Hello world. My name is Michael Lawrence (as you might notice from the title of this section). I am currently an undergraduate Electrical Engineering major at Rice University.
My interests range from music to computers to sports to ... just about anything I find interesting, actually. I play clarinet and am competent with a trumpet, saxophone or piano under my fingers. I look forward to voice lessons next semester. I listen to Red Hot Chili Peppers, Guster, Radiohead, Linkin Park, and the Beatles substantially, but my favorite artist is probably Eminem. I also enjoy, on occasion, MC Hawking, Benedictine Monks, Pepe Romero (a classical guitarist) and Apocalyptica. A plethora of other artists might also make the list, but one must be concise.
Digital signal processing and physical electronics were my two favorite courses this semester in terms of content; therein may be found my electrical engineering interests. I am also in the process of building a robot capable of competing in the IEEE Region V competition; but it'll be the first thing to go when my workload gets too heavy next semester.
I play billiards. I won the Rice University intramural Billiards Singles competition last year and was on the winning team for College Intramural Billiards this year (singles and doubles competition have yet to take place). I enjoy a good game of ping pong. Basketball and tennis are two other athletic interests of mine.
My contribution to this project was primarily the coding/writing of the Connexions course you see before you. I provided a wall off of which Charles could bounce ideas for coding in Matlab but he generally dominated that section of our project.
