User:Elisa.mathon

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My Name

My name is Elisa Mathon.

Elisa (pronounced "Alyssa", like Alyssa Milano from 'Whos the Boss' or 'Charmed')

Mathon (pronounced "may-thon" [like the month] [and like the end of the word marathon]

Grand Challenges for Engineering

Getting Solar Off the Ground, Lee Billings, Seed Magazine , 28 July 2009 , 19 September 2010 (Grand Challenge)

MATLAB Demonstrations

The Bending Truss demonstration is my favorite because I want to be a civil engineer, so I think that it is really cool how MATLAB can be specifically useful for a civil engineer. I liked seeing how a person could take MATLAB and design a program where you can see many different ways a bridge can bend.