Engineering at Duke University, Pratt School

January 18, 2012

Gene Goodson grew up around cars. From the age of 12, he spent his summers helping out in his father’s automobile dealership, doing everything from putting on seat covers to changing oil to driving the wrecker on nights and weekends. So it would seem inevitable that Goodson would end up with a career in the automotive industry. But to him, the choice wasn’t that obvious.

Armbrust Builds Young Minds

January 18, 2012

As the principal of a newly approved charter school in poverty-stricken East Austin, Texas, John Armbrust, ’04, knows the challenges he will face building a school system from scratch. He should; it was his idea to start the school in an area most Texans would rather that visitors to the Texas capitol city didn’t see.

Graduate Student Rewarded for Aeroelasticity Work

January 6, 2012

For his work on characterizing the properties of folding-wing aircraft, mechanical engineering graduate student Ivan Wang was recently awarded a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship from the Department of Defense and the American Society for Engineering Education. Wang was inspired to pursue this line of research while an undergraduate Pratt Fellow working in the...

Jumping Droplets Take A Lot Of Heat, As Long As It Comes In A Cool Way

December 12, 2011

Microscopic water droplets jumping between surfaces that repel and attract moisture could hold the key to a wide array of more energy efficient products, ranging from large solar panels to compact laptop computers.

New Elemental Cookbook Guides Efficient Thermoelectric Combinations

November 29, 2011

A materials genome repository developed by Duke University engineers will allow scientists to stop using trial-and-error methods for combining different elements to create the most efficient alloys for a promising method of producing electricity. These thermoelectric materials produce electricity by taking advantage of temperature differences and are currently being used in such applications as...

Research Highlights

December 12, 2011

Jumping Droplets Take A Lot Of Heat, As Long As It Comes In A Cool Way

Microscopic water droplets jumping between surfaces that repel and attract moisture could hold...

November 29, 2011

New Elemental Cookbook Guides Efficient Thermoelectric Combinations

A materials genome repository developed by Duke University engineers will allow scientists to...

November 14, 2011

Duke's Nanoscience Research Featured in Educational Video

The newly released educational video on nanoscience called "...

Student Highlight

Barros Backs New Scholarships for International Students

Durham, NC - Without Duke's new scholarship program for international students, Laxmi Rajak says, "...

Pratt Alums Take Top Honors in Global Startup Competition

Duke engineers won big at the Startup Open competition during Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW)...

Alumni Highlights

The Career of Gene Goodson

Armbrust Builds Young Minds

Events

February 1, 2012
Graduate Student and Alumni Networking Reception
Time: 5:00 PM-7:00 PM
Place: Career Center
February 2, 2012
MRSEC Seminar: Kelvin Yeung
Time: 2:45 PM-3:45 PM
Place: Fitzpatrick Center Schiciano Auditorium Side B
February 3, 2012
Deep Brain Stimulation Colloquium
Time: 12:00 PM-1:00 PM
Place: Fitzpatrick CIEMAS 1441

In The News

01.27.2012 | WUNC-FM

Design in Natue

01.26.2012 | Salon.com

In Defense of Flip-Flopping

01.26.2012 | New York Times

With Prevalence of Nanomaterials Rising, Panel Urges Review of Risks

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Events

February 1, 2012

Graduate Student and Alumni Networking Reception

February 2, 2012

MRSEC Seminar: Kelvin Yeung

February 3, 2012

Deep Brain Stimulation Colloquium

In The News