User:Kam109

About me

Hey everyone, I'm Kevin. I'm from Concord, North Carolina and I am a freshman at Duke University

Name Pronunciation

My name is pronounced Keh-vihn Murr-gus

Classes

If you were wondering, I'm in:

Chem 101

EGR 103

EGR 90

Math 212

Phil 101

Grand Challenges

Water is a very precious resource and many developing nations have limited access to clean drinkable water. One of the Grand Challenges for Engineering is to develop ways to better provide water for the citizens of these nations to drink and use in their everyday lives.

Many engineers today are working to provide access to clean water for these nations, and many non-profit organizations help fund this progress. One engineer, Abraham Wright, has worked to design and install two highly effective water pumps in the Central African Republic.

Projects like Wright's use engineering to help those in need of water, thus working to solve one of the Grand Challenges.

Providing Access to Clean, Safe Drinking Water in the Central African Republic Abraham Wright, Johnson & Johnson, Dec 7 2011, accessed Aug 8 2013 (Access to Clean Water)

Demonstrations

My favorite demonstration was the Traveling Salesman demonstration. I liked this one because it used Matlab to not only calculate an efficient route to travel, but also continually ran to improve that route little by little. This demonstration clearly has practical applications because a traveling salesman could use the program to determine his own travel path.