User:Livinillissen

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About: I am an undergraduate student at Duke University who is studying Biomedical Engineering. Being a "small-town" girl, I love the close community and family that can be found here at Duke, and I am excited to see what the future years hold for me.

Interests: I love singing and musical theatre; I also enjoy playing various sports, especially water skiing and swimming. I am a huge bookworm as well, and therefore I adore reading just about anything.

Grand Challenges for Engineering:

Article Link addressing how to provide access to clean water

MatLab Demonstration

  • My favorite demonstration was the animation of the "Bending Truss." I found this one very interesting, because when I was in grade school, I did a science fair report on different types of bridges and how to determine their strength based on their architectural design; for my experiment I built a couple different types of bridges and compared them to one another. I was reminded of this because one of my bridge's structures resembled the same form of trusses as shown in the "Bending Truss" animation.