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By Richard Merritt
Humor is often one of the telling characteristics of an effective and respected teacher, and from all accounts, Henri Gavin, associate professor of civil engineering, can be a pretty funny guy.
“He always tries to crack jokes about things, especially when it seems the class isn’t paying attention well ...
Liza Crabtree, a Pratt Undergraduate Research Fellow and civil and environmental engineering major, is working to understand the flaws that can develop in so-called stimulus-responsive hydrogels. These ‘smart gels,’ which look essentially like Jello, can be made to undergo dramatic transformation in response to changes in their surroundings, including pH ...
This article is part of Summer Stories, a special, online issue of Dukengineer Magazine, in which students wrote about their experiences in the Summer of 2007 during their time away from Duke.
by Patrick Ye, BME ‘10
This past summer, I was one of six students on a Duke Engineers Without Borders ...
In civil and environmental engineering graduate student Amrika Deonarine’s home country of Trinidad and Tobago, a sunny two-island nation off the coast of Venezuela, education is a top priority.
“Education is stressed a lot,” Deonarine said. “Education and family.”
Deonarine was encouraged early in the sciences by her physicist father and her ...
With the aid of time spent among simulated trees, Gil Bohrer, a graduate student in civil and environmental engineering from Israel, is getting a better handle on how wind flows through the forest. Inside his virtual world, trees can be moved around or made transparent and air currents of differing ...
Written May 2005
A first impression of the soft-spoken Huidi Ji might not immediately reveal the intellectual tenacity of this professional problem solver. Ji is drawn to complicated problems that can only be solved through patient application of complex calculations.
Given Ji’s heritage as a native of Shanghai, China, it seems fitting ...
By Gabriel Chen
Something fishy is happening in the headwaters of one of the nation’s most conspicuous rivers—the South Branch of the Potomac River. Scientists have discovered that some male bass are producing eggs, which is a decidedly female reproductive function. ‘Male fishes producing eggs in the Potomac River’ may read ...
By Claire Cusick
Gil Bohrer is pursuing a doctorate in environmental engineering, and working on a climate modeling project in the Panamanian rainforest, but his job has as much to do with atmosphere physics as with ecology.
He works on a research team that is studying wind dispersal of seeds in the ...
By Claire Cusick, September 2004
"Imagine a huge kite."
That’s how Ilinca Stanciulescu starts the conversation about her doctoral research.
Her research "focuses on the development and implementation of algorithms for nonlinear analyses in structural and solid mechanics".
But let’s hear more about that kite.
It’s actually called a solar sail, and one day it ...
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