User:Ccardeli

Who is this?

My name is Caroline Cardelle and I am a freshman at Duke University. I am currently in the Pratt School of Engineering with the goal to become a mechanical engineer. I was born and raised in Salisbury, North Carolina and I also lived in Miami my sophomore year of high school.

Name Pronunciation

My first name is Caroline: care - o - line. My last name is Cardelle: car - dell

Link to Grand Challenges in Engineering Page

Here is a link to an article about one of the Grand Challenges in Engineering that I'm most interested in:

UCSD Biologists Discover That Nerve Activity Not Just Genetics Controls Kinds Of Neurotransmitters Produced Sherry Seethaler, UCSD News, created 2 June, 2004, accessed 14 September, 2009

One of the more interesting aspects of this discovery to me is the possibility of focal stimulation becoming a more plausible therapy for some neurological diseases. Such therapies would ideally have fewer and less serious side effects then the current methods of electroconvulsive therapy and drug therapies that target the entire brain.