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Difference between the Engineering Annual Fund and Engineering Dues
The Engineering Dues are different from the Engineering Annual Fund. Engineering Dues are $35 a year. Dues are spent by the Engineering Alumni Council to sponsor alumni receptions, speakers and open houses to forge connections between the alumni, students and faculty; provide the primary support for engineering student projects, enabling a richer and more fulfilling educational experience for dozens of students; host of the annual Awards Banquet and determining each year’s Distinguished Alumnus, Distinguished Young Alumnus and Distinguished Service awards.
The Engineering Annual Fund drive starts July 1 - June 30 each year. If you make a pledge, you have until our year ends to pay it, June 30, of each year. The Engineering Annual Fund supports the overall operation of the Pratt School, upgrading laboratory and computer equipment, and is crucial to initiatives undertaken at Pratt, augmenting endowments and tuition income. There are a variety of under funded research initiatives including drug delivery systems, next generation 3D imaging, land mine detection devices and environmental impact studies. Your gift provides Dean Katsouleas with the unrestricted resources necessary to continue these initiatives at the school while supporting faculty searches, community outreach programs and student programming - raising the national profile of engineering at Duke.
Four Ph.D. students in biomedical engineering successfully won a grant from the Society for Biomaterials to support their plans for a Biomaterials Day, a regional conference planned for the Fall of 2011. The organizers -- Suzana Vallejo-Heligon, Alice Brochu, Cristina Fernandez and Brittany Davis -- have dubbed their conference "From Bench Top to Bedside - Linking the Biomaterials Triangle: Academia, Industry, and Medicine." In addition to bringing together students, ...
Sam Stanton, a third year graduate student working with mechanical engineering Assistant Professor Brian Mann, won the Best Overall Student Paper award at the American Society for Mechanical Engineers Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems conference held in Philadelphia, PA. His paper was selected out of 49 papers submitted to the competition. Sam's research is focused on physical models for piezoelectric energy harvesters in particular on how to capture the behavior commonly ...
Fall 2010 - Computer Science doctoral student Souvik Sen won the Association for Computing Machinery MobiCom graduate research award for 2010. Sen works with ECE assistant professor Romit Roy Choudhury. His work, titled "Listen Before You Talk, But on the Frequency Domain" beat out 35 other contenders. He will now compete in the ACM grand finals across all sub-fields of computer science and engineering. For more information, see http://src.acm.org/winners.html.
2010 - Two graduate students and Brian Mann, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and materials science, scored a number one ranking on ScienceDirect's top 25 articles for the first half of this year. Sam Stanton and Clark McGehee described the team's work on using nonlinear dynamics for energy harvesting in an article titled: Nonlinear dynamics for broadband energy harvesting: Investigation of a bistable piezoelectric inertial generator.Their work is also described in ...
2010/2011 - Stephen Clark has won a 2010 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship. He was selected from an applicant pool of more than 2,600. The NDSEG Fellowship is sponsored and funded by the Department of Defense and will cover full tuition and fees for three years and provide a yearly stipend. Stephen is pursuing graduate work in the aerodynamics area.
2009/2010 - The Duke BME Excellence in Master's Studies Award is given to a student graduating with the Master of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering, who symbolizes best the balance between academic excellence and research or teaching service. This is the second year this award is being given. This year's recipient of the Excellence in Master's Studies Award is Sarah Hinds.
2009/2010 - The Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards for 2009-2010 were presented to John Moore, Jesse Winans, Aubrey Francisco, and Cindy Cheng. Honorable mentions were Je Hi An, Chun-Chi Chang, Te-Wei Chu, and Garrett Wood.
2009/2010 - On May 10-12, a group of 80 PhD students and faculty attended the third BME Research Retreat at the Duke Marine Lab in Beaufort, NC. During the two-day event, Dr. George Truskey presented an informative report on the state of the department and new faculty members Dr. Charlie Gersbach and Dr. Gabriel Lopez presented talks on their expertise in the areas of genome editing and biohybrid materials, ...
2009/2010 - Graduate student Christina Arnaout received an honorable mention for the 2010 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program Competition. Arnaout is a member of the Environmental Molecular Biotechnology Laboratory and a student of Claudia Gunsch.
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