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Revision as of 21:07, 6 September 2012
About Me
My name is Lauren Heckelman, and I'm from Effort, Pennsylvania. I was born on October 3, 1994. I graduated from Pleasant Valley High School in Brodheadsville, Pennsylvania--yes, I was the student from Brodheadsville discussed in great length at the Duke Freshman Convocation. I plan on double majoring in Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering at Duke University and then continue my education in order to pursue a career in prosthetic and other rehabilitative device design.
Interests
I am an avid sports fan and participant. I love playing soccer, tennis, and just about anyother athletic activity I come across. Also, I use music as a creative outlet. I play the guitar and the drums; however, I am trying to teach myself the ukulele and the piano. Country music is my all-time favorite genre because "most," and I stress "most," country songs tell incredible stories.
Grand Challenges for Engineering
As I attended the Duke Talent Identification Program (Duke TIP) Institute of Architecture: Living Green/Building Green in the summer of 2011, all energy efficient, or "green" inventions fascinate me.
Here is an article about how robots can help make solar panels collect more sunlight, thus, making them more efficient and economical.
Robot Can Reduce Cost of Solar Energy by 20%, Joao Piexe, Oilprice.com (A CNBC Partner Site), created 5 September 2012, accessed 6 September 2012 (Grand Challenge)
MATLAB Demonstrations
I truly enjoyed looking at the 3-D Plots and 3-D Surface Plots Demonstrations. They were both fascinating, however the Surface Plots Demonstration was interactive. Being able to control and alter the 3-D output was incredible. The different colors in layers reminded me of heat-sensor photos, which were always neat to look at. I always wondered how such cool things were created, and I now know they can all be created using MATLAB. Computers can do countless things, yet I was always only able to create 2-D designs, charts, and graphs. It is very exciting to know my realm of computer and design knowledge will be drastically improved durig my time at Duke.
