CEE,Student Group NewsMarch 12, 2008
Student Highlight:
Josclyn Harrington
Hometown: Charlotte, N.C.
Josclyn Harrington got involved with the Duke chapter of the American Society for Civil Engineering (ASCE) in her sophomore year. Now a senior and ASCE president, she will lead the student club in its annual concrete canoe race and steel bridge competition at the Carolinas Conference. The annual conference gives students fun opportunities to test out both their technical and communications skills.
Last year, Duke’s canoe, dubbed the “Hazzards of Duke,” was ...
August 17, 2006
Children of all abilities will soon have a place to play together in Durham. With the help of volunteers, including several Duke students, the Durham Parks and Recreation Department began construction in mid-August of a fully handicap-accessible playground at Morreene Road Park. Slated to open on Oct. 1, the playground will be further customized in the coming months with the addition of designs developed and built by members of Duke’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders ...
May 1, 2006
Two groups of civil and environmental engineering (CEE) students competed in design contests in April. One group tested a system they designed to remove arsenic from drinking water at a contest in Las Cruces, N. M. on April 2-6. The event is organized each year by an environmental education and technology development consortium called WERC. A second group competed in a variety of events—including a steel bridge building contest and a concrete canoe race--at the ...
August 5, 2005
Note to editors: High-resolution images will be available on request at the end of the trip. David Schaad and Jean Foster will have intermittent email access during the trip and can be reached at david.schaad@duke.edu and jean.foster@duke.edu.
DURHAM, N.C. -- Five engineering students from Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering later this month will repair shrimp hatcheries in Indonesia damaged by the 2004 tsunami and help villagers stabilize an airstrip to prevent erosion.
The team will travel ...
June 1, 2005
Duke University has established a student chapter of Engineers Without Borders with the help of two determined senior civil engineering students, Jean Foster of Boulder, Colo. and Deidre McShane of Longwood, Fla.
Engineers Without Borders (EWB) is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to pairing disadvantaged communities with engineering students and professionals to improve quality of life through environmentally and economically sustainable engineering projects. One of the program’s goals is to develop internationally responsible engineering students.
“Engineers Without ...
May 1, 2005
Pratt’s student American Society of Civil Engineers teams competed in six of eight events in the ASCE’s Carolinas Conference April 7-10 and placed in five.
The Duke team won the “Water Fountain Fun” event, placed second in the Quiz Bowl and the Environmental Design Competition, and third in the Balsawood Building Design and the T-Shirt Design.
The one disappointment was in the concrete canoe competition. A small piece of the Duke canoe broke off during the trip ...
April 4, 2002
Duke University's student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) on April 4-6 will host this year's regional Carolinas Conference and nine student engineering design competitions, including concrete canoe races.
The conference, an annual event for 10 engineering schools in the Carolinas and Georgia, is expected to attract nearly 350 students. In addition to the concrete canoe races, competitions will include projects involving the mentoring of middle school students, earthquake testing of reinforced concrete ...
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