PRATT ECE News

  • September 28, 2009

    DARPA-Funded Study to Detect Viral Infection Before Symptoms Appear

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the research arm of the U.S. Department of Defense, has awarded Duke University $19.5 million for an effort led by the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy (IGSP) to design a portable, easy-to-use diagnostic device that can reveal who is infected with an upper respiratory virus before the first cough or sneeze. DARPA is interested in such a device because it could offer military commanders in the field ...
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  • August 24, 2009

    Lightning's Mirror Image, Only Much Bigger

    DURHAM, N.C. -- With a very lucky shot, Duke University scientists have captured a one-second image and the electrical fingerprint of a huge jolt of lightning that flowed 40 miles upward from the top of an offshore tropical storm. These rarely seen, highly charged meteorological events are known as gigantic jets, and they flash up to the lower levels of space, or ionosphere. While they do not occur every time there is lightning, they are substantially ...
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  • July 14, 2009

    Two Young ECE Researchers Awarded

    Two Duke University engineers have received the highest honor given to scientists by the U.S. government. Adrienne Stiff-Roberts and Chris Dwyer, both assistant professors of electrical and computer engineering at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering, each received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The awards are intended recognize young investigators and support them in the early stages of their independent research careers. The award also carries up to $1 million in research support ...
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  • July 6, 2009

    Alum Fosters Innovative Culture

    When one thinks about working for the federal government, one often thinks of large conglomerates feeding off our tax dollars at the public trough. However, there is actually a not-for-profit company that not only manages large programs for such federal agencies as the Department of Defense, the Federal Aviation Administration, the Internal Revenue Service and Departments of Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security, but does so in the public interest. And the chief technology officer and vice ...
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  • June 26, 2009

    Alumnus Reibman Stalks 3D in the Living Room

    Some day, people will routinely watch 3-D movies in their living rooms just as they now watch movies on their computer monitors. Electrical engineer Amy Reibman (B.S. '83, M.S. '84, Ph.D. '87) has been involved in both of these technologies. During her 18 years at AT&T Labs Research, she has worked to improve the quality of video transmitted over networks, just as she is now in the early stages of making 3-D television readily ...
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  • June 10, 2009

    Writing in Air Is Not Pie in the Sky

    It's a familiar scene in airports and train stations. Hands full with luggage, briefcase, laptop or coat and there's something you need to remember, like the level and row numbers where you parked your car in the deck. What do you do? Instead of relying on your memory, or finding a place to put all your stuff down to find a pen and paper, wouldn't it be so convenient to simply write "level 4, row H" ...
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  • May 10, 2009

    Duke graduates 523 engineers in May 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 ...
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  • March 24, 2009

    Half of Americans See Other Country as Technological Leader

    DURHAM, N.C. - Half of all Americans expect another country to emerge this century as the world's leader in addressing technological challenges that range from the economy to global warming, according to a survey of U.S. public opinion released March 3 by Duke University. Although only 34 percent of Americans gave themselves a grade of A or B for understanding "the world of engineers and what they do," 72 percent nonetheless expect the technological advancements ...
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  • February 3, 2009

    Young Electrical Engineer Honored for Research

    When Adrienne Stiff-Roberts decided during her high school career that she wanted to be a scientist, and then an engineer, she didn't know that she'd end up manipulating the exotic properties of quantum mechanics to perfect devices ranging from infrared cameras to solar cells. It's not surprising that the daughter of a father who taught mathematics would gravitate toward a career in academia in a science so dependent on numbers. "The first time I first became serious ...
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  • January 15, 2009

    Next Generation Cloaking Device Demonstrated

    DURHAM, N.C. A device that can bestow invisibility to an object by "cloaking" it from visual light is closer to reality. After being the first to demonstrate the feasibility of such a device by constructing a prototype in 2006, a team of Duke University engineers have produced a new type of cloaking device, which they said is significantly more sophisticated and has a broad frequency bandwidth. The latest advance was made possible by the ...
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  • December 15, 2008

    Tiny Lasers, Big Advances

    While an undergraduate in the early 1980s at Creighton University in Omaha, Neb., Nan Jokerst thought lasers were so cool she should build one herself. Using plans from a Scientific American article, she did just that in the basement of the physics building. "It worked, amazingly enough," she says with a laugh, "though I nearly electrocuted myself, which wouldn't have been good for an electrical engineer." This, her first foray into the world of laser optics ...
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  • December 15, 2008

    Harnessing Lightning and Hiding from Sound

    Steve Cummer jokingly calls himself something of a Luddite because of his stubborn refusal to give up pencil and paper as his main medium for working through ideas. But in reality, that quirk is hardly enough to justify such a title, particularly when you consider that some of those ideas he fiddles with on paper are being transformed into some of the most technically advanced and futuristic materials ever devised. Oddly enough, Cummer's involvement in materials ...
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  • December 15, 2008

    Creating the Future of Mobile Computing

    Like most users, Romit Roy Choudhury enjoys the freedom, information, and options his iPhone and other devices provide, but for him these instruments serve a more important role as research tools that help him envision future innovations in mobile computing. Roy Choudhury's academic life is dedicated to making those visions reality, and it's difficult to discuss his research with him without feeling like you're getting a privileged glimpse of the future. Roy Choudhury, who was courted ...
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  • December 12, 2008

    A New Paradigm in Electrical Sensing

    When a snake is cut in half, it dies. This illustrates how electrical devices can respond to damage. Since they are at their core closed circuits, devices will fail whenever the circuit is interrupted. However, if these devices could be more like earthworms, intriguing new possibilities arise. Unlike their reptilian counterpart, one functioning worm can become two functioning worms when cut in half. The worm-snake illustration helps explain the recent innovation by a Duke engineering alumnus that ...
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  • December 10, 2008

    Searching for Genes, Photo Files, and Landmines -- In Haystacks

    Lawrence Carin's graduate training was in electromagnetics and wave analysis-- a fitting choice for someone who remembers trying to assemble and plug in electronic contraptions as a five year old and who grew up tinkering with radios and motors. Overall, his life was fairly standard preparation for the electronic and computer engineering field, but where his work has led is anything but typical. Carin's graduate work was focused on traditional physics in the context of improving ...
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  • November 10, 2008

    Duke Engineering Contest Connects U.S. Students with National Problems

    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 ...
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  • October 15, 2008

    Adrienne Stiff-Roberts: Putting Artificial Atoms to Use

    Adrienne Stiff-Roberts says she didn't do so well as an undergraduate physics student tackling quantum mechanics. "It's one of those topics where, the first time you see it, it's really mind blowing," she says. And yet, today her entire research program is focused on putting the wonders of quantum mechanics to good use. The shift from struggling to wrap her mind around quantum mechanics, a topic that stressed even Albert Einstein, to embracing it as a ...
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  • October 15, 2008

    Gary Ybarra: Electrifying a New Generation of Engineers

    Like many of his colleagues at Pratt, Gary Ybarra's interest in engineering began early on. He loved to take apart all manner of electronic devices from radios to televisions and was fascinated by the way that small components could be assembled together to perform such useful--or at least entertaining--functions. In his more than two decades as a professional engineer, Ybarra has continued to nurture that passion. His research has spanned a wide range of topics from ...
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  • October 15, 2008

    David Smith: Creating New Materials that Go Beyond Nature

    In 1967, Russian scientist Victor Veselago published theoretical research on a bizarre type of material that, while possible according to the known laws of physics, didn't exist anywhere on the planet as far as anyone could tell. Veselago was describing materials with a negative refraction, which, relative to the positive refraction all known materials had, would have dramatic impacts on electromagnetic radiation--from microwaves to visible light--leading to a variety of alien properties. Some 30 years ...
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  • October 14, 2008

    Matt Reynolds - Bridging the gaps between the physical and digital worlds

    Who is Matt Reynolds? Academically, Matt Reynolds was born and raised at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's famed Media Lab, but the roots of his engineering interests go back much further. By the age of 10, he was already building and studying electronic circuits using an oscilloscope--a gift from his father who encouraged him to learn about math and science. "That early interest in science and engineering has stayed with me for a long time now," ...
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  • August 21, 2008

    Quantum: The Next Generation in Computing

    While computers are getting progressively smaller and more powerful, the underlying principles encoding information in long strings of ones and zeroes have not changed markedly in 50 years.But that could soon change. Scientists at Duke University and elsewhere are making advances in a new type of computing that may have seemed purely theoretical, but could now be possible within our lifetimes. Literally, this new generation of computers will be a quantum leap ...
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  • August 15, 2008

