Engineering Alumni News & Profiles

  • November 5, 2007

    Why Engineers Make Good Business People

    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 ...
  • September 19, 2007

    As Founder of Shoeboxed.com, Recent Grad Starts a 'Consumer Revolution'

    The Shoeboxed logo. As an undergraduate, Taylor Mingos ('07) was the first student at the Pratt School of Engineering to officially participate in the Duke-in-Berlin program's special engineering option, in which ...
  • June 21, 2007

    Duke Engineer Named to 2007-2008 Class of White House Fellows

    WASHINGTON, June 19, 2007 – The White House today announced the appointment of 15 outstanding individuals from across the country to serve as White House Fellows, including 1996 graduate in ...
  • June 11, 2007

    Startup Advanced Liquid Logic Receives Frost & Sullivan's Entrepreneurial Company of the Year Award

    Advanced Liquid Logic, which is developing miniscule fluidic technology that can turn silicon chips into labs, is consulting firm Frost & Sullivan’s choice for its 2007 Entrepreneurial Company of the ...
  • June 1, 2007

    Duke Engineers Without Borders Co-Founder Has Career in Concrete Design

    As an undergrad, Deirdre McShane (second from left) traveled to Indonesia with the Engineers Without Borders (EWB) chapter she co-founded. Now, she works as a structural engineer at Thornton Tomasetti ...
  • April 2, 2007

    Vote for InnoWorks

    United Innoworks Academy, an organization founded at Duke by recent Pratt graduate William Hwang, is in the running for a Golden BR!CK award worth $15,000 in funding from the not-for-profit ...
  • December 15, 2006

    President and CEO of Hi-G-Tek, A Pratt Alumnus, Assembled Executive Team

    Source: PRNewswire Hi-G-Tek, a leading developer and provider of radio frequency ID (RFID) solutions for high-value assets and sensitive materials, has assembled an executive team with decades of combined management experience ...
  • December 1, 2006

    Reassurance, Advice and Laughs at 2006 Engineering Parents’ Weekend

    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. ...
  • September 1, 2006

    Rising Startup Sets Sights on Diagnostics for Research Animals

    Advanced Liquid Logic's founders got their start in the lab of ECE professor Richard Fair (above). Advanced Liquid Logic, a startup company founded by two Ph.D. graduates from Duke electrical and ...
  • August 1, 2006

    Duke Engineering Alum Heads Purdue’s Civil Engineering School

    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 ...
  • June 1, 2006

    Pratt School Celebrates Graduation of Class of 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 ...
  • May 1, 2006

    Distinguished Alums and Faculty Honored at Awards Ceremony

    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 ...
  • January 1, 2006

    Prolific Alum Offers Students Roadmap for Success

    George Truskey, Robert Fischell and Dean Kristina Johnson A prolific innovator and entrepreneur who Dean Kristina Johnson calls “one of Duke’s most successful alumni” offered Pratt School of Engineering students a ...
  • May 1, 2005

    Alumni, Faculty Honored at Engineering Banquet

    Duke’s Engineering Alumni Association Saturday night honored 1974 graduate Capers McDonald of Potomac, Md., with its Distinguished Alumnus Award and 1990 graduate Edward L. Trimble of Atlanta with the Distinguished ...
  • April 24, 2005

    Engineering Alumni and Faculty Members Honored

    Duke’s Engineering Alumni Association April 23 honored 1974 graduate Capers McDonald of Potomac, Md., with its Distinguished Alumnus Award and 1990 graduate Edward L. Trimble of Atlanta with the Distinguished ...
  • January 1, 2005

    Duke Trustees Name CIEMAS for Fitzpatricks

    Duke’s Board of Trustees has named the Pratt School of Engineering’s new Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences (CIEMAS) for Duke alumni Michael and Patty Fitzpatrick. The Fitzpatrick Center ...
  • December 4, 2004

    Duke Interdisciplinary Engineering Center Named for Fitzpatricks

    DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University’s Board of Trustees has named the Pratt School of Engineering’s new Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences (CIEMAS) for Duke alumni Michael and ...
  • May 1, 2004

    2004 Alumni Banquet

    On April 24, the Pratt School of Engineering honored three exceptional individuals at the annual Engineering Alumni Banquet, held at the Washington Duke Inn. Alan L. Kaganov BSME'60, received the ...
  • April 28, 2004

    Professor Lisa Huettel Wins Klein Family Distinguished Teaching Award

    Lisa Huettel receives her award from Stacy Klein Lisa G. Huettel, assistant professor of the practice of electrical and computer engineering, has won the first Klein Family Distinguished Teaching Award at ...
  • April 28, 2004

    Professor Karl Linden Wins Stansell Family Distinguished Research Award

    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 ...
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