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Personal Greeting
Hello! My name is Austin Liu, and I am currently attending the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke and am in the class of 2017. I certainly look forward to meeting all of you soon, and if you have any questions for me, or want to know me better, my contact information will be below.
About Me
I was born in Newark, Connecticut but spent most of my life in Chapel Hill. I was in the graduating class of 2013 for East Chapel Hill High School.
Contact Information
If you wish to contact me:
Duke Email: abl17@duke.edu
Personal Email: austin.by.liu@gmail.com
Cell Number: 919-672-5308
Residential Dorm: Wilson
Grand Challenges for Engineering Article
Below is an article on a method of discovering and using a new powerful material that is much cheaper than silicon in order to make solar power more economical.
A Material That Could Make Solar Power "Dirt Cheap", Kevin Bullis, MIT Technology Review, updated 8 August 2013, accessed 26 August 2013 (Making Solar Power More Economical)
Favorite Matlab Demonstration
My favorite demonstration was the Matrix Manipulation demo under the Mathematics section primarily because it shows just how flexible and concise the Matlab environment is. I have programmed in other languages, and what other languages take lines to complete a task, Matlab only takes one line. Matlab, or Matrix Laboratory, can do a variety of operations on functions easily such as transposing a matrix using ' or solving a linear system of equations merely by typing 'A\B' where A*x = B. This demonstration indicated to me how powerful Matlab is for engineers, who continually deal with mathematics and matrix in their studies.