    Sen. Dole Aide Tours Photonics Institute

    Reggie Holley, seated, deputy state director for U.S. Senator Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., recently visited a number of laboratories at the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics to learn more about the scope of federally funded research at the Pratt School of Engineering. Postdoctoral fellow Yizheng Zhu, right, explains his optics research project in the lab of Adam Wax, associate professor for biomedical engineering. Looking on are, from left, Quincy Brown, postdoctoral fellow in the lab of ...
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  • July 1, 2008

    Glass Named Senior Associate Dean for Education at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering

    Professor Jeffrey T. Glass has been appointed Senior Associate Dean for Education, Dean Tom Katsouleas announced on July 1, 2008. He succeeds Tod Laursen, who served in that capacity since 2003 and will now become chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science. "Jeff has the ideal background to help the faculty and the departments to develop innovative and exciting new educational programs that respond to the nation's need for engineers that will be ...
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  • June 19, 2008

    Smart Home Gets Top Environmental Building Score

    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 ...
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  • June 19, 2008

    Experimental Phone Network Uses Virtual Sticky Notes

    By Richard Merritt The rapid convergence of social networks, mobile phones and global positioning technology has given Duke University engineers the ability to create something they call "virtual sticky notes," site-specific messages that people can leave for others to pick up on their mobile phones. "Every mobile phone can act as a telescope lens providing real-time information about its environment to any of the 3 billion mobile phones worldwide," said Romit Roy Choudhury, an assistant professor of ...
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  • May 11, 2008

    Duke University Awards Degrees to 404 Engineers

    Duke University and its Pratt School of Engineering awarded degrees to 230 undergraduate and 174 graduate students May 11 and engineering Dean Robert L. Clark said Pratt's graduating seniors are ready to help tackle some of the many challenges facing the nation and the global society. "You are about to accept a much greater responsibility for yourselves, and as engineers, for all of humanity," Clark told a standing-only-crowd of graduates, and their friends and families gathered ...
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  • May 8, 2008

    Gift to Drive Better Understanding of Uncertainty Analysis

    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 ...
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  • April 25, 2008

    Fernandez wins NDSEG Fellowship

    Christy Fernandez, a member of the Duke Imaging and Spectroscopy Group advised by ECE Professor David Brady. She is yet another Pratt winner of a 2007 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship. Fernandez's application was selected by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research from over 3,400 applications. The fellowship covers her tuition and fees for three years plus annual stipends of more than $30,000.
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  • April 25, 2008

    Noia wins Intel Foundation/Semiconductor Research Corp. Education Alliance Master's Scholarship.

    Pratt senior Brandon Noia has been awarded an Intel Foundation/Semiconductor Research Corp. Education Alliance Master's Scholarship. The two-year award provides tuition and fees, a $2,060 monthly stipend and an annual gift of $2,000 to the ECE department. Noia will study under ECE Professor Krish Chakrabarty.
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  • April 23, 2008

    Dan Roberts a Goldwater Scholar

    Dan Roberts, a junior in Duke's Pratt School of Engineering, was one of three Duke students to receive a prestigious Goldwater Scholarship for the 2008-2009 academic year. Another engineering student, Stephen DeVience, received an honorable mention. The scholarships, which provides up to $7,500 toward annual tuition and expenses, are awarded to college sophomores and juniors in the field of mathematics, science or engineering. This year, 321 scholarships were given out of a field of 1,035 applicants. ...
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  • April 21, 2008

    Clare Boothe Luce Fellows Two Years Later

    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 ...
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  • April 7, 2008

    Meet the New Faculty: Matt Reynolds

    Making home technology to meet needs By Marla Vacek Broadfoot Durham, NC -- Talk to Matt Reynolds about his work and chances are he'll quote his favorite piece of trivia exemplifying the value of technology in our lives. Here it is: By the year 2005, more transistors -- tiny electrical gadgets found in everything from toasters to computers - had been created by human hands than grains of rice had been farmed. "Clearly, we already live among ...
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  • April 2, 2008

    Chakrabarty Honored for Mentorship

    Even though he is six years out from graduating and now working at IBM, Vikram Iyengar, Ph.D., finds himself calling Krishnendu "Krish" Chakrabarty, Ph.D., on a monthly basis seeking advice or an opinion on a particular problem. In a sense, Chakrabarty is continuing in a role he started in 2000, when the young Iyengar arrived at the Pratt School of Engineering to study computer engineering in his laboratory. "Krish allows his mentees a lot of freedom as ...
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  • February 27, 2008

    Engineer Roy Choudhury wins NSF Early Career Award for "Spotlight" Wireless Network Development

    DURHAM, N.C. Assistant Professor Romit Roy Choudhury has received a 5-year, $437,000 National Science Foundation Early CAREER award. The distinction recognizes and supports the early career development activities of those teacher-scholars who are most likely to become academic leaders, according to the NSF.   Roy Choudhury came to Duke in 2006 after completing a doctorate in computer science at the University of Illinois. While at Illinois, he was among the first researchers to investigate the ...
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  • January 22, 2008

    Pratt Fellow Levy Develops Tools for Better Disease and Chemical Detection

    As a Pratt Undergraduate Research Fellow in the laboratory of J.A. Jones Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Nan Marie Jokerst, Melissa Levy is a member of a team designing a hand-held "lab on a chip" capable of detecting the parasite responsible for malaria in a single drop of blood, among other applications. Such a malaria detector would have particular advantages in the developing world countries where people are most at risk for ...
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  • January 13, 2008

    Rachel Brady: New Tools for Understanding

    She's made a career out of visualizing data. "My passion is scientific visualization," says Rachael Brady, "not just the visual rendering of it but everything that leads up to it, starting with the raw data. What I'm really interested in is how technology visualization in particular can help people understand their data." Brady pursues that passion inside one of the most spectacular pieces of technology on the Duke campus, a cube 3 meters ...
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  • January 9, 2008

    'Invisibility Cloaks' Could Break Sound Barriers

    Contrary to earlier predictions, Duke University engineers have found that a three-dimensional sound cloak is possible, at least in theory. Such an acoustic veil would do for sound what the "invisibility cloak" previously demonstrated by the research team does for microwaves--allowing sound waves to travel seamlessly around it and emerge on the other side without distortion. "We've devised a recipe for an acoustic material that would essentially open up a hole in space and make something inside ...
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  • December 5, 2007

    Summer Internship with Cisco Systems

    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 Prad Nadakuduty, ECE/ECON '09 I remember the moment that I began to want a summer internship. It was in the middle of Winter Break during an 8 hour marathon of bad VH1 shows that I realized how utterly bored I was. I ...
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  • December 5, 2007

    Electrical Engineering Research in Berlin

    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 Poy Tor-ngern, ECE/Physics '09 This summer, I did research in electrical engineering at Fraunhofer Institute of Reliability and Integration in Berlin. My project involved modeling the first-order delta sigma analog to digital converter using MATLAB & SIMULINK and also its non-idealities. I was supervised ...
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  • December 1, 2007

    Eleven Selected for Chambers Fellowships

    Eleven graduate students have been selected by the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics for two-year John T. Chambers Fellowships. They are Greg Nusz, Henry Fu and Robert Graf, all of BME; Jiefu Chen, Justin Migacz, Sabarni Palit, Samuel Drezdozon, See Hoon Lim, Thomas Hand, and Zhiya Zhao, all of ECE; and Joel Greenberg of physics.
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  • 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 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 ...
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  • November 1, 2007

    Fernandez wins NDSEG Fellowship

    Graduate student Christy Fernandez, a member of the Duke Imaging and Spectroscopy Group advised by ECE Professor David Brady, is yet another Pratt winner of a 2007 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship. Fernandez's application was selected by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research from over 3,400 applications. The fellowship covers her tuition and fees for three years plus annual stipends of more than $30,000.
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  • October 3, 2007

    Why Women Succeed

    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 ...
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  • October 1, 2007

    Wang wins dissertation award

    Dazhi Wang, PhD student of ECE Professor Kishor Trivedi, has won the Outstanding PhD dissertation award for 2006-2007 from the Computer Science department. Furthermore, Dazhi is being nominated for the Association for Computing Machinery Distinguished Dissertation Award.
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  • October 1, 2007

    Keller wins a ARL Symposium

    Fourth-year ECE PhD student Steven Keller took first prize in the graduate division of the Army Research Laboratory's First Summer Student Research Symposium in Adelphi, Md. in August. Nearly 100 undergraduate and graduate students participated as interns in ARL research programs during the summer. All students presented papers on their research, and the best 11 were selected for presentation at the symposium. Keller won $500 for taking first place.
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  • October 1, 2007

