User:Smayanmehra

About Me

I am a freshman at Duke, from Mumbai, India, currently studying engineering. I am completely undecided on what kind, as of now. I enjoy watching and playing soccer. I am a part of the Duke Men's Soccer Club. I love food, mostly eating, but I can cook spaghetti carbonara and scrambled eggs. My favorite TV shows include Game of Thrones, Rick and Morty, Friends and Narcos. My music taste is pretty varied, ranging from Ed Sheeran and Khalid, to Kendrick Lamar and Post Malone.

Current Courses

MATH212 - Multivariable Calculus, EGR103 - Computational Methods in Engineering, CHEM101 - Introductory Chemistry, PSY105 - Abnormal Psychology.

NAE Grand Challenges For Engineering

The Grand Challenge that I chose to post an article for is improving virtual reality. The article that I have chosen talks about what the biggest problems with virtual reality are and how Silicon Valley is working to solve them.

[ http://time.com/4645723/virtual-reality-2017-inside-out-tracking/ How Silicon Valley Is Trying to Solve Virtual Reality's Biggest Problems] , Lisa Eadicicco, Time, January 25th, 2017, accessed 21st September, 2017. (Enhance Virtual Reality)

MATLAB Demonstration

My favorite demo was 'Visualizing Volume Data'. I enjoyed how smoothly and easily I got to pan through the 3d space in the graph and how this demonstration let me view velocity vectors. I especially enjoyed this demonstration because I love cars and I am considering working in car design. This function of MATLAB would make it easy to visualize aerodynamics and would help design the car.