User:Ls183

About Me

My name is Leasly Salazar. I'm currently a freshman at Duke University in the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences. I am thinking of transferring to the Pratt School of Engineering and major in Electrical and Computer Engineering with a concentration in Computer Engineering. I also plan on minoring in Spanish. I'm sure that's not too much at all *insert sarcasm here*. I'm from Los Angeles, CA and I've lived there all my life. I like to go visit my family in Mexico, a little town called Huejucar, Jalisco. If you want to know more about me, just ask!

Name Origin

Leasly

For many years, to this day, everyone has mispronounced my name. It's actually pronounced LES-lee, like you would pronounce Leslie. But, it's okay to mispronounce it a few times, just until you get to remember how to say it. I've had lots of nicknames, mainly revolving around "Cessy." My cousin couldn't pronounce my name, so she started calling me Cessy. "Cessy" soon turned into Cecilia. I like being called either Leasly, Cessy, or Cecilia, whichever feels comfortable; most people call me Leasly, however.

Salazar

It seems "Salazar" is not a very common surname in Mexico, but there's a long story behind how long it's stayed in my family. I've found that "Salazar" means:

One who came from Salazar, meaning corral or manor house - probably from sala, "hall" + Basque za(h)ar, meaning "old." Also, a dweller in or near the house or palace, or a dweller near the place sacred to St. Lazar. Salazar is an ancient surname found in Vizcaya, Castile, Navarre, Santander and Burgos, Spain.

Freshman Year

This semester, I'm taking more classes to make the transfer into Pratt. They include:

• EGR 53: Computational Methods in Engineering
• Physics 61L: Introductory Mechanics
• Math 32L: Calculus II
• Writing 20: Writing Unauthorized Migration

I'm also taking an extra course, Fitness, just for fun.

Demonstrations on MATLAB

When looking at the different demos in MATLAB, I found the 3-D Drawing demo really fun and interesting. After writing makevase into the command window, a window pops up with a red axis running down the middle. You click on one side of the red axis to render a point, and an exact mirror image of that same point appears on the other side, in the same position. You keep clicking on the same side of one set of points, and on the last point you shift+click to render the connection between the last point. This creates a vase based on the points you created. This would be helpful when trying to figure out different shapes and how a certain idea for a vase would look like. It would be ideal for a potter to use when figuring out what kind of shapes he or she can make.

Grand Challenges

I found the Project to Provide Clean Water really interesting. Water, specifically clean water, everywhere is becoming harder to access, and we need to find a way to provide access to cleaner water. We may not need clean water, but there are other countries where they don't have such easy access.

Provide access to clean water, National Academy of Engineering updated 2011, accessed 30 January 2012

External Links

Salazar Meaning

Engineering Challenges