User:Jcl47

About Me

I am a freshman in the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University, Durham, NC, and currently do not have a declared major, though I am leaning towards an Electrical and Computer Engineering major. I currently reside in Bell Tower, the nicest dorm on East campus! I am originally from Issaquah, WA (just outside of Seattle, for those non-Washingtonians).

Grand Challenges

A link to a cool page about one of the Grand Challenges of Engineering: solar power

Solar Cell Towers: Onward and Upward, not Outward, Jean Thilmany, ASME, updated July 2012, accessed 6 September 2012 (Making solar energy economical)

Matlab Demo

My favorite demo in the Matlab help section is the Game of Life demo- watching all of the movement that occurs is hypnotic, and the code for the actual demonstration (not including all of the graphics creation) is relatively short and simple! Go to the wikipedia page for more information: Conway's Game of Life