User:AlpAltinbasak

About Me

I am an undergraduate freshman student studying Mechanical/Biomedical Engineering and Computer science at the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University.

Name Pronunciation

My name is commonly pronounced just like the Alp's (Alp mountains) but without the "s" at the end.

Current Courses I'm Enrolled In

For the Fall 2021 semester I am enrolled in the following course:

• Engineering 101: Engineering Design and Communications
• Math 218D-2: Matrices and Vectors
• Chemistry 101: Core Concepts of Chemistry
• Writing 101: Academic Writing

For the Spring 2022 semester I am enrolled in the following course:

• Engineering 103: Computational Methods in Engineering
• Engineering 121: Engineering Innovation and Design
• Physics 151: Introductory Mechanics
• Biology 203: Molecular Biology, Genetics and Evolution

Grand Challenges For Engineers Articles

• Make solar energy economical
  • Getting Solar off the Ground, Lee Billings, Seed Magazine, created July 28, 2009, accessed August 24, 2009
  • Nanowires May Boost Cell Efficiency, USCD Jacobs School of Engineering, updated February 2008, accessed February 17, 2009
  • Next stop for solar cell technology, The Hindu, created September 12, 2011, accessed September 21, 2011 (Make solar energy economical)
  • Inexpensive Material could be the key to cheaper, more efficient solar cells, Mark Schwartz, Stanford Engineering, created 20 January 2015, accessed 30 January 2020 (Solar Cells)
• Provide energy from fusion
  • Fusion Energy is Coming, and Maybe Sooner Than You Think, Tomas Overton, Power, June 1 2020, accessed Oct 1 2021
  • The New Hot Job: Nuclear Engineering, Alison Go, US News & World Report, accessed 15 August 2008
  • Can Engineers Achieve the Holy Grail of Energy: Infinite and Clean? Charles Seite, Discover Magazine, accessed 14 January 2009
  • Nuclear Fusion: Energy of the Stars, With No Emissions Spiegel Online, posted 2
• Provide access to clean water
  • The Water Project, The Water Project, updated 2008, accessed 14 January 2009
  • Innovations - Water Filter, Australian National University, updated 4 April 2005, accessed 18 January 2009]
  • Solving the Problem of Clean Water for Poor Communities, San Francisco Chronicle, Rick DelVecchio, May 13, 2006, accessed January 21, 2009
  • Even in the U.S.Access to Clean Water Can be Tough, Christen Simeral and Cat Boardman, USNews, posted August 12, 2014, accessed September 15, 2014 (Provide Access to Clean Water)
  • WaterAid.org, WaterAid, accessed 14 September 2015
• Advance health informatics
  • Demand Increases for More Health Care IT Professionals, iHealthBeat, updated 13 August 2008, accessed 15 August 2008
  • Managing Technological Change: Organizational Aspects of Health Informatics, Google Books, created 2004, accessed 15 January 2009
• Engineer better medicines
  • Survivability Doubled Since Vietnam, Elizabeth M. Lorge, Military.com, updated 14 August 2008, accessed 15 August 2008
  • Weill Cornell experts publish review of genetic medicine,Weill Cornell experts, News-Medical.net, 3-Apr-2006, accessed 14-Jan-2009
  • Personalized medicine: revolutionizing drug discovery and patient care,Geoffrey S. Ginsburg and Jeanette J. McCarthy, Tripod.com, TRENDS in Biotechnology Vol.19 No.12 December 2001, accessed 01-Jan-2009
  • Making Personalized Medicine a Reality, Lisa A. Haile, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, updated 1 January 2008, accessed 14 January 2008
• Reverse-engineer the brain
  • Reverse Engineering the Brain, Sally Adee, IEEE Spectrum, updated June 2008, accessed 14 January 2009
  • Reverse-engineering the brain for better computers, Clive Maxfield, EE Times, updated 18 September 2007, accessed 15 August 2008
    • Reverse-Engineering the Brain, Fred Hapgood, Technology Review, updated 11 July 2006, accessed 18 January 2009
  • Blue Brain Project Christiane Debono, Blue Brain Project, accessed January 20, 2009
  • UCSD Biologists Discover That Nerve Activity Not Just Genetics Controls Kinds Of Neurotransmitters Produced Sherry Seethaler, UCSD News, created 2 June, 2004, accessed 21 January, 2009
• Prevent nuclear terror
  • Preventing Nuclear Terrorism, Oliver Kamm, updated 30 March 2008, accessed 14 January 2009
  • Understanding and Preventing Nuclear TerrorismTravis Sharp and Erica Poff, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, Updated December 3, 2008, accessed January 20, 2009
• Secure cyberspace
  • 'Cybersecurity commission' to proffer advice to next president, Declan McCullagh, CNET, updated 7 August 2008, accessed 15 August 2008
  • The National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, National Infrastructure Advisory Council, access 14 January 2009
  • Rethinking cybersecurity for a quantum world, Dr. Vikram Sharma, Hans Bachor, AAS, 22 February 2021, accessed 28 September 2021
• Enhance virtual reality
  • How Virtual Crime Scenes Work, Jonathan Strickland, How Stuff Works, accessed 15 August 2008
  • MIT Press Journals - Presence, Eugene Ch'ng and Robert Stone, MIT, updated June 2006, accessed 14 January 2009
  • Virtual Reality Based Surgical Assistnace, Kevin Montgomer PhD, accessed 20 January 2009
  • Healing Minds with Virtual Reality, Christina Couch, PBS, updated 2 April 2015, accessed 2 September 2016
  • [1] W. Geoffrey Wright, Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, Published 2014 Apr 8