User:Mrm63

Name Pronunciation

(I think it's pretty straightforward): "Matthew Morgan" sounds like "math-hue more-gan". The stress goes on the first syllable of each word. I go by "Matt" though. For matt, think of doormat. Gan rhymes with van, seems simple enough.

Grand Challenges of Engineering

In Hot Pursuit of Fusion (or Folly), William J. Broad, NY Times, Updated May 25, 2009, Accessed September 17, 2011 (Grand Challenge)

Favorite Demonstration

I enjoyed the "Viewing a Penny" demonstration on Matlab. It was interesting to see the detail that the program goes into when viewing the topography of a simple penny. It was more detail that I thought was present in a simple penny and provided an insight into the specificity that the government uses when creating each one cent piece. The demo begins by creating a contour version of the penny that essentially outlines the changes in height on the penny. It looks similar to a topographical map of the earth, with the subject of course being the penny. Next comes the addition of a pseudocolor plot, which adds color proportional to the relative height of the area of the penny. A colormap is then used to create the 3D representation of the penny. The whole process takes only about 15 lines of code.