    Graduate Student Bogdan Popa Puts Exotic Metamaterials to Action

    Bogdan Popa with the metamaterial he created in Professor Steven Cummer's laboratory. When communism fell in Romania 20 years ago, it was as if the people had moved from jail to a jungle, according to Bogdan Popa, a Romanian citizen and recent graduate of Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering. Afterwards, he said the biggest change was that people "could leave the country and visit other countries. They had freedom to move, and you could say ...
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  • October 1, 2007

    Graduate Student Bogdan Popa Puts Exotic Metamaterials to Action

    Bogdan Popa with the metamaterial he created in Professor Steven Cummer's laboratory. When communism fell in Romania 20 years ago, it was as if the people had moved from jail to a jungle, according to Bogdan Popa, a Romanian citizen and recent graduate of Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering. Afterwards, he said the biggest change was that people "could leave the country and visit other countries. They had freedom to move, and you could say ...
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  • October 1, 2007

    Annual Fitzpatrick Meeting to Highlight 'Science and Technology for a Purpose'

    Fitzpatrick Institute Director Tuan Vo-Dinh The seventh annual meeting of Duke's Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics, which will be held at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering on Oct. 11 and 12, will highlight "Photonics in the Translational Era: Science and Technology for a Purpose." Photonics is the science and technology of light and its interaction with materials. "The main purpose of the symposium is to bring together scientists, engineers and practitioners from multiple disciplines and provide a forum ...
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  • October 1, 2007

    Annual Fitzpatrick Meeting to Highlight 'Science and Technology for a Purpose'

    Fitzpatrick Institute Director Tuan Vo-Dinh The seventh annual meeting of Duke's Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics, which will be held at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering on Oct. 11 and 12, will highlight "Photonics in the Translational Era: Science and Technology for a Purpose." Photonics is the science and technology of light and its interaction with materials. "The main purpose of the symposium is to bring together scientists, engineers and practitioners from multiple disciplines and provide a forum ...
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  • October 1, 2007

    Duke's Smart Home – Finally A Reality

    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 ...
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  • October 1, 2007

    Duke's Smart Home – Finally A Reality

    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 ...
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  • September 28, 2007

    Engineering Emeritus Professor John Artley Dies at Age 84

    Duke electrical engineering Professor Emeritus John Leslie Artley, Ph.D., of Hot Springs, N.C., died Sept. 27 on his 84th birthday from the effects of a stroke suffered on June 12, 2007, his family said. Artley received his doctorate in electrical engineering from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 1955 and then joined the faculty of Duke University, where he taught electrical engineering for 25 years. One of his academic accomplishments was the publication in 1965 of a ...
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  • 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 students take an intensive year of German and enroll in engineering-related courses at the Technical University of Berlin. Immediately after graduating with a triple major in electrical engineering, biomedical engineering and German studies, he led a diverse team of 16 back to the vibrant European ...
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  • 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 students take an intensive year of German and enroll in engineering-related courses at the Technical University of Berlin. Immediately after graduating with a triple major in electrical engineering, biomedical engineering and German studies, he led a diverse team of 16 back to the vibrant European ...
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  • September 19, 2007

    A Summer of Engagement

    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 ...
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  • September 19, 2007

    A Summer of Engagement

    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 ...
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  • September 7, 2007

    Duke names John Board associate chief information officer

    John Board, associate professor and associate chair of electrical and computer engineering at Duke, has been appointed associate chief information officer, Duke Chief Information Officer Tracy Futhey announced today. Board will provide strategic leadership for the university's information technology environment through the collective resources of the schools, departments and Duke's information technology units. He will divide his duties between the Pratt School of Engineering and the CIO's office. "One of John's primary responsibilities will be to champion ...
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  • September 1, 2007

    CEE grads at elementary school Career Day

    CEE graduate students Amrika Deonarine and Jessica Sanders and a visiting undergraduate, Natalya Polishchuk, participated in the Career Day at Hope Valley Elementary School in Durham on June 7. They spoke to 4th and 5th grade students about what engineers do, what they look like, various engineering fields, and famous engineers and their accomplishments. They also led hands-on activities, such as building small towers with sheets of newspaper. Feedback from the children was extremely positive, ...
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  • September 1, 2007

    Back to School and Time to Think about Next Summer

    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 ...
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  • September 1, 2007

    Back to School and Time to Think about Next Summer

    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 ...
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  • August 23, 2007

    NSF Supports New Engineering After-School Program

    A new program called TechXcite, led by Professor Gary Ybarra of the Duke University Pratt School of Engineering, will create an engineering after-school curriculum for 4-H supported middle schools across the nation. Middle school participants in the program will also receive virtual mentoring from engineers in the electronics industry. The new partnership between the Pratt School, National 4-H Afterschool, North Carolina 4-H and the National Science & Technology Education Partnership has been made possible with more ...
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  • August 15, 2007

    Air Quality

    Aerosol particles in the air originating from a number of sources, including motor vehicles, industrial processes and forest fires, reduce air quality and can lead to asthma and cardiovascular problems, among other illnesses. The standard method for keeping tabs on the air-polluting particles relies on pumping air through filters, which are then submitted for costly and time-consuming chemical extraction and analysis. Did you know? As the No.1 source of air pollution in the U.S., transportation yields ...
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  • August 15, 2007

    Breast Cancer Imaging

    X-ray mammography plays a critical role in detecting breast cancers early--up to two years before a patient or physician might feel a suspicious lump. Yet, the contrast between cancer and non-cancer on an X-ray is limited to a few percent, making it impossible to determine without a biopsy whether lesions picked up by this method reflect true malignancies or benign cysts. Did you know? By the ninth mammogram, the odds of getting a false alarm can ...
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  • August 15, 2007

    When Fear Returns

    Psychological counseling helps people overcome debilitating anxiety and painful memories of traumatic events in their lives giving them the chance to conquer their fears and live normal lives. But for some, the effects of therapy don't 'stick'--patients feel fine for long periods of time only to have a relapse where fears return in full force, a phenomenon researchers call fear renewal. Did you know? To create the sound effects of spiders being stepped on or squashed ...
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  • August 15, 2007

    Nocturnal Gazing

    High quality night vision and infrared cameras are critical for a variety of tasks ranging from security in banks and museums to observing nocturnal animals to military troop safety. In the past, improving the quality of photographs meant using ever larger camera lenses. However, in these and other applications it is important for cameras to be as small as possible. Did you know? The digital camera market is growing at 50% per year, and there are ...
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  • August 15, 2007

    Is it Malaria?

    The World Health Organization estimates that each year 300 million to 500 million cases of malaria occur and more than one million people die of malaria. A mosquito-borne disease caused by a parasite, malaria causes fever, chills, and flu-like illness. While there is currently no malaria vaccine approved for human use, the disease can be successfully treated if caught early. But some strains, such as the falciparum malaria strain, are particularly deadly. Did you know? Malaria ...
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  • August 15, 2007

    Hearing the Subtleties

    Cochlear implants are electronic devices designed to produce useful hearing sensations for people with severe to profound hearing loss. An implant combines an externally worn microphone, sound processor and transmitter system with a receiver under the skin and an electrode array inside the inner ear called the cochlea. Did you know? Nearly 10 percent of people in the U.S. have some degree of hearing loss. Two to three out of ever 1,000 children in the U.S. are ...
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  • August 15, 2007

    Invisibility Cloak

    The concept of invisibility has long been relegated to the realm of science fiction, from H.G. Wells' Invisible Man to Harry Potter, but those days are gone. Last year, David R. Smith, Augustine Scholar and professor of electrical and computer engineering, and his colleagues reported a blueprint for a device that would make invisibility possible, at least at microwave frequencies. Months later, the first such invisibility cloak, built from artificial composite materials called metamaterials, was ...
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  • July 27, 2007

    Underwater Robot Competition Proved a 'Rollercoaster Ride' for Duke Robotics Club

    The 10th annual International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle competition held in San Diego, Calif., from July 11-15 proved a "rollercoaster ride" for student members of the Duke Robotics Club. While early indications suggested that their newly designed robot, named Scylla, had a shot at landing in the top three, a series of operational failures ultimately forced the team to forfeit the competition before their second qualifying run. "In the end, this competition served as a reminder that ...
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  • June 25, 2007

    Carolina Universities Form Photonics Consortium To Boost Technology Commercialization

    Getting photonics (light-based) technologies to the marketplace has just gotten easier. Duke University has joined four Carolina universities in forming the Carolinas Photonics Consortium (CPC). Representatives of North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Western Carolina University, Clemson University and Duke University signed a CPC Inter-Institutional Agreement that establishes a foundation for collaborative university work aimed at the commercialization of photonics or light-based technologies. "This is a tremendous opportunity to bring science ...
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  • 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 electrical engineering, Kristine Singley, of Celebration, Florida. The 2007-2008 Class of White House Fellows represents a diverse cross-section of professions including medicine, law, finance, media, engineering, education and state government. Additionally, three branches of the military are represented among the Fellows. The White House Fellows ...
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  • 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 Year award. The rising startup company, founded by former Duke engineering graduate students Michael Pollack and Vamsee Pamula, is a spin-out from Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering. The microfluidic technology originated in the laboratoy of the Pratt School's Richard Fair, a professor of electrical and ...
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  • June 1, 2007

