User:Nja8

About Me

My name is Nick Albertson (pronounced nik AL-bert-sun). I graduated from Carrboro High School in Carrboro, NC (just outside of Chapel Hill) with a class of 198 students. I spent my last 3 summers working as a sea kayaking instructor on Martha's Vineyard. I spend my free time reading, hanging out with friends, or doing outdoorsy activities, such as swimming, rock climbing, biking, kayaking, skiing, and whitewater rafting. This year at Duke, I am taking EGR53, EGR20, Math41, and Writing20 (Conservation of Biodiversity). I am planning to major in Mechanical Engineering, with a possible certificate in Aerospace Engineering.

MATLAB Demos

I really liked the Loma Prieta Earthquake demo, because it showed the applications of MATLAB in solving real-world problems, and it displayed the movement data in a way that is actually meaningful. You could actually see the movement of a single point over time in three axes of motion.

External Links

Breakthrough For Retroviral Drug Design As Gamers Unfold Elusive Enzyme Structure, International Business Times, updated 19 September 2011, accessed 20 September 2011 (Engineering Better Medicines)