User:Cas110

About Me

I am currently a freshman in the class of 2017 attending the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University. I am originally from Puerto Rico, but I have lived in Tampa, Florida since I was four years old. I am bilingual in English and Spanish with a good background in French after having studied it for four years in high school.

Current Courses

For the Fall semester of 2013, I am taking:

-EGR 103
-Queer Writing Practices
-Calculus 111
-Chemistry 101

Grand Challenges for Engineering Article

Nuclear fusion is the 'perfect energy source', Steven Cowley, CNN, updated 12 March 2013, accessed 14 September 2013 (Grand Challenge)

Favorite Matlab Demonstration

As of now, I would say that my favorite demonstration in MATLAB as the one discussing basic matrix operations because of the simplicity with which MATLAB approaches matrices. In calculus, matrices can become very complex and time-consuming with plenty of opportunity for error, therefore, stress and frustration. In MATLAB, I really appreciate its ingenuity in being able to solve a matrix, transpose it, and plot the data in a fraction of the time it would take manually. These functions greatly increase practical uses of matrices such as modeling or predicting data quickly. As in the second lab, learning how to use simple functions using matrices and plotting, one can quickly analyze trends, make predictions, and apply them to real problems for possible solutions. I am a fan for small, simple concepts because they are always the foundations to accomplish complex processes, bringing validity in the need to go back to the basics.