    Duke and Pratt Award Degrees to 382 Undergraduate and Graduate Students

    A webcast of Pratt's graduation is available for download here. Duke University and its Pratt School of Engineering awarded degrees to 382 undergraduate and graduate students May 13 and Dean Kristina M. Johnson told Pratt's Class of 2007 and their families and friends at a Chapel celebration that "It's a perfect time to be an engineer." Johnson awarded Bachelor of Science in Engineering degrees to 212 students, including eight who completed their work in December and six ...
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  • June 1, 2007

    Duke and Pratt Award Degrees to 382 Undergraduate and Graduate Students

    A webcast of Pratt's graduation is available for download here. Duke University and its Pratt School of Engineering awarded degrees to 382 undergraduate and graduate students May 13 and Dean Kristina M. Johnson told Pratt's Class of 2007 and their families and friends at a Chapel celebration that "It's a perfect time to be an engineer." Johnson awarded Bachelor of Science in Engineering degrees to 212 students, including eight who completed their work in December and six ...
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  • June 1, 2007

    Commencement Speech: Benjamin Schaefer Abram

    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 ...
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  • June 1, 2007

    Commencement Speech: Benjamin Schaefer Abram

    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 ...
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  • June 1, 2007

    David J. Brady Elected SPIE Fellow

    David J. Brady David J. Brady, the Addy Family Professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been elected a Fellow of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE). Brady is one of 56 new Fellows chosen worldwide this year. SPIE Fellows are members of distinction who have made significant scientific and technical contributions in the multidisciplinary fields of optics, photonics, and imaging. They are honored for their technical achievement, for their service to the general optics community, ...
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  • June 1, 2007

    David J. Brady Elected SPIE Fellow

    David J. Brady David J. Brady, the Addy Family Professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been elected a Fellow of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE). Brady is one of 56 new Fellows chosen worldwide this year. SPIE Fellows are members of distinction who have made significant scientific and technical contributions in the multidisciplinary fields of optics, photonics, and imaging. They are honored for their technical achievement, for their service to the general optics community, ...
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  • June 1, 2007

    Futuristic Technology Reproduces Ancient Structure

    Students in Anathea Portier-Young's Old Testament class recently used some of the planet's most futuristic technology to study one of its most ancient biblical structures all within a few hundred yards of the Divinity School. With a grant of about $3,300 from Duke University's Center for Instructional Technology, Portier-Young led a project in which students in computer science and engineering adapted 3-D models to build a full-surround virtual reality experience of the reconstructed Temple ...
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  • June 1, 2007

    Futuristic Technology Reproduces Ancient Structure

    Students in Anathea Portier-Young's Old Testament class recently used some of the planet's most futuristic technology to study one of its most ancient biblical structures all within a few hundred yards of the Divinity School. With a grant of about $3,300 from Duke University's Center for Instructional Technology, Portier-Young led a project in which students in computer science and engineering adapted 3-D models to build a full-surround virtual reality experience of the reconstructed Temple ...
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  • May 3, 2007

    Futuristic Technology Reproduces Ancient Structure

    Students in Anathea Portier-Young's Old Testament class recently used some of the planet's most futuristic technology to study one of its most ancient biblical structures all within a few hundred yards of the Divinity School. With a grant of about $3,300 from Duke University's Center for Instructional Technology, Portier-Young led a project in which students in computer science and engineering adapted 3-D models to build a full-surround virtual reality experience of the reconstructed Temple ...
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  • May 1, 2007

    Cornwell's Beer Launcher

    Pratt ECE graduate John W. Cornwell continues to receive attention for his beer launcher invention. Cornwell, who graduated last May, was recently on the Ellen DeGeneres TV show. He was on the Late Show with David Letterman last month. Check out his invention at http://www.duke.edu/~jwc13/beerlauncher.html
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  • May 1, 2007

    Pedrotty and Miller win WiSE OWL Awards

    Two of three winners of the first WiSE OWL Award are from Pratt. The winners are Dawn Pedrotty, a graduate student in Professor Nenad Bursac's lab in BME; Molly Miller, a graduate student in Professor Anne Lazarides' lab in MEMS; and Audrey Chang, a graduate student in the biology department. The WiSE OWL Awards are sponsored by Women in Science and Engineering and co-sponsored by Graduate Student Affairs. They honor female graduate students, post-docs and ...
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  • May 1, 2007

    Royal Wins NDSEG Fellowship

    ECE graduate student Matthew Royal for winning a prestigious three-year National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship sponsored and funded by the Department of Defense. Royal was selected by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research from over 3,400 applications. The fellowship covers tuition and fees for three years and provides an average $31,000 annual stipend.
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  • May 1, 2007

    Garcia wins NRC Fellowship

    Michael Garcia, a postdoctoral researcher who works jointly with ECE Professors April Brown and Jeff Glass, has won a National Research Council Fellowship from the National Academy of Sciences. The fellowship will provide $56,000 of funding support for Garcia to conduct research at Duke through the Army Research Office over the next year, with the possibility of up to three years of funding. His research will aim to develop a novel nitric oxide sensor, with ...
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  • May 1, 2007

    Math Team Aces Contest with Airplane Boarding Model

    Duke University teams led a pair of international math competitions with four "outstanding" awards. Only 18 out of more than 1,200 teams participating received the highest designation of "outstanding" in the competitions, which were sponsored by the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications. Teams were given 96 hours to propose mathematically rigorous solutions to problems such as how to best divide up voting districts or how to most efficiently board passengers on an airplane. In ...
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  • May 1, 2007

    Math Team Aces Contest with Airplane Boarding Model

    Duke University teams led a pair of international math competitions with four "outstanding" awards. Only 18 out of more than 1,200 teams participating received the highest designation of "outstanding" in the competitions, which were sponsored by the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications. Teams were given 96 hours to propose mathematically rigorous solutions to problems such as how to best divide up voting districts or how to most efficiently board passengers on an airplane. In ...
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  • April 17, 2007

    Rebecca Willett, NSF CAREER Award Winner, Develops Tools to Tackle Images, Traffic and More

    Rebecca Willett of Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering is creating tools that could be used to make sense of a diverse set of scenarios -- from the blackout that left New York City in the dark in 2003 to the bottlenecks and vulnerabilities that can plague transportation systems to the activities of genes and proteins within individual cells. In support of her efforts, Willett has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from ...
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  • 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 organization Do Something Inc. InnoWorks is competing against 11 other finalists for the top prize. The award will go to the organization that generates the greatest number of web-based votes. Vote now. InnoWorks has made it possible for middle-school kids all over the country to attend free, ...
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  • April 1, 2007

    Li wins presentation award at AGU

    Ph.D. student Jingbo Li, in Professor Steve Cummer's lab, won an Outstanding Student Presentation award at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in December. The AGU said his presentation on lightning processes in long delayed sprites was recognized as among the best of a strong group of student presenters.
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  • April 1, 2007

    From Aquifers to Goo, Event Encourages Girls' Interest in Science and Engineering

    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 ...
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  • April 1, 2007

    From Aquifers to Goo, Event Encourages Girls' Interest in Science and Engineering

    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 ...
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  • April 1, 2007

    Duke's First Engineers Week Draws a Crowd

    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 ...
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  • April 1, 2007

    Duke's First Engineers Week Draws a Crowd

    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 ...
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  • April 1, 2007

    Pratt Dean: The U.S. Needs More Women and Minorities in Engineering

    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 ...
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  • April 1, 2007

    Pratt Dean: The U.S. Needs More Women and Minorities in Engineering

    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 ...
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  • March 27, 2007

    Off-Road Wheelchair Pioneer and Designer to Speak April 2

    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 ...
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  • March 27, 2007

    Off-Road Wheelchair Pioneer and Designer to Speak April 2

    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 ...
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  • March 1, 2007

    Course Turned Students into 'Social Entrepreneurs'

    Emmett Nicholas was part of a team that designed a computer game for children in rural Guatemala in a course on IT and Social Entrepreneurship. Two software applications that grew out of projects initiated by students in a new IT and Social Entrepreneurship course last spring are now in the hands of the non-profit organizations that originally inspired them. One is a typing game designed for the educational outreach group Enlace Quiche, to help kids in ...
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  • March 1, 2007

    Course Turned Students into 'Social Entrepreneurs'

