User:Rzzhang

About Me

I am a student at Duke University, specifically the Pratt School of Engineering. At the moment I am studying biomedical engineering and going on the Pre-Med track. However, I also have interests in finance and am studying economics on my own time, so I don't really know if I want to go to either medical school or business school. Nonetheless, I do have a good amount of laboratory experience, having done independent research and experiments on yeast senescence and brain tumor detection, so I probably will work in the science-sector in the future.

Interests

Words I live by.

I don't know what else to put, so I'll just be boring and list a couple of my interests.

• Eating
• Sleeping
• Hanging out with friends
• Playing sports (especially tennis)
• Playing piano and listening to music
• Watching sports (NFL, NBA, NCAA, and Grand Slam Tournaments)
• Enjoying life

Favorite Demonstration

My favorite MATLAB demonstration is the Earth's Topography. I tried to write a similar program using Java when I took Computer Science at my high school, and it was just ugly and complicated. I tried to have the program draw the globe starting from the center of each continent, but then the outlines of the continents and the elevations of the coastlines always were off. However, the MATLAB code is simply simple, first drawing the outlines of the continents, setting them at 0 meters above sea-level, and then moving onto plotting and evaluating the elevations of the inland area. In all honestly, the MATLAB approach is less likely to incur error, and I can't believe I didn't think of that when I was writing my Java program.

Grand Challenges for Engineering Articles

Here are some Grand Challenge articles I found were interesting

• The heat is on for the world's biggest laser, Breck Hitz, Optics.org, updated Aug 14, 2009, accessed Sept 8, 2014 (Provide energy from fusion)
• Reverse Engineering the Brain, Sally Adee, IEEE Spectrum, updated Feb 20, 2008, accessed Sept 8, 2014 (Reverse-Engineer the Brain)
• Enhancing Radiographer Training using Virtual Reality Training Systems, A.W. Beavis, J.W. Ward, P. Bridge, R. Appleyard, A.J. Jessop, R. Phillips, ScienceDirect, updated April 2007, accessed Sept 8, 2014 (Enhance virtual reality)