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About Me
I am an undergraduate at Duke University interested in alternative fuels, energy technologies, and environmental issues. Consequently, I am planning to major in Environmental Engineering and minor in either Energy or Electrical Engineering. An avid learner, I also enjoy free food and the company of nice people. I am a flutist in the Duke Symphony Orchestra, I'm trying to start a Duke team for the Solar Decathlon, and I am a terrible free T-shirt collector. If you're interested in sustainability or environmental issues, we should meet!
Interesting Things I've Done
NASA Engineering Design Challenge
Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society Young Musician's Concert
Current Courses
• EGR 103 (YAYYYY)
• MATH 212
• CHEM 101
• MUSIC THEORY
Grand Challenges For Engineering Articles
- A material that could make solar power "dirt cheap", Kevin Bullis, MIT Technology Review, updated 8 August 2013, accessed 14 September 2013 (Making solar energy economical)
- Grand Challenges for Engineers, www.ohio.edu, updated Fall 2013, accessed 14 September 2013 (Making solar energy economical; provide energy from fusion; develop carbon sequestration methods)
Favorite MATLAB Demonstration
One of the most interesting demonstrations was Boy's Surface. I had never heard of it before, and it led to much fascinated clicking.
I also really liked the Klein Bottle demonstration because up until now, I could never quite visualize how the "outside" and "inside" of the bottle were contiguous. The MATLAB code did a good job of displaying the bottle, and I found it very impressive that coders could manipulate MATLAB to create the Klein Bottle in the first place. Now the next step is to figure out to conceptualize it in 4-D...