    Emmett Nicholas was part of a team that designed a computer game for children in rural Guatemala in a course on IT and Social Entrepreneurship. Two software applications that grew out of projects initiated by students in a new IT and Social Entrepreneurship course last spring are now in the hands of the non-profit organizations that originally inspired them. One is a typing game designed for the educational outreach group Enlace Quiche, to help kids in ...
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  • March 1, 2007

    Civic Engagement to Become Integral to a Duke Undergraduate Education

    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 ...
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  • March 1, 2007

    Civic Engagement to Become Integral to a Duke Undergraduate Education

    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 ...
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  • February 15, 2007

    MBright

    Dean Kristina M. Johnson and Duke electrical and computer engineering doctoral graduate Sangrok Lee founded MBright, a next-generation digital display technology company after winning $50,000 in startup funding from the Duke Startup Challenge in 2004. MBright utilizes liquid crystal on silicon microdisplays including VLSI design.
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  • February 9, 2007

    Advanced Liquid Logic

    Advanced Liquid Logic develops products that leverage the Company's unique droplet-based liquid handling technology for high quality, reliable, rapid, and cost effective results in a diverse range of diagnostic and other applications. Digital microfluidics is a lab-on-a-chip approach based on direct, programmable micromanipulation of small volume droplets using electrical fields. Digital microfluidics enables complex, multi-step liquid handling protocols to be flexibly, scalably, and cost effectively implemented. Invented at Duke University. URL: http://www.liquid-logic.com/index.html
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  • February 9, 2007

    Signal Innovations Group, Inc.

    Signal Innovations Group, Inc. (SIG) is a Research Triangle Park, NC based company that is pioneering new data modeling methods and cutting-edge algorithm design for pattern recognition and decision systems. These technologies have enabled our customers to understand and exploit sensor data in new ways that break old performance barriers. SIG has developed analytic tools to perform customized decision-systems design and enhanced data understanding. SIG is a Duke University spinoff company, founded by electrical and ...
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  • February 9, 2007

    Centice

    Centice designs and manufactures molecular spectroscopy optical sensors that are used by our partners in general purpose and application-specific products. Centice sensors are based on patent-pending computational sensor technology exclusively licensed from Duke University, where the technology was first developed. Computational sensors combine multiplexing optical designs with electronics and proprietary mathematical algorithms, to achieve both extreme sensitivity and uncompromised resolution a breakthrough that had previously been unattainable. URL: http://www.centice.com
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  • February 1, 2007

    Pratt Fellow Bresslour Builds Microwave-Based Breast Imaging Device

    Pratt Undergraduate Research Fellow Elan Bresslour isn't satisfied with traditional X-ray mammography, the primary imaging method for breast cancer screening. In the lab of electrical and computer engineering professor Qing Liu, she is applying her engineering skill toward the development of a device with the potential to offer a valuable alternative: an imager based on less harmful, and perhaps more sensitive, microwave radiation. "Now, mammograms are the number one test for breast cancer," said Bresslour, an ...
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  • January 2, 2007

    Invisibility Cloak Named One of Science's Top Ten "Breakthroughs" of 2006

    An "invisibility cloak" designed and tested by Duke University engineers was named one of Science Magazine's top ten breakthroughs of 2006. Science's Top Ten list appears in the journal's December 22, 2006, issue. The cloak, which the magazine refers to as "the ultimate camouflage," deflects microwave beams so they flow around an object hidden inside with little distortion, making it appear almost as if nothing were there at all. The research team, led by David R. Smith of ...
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  • January 1, 2007

    Invisibility Cloak Named One of Science's Top Breakthroughs of 2006

    David R. Smith and David Schurig An "invisibility cloak" designed and tested by Duke University engineers was named one of Science magazine's top 10 breakthroughs of 2006. Science's Top Ten list appears in the journal's Dec. 22, 2006, issue. The cloak, which the magazine refers to as "the ultimate camouflage," deflects microwave beams so they flow around an object hidden inside with little distortion, making it appear almost as if nothing were there. The research team, led by David ...
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  • January 1, 2007

    Invisibility Cloak Named One of Science's Top Breakthroughs of 2006

    David R. Smith and David Schurig An "invisibility cloak" designed and tested by Duke University engineers was named one of Science magazine's top 10 breakthroughs of 2006. Science's Top Ten list appears in the journal's Dec. 22, 2006, issue. The cloak, which the magazine refers to as "the ultimate camouflage," deflects microwave beams so they flow around an object hidden inside with little distortion, making it appear almost as if nothing were there. The research team, led by David ...
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  • December 1, 2006

    Industry Internship Survey Results

    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 ...
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  • December 1, 2006

    Industry Internship Survey Results

    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 ...
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  • December 1, 2006

    Industry Internship Survey Results

    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 ...
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  • December 1, 2006

    Upper-Class E-Team Members Advise Freshmen Engineers on Course Loads

    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 ...
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  • December 1, 2006

    Upper-Class E-Team Members Advise Freshmen Engineers on Course Loads

    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 ...
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  • 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. 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 ...
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  • 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. 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 ...
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  • December 1, 2006

    Invisibility Cloak Lands Duke Engineers on 'Scientific American 50'

    David R. Smith and David Schurig hold a sample of metamaterial with their "invisibility cloak" in the background. Two researchers at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering have been named to the "Scientific American 50" for their work on developing an "invisibility cloak." Compiled by Scientific American magazine, the roster of leaders in research, business and public policy appeared in the December 2006 issue, which hit newsstands on Nov. 21. The complete list of honorees is also ...
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  • December 1, 2006

    Invisibility Cloak Lands Duke Engineers on 'Scientific American 50'

    David R. Smith and David Schurig hold a sample of metamaterial with their "invisibility cloak" in the background. Two researchers at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering have been named to the "Scientific American 50" for their work on developing an "invisibility cloak." Compiled by Scientific American magazine, the roster of leaders in research, business and public policy appeared in the December 2006 issue, which hit newsstands on Nov. 21. The complete list of honorees is also ...
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  • November 29, 2006

    Probing Hidden Chemistries with Light

    by Monte Basgall As part of a new computerized approach to chemical analysis, researchers at the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics are developing a way to use near-infrared laser beams as probes to measure levels of alcohol in a person's bloodstream. The method could prove to have a number of advantages over conventional breathalyzers, according to Scott McCain, a graduate student working on the project. "Unlike with breathalyzer examinations, with our sensors the subject doesn't have to be awake ...
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  • November 7, 2006

    Dean Kristina Johnson Appointed to Board of Directors of Nortel

    PRNewswire TORONTO -- Kristina M. Johnson, dean of Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Nortel, effective immediately. "I am pleased to announce Dean Johnson's appointment," said Harry Pearce, chairman of Nortel's Board of Directors. "Her insight and experience will greatly benefit Nortel and contribute to our focus on innovation and R&D effectiveness." Johnson has also been appointed to the Nortel Networks Limited Board of Directors. Johnson joined Duke in 1999 ...
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  • November 6, 2006

    Invisibility Cloak Lands Duke Engineers on 'Scientific American 50'

    Two researchers at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering have been named to the "Scientific American 50" for their work on developing an "invisibility cloak." Compiled by Scientific American magazine, the roster of leaders in research, business and public policy will appear in the December 2006 issue, expected on newsstands Nov. 21. David R. Smith, Augustine Scholar and associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, and David Schurig, research associate in electrical and computer engineering, were selected ...
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  • November 1, 2006

    Duke Receives $2.5 Million Grant for Visual Studies

    The Duke Immersive Virtual Environment (DiVE) will be central to Duke's new visual studies initiative, Rachael Brady said. Duke University has received a $2.5 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create a Visual Studies Initiative, a broad-based effort to improve how visual images are understood and to foster research and teaching in this area. A distinctive feature of the initiative is its inclusion of engineering and the computational sciences as part of exploring ...
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  • November 1, 2006

    Duke Receives $2.5 Million Grant for Visual Studies

    The Duke Immersive Virtual Environment (DiVE) will be central to Duke's new visual studies initiative, Rachael Brady said. Duke University has received a $2.5 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create a Visual Studies Initiative, a broad-based effort to improve how visual images are understood and to foster research and teaching in this area. A distinctive feature of the initiative is its inclusion of engineering and the computational sciences as part of exploring ...
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  • November 1, 2006

    Pratt In Focus - Recruitment Event

    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 ...
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  • November 1, 2006

    Pratt In Focus - Recruitment Event

    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 ...
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  • November 1, 2006

    Huettel Wins Prestigious IEEE Early Career Teaching Award

    Lisa Huettel Lisa Huettel, assistant pofessor of the practice in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering, received the 2006 Mac Van Valkenburg Early Career Teaching Award of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Education Society. The award was presented at the Frontiers in Education conference in San Diego, Calif., on Oct. 29. The award includes a $1,000 stipend, a commemorative plaque, and paid registration to the international ...
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  • November 1, 2006

