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About Me
I am so excited to be part of Pratt class of 2017. I am planning on being BME, but also considering double majoring in ME, who knows. I am a dancer, I love chocolate cake, and my favorite color is blue.
Name Pronounciation
My name is Samantha Sheppard, which is fairly striaght forward to pronounce, Sa-man-tha Shep-par-d. However, I mostly go by Sammy, which is pronounced Sam-me.
Grand Challenges
This is an article relating to the Grand Challenge of making solar energy more economical. The article discribes how the company WALL-E is using robotics to make solar planes more efficient and there more more economical.
[1]WALL-E Goes to Work for Cheaper Solar Power, Ucilia Wang, Sithsonian, created 3 September 2013, accessed 13 September 2013 (make solar energy more economical)
MATLAB Demonstrations: Viewing a Penny
My favorite MATLAB demonstration wasviewing a penny. I thought it was interesting to see the different was you can represent the same object, especially when it is as common as a penny. I hadn't ever thought about the actual shape of a penny before.
