User:Yk132

About Me

I am an international student from Seoul, South Korea that lived three years in Canada and four years in Maryland. I am a proposed environmental engineering and public policy double major, but this is still tentative. I have a deep interest in French and francophone cultures as I have studied the language for seven years and intend to do a study abroad in France sometime during my Duke career.

Grand Challenges for Engineering Article

Back to the future: are we about to crack energy fusion?, Duncan Jefferies, The Guardian, updated 7 May 2014, accessed 13 September 2014 (Grand Challenge)

This article relates to the challenge of providing energy from fusion, discussing past failures and a promising project.

Matlab Demonstration

My favorite demonstration was "Earth's Topography" because three radically different graphs could be generated with the same data based on what codes were used. For me, this demonstration proved just how powerful Matlab is as a program.