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Revision as of 03:10, 14 September 2013
About Me: I am a freshman in the [1]Pratt School of Engineering at [2]Duke University in Durham, NC. I recently graduated from the [3]Parish Episcopal School in Dallas, TX where I attended for 15 years. Highlights of my highschool career included serving on the Upper School Honor Council, winning 4 TAPPS 4A tennis state championships, and extensive involvement with the [4]Texas Ramp Project.
Academic Interests and Pursuits:
- Currently, I want to study Biomedical Engineering.
- This semester I am taking these classes:
- BIO 201
- EGR 103
- MATH 212
- PSY 101
- This semester I am taking these classes:
My hobbies include:
- Cooking
- Fishing
- Recreational Basketball and Soccer
- Tennis
- Traveling
Family Travel:
- My favorite place to travel is "The Cove," a family property on Eberhart Cove in the Pacific Northwest. My family takes an annual vacation to our summer home on the Puget Sound. There, we spend time together as a family, enjoy the cool summer weather, harvest fresh blueberries and blackberries, and fish/cruise in our boat.
Grand Challenges of Engineering Article: [5], Eco Solutions - CNN, updated 7 December 2008, accessed 13 September 2013 (Restore and improve urban infrastructure)
Favorite MATLAB Demonstration:
- The Graphics "Viewing a Penny" demonstration was easily my favorite. The ability for a program to plot 3-Dimensional data representing a physical object is hard not to be amazed by. The detail on the penny's surface represented by a contour plot is awesome. I was exposed to new ideas such as using a pseudocolor that varies depending on its relative height determined by the Laplacian command. I thought that this sequence of commands was genius and the product was clean.
