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CEE,faculty NewsJune 26, 2008
Professor Tod Laursen has been named chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Dean Robert Clark and Dean designee Tom Katsouleas announced on June 26. He succeeds professor Franklin H. Cocks, who served as interim chair during the 2007/2008 academic year.
“Tod is well known and respected for his scholarship, leadership, judgment and academic values. He has ambitious goals for MEMS and we expect him to be a transformative Chair,” said Katsouleas.
Laursen received ...
October 26, 2006
By Rachel Adelson
Durham, NC -- Mark Wiesner wants to save the planet, one molecule at a time. A nanotechnology expert who joined Duke this semester as a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the Pratt School of Engineering, Wiesner is committed to managing the environmental risks of a growing industrial revolution before any damage is done.
Wiesner was among the first people to call attention to the way that production and use of new nanomaterials ...
September 25, 2006
Duke University will honor outstanding students, faculty, employees and alumni at its annual Founders’ Day Convocation in Duke Chapel at 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 28. Among the winners are six members of the Pratt School of Engineering faculty.
Honorees at the service, which is open to the public, include philanthropists Russell Robinson II and his wife, Sally Dalton Robinson; Ruby Leila Wilson, dean emerita of Duke School of Nursing; and longtime university photographer William “Jimmy” Wallace ...
July 19, 2006
Last week’s tunnel ceiling collapse in Boston that killed a motorist has taught us more about the “Big Dig” ceiling system than all the years of apparently successful operation, says a Duke University civil engineer and author of “Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design.”
“For years the ceiling design appeared to be successful, in that cars and trucks drove through the tunnels without incident,” said Henry Petroski, Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil and Environmental ...
July 6, 2006
Durham, N.C. – Mark R. Wiesner, former director of the Environmental and Energy Systems Institute at Rice University, has joined Duke’s faculty as a professor of civil and environmental engineering.
Wiesner's research focuses on membrane processes, nanostructured materials, transport and fate of nanomaterials in the environment, colloidal and interfacial processes, environmental systems analysis and energy technologies. He joined Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering on July 1.
"I'm interested in the environmental implications of the manufacturing, use and ...
May 1, 2006
Three distinguished alumni and six faculty members were honored for their career accomplishments, service to Pratt and excellence in teaching, mentoring and research at the 2006 annual Engineering Alumni Council Banquet held at the Searle Center on April 28.
William A. Hawkins III E'76, was awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award. James G. Whayne E'90, was awarded the Distinguished Young Alumnus Award. And Pratt Senior Associate Dean of Development and Alumni Affairss Judge Carr was awarded the ...
April 29, 2006
Henry Petroski, Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and professor of history, was elected April 29 to the American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States.
The society was founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin for the purpose of “promoting useful knowledge.” It supports research, discovery and education through grants and fellowships, lectures, publications, prizes and exhibitions. Early members included George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, James Madison, and John ...
March 1, 2006
Henry Petroski
Professor and prolific author Henry Petroski of Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering has won the 2006 Washington Award, one of the oldest and most prestigious engineering awards in the country, for his accomplishments in making engineering theory and practice understandable to the general public.
Petroski is Aleksandar S. Vesic professor of civil and environmental engineering and a professor of history at Duke. He was presented with the award at a banquet in Chicago on ...
February 24, 2006
Professor and prolific author Henry Petroski of Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering has won the 2006 Washington Award, one of the oldest and most prestigious engineering awards in the country, for his accomplishments in making engineering theory and practice understandable to the general public.
Petroski is Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and a professor of history at Duke. He will be presented with the award at a banquet in Chicago on ...
September 10, 2005
Durham, N.C. -- Duke environmental experts and civil engineers have responded to Hurricane Katrina devastation with a broad range of insights. They are criticizing the failure to heed computer models that warned of disaster; pondering how to rebuild the city to avoid future catastrophe and examining the potential for ecological damage in the storm's aftermath.
Pratt School of Engineering urban hydrologist Miguel Medina Jr. criticized the failure to heed the long history of engineering predictions and ...
January 1, 2005
Engineers pushed the limits of technology in the past century to accomplish things that were not even dreamed of in the 19th century.
"And so it will be in the 21st century, with the contents of any list of engineering achievements that will be compiled in the late 2090s being virtually unpredictable today," says Duke University civil engineering professor Henry Petroski in his latest book, Pushing the Limits, New Adventures in Engineering (Alfred A. Knopf).
Petroski says ...
December 18, 2004
DURHAM, N.C. -- Engineers pushed the limits of technology in the past century to accomplish things that were not even dreamed of in the 19th century.
"And so it will be in the 21st century, with the contents of any list of engineering achievements that will be compiled in the late 2090s being virtually unpredictable today," says Duke University civil engineering professor Henry Petroski in his latest book, Pushing the Limits, New Adventures in Engineering (Alfred ...
December 1, 2004
Duke civil engineers responded to Hurricane Katrina devastation with a broad range of insights. They criticized the failure to heed computer models that warned of disaster; pondered how to rebuild the city to avoid future catastrophe; and examined the potential for ecological damage in the storm's aftermath.
Pratt School of Engineering urban hydrologist Miguel Medina Jr. criticized the failure to heed the long history of engineering predictions and computer modeling that foretold what would happen in ...
May 1, 2004
Karl Linden, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering, has received the new Stansell Family Distinguished Research Award for his work on using ultraviolet light to disinfect drinking water and destroy chemical pollutants.
Linden, who joined the Pratt faculty in 1999, was selected by a committee of senior associate deans headed by Pratt Dean Kristina M. Johnson. The award, consisting of a plaque and $2,000, was presented at the ...
