User:Isabelle.daly

About Me

I am a freshman studying mechanical engineering at the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University. I decided that I want to study mechanical engineering my junior and senior years of high school because of how much I enjoyed my physics and math classes. Born and raised in White Plains, New York, I live with my two older brothers, my mom, and my dad.

Favorites

-Book: Harry Potter and The Scarlet Letter

-Movie: The Sound of Music

-Sport: Swimming and Lacrosse

-Sports Teams: Yankees (Baseball), Bulls (Basketball), Giants (Football), Rangers (Hockey), Everton (Soccer)

-TV Show: Modern Family and Pretty Little Liars

Grand Challenges for Engineering

Challenge: Restore and Improve Urban Infrastructure

National Institute of Building Sciences, updated 2012, accessed 6 September, 2012 (Grand Challenge)

My Favorite MATLAB Demo

My Favorite MATLAB demo is Coloring Mesh and Surface Plots. I like this demo because I learned how to better understand and interpret graphs made on MATLAB by altering their colors. The colorbar function is helpful because it displays a bar of color that represents the vertical axis so that it is easier to see where the points on your graph are along the axis based on their colors.