    Huettel Wins Prestigious IEEE Early Career Teaching Award

    Lisa Huettel Lisa Huettel, assistant pofessor of the practice in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering, received the 2006 Mac Van Valkenburg Early Career Teaching Award of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Education Society. The award was presented at the Frontiers in Education conference in San Diego, Calif., on Oct. 29. The award includes a $1,000 stipend, a commemorative plaque, and paid registration to the international ...
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  • November 1, 2006

    The Home Depot Sponsors Duke Smart Home

    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 ...
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  • November 1, 2006

    The Home Depot Sponsors Duke Smart Home

    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 ...
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  • October 30, 2006

    Advanced Liquid Logic awarded $160k loan from North Carolina Biotechnology Center

    CarolinaNewswire.com Advanced Liquid Logic awarded $160k loan from North Carolina Biotechnology Center 10-29-2006 RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- North Carolina's smallest, most high-tech biotechnology "plumbing company" is the first recipient of an innovative new loan from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center. Advanced Liquid Logic, a microfluidics "lab-on-a-chip" spinout from Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, is the first company in the state to get a Biotechnology Center Strategic Growth Loan (SGL). The $160,000 boost is the latest of ...
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  • October 24, 2006

    Duke Announces Construction of "The Home Depot Smart Home," A Live-in Laboratory Where Students Test Residential Technology

    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 ...
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  • October 24, 2006

    Duke Announces Construction of "The Home Depot Smart Home," A Live-in Laboratory Where Students Test Residential Technology

    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 ...
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  • October 19, 2006

    First Demonstration of a Working Invisibility Cloak

    A team led by scientists at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering has demonstrated the first working "invisibility cloak." The cloak deflects microwave beams so they flow around a "hidden" object inside with little distortion, making it appear almost as if nothing were there at all. Cloaks that render objects essentially invisible to microwaves could have a variety of wireless communications or radar applications, according to the researchers. Watch the video. The team reported its findings on ...
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  • October 3, 2006

    Hip Hop Inspires Kids' Interest in Science

    Rachael Brady, Robi Roberts and Scott Lindroth On Sept. 28, middle school students in two states took part in an experiment combining an artist's images, a rapper's music and the students' movements. The joint interactive performance, called MiX TAPEStry, took place in Duke's Fitzpatrick CIEMAS studio and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Krannert Art Museum. The name of the project plays on the "mix tapes" of hip hop culture and is part of an effort to interest ...
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  • October 3, 2006

    Hip Hop Inspires Kids' Interest in Science

    Rachael Brady, Robi Roberts and Scott Lindroth On Sept. 28, middle school students in two states took part in an experiment combining an artist's images, a rapper's music and the students' movements. The joint interactive performance, called MiX TAPEStry, took place in Duke's Fitzpatrick CIEMAS studio and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Krannert Art Museum. The name of the project plays on the "mix tapes" of hip hop culture and is part of an effort to interest ...
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  • October 3, 2006

    Fitzpatrick Event Spotlights Interdisciplinary Scientific Collaboration

    Tuan Vo-Dinh, director of the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics The annual Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics symposium on "Photonics at the Frontiers of Science and Technology" at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering highlighted the value of collaboration across disciplines for making future advances in science and technology. Photonics is the science and technology of light and its interaction with matter. Held on Sept. 28 and 29, the event drew 250 registrants, three times the number that had participated ...
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  • October 3, 2006

    Fitzpatrick Event Spotlights Interdisciplinary Scientific Collaboration

    Tuan Vo-Dinh, director of the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics The annual Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics symposium on "Photonics at the Frontiers of Science and Technology" at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering highlighted the value of collaboration across disciplines for making future advances in science and technology. Photonics is the science and technology of light and its interaction with matter. Held on Sept. 28 and 29, the event drew 250 registrants, three times the number that had participated ...
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  • September 25, 2006

    Six Pratt Faculty To Be Honored At Founder's Day Convocation

    Duke University will honor outstanding students, faculty, employees and alumni at its annual Founders' Day Convocation in Duke Chapel at 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 28. Among the winners are six members of the Pratt School of Engineering faculty. Honorees at the service, which is open to the public, include philanthropists Russell Robinson II and his wife, Sally Dalton Robinson; Ruby Leila Wilson, dean emerita of Duke School of Nursing; and longtime university photographer William "Jimmy" Wallace ...
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  • September 1, 2006

    Ness Selected ESPN Academic All-America Team

    Katie Ness, a 2006 graduate of Pratt and a standout swimmer for four years, has been selected to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America second team. During her years on the Duke swimming and diving program, Ness set six individual school records and is the partial owner of five relay records. An electrical engineering major, Ness finished her career at Duke with a 3.92 grade point average and an ACC Weaver-James-Corrigan Postgraduate Scholarship.
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  • September 1, 2006

    Summer Camps Offer Taste of Engineering

    A group of girls poses with their self-built flashlights at Techtronics for Girls at Duke. Middle school students from the local area and across the country got hands-on experience with science and engineering through a variety of camps led by Pratt School undergraduate and graduate students this summer. The camp season kicked off in late June with Techtronics for Girls, followed by a Biosciences and Engineering Summer Camp offered through Duke Youth Programs and rounded up ...
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  • September 1, 2006

    Summer Camps Offer Taste of Engineering

    A group of girls poses with their self-built flashlights at Techtronics for Girls at Duke. Middle school students from the local area and across the country got hands-on experience with science and engineering through a variety of camps led by Pratt School undergraduate and graduate students this summer. The camp season kicked off in late June with Techtronics for Girls, followed by a Biosciences and Engineering Summer Camp offered through Duke Youth Programs and rounded up ...
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  • September 1, 2006

    Awards Bring Sustainable Design, Technology to Classroom

    EPA Supports Student Designs Aimed at Sustainability after Natural Disaster One of the P3 grants will enable students to expand on efforts by former Pratt students, including Jim Garnevicus (above), to restore fisheries in Indonesia. 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 ...
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  • September 1, 2006

    Awards Bring Sustainable Design, Technology to Classroom

    EPA Supports Student Designs Aimed at Sustainability after Natural Disaster One of the P3 grants will enable students to expand on efforts by former Pratt students, including Jim Garnevicus (above), to restore fisheries in Indonesia. 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 ...
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  • 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 computer engineering, is growing by leaps and bounds. The company aims to miniaturize and automate clinical and research laboratory tests by taking advantage of the natural surface tension of liquid drops. "Our vision is to make chemical processing as routine and simple as information processing is ...
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  • 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 computer engineering, is growing by leaps and bounds. The company aims to miniaturize and automate clinical and research laboratory tests by taking advantage of the natural surface tension of liquid drops. "Our vision is to make chemical processing as routine and simple as information processing is ...
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  • August 7, 2006

    Duke Robotics Club Takes 2nd Place in Underwater Competition

    Persistence paid off for Duke student members of the Robotics Club at the 9th International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition held in San Diego, Calif., from Aug. 2-6. Their enhanced version of the robot "Charybdis" took second place and $5,000. Twenty undergraduate teams and one high school team participated in the event, which is sponsored by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International and the Office of Naval Research. The challenge involved four tasks: pass through an ...
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  • August 7, 2006

    Duke Robotics Club Takes 2nd Place in Underwater Competition

    Persistence paid off for Duke student members of the Robotics Club at the 9th International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition held in San Diego, Calif., from Aug. 2-6. Their enhanced version of the robot "Charybdis" took second place and $5,000. Twenty undergraduate teams and one high school team participated in the event, which is sponsored by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International and the Office of Naval Research. The challenge involved four tasks: pass through an ...
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  • July 25, 2006

    EPA to Support Pratt Students in Design of Sustainable Technologies following Natural Disasters

    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 ...
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  • July 19, 2006

    Duke's Pratt School Wins Second Hewlett-Packard Technology for Teaching Leadership Grant

    Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering has won a second Technology for Teaching Leadership grant from Hewlett-Packard (HP). This project, led by Assistant Professor of the Practice Lisa Huettel, will provide 40 tablet computers and supporting equipment for use in courses across Pratt. The grant, valued at more than $120,000, was one of 10 awarded to two- and four-year colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada. Another 15 grants were awarded to K-12 schools across ...
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  • July 19, 2006

    Duke's Pratt School Wins Second Hewlett-Packard Technology for Teaching Leadership Grant

    Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering has won a second Technology for Teaching Leadership grant from Hewlett-Packard (HP). This project, led by Assistant Professor of the Practice Lisa Huettel, will provide 40 tablet computers and supporting equipment for use in courses across Pratt. The grant, valued at more than $120,000, was one of 10 awarded to two- and four-year colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada. Another 15 grants were awarded to K-12 schools across ...
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  • July 12, 2006

    Duke Engineering Graduate Student Drowns in New Jersey Swimming Pool

    Ranjith Vasireddy, a Pratt School of Engineering doctoral student from India, drowned July 10 in a swimming pool in Basking Ridge, N.J., where he had a summer internship. Vasireddy, who was 25, had just finished his first year as a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He was a teaching assistant for Professor Kishor Trivedi. Vasireddy was working at Avaya Labs for the summer. Police in Bernards Township in New Jersey said Vasireddy ...
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  • June 28, 2006

    Computers and Art Meld in Virtual Reality Underworld

    Duke's DiVE project proves a mecca for research and education Written by Monte Basgall Durham, N.C. -- Doves swirl over the heads of a small group of travelers, one bird carrying a branch in its beak. But the scene suddenly changes to a copse of moss-hung trees, one sporting a golden bough. Then, it changes again. Now the travelers, all wearing strange dark glasses, are racing down a river through a rapids-splashed chasm. Finally, they reach the calmness ...
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  • June 1, 2006

    Award for Study of Ultrathin Silicon Dielectrics

    Hisham Massoud Professor Hisham Massoud of Duke's Pratt School of Engineering has been awarded the 2006 Electronics and Photonics Division Award of the Electrochemical Society (ECS) for his work on ultrathin silicon dielectric films. Such ultrathin films are a basic component in silicon microelectronics, and increasingly thinner films improve the performance of future generations of microchips. Massoud received the award at the 209th annual ECS meeting held on May 7-12 in Denver where he was also elected ...
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  • June 1, 2006

    Award for Study of Ultrathin Silicon Dielectrics

    Hisham Massoud Professor Hisham Massoud of Duke's Pratt School of Engineering has been awarded the 2006 Electronics and Photonics Division Award of the Electrochemical Society (ECS) for his work on ultrathin silicon dielectric films. Such ultrathin films are a basic component in silicon microelectronics, and increasingly thinner films improve the performance of future generations of microchips. Massoud received the award at the 209th annual ECS meeting held on May 7-12 in Denver where he was also elected ...
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  • 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 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 ...
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  • 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 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 ...
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  • May 25, 2006

    Theoretical Blueprint for Invisibility Cloak Reported

    DURHAM, N.C. -- Using a new design theory, researchers at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering and Imperial College London have developed the blueprint for an invisibility cloak. Once devised, the cloak could have numerous uses, from defense applications to wireless communications, the researchers said.Such a cloak could hide any object so well that observers would be totally unaware of its presence, according to the researchers. In principle, their invisibility cloak could be realized with ...
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  • May 24, 2006

    Duke's Hisham Massoud Elected Fellow of the Electrochemical Society

    DURHAM, N.C. Duke University electrical and computer engineering Professor Hisham Massoud has been elected a fellow of the Electrochemical Society (ECS) in recognition for his contributions to the understanding of silicon oxidation kinetics, ultrathin gate dielectrics, and the Si-SiO2 interface. Massoud's pioneering contributions in the field of silicon oxidation in the ultrathin-oxide regime are universally implemented in process modeling software tools used world wide to design ultrathin gate-insulator processes in IC technology. In ...
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  • May 24, 2006

    Record-Breaking Swimmer Katie Ness Finds Calling in Signal Processing

    When Katie Ness first started college at Duke University, she expected to major in math or computer science. But after taking a few classes and reading up on the field of electrical and computer engineering (ECE), she quickly found her calling at the Pratt School of Engineering. "I like to apply math to real life," said Ness, who is from Worthington, Ohio. "After reading about electrical and computer engineering I thought, 'That's it!' I transferred in." Her ...
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  • May 15, 2006

    2006 Commencement Speech - Steven Gangstead

    We did it! Finally. Education … check. Degrees … earned. College … done. Plans … Plans? 3 for 4 at least. Seniors! As you sit here next to your alphabetically closest peers lets take a moment to think about the beginning. How many of you would recognize the young and skinny version of yourself that stepped onto campus four years ago? How naïve? I thought classes were mandatory. I found out that you can't wear LaTex ...
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  • May 8, 2006

    Hisham Massoud Wins Award for Study of Ultrathin Silicon Dielectrics

    Professor Hisham Massoud of Duke's Pratt School of Engineering has been awarded the 2006 Electronics and Photonics Division Award of the Electrochemical Society (ECS) for his work on ultrathin silicon dielectric films. Such ultrathin films are a basic component in silicon microelectronics, and increasingly thinner films improve the performance of future generations of microchips. Massoud received the award at the 209th annual ECS meeting held on May 7-12 in Denver. "As the size of the transistors shrinks ...
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  • 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 Banquet held at the Searle Center on April 28. William A. Hawkins III E'76, was awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award. James G. Whayne E'90, was awarded the Distinguished Young Alumnus Award. And Pratt Senior Associate Dean of Development and Alumni Affairss Judge Carr was awarded the ...
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  • 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 Banquet held at the Searle Center on April 28. William A. Hawkins III E'76, was awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award. James G. Whayne E'90, was awarded the Distinguished Young Alumnus Award. And Pratt Senior Associate Dean of Development and Alumni Affairss Judge Carr was awarded the ...
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  • April 12, 2006

    Duke Research Teams Win Keck Futures Initiatives Grants

    Two research teams led by Duke faculty have been granted $75,000 each from the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative in support of interdisciplinary research on genomics and infectious disease. Duke won two grants out of a total of 14 awarded. Debra Schwinn, professor of anesthesiology, pharmacology/cancer biology and surgery at the School of Medicine, leads a team developing an inexpensive diagnostic for malaria using combined nanotechnology and genomic approaches. With this project, the researchers will develop ...
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  • April 1, 2006

    Three Duke Engineers Win NSF Early Career Awards

    Jungsang Kim, Adrienne Stiff-Roberts, Sule Ozev Three researchers at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering have won Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards from the National Science Foundation, its most prestigious honor for junior faculty members. The awards went to assistant professors of electrical and computer engineering (ECE) Adrienne Stiff-Roberts, Jungsang Kim and Sule Ozev. The CAREER program recognizes and supports the early career development activities of those teacher-scholars who are most likely to become academic leaders, according ...
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  • April 1, 2006

    Three Duke Engineers Win NSF Early Career Awards

    Jungsang Kim, Adrienne Stiff-Roberts, Sule Ozev Three researchers at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering have won Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards from the National Science Foundation, its most prestigious honor for junior faculty members. The awards went to assistant professors of electrical and computer engineering (ECE) Adrienne Stiff-Roberts, Jungsang Kim and Sule Ozev. The CAREER program recognizes and supports the early career development activities of those teacher-scholars who are most likely to become academic leaders, according ...
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  • March 17, 2006

    Three Duke Engineers Win NSF Early Career Awards

    DURHAM, N.C. -- Three researchers at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering have won Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards from the National Science Foundation, its most prestigious honor for junior faculty members. The awards went to assistant professors of electrical and computer engineering (ECE) Adrienne Stiff-Roberts, Jungsang Kim and Sule Ozev. The CAREER program recognizes and supports the early career development activities of those teacher-scholars who are most likely to become academic leaders, according to ...
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  • March 14, 2006

    With Creativity, Vincent Mao Advances on Ever Smaller, Faster Computers

    At his high school in Greenville, S.C., Vincent Mao spent his days performing piano concertos. He never expected, just five years after coming to Duke as an undergraduate, to be making strides toward the future of computing. But, now a first-year graduate student in Electrical & Computer Engineering, he says it is in research that he found the balance he had sought all along between his academic and artistic sides. "I had always shifted between academic ...
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  • March 14, 2006

    Scott McCain Aims for Better Blood Alcohol Sensor

    If third-year engineering graduate student Scott McCain gets his way, the fight against drunk driving may soon be waged with a new, non-invasive blood alcohol sensor that could make standard blood or breath sample tests obsolete. The St. Louis native's interdisciplinary research a combination of engineering, physics and computer science aims to build a small and inexpensive optical device capable of using harmless light to pass through skin and directly determine ...
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  • March 14, 2006

    David Williams Finds Solutions by Minding what's Missing

    Solving many real-world problems -- from land mine detection to medical diagnosis -- requires careful consideration of what's missing, according to Ph.D. candidate David Williams, who also completed his undergraduate work at Duke. "My research falls at the intersection of computer science and statistics," said the Shavertown, Pa. native, who works with William H. Younger professor Larry Carin in the electrical and computer engineering (ECE) department. "I focus on incomplete or missing data problems, where the ...
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  • March 14, 2006

