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CEE,undergrad 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 ...
June 19, 2008
Residence hall/laboratory receives state's first platinum LEED rating
DURHAM, NC -- The Home Depot Smart Home at Duke University, a 10-person student residence hall for green living and learning, has achieved a top-level platinum standard for its design from the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED rating system. The building becomes the first in North Carolina to achieve that standard.
LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.
The 6,000-square foot-residence, designed by students and advisers, earned 59 ...
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 ...
March 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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 Lee Pearson, BME/CEE ‘08
“Viva Peeeruuu!” the perfect stranger yelled to me with Pisco on his breath as he threw his arm around my back and we proceeded to walk towards the concert stage. It was July 27th, the night before the Independence Day ...
December 5, 2007
by Aaron Lee, CE/German/German Studies ‘09
Before this summer, I had figured that lab research would be very similar anywhere in the world. Like Gertrude Stein said, “a rose is a rose is a rose,” and although there may be some slight differences from lab to lab, I thought that in the end, a test tube is still a test tube. However, this summer allowed to me see that while some things will be the same, ...
November 12, 2007
The Home Depot Smart Home at Duke University is a showcase of green design and a living laboratory. Designed by Duke students through a strategic partnership with The Home Depot, the 6,000-square-foot home features a variety of eco-friendly and high-tech elements and will house 10 students.
The public can tour the Smart Home Nov. 12 and 13 to glean ideas and inspiration for green living. Open house tours are being offered from 2 ...
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 ...
November 1, 2007
Professor Fred Boadu and undergraduate Natalia Rossiter-Thornton with villagers in Ghana.
Two years ago, Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Fred Boadu made an unexpected discovery while mapping the geology in his home country of Ghana. The fractured bedrock beneath villages there allow nitrates from fertilizers to seep down into the groundwater, which is then pumped through boreholes for domestic use. Local farmers depend on the fertilizers to boost their yields of pineapples, which provide the locals' ...
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 ...
October 1, 2007
An illustration of the Home Depot Smart Home. After almost five years of plans, the dorm has finally become a reality.
After almost five years of plans, dreams, fundraising and ultimately construction, Duke’s new smart home will be finished in November. Ten Pratt engineers and Trinity students anticipate moving into the Home Depot Smart Home in January—prepared to become Duke’s newest ambassadors of E-Living. Their goal is to seamlessly integrate technology into the home and champion ...
September 19, 2007
Student members of the Duke Engineers Without Borders (EWB) chapter took part in three projects over the past summer—all designed to improve the quality of life for people living in Uganda and Peru. Meanwhile, Engineering World Health (EWH), an organization founded by the Pratt School of Engineering's Robert Malkin, took more than 40 students to Tanzania and Central America to install or repair medical equipment in local clinics and hospitals.
"It gives me great pride that ...
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 ...
September 1, 2007
Kirsten Shaw
In the midst of settling back into campus life and a new course schedule, it's already time to start thinking about next summer's internship or full-time job, says Kirsten Shaw, assistant director of Corporate and Industry Relations at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering. The good news is that there are plenty of resources available on campus to get undergraduates prepared.
The first stop should be an appointment with the Career Center, where students can get ...
June 1, 2007
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Inspired by Hurricane Katrina, Ben Abram looked for lessons in historical records related to past floods as a Pratt Undergraduate Research Fellow.
For the last four years, every graduate in this room has been solving engineering problems. None of us here escaped circuit diagramming—whether in physics alone, for us Civils and Environmentals, or in Dr. (Rhett) George’s EE 148 for Mechanicals, or by way of the Hotchkin-Hucksley for the Biomedicals, or twice a ...
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 ...
February 1, 2007
Civil and environmental engineering major Nicole Axelrod’s research as a Pratt Undergraduate Research Fellow could lead to improvements in the design of devices meant to limit damage to sensitive equipment during an earthquake.
In the laboratory of CEE Professor Henri Gavin, Axelrod works on simulated versions of the ISO-Base™ Seismic Isolation Platform, a commercially available product made by the southern California-based company WorkSafe Technologies. The platform consists of a steel ball sandwiched between two load-bearing plates ...
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 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 ...
October 24, 2006
DURHAM, N.C. -- 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 University’s Pratt School of Engineering.The university and The Home Depot are partnering to create “The Home Depot Smart Home,” a residential laboratory where students will research and develop innovative solutions for the home in ...
October 24, 2006
DURHAM, N.C. -- 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 University’s Pratt School of Engineering.The university and The Home Depot are partnering to create “The Home Depot Smart Home,” a residential laboratory where students will research and develop innovative solutions for the home in ...
October 6, 2006
A recent graduate in civil and environmental engineering, Emily Wren’s activities at Duke were many: the American Society of Civil Engineers concrete canoe design contest at the Carolinas Conference, engineering honor societies Tau Beta Pi and Chi Epsilon, and the E-Team, a group that mentors freshman engineers. But it is her involvement with Duke’s Chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) that she most relishes.
“EWB is what I believe in the most,” Wren said. “It offers ...
September 1, 2006
The new handicap-accessible playground at Morreene Road Park will allow kids of all abilities to play together.
