User:Zrb4

About Me

I am a member of the class of 2016 of the Pratt School of Engineering at at Duke University.

Current Courses

I am currently enrolled for the Fall 2012 Semester in:

• EGR 103: Computational Methods in Engineering

Hobbies

I like to play basketball, football, and racquetball.

Grand Challenges for Engineering Article

• Cognitive Computing Project Aims to Reverse-Engineer the Mind, Priya Ganapati, Wired, February 6th 2009, accessed September 9th 2012

Favorite MATLAB Demonstration

My favorite MATLAB demonstration was that of the Bending Truss. I thought that the different ways in which it displayed the 12 natural bending modes of a two-dimensional truss was really interesting. I think that through that animation one could surmise many different ways in which a drawbridge would bend and react when put under many different variations of stress in certain areas of the bridge. Also it's really interesting to watch all the ways the truss contorts and bends when it goes through the 12 modes.