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CEE,graduate NewsMay 10, 2009
Duke University awarded degrees to 523 undergraduate and graduate engineering students on May 10 in ceremonies beginning with a university-wide commencement celebration in Wallace Wade Stadium and ending with a Pratt School of Engineering ceremony in Duke Chapel.
Pratt Dean Tom Katsouleas Bachelor of Science in Engineering diplomas to 279 students, including 12 who completed their work in December and one last September, before a crowd of parents, relatives and friends in the Chapel.
Pratt also awarded ...
November 10, 2008
DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering challenges college students in the U.S. to create a video and an essay in response to this question: Which of the 14 grand challenges identified by the National Academy of Engineering would you choose to address, and how would you do it?
The National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges (http://www.engineeringchallenges.org) has identified 14 critical barriers to a sustainable way of life. They represent problems that will require ...
October 23, 2008
Note to editors: Jim Gaston can be reached at (919) 660-5501 or at jim.gaston@duke.edu.
DURHAM, N.C. --- The Duke Smart Home Program, a high-tech, 10-student residence for green living and learning, has been selected as the Green Nonprofit Program of the Year by the Triangle Business Journal.
The 6,000-square-foot live-in laboratory, designed by students and advisers, opened in November 2007. From its roof of plants and solar cells to the rainwater cisterns and sophisticated electronics in the ...
October 14, 2008
A knee injury kept Will Patrick from going to Uganda the summer of 2007. After all the work he put into preparing for it, nothing could have held him back this summer.
That ill-fated summer he was supposed to join a small team of students from Smart Home and the Duke chapter of Engineers Without Borders in a trip to Uganda to help a community-based non-governmental organization in Nkokonjeru and assess the some of most pressing ...
May 22, 2008
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 enough,” said Ian Cassidy, who took two Gavin classes and graduated this spring with a degree in civil engineering. “I remember in one class, most ...
May 22, 2008
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 enough,” said Ian Cassidy, who took two Gavin classes and graduated this spring with a degree in civil engineering. “I remember in one class, most ...
May 19, 2008
Welcome mothers and happy Mother's Day, thank you for all that you do. Welcome fathers thanks for your part in making Mother's Day possible.
Welcome Pratt Class of 2008. It has been a long road and we have reached the end of this journey in what seems like much less time than anticipated. Although our parents were certainly focused on getting to the destination on time and on budget, we were more focused on what interesting ...
May 8, 2008
DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering has received a gift of $5 million from an anonymous donor to establish a new undergraduate curriculum that will encourage students to think critically about problems that lack obvious solutions, like those they will encounter after graduation, President Richard H. Brodhead announced Wednesday.
The planned curriculum will be open to undergraduates from all majors.
“Duke’s strategic plan, ‘Making a Difference,’ calls for investments in programs that help students ...
April 21, 2008
Two years after receiving prestigious fellowships designed to support women scientists, three Pratt graduate students are well into their research with such diverse projects as brain-computer interfaces, nanoparticle exposures and a new method for breast cancer screening.
In 2006, Katie Hedlund, Christine Robichaud and Christina Shafer were named Clare Boothe Luce Fellows. The fellowship program is the largest such private program for women studying science, mathematics or engineering. More than 1,500 women scientists have received support ...
April 5, 2008
DURHAM, N.C. -- In a meeting in Cary Saturday with leaders of the local Indian community, Duke University President Richard H. Brodhead announced the school has established a fellowship in memory of slain Duke graduate student Abhijit Mahato.
The Abhijit Mahato Memorial Fellowship will provide financial support to a Duke international graduate student who is studying engineering, with preference given to a student from Mahato’s native country of India.
In a letter to Mahato’s parents, Brodhead noted ...
January 28, 2008
For the second year in a row, Professor Ana Barros led a freshman year experience Focus course cluster called Engineering Frontiers. Open to both engineering and arts and sciences students, this year’s cluster examines the planet earth as the life support system that sustains us.
Taught by engineering professor David Needham, one course in the cluster, Engineering 32F is Mapping Engineering onto Biology. Focus students had the opportunity to join into Needham’s ME/BME 265, Introduction to ...
January 23, 2008
Open forum to be held Jan. 23 in CIEMAS
Monday, January 21, 2008
Dear Member of the Duke University Community,
I write to share my great sadness over the sudden and senseless death of Abhijit Mahato, a graduate student in the Pratt School of Engineering, who was murdered in his off-campus apartment this weekend. Having spoken with Professor Tod Laursen, in whose lab Abhijit was making important contributions, I have a sense of his great promise and endearing ...
January 22, 2008
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 and temperature. Thanks to those unique abilities, hydrogels are now poised to become integral mechanical components and sensors in the increasingly tiny devices of the ...
