User:Rachaelmurtagh

About Me

I am in the graduating class of 2019 and am an intended Mechanical Engineering major in the Pratt School of Engineering with strong interests in German and Business. I'm an international student, from England, and am loving everything about Duke and the USA so far.

Grand Challenges for Engineering

Fusion Power: Will It Ever Come?, William E. Parkins, Science Magazine, 10 March 2006, Accessed 11th September 2015 (Grand Challenge)

MATLAB Demonstrations

My favourite MATLAB Demonstration is the travelling salesman. This is because it solves a similar problem to what I did in my decision mathematics class in England. However, to solve smaller scale problems in the classroom we never used computers to code, but simply wrote out 'old fashioned' mathematics coding. So I find it interesting to be able to read through a full, more complex code, which essentially tackles the same problem.