User:Kf95

About Me

I am currently an undergraduate student in the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University. Originally from Montreal, Canada, I am fluent in both French and English. I am unsure about my eventual major, but I am interested in both ME and ECE. I've been swimming competitively since the age of 7, and I am currently a member of the Duke Swimming & Diving team. My specialties are the 50 and 100 freestyle as well as the 100 breaststroke.

Name Pronunciation

My name is pretty straightforward in terms of pronunciation, but somehow people always seem to mess up "Fraser". No, it's not like the TV show - the 's' is more like a 'z' in this case. Think 'razor' with an 'f'.

Favorite TV Shows

The Office
Modern Family
Friends

Favorite MATLAB demo

There are two MATLAB demonstrations that I found to be particularly interesting - the Lorenz Attractor and 3-D Surface plots. In freshman year of high school, I chose chaos theory as the topic of my research. Needless to say, I didn't go very in depth on the math behind it, but I was intrigued by the effects of small variances in initial conditions on the outcome of a system. The Lorenz attractor was a key component to my presentation, as it clearly demonstrates the drastic effect of alterations of the final results.

While 3-D plots are always fun to look at, they are also extremely useful in demystifying complicated data sets and creating a visual model of complicated systems. The color schemes are useful for highlighting variance in results (as well as making everything look a whole lot nicer).

Grand Challenges for Engineering Article

New imaging technology enlightened by biomedical engineering, Richard Cairney, Phys.org, created 19 October 2010, accessed 15 Sept 2013 (Engineer better medicines)