January 19, 2008
Saturday, January 19, 2008 (Updated 3 p.m. Jan. 19)
Durham, NC -- A man identified as a Duke University graduate student was found shot to death at an apartment complex in the 1600 block of Anderson Street, several blocks south of the Duke campus, at about 11:30 p.m. Friday.
Friends and colleagues have identified the victim as Abhijit Mahato, 29, a Ph.D. engineering candidate from India, university officials said Saturday afternoon.
Durham Police said they do not yet ...
December 21, 2007
by Missy Baxter
During recent tours of Duke’s Home Depot Smart Home, visitors marveled at two 1,000-gallon rain barrels that collect water to flush toilets, wash clothes and irrigate landscaping at the home.
“It’s a smart way to save water and help the environment, especially since we’re in a drought,” said Alessandro Mangiafico, 9, as he toured the home with his parents Paula Mangiafico, a Duke University Libraries archivist, and Paolo Mangiafico, Duke IT-Web Services ...
December 5, 2007
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 team that traveled to Uganda. Our goal was to build a rainwater harvesting system to supply a community with a clean and reliable source of ...
November 10, 2007
Duke University’s new Home Depot Smart Home, a high-tech dorm and research laboratory, was officially opened Nov. 9 by the university president, the current and former deans of the Pratt School of Engineering, and some of the 10 students who will live there.
The $2.5 million, two-story building located on Duke’s Central Campus is the centerpiece of the Duke Smart Home Program, a research-based approach to smart living sponsored by the Pratt School. Primarily focused on ...
November 5, 2007
Note: The following represents a speech presented by Sy Sternberg, chairman and CEO of New York Life Insurance Co., at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering on Saturday, Nov. 3, during Parents Weekend. Sternberg is an engineer by education, with bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering. Download his power point slides.
It’s great to be here this week with so many other Duke parents. My son, Matthew, has just entered his senior year at ...
October 3, 2007
Note: The following article, written by Sally Hicks, first appeared in the Fall '07 issue of Gist from the Mill, a publication of the Social Science Research Institute at Duke University.
When Nan Jokerst studied engineering in the 1980s, being a woman meant being surrounded by men. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, says Jokerst, the J.A. Jones Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke.
“I had more dates than anybody. If you want ...
September 12, 2007
Summer 2007 -- After taking CEE Professor Ana Barros’ Focus program course in his freshman year, William Patrick took the initiative to ask if Barros might have anything he could do for the summer. He soon found himself as one of the only undergraduates participating in a massive, multi-aircraft mission aimed at decoding the climate.
“It was interesting to see research actually taking place and to be a part of a team,” Patrick said. “It helped ...
April 1, 2007
Students build a model aquifer in an activity led by Pratt Professor Helen Hsu-Kim and Nicholas Professor Heather Stapleton.
At the end of February, 160 local fourth through sixth grade girls spent their Saturdays at Duke exploring science with a creative twist, including topics ranging from the pollution of groundwater in underground aquifers to the chemistry of goo.
The event marked the second annual Females Excelling More in Math, Engineering and Science (FEMMES) organized by Duke junior ...
April 1, 2007
Duke's first campus-wide Engineers Week celebration, offering a week-long series of events for both Pratt and Trinity students, proved a big success. The week's grand finale, an E-social loaded with contests and competitions that pitted "Team Pratt" against "Team Trinity," drew more than 500 students to the engineering campus. Watch the video on YouTube.
The festivities were kicked off with a week-long clothing drive competition between departments for the Durham Rescue Mission. Tuesday featured guest speaker ...
April 1, 2007
Dean Kristina M. Johnson of Duke's Pratt School of Engineering told an International Women’s Day audience March 8 that the nation needs more women and minorities in engineering so they will be able to help solve some of the increasingly complex challenges she said the world will face in years ahead.
“Simply put, unless we bring more women and minorities into science and engineering fields, we will not have the intellectual capital to address the global ...
March 27, 2007
John Davis, off-road wheelchair racing champion and pioneer, and John Castelano, his wheelchair designer, will speak at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering on Monday, April 2.
The talk begins at 4:00 p.m. in the Nello L. Teer Building, room 203, and is free and open to the public. Parking is available in the parking garage next to the Bryan Center.
Davis is expected to discuss his experience as an outdoors enthusiast—an avid surfer and mountain biker—who ...
March 27, 2007
John Davis, off-road wheelchair racing champion and pioneer, and John Castelano, his wheelchair designer, will speak at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering on Monday, April 2.
The talk begins at 4:00 p.m. in the Nello L. Teer Building, room 203, and is free and open to the public. Parking is available in the parking garage next to the Bryan Center.
Davis is expected to discuss his experience as an outdoors enthusiast—an avid surfer and mountain biker—who ...
March 1, 2007
A destroyed house in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans remained virtually untouched months after Katrina's devastation. A DukeEngage pilot program will send 20 students to the New Orleans area this summer to help in the ongoing rebuilding effort (see sidebar).
