User:Kmutchnick

About me

I am a first year Biomedical Engineering student at Duke University, planning to graduate in 2018. I'm particularly interested in the cellular, molecular, and tissue engineering aspect of the field. I enjoy learning, playing ice hockey, and playing the baritone in the Duke University Marching Band (DUMB, for short).

Courses

This semester, I am taking EGR 103L, Chem 101DL, Math 212, Writing 101, as well as a half credit Music class for Marching Band.

Grand Challenges for Engineering

One of the Grand Challenges for Engineering, named by the National Academy of Engineering, is to "make solar energy economical."

An recent article I found shows that scientists are working on doing just that. You can read more at the link: A material that could make solar power dirt cheap Kevin Bullis, MIT Technology Review, created 8 August 2013, accessed 27 August 2014 (Making solar energy economical)

MATLAB Demo

While I thought the Penny demo was cool because it used real data to model the penny, my favorite was the Traveling Salesman demo. I liked it because it showed how MATLAB could be used practically in order to solve real world problems by finding the shortest distance when traveling between any number of cities. I hope to learn how to code and solve real problems using coding skills like the one demonstrated in Traveling Salesman.