User:Catherinemay
About Catherine
Catherine is a Pratt transfer planning to study environmental engineering with a certificate in ethics. Outside of class, you can find her tap dancing with On Tap, taking pictures for The Chronicle, or exploring Durham.
Grand Challenges for Engineering
The Grand Challenges for Engineering are 14 goals set by the National Academy of Engineers as the most important engineering challenges at present. The goals include environmental and energy-related challenges, such as providing energy from fusion, health-related concerns, including to engineer better medicines, and security goals, including preventing nuclear terror, among others. This article details one of the goals:
A Brighter Future: Making Solar Power More Economical by Implementing New Methods and Technologies, Jason Cole-O'Leary, University of Pittsburgh, accessed 21 January 2014 (Making solar energy economical)
MATLAB Demonstrations
Of the examples found in the MATLAB documentation, I specifically liked the one on viewing a penny. I thought that the multiple perspectives gained by the different ways the image of the penny was analyzed were interesting. The different methods of analysis proved that MATLAB is capable of providing different visual interpretations of one set of data.
