User:Joseph Cobb

About Me

In 1996, I was born in Santa Rosa, California. I moved to a small town in North Carolina called Statesville in September of 2004. Statesville is about two hours west of Duke. I'm currently planning on pursuing a Biomedical Engineering degree, but I am not considering Pre-Med.

Name Pronunciation

It's pronounced "JOE-sef CAWb". If that doesn't help, it's pronounced just like the Joseph in "Joseph and Mary", "Joseph Stalin", or any other Joseph. For my last name, think "cob"-webs, corn on the "cob", or anything of the sort.

Grand Challenge

[1], Lee Billings, SEED Magazine, Originally published July 28, 2009, accessed 14 September 2014 (Make Solar Energy Economical)

Matlab Demonstration

The Loma Prieta Earthquake Demonstration was the most intriguing to me because it was a demonstration of how data gathered from a real life catastrophe can be organized and plotted in order to analyze the effects of an earthquake. I found it especially fascinating when the z-axis was added to add the third dimension to the plots. This demonstration gave me a glimpse of Matlab's capabilities and motivates me to learn the programming language to produce programs such as this myself.