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Latest revision as of 18:32, 17 September 2017
About Me
I am a freshman studying engineering at Duke University. I am from Medina, Minnesota which is a suburb of Minneapolis.
Name Pronunciation
Matthew Urke is pronounced MA-thyu ER-key. Urke rhymes with turkey.
Grand Challenges for Engineering
Which Way to Space?, Joel Achenbach, The Washington Post, 23 November 2013, accessed 14 September 2017 (Engineer the Scientific Tools of Discovery: How will engineering help us explore the universe?)
MATLAB Demonstration
I liked the Earth's Topography MATLAB demonstration because it was cool to see how the script used the elevation data of the Earth to create the topographical map of the Earth. The continent borders were created by mapping all of the points with elevation of zero, and the colors were added to make the elevation changes visible all using the elevation data. It seemed to me like a very creative but simple way of using the data to create a map of the Earth.
