User:Kevezich

About Me

Bonjour! I am Kelsey and I am a Freshman (Class of 2017) at Duke University where I plan to study Biomedical Engineering. I was born and raised in Colorado and I am not used to the humidity here in North Carolina! I swim, I sail, I dance, I enjoy life and the outdoors!

My Name

Evezich. My last name really shouldn't be all that scary; it's 7 letters! It's pronounced Eve-A-zich. Though I guess even my family disagrees about the emphasis. It's Yugoslavian, from the place now called Croatia.

This Page

Pundit is an assignment for EGR 103. I'm not really sure what the evolution of this page will be--but welcome!

Engineering Grand Challenges

For the first homework assignment, I was told to find an article that relates to one of the 14 Grand Challenges for Engineering. Due to my previous knowledge of the nitrogen system, the carbon credit system, and my parents industry in wastewater, this article caught my eye:

Emissions Credits: Opportunity To Promote Integrated Nitrogen Management in the Wastewater Sector, James S. Wang, Steven P. Hamburg, Donald E. Pryor, Kartik Chandran, and Glen T. Daigger, Environmental Science & Technology, created July, 2011, accessed September 2013 (Grand Challenges)

Favorite Matlab Demo

My favorite demo in the Matlab examples was the Minesweeper (MATLAB File Help: xpbombs). As a child, I played Minesweeper all the time--it is still one of my favorite ways to pass time. I thought it was extremely fascinating that it was possible to program an interactive ever-changing game into a program like Matlab. When I looked at the script as a whole, it was interesting to see how someone would approach a program like that. I definitely didn't understand most of what was in the script, but I did recognize the basic outline, the "nargin" command, and the "if-tree" structure. There was code for what the boxes should look like, what the flags should look like, how the program would react to a 0 in a cell and how it would react to a bomb in the cell. Basically, it was awesome to see the code and workings behind a program I have always used. It demystified it!