disciplines.