User:Keb51

Name: Katie Brock (phonetic pronunciation: KAY-tee BRAHK; i.e. pronounced like the letters "K" "T," and then the word "rock" with a "B" in front of it)

Hometown: Philadelphia, PA

Interests: Playing softball, singing, and playing piano; watching baseball, football, and Duke basketball; spending time with family and friends

Proud member of the Duke University Class of 2015!

The NAE Grand Challenge that I find most important is that of providing access to clean drinking water:

Biological Approaches for Addressing the Grand Challenge of Providing Access to Clean Drinking Water, Mark R Riley, Charles P Gerba, and Menachem Elimelech, Journal of Biological Engineering, published online 31 March 2011, accessed 13 September 2011 (Grand Challenge)

My favorite MATLAB demonstration is Graphics: 3-D Surface Plots because I prefer the interactive demonstrations to those that just involve reading and/or watching. The 3-D Surface Plots demo was particularly interesting to me because I was able to easily change the plot type, shading, and colormap without knowing any of the coding; however, I was able to see the code in the command window adjust as I made these changes, and thus I was able to learn some of the coding as well.