April 28, 2004
Karl Linden receives his research award from Stacy Klein
Karl Linden, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering, has received the new Stansell Family Distinguished Research Award for his work on using ultraviolet light to disinfect drinking water and destroy chemical pollutants.
Linden, who joined the Pratt faculty in 1999, was selected by a committee of senior associate deans headed by Pratt Dean Kristina M. Johnson. The award, consisting of ...
March 1, 2004
Assistant professors Andrew Schuler and Adam P. Wax at Dukey’s Pratt School of Engineering have received Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards from the National Science Foundation. Each award is expected to total $400,000 over five years.
“The CAREER award is NSF’s most prestigious honor for junior faculty members,” the federal research agency said. “The CAREER program recognizes and supports the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who are most likely to become the academic leaders ...
February 25, 2004
Assistant professors Andrew Schuler and Adam P. Wax at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering have received Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards from the National Science Foundation. Each award is expected to total $400,000 over five years.
“The CAREER award is NSF’s most prestigious honor for junior faculty members,” the federal research agency said. “The CAREER program recognizes and supports the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who are most likely to become the academic ...
December 17, 2003
The Wright brothers owed the success of their Dec. 17, 1903 first flight, at least in part, to the many failures of aviation pioneers before them, according to Duke University professors.
Otto Lilienthal, for example, had died in an 1896 glider accident. The Wright brothers deduced from the failure that Lilienthal's attempt to control his craft by shifting his body weight was not the best way to attack the problem.
“Their use of elevators and rudders and ...
September 23, 2003
DURHAM, N.C. -- What do paper cups, toothbrushes, supermarket layouts, grocery bags, kitchen faucets, door knobs and automobile cup holders have in common? They all are the imperfect products of designers seeking to come up with something better for consumers.
Henry Petroski, Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering, looks at the design of things we take for granted and concludes there can never be an end to the ...
May 7, 2003
DURHAM, N.C. -- Six Duke University scholars and researchers have been elected to join the 2003 class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an international learned society composed of the world's leading scientists, scholars, artists, business people and public leaders.
The academy announced Monday its newly elected Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members. The six scholars from Duke are Henry Petroski, Aleksandar S. Vesic professor of civil and environmental engineering; theological ethics professor Stanley M. ...
March 1, 2003
Tod Laursen, an associate professor and director of undergraduate
studies in civil and environmental engineering at Duke's Pratt School of
Engineering, has been appointed the school's senior associate dean for
education, Pratt Dean Kristina M. Johnson announced Feb. 26.
"In this new position, Tod will help take the school to the next level of
high-impact engineering education as outlined in our Strategic Plan,"
Johnson said.
She said Laursen will develop a school-wide strategy for recruiting
graduate and undergraduate students. He also will work ...
February 27, 2003
DURHAM, N.C. -- Tod Laursen, an associate professor and director of undergraduate studies in civil and environmental engineering at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering, has been appointed the school's senior associate dean for education, Pratt Dean Kristina M. Johnson announced Wednesday.
"In this new position, Tod will help take the school to the next level of high-impact engineering education as outlined in our Strategic Plan," Johnson said.
She said Laursen will develop a school-wide strategy for recruiting ...
December 1, 2002
What do paper cups, toothbrushes, supermarket layouts, grocery bags, kitchen faucets, door knobs and automobile cup holders have in common? They all are the imperfect products of designers seeking to come up with something better for consumers.
Henry Petroski, Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering, looks at the design of things we take for granted and concludes there can never be an end to the quest for the ...
March 29, 2002
DURHAM, N.C. -- Henry Petroski, Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, has written about bridges, pencils, paperclips, books and bookshelves, engineering errors and more. In his latest book, he turns his intellectual curiosity inward, to his teenage days when he delivered newspapers.
In Paperboy: Confessions of a Future Engineer (Alfred A. Knopf, March 2002), Petroski describes in detail how one folds a newspaper perfectly and flips it onto ...
December 1, 2001
Henry Petroski, Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and
professor of history, is an expert in the implications of failure for
engineering. In his book, To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in
Successful Design (1985), Petroski explored how engineers learned from
engineering failures. In a recent interview with Dialogue, Petroski
discusses how the collapse of the World Trade Center towers has
changed engineering thinking.
Q. In the immediate aftermath of the World Trade Center attacks, you said
you expected this ...
October 27, 2001
Roni Avissar, the Pratt School's new chair of civil and environmental engineering, wants to teach astronauts.
And not just any astronauts, but true space pioneers - men and women who will someday lead missions to Mars, live on the Moon, spend years in the international space station.
Given the pace of technological development and the rising average age of mission commanders, Avissar figures these future explorers are in high school right now. This means it's about time ...
September 13, 2001
DURHAM, N.C. -- With the tragic coordinated jetliner destructions of both World Trade Center towers in New York City Sept. 11, a Duke University engineering professor says "we very well may see the end of tall buildings of that magnitude for the foreseeable future."
"I think its going to be very difficult to make a proposal that financiers, the people that supply the money to invest in these buildings, are going to embrace," said Petroski, Aleksandar ...
September 16, 1999
DURHAM, N.C. - After writing six previous books for general audiences on engineering triumphs and disasters, famous bridges, and the histories of the pencil and other interesting objects, the latest volume by Duke University's Henry Petroski focuses on the storing, packaging, displaying and care of books themselves.
Petroski, the chairman of Duke's department of civil and environmental engineering, traces the inspiration for his newest work, "The Book On The Bookshelf" (September 1999, Alfred A. Knopf Inc., ...
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