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 ...
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 ...
July 25, 2006
Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering has received two “People, Prosperity, and the Planet” (P3) grants from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency aimed at sustainable technologies for use in regions crippled by natural disaster.
One of the $10,000 awards will support students in the identification and development of technologies relevant to the construction of sustainable homes in a part of Louisiana that was devastated by floodwaters after Hurricane Katrina. The second will focus on development of ...
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
Ian Kazi Shakil receives the Pratt School of Engineering Student Service Award from Associate Dean Linda Franzoni
Duke University awarded degrees to 346 undergraduate and graduate engineering students on May 14 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 Kristina M. Johnson presented Bachelor of Science in Engineering diplomas to 244 students, including 12 who completed their work in ...
May 24, 2006
In an autobiography written by Will Senner in one of his elementary school yearbooks, he made a prediction: He was going to go to Duke. Although it wasn’t a comment the Connecticut native initially remembered when applying to colleges, it turned out he had been right. He enrolled at Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering in 2002.
Now a senior civil engineering major and economics minor, Senner is already looking forward to kicking off a career in ...
May 24, 2006
Before enrolling at Duke as a freshman four years ago, Hunter Halten--a graduating senior in civil and environmental engineering--had never been outside of the country. But, after a semester spent studying in Spain and a summer spent working in London, the native of California’s wine country is setting out for a career in international development.
He is debating between entering the Peace Corps, ideally in a Latin American country, and jumping right into a job with ...
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 ...
April 1, 2006
Diary by Kendall Morgan
Photos by Kendall Morgan and Daoxun Lin
Saturday, March 11, 2006
On Saturday night March 11 – while many of their friends were heading off for spring break vacations in Miami, New York or Mexico – about 130 Duke students boarded three charter buses bound for St. Bernard’s Parish, La. A 15 minute drive from New Orleans, the parish was one of the places hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina seven months ago.
For the majority ...
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 ...
June 1, 2005
Duke University and its Pratt School of Engineering awarded degrees to 300 undergraduate and graduate engineering students May 15 in a series of ceremonies starting with a university-wide commencement celebration in Wallace Wade Stadium and winding up with an inspiring ceremony in Duke Chapel.
Dean Kristina Johnson
Pratt Dean Kristina M. Johnson presented Bachelor of Science in Engineering diplomas to 237 students, including eight who completed their work in December and six last September, before a standing-room-only ...
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 15, 2005
By Gabriel Chen, written in 2005
Exotic landscapes are not always distant and unapproachable. In 2002, just before the beginning of his sophomore year, Chris Einmo spent a summer in Montenegro, the heart of the Mediterranean, divided from Italy by the Adriatic Sea. Part of the former Yugoslavia, this republic is only an hour flight from Rome or Budapest, and one hour and a half from Zurich.
Einmo, a senior majoring in civil and environmental engineering, ...
October 15, 2004
by Gabriel Chen, 2004
It was a cold, wintry afternoon, and students were gathered at the Trinity café on East Campus at Duke for a warm cup of coffee. I sat opposite Michael Amodeo and dared him to juggle in front of the growing crowd. Without so much as a word of protest, Amodeo bought several oranges, and juggled them with consummate ease – his gaze transfixed on the fruits even as he performed cascades and ...
March 15, 2004
By Gabriel Chen
Many psychologists agree that play is an essential ingredient in a child's growth and development – play stimulates the human spirit, encourages imagination, conceptual thinking and creation. Cathryn Liken remembers playing Legos for hours, constructing anything out of them: a boat, a plane, or a train.
As a wide-eyed inquisitive girl growing up in Pittsburgh, Cathryn avoided Barbie dolls like the plague, choosing to amuse herself with cardboard blocks instead. Catie, as she is ...
August 15, 2003
Written in 2003
Jean Foster’s childhood spent with her family in exotic Malaysia, where primal forests create a continuous skyline of green from shore side mangrove to mountaintop oak, gave her an enduring fascination for the Orient.
Malaysia’s population is surprisingly diverse, influenced by centuries of trade with China, India and Arab nations, and later with the Portuguese. While there are myriad indigenous Malay tribes, nearly 35 percent of the country’s population is immigrant Chinese. And it ...
June 1, 2003
Sometime last spring, Annie Adams and two other student members of the Society of Civil Engineers taught area middle school students about structural engineering. Together, they talked about how to build a bridge out of balsa wood, looking at the stresses and forces involved and where the bridge could potentially come apart.
The kids reacted. They laughed and asked questions. They came away with the idea that engineering is fun and an important part of our ...
March 15, 2003
By Gabriel Chen, written in 2003 Loaded with caffeine and eyelids heavy as bricks, it is 2 a.m. already and your head is beginning to shake. You have just completed page three of your 20-page paper that is due tomorrow before noon. That is a procrastinator, a character easily understood by college students, even as many of them try to cram the night before assignments are due.
For sophomore Ashleigh Thames, each morning, however, presents her ...
October 15, 2002
All of my high expectations were met and even surpassed as I finally arrived at the world-renowned Avenue de Champs Elysees in Paris, France as a study-abroad student through Duke's ...
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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