In one of the most ambitious efforts of its kind in U.S. higher education, Duke University will make civic engagement an integral part of its undergraduate experience beginning in 2008, university president Richard H. Brodhead ...
December 6, 2006
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 mother, who is a nurse. She quickly gained an interest in two science-related fields: astronomy and environmentalism. But it was her love for math and ...
December 1, 2006
More than 330 Duke engineering students took part in a survey on summer internships earlier this fall. According to the survey results, more than 61% of students who completed an internship reported their experience as 'excellent' or 'good' and 82% received compensation for their time. At right are charts that provide detailed information on student majors, gender and types of internships.
Internships give students a chance to network with role models and potential employers and see ...
December 1, 2006
More than 330 Duke engineering students took part in a survey on summer internships earlier this fall. According to the survey results, more than 61% of students who completed an internship reported their experience as 'excellent' or 'good' and 82% received compensation for their time. At right are charts that provide detailed information on student majors, gender and types of internships.
Internships give students a chance to network with role models and potential employers and see ...
December 1, 2006
First-year engineering students get advice about course registration from senior E-Teamer Toby Kraus.
First-year engineering majors got some valuable advice on their spring semester course loads from upper-class members of the student mentoring group known as E-Team on Nov. 7. Freshmen gathered over slices of pizza to hash out their schedules with student representatives of each of the four engineering departments in the Fitzpatrick Center atrium.
“Biomedical engineering is a difficult major,” said senior Toby Kraus, a ...
December 1, 2006
Brook Byers
Brook Byers, a venture capitalist and Pratt parent, kicked off the 2006 Parents' Weekend seminar and barbeque by soothing parents’ fears that their child wouldn't get a good job. He described five hot technology areas, and gave seniors advice on how to choose their first position.
His presentation to the crowd of 600 parents and students Oct. 27 was followed by an interactive panel of four Duke engineering seniors who provided their own take on ...
November 6, 2006
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 temperatures appear as brightly colored, undulating masses.
A member of professor Roni Avissar’s lab, Bohrer is one of the first at the Pratt School to capitalize ...
November 1, 2006
More than 185 prospective high school students and family members hailing from Durham to California gathered on Saturday, Oct. 21, at the first "Pratt in Focus" to meet engineering professors and undergraduates and learn more about engineering at Duke.
More than 60 Pratt students volunteered their time at the day-long engineering recruiting event by leading tours, staffing tables at the student activities fair, explaining their Pratt Fellows research projects and talking one on one with prospective ...
November 1, 2006
Imagine a college dormitory that touts more audiovisual equipment than most theaters, runs on electricity generated by solar panels and is protected with biometric security. This unique living experience will become a reality for 10 students of Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering.
The university and The Home Depot are partnering to create “The Home Depot smarthome,” a residential laboratory where students will research and develop innovative solutions for the home in areas such as security and ...
August 1, 2006
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. —M. Katherine Banks, who received her Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering from Duke University in 1989, has been named head of Purdue University’s School of Civil Engineering.
Banks, a Purdue civil engineering professor, assumed her new post on Aug. 1.
"Kathy's vision, creativity and energy, combined with a stellar research record, set her apart from the rest of the candidates," said Leah Jamieson, interim dean for the Purdue College of Engineering and Ransburg ...
June 1, 2006
MEMP student finalists in the Graduate Student Licensing Competition
With gasoline prices on the rise, graduate students in the Master of Engineering Management Program are working toward a solution. A business plan they wrote for a novel fuel additive meant to boost gasoline efficiency and reduce tailpipe emissions won them a spot in the final round of a national licensing competition.
The glycerin-derived chemical “GTBE” could replace one recently phased out due to problems with water contamination.
“We ...
June 1, 2006
A new course taught by three mechanical engineers from Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering offers graduate students at the Nicholas School of the Environment the chance to bone up on the realities of energy technologies and their environmental implications. The ENVIRON 298.23 course, Energy Technology: Impact on the Environment, covers topics ranging from thermodynamics to the fundamentals of nuclear reactors, solar energy, and hybrid cars.
“We are aiming to inform our students—people who are likely to ...
May 15, 2005
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 that after completing her doctorate in computational mechanics at Duke University, she chose a career as a developer at a company named ABAQUS where she ...
November 15, 2004
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 like the Nebula prize-winning plot for a science fiction novel, but this phenomenon is becoming a growing cause of worry for environmentalists worldwide.
Last year, U.S. ...
October 15, 2004
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 Panamanian rainforest. He is creating a computer program that will enable a regional meteorological model – one that covers hundreds of square kilometers -- to ...
September 15, 2004
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 will be used to transport material in space, using for propulsion the photon energy from the sun. Building and testing a solar sail in the ...
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