    Rack-Gomer on Way to Improving Breast Cancer Detection

    Pratt Fellow Anna Rack-Gomer finds it difficult to piece together the events that first led her from her hometown of Phoenix to Duke's Pratt School of Engineering. But, now a senior double major in electrical and computer (ECE) and biomedical engineering (BME) with nearly three years of cancer-related research under her belt, Rack-Gomer could hardly be clearer about her future as an engineer dedicated to the fight against breast cancer. "The research projects that I have ...
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  • March 1, 2006

    Innovative Intro Course Offers Depth, Breadth

    Students prepare to meet their robots. Twenty Pratt undergraduates are spending spring semester immersed in a novel course designed to provide in-depth exposure to the breadth of electrical and computer engineering (ECE) from circuits to signals to electromagnetics. The course, ECE 27: Fundamentals of ECE, is the cornerstone of a new theme-based core curriculum meant to motivate ECE majors from the outset by introducing them to the scope of the discipline and its real-world ...
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  • March 1, 2006

    Innovative Intro Course Offers Depth, Breadth

    Students prepare to meet their robots. Twenty Pratt undergraduates are spending spring semester immersed in a novel course designed to provide in-depth exposure to the breadth of electrical and computer engineering (ECE) from circuits to signals to electromagnetics. The course, ECE 27: Fundamentals of ECE, is the cornerstone of a new theme-based core curriculum meant to motivate ECE majors from the outset by introducing them to the scope of the discipline and its real-world ...
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  • February 16, 2006

    Clearest Video of Lightning-Generated 'Sprites' High Above Thunderstorms Captured

    Note to editors: High-speed video of a lightning-generated sprite is available in Quicktime format at http://quicktime.oit.duke.edu/news/sprites.mp4 and in RealPlayer format at http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/mmedia/video/sprites.ram. Still photos are also available upon request. Steve Cummer can be reached at (919) 660-5256 or cummer@ee.duke.edu. DURHAM, N.C. -- Researchers at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering have captured the best images ever produced of "sprites" -- mysterious flashes of light resembling giant undulating jellyfish that can occur above strong thunderstorms -- using a ...
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  • December 24, 2005

    DNA Self-Assembly Used to Mass-Produce Patterned Nanostructures

    DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University scientists have used the self-assembling properties of DNA to mass-produce nanometer-scale structures in the shape of 4x4 grids, on which patterns of molecules can be specified. They said the achievement represents a step toward mass-producing electronic or optical circuits at a scale 10 times smaller than the smallest circuits now being manufactured. Instead of using silicon as the platform for tiny circuits, as is done in the current manufacturing technique of ...
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  • December 3, 2005

    Smith Shares Descartes Award for Artificial Material that Reverses Light's Properties

    Associate Professor David R. Smith of Duke's Pratt School of Engineering and a team of European researchers have won a Descartes Research Prize for their work in developing left-handed metamaterials, artificial composites that reverse the usual properties of light. The awards ceremony was held at the Royal Society in London on December 1-2, 2005. Selected from a pool of 85 research teams from 22 countries, Smith shares this year's top European Union prize for research with ...
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  • October 12, 2005

    Gustafson Appointed Assistant Professor of the Practice in Electrical and Computer Engineering

    The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering has appointed Michael Gustafson an assistant professor of the practice. "We are very pleased to announce the newest addition to our faculty, Dr. Mike Gustafson," said department Chair April Brown. "Gus has been a leader at Duke in teaching and course development and will work closely with us in ECE on the new curriculum development and on further developing educational experiences in robotics." Gustafson ...
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  • September 24, 2005

    Duke Engineers Win International Wall-Crawling Competition Again

    DURHAM, N.C. -- A 2.5-pound robot named "Wallter" designed by Duke University Pratt School of engineering students has won for the second year in a row an international wall-crawling robotics competition held in London. Wallter, now a two-year-old, competed against university teams from the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy this year to win a $900 prize at the 8th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots Sept. 12-15. Each team's robot was required to move from ...
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  • September 15, 2005

    Unlocking the Mystery Behind Lightning's Puzzling Friend

    Written by Mike Bettwy, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.Giant red blobs, picket fences, upward branching carrots, and tentacled octopi - these are just a few of the phrases used to describe sprites - spectacular, eerie flashes of colored light high above the tops of powerful thunderstorms that can travel up to 50 miles high in the atmosphere. Sprites, so-named by a University of Alaska scientist inspired by the creatures in Shakespeare's "The Tempest," have been ...
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  • July 6, 2005

    Duke Radar May Give Red Team Competitive Edge in DARPA Grand Challenge Race

    Duke University engineering students have designed an onboard radar system to give Red Team vehicles a competitive edge in the upcoming DARPA Grand Challenge race. In that contest, vehicles must run across a desert entirely self-guided without human intervention. The Red Team is an alliance of students, corporations and volunteers led by the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. The team is developing two modified Hummers to run in the competition this fall sponsored ...
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  • June 17, 2005

    Sorin wins NSF CAREER award

    Assistant Professor Daniel J. Sorin of Duke's Pratt School of Engineering has won a National Science Foundation CAREER award of $400,000 over the next 5 years to develop new approaches to reliable computer architecture design. The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is the federal agency's most prestigious award for early career teacher-scholars and supports integration of research and education. Sorin's project is called: "CAREER: Improving Multiprocessor Availability with Dynamic Verification and Autonomic Operation". Sorin and his team ...
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  • June 1, 2005

    Study Suggests Some Gamma Rays Emanate from Thunderstorms

    The most detailed analyses of links between some lightning events and mysterious gamma ray emissions that emanate from Earth's atmosphere suggests this gamma radiation shoots upward from starting points surprisingly low in thunderclouds. Counter-intuitively, the study led by Duke University engineers indicates these strong gamma outbursts seem to precede associated lightning discharges by a split second. "All of this comes as a huge surprise," said Steven Cummer, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke's ...
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  • June 1, 2005

    Study Suggests Some Gamma Rays Emanate from Thunderstorms

    The most detailed analyses of links between some lightning events and mysterious gamma ray emissions that emanate from Earth's atmosphere suggests this gamma radiation shoots upward from starting points surprisingly low in thunderclouds. Counter-intuitively, the study led by Duke University engineers indicates these strong gamma outbursts seem to precede associated lightning discharges by a split second. "All of this comes as a huge surprise," said Steven Cummer, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke's ...
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  • June 1, 2005

    Duke Awards 300 Engineering Degrees

    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 ...
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  • June 1, 2005

    Duke Awards 300 Engineering Degrees

    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 ...
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  • June 1, 2005

    Fifth Annual Symposium of the Fitzpatrick Center Held at Pratt

    More than 100 photonics researchers and educators attended the Fifth Annual Symposium of the Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics and Communication Systems at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering May 18-19. Focusing on "Global Perspectives on the Frontiers of Photonics," the meeting was sponsored by the United States Army Research Office, the National Science Council of Taiwan and the Office of Science and Technology of the United Kingdom. Among the attendees were Dr. Maw-Kuen Wu, chairman of the National ...
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  • June 1, 2005

    Fifth Annual Symposium of the Fitzpatrick Center Held at Pratt

    More than 100 photonics researchers and educators attended the Fifth Annual Symposium of the Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics and Communication Systems at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering May 18-19. Focusing on "Global Perspectives on the Frontiers of Photonics," the meeting was sponsored by the United States Army Research Office, the National Science Council of Taiwan and the Office of Science and Technology of the United Kingdom. Among the attendees were Dr. Maw-Kuen Wu, chairman of the National ...
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  • May 3, 2005

    Gamma Rays from Thunderstorms?

    DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University engineers have led the most detailed analyses of links between some lightning events and mysterious gamma ray emissions that emanate from earth's own atmosphere. Their study suggests that this gamma radiation fountains upward from starting points surprisingly low in thunderclouds. Counter-intuitively, these strong gamma outbursts also seem to precede associated lightning discharges by a split second. "All of this comes as a huge surprise," said Steven Cummer, an assistant professor of ...
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  • 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 Young Alumnus Award. Professor F. Hadley Cocks of the Pratt School of Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science (MEMS), received the Distinguished Service Award for 33 years of service to the School of Engineering, joining the school in 1972 as assistant professor after six ...
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  • 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 Young Alumnus Award. Professor F. Hadley Cocks of the Pratt School of Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science (MEMS), received the Distinguished Service Award for 33 years of service to the School of Engineering, joining the school in 1972 as assistant professor after six ...
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  • April 29, 2005

    Duke Wins HP Technology Grant

    DURHAM, NC - Duke University was selected as one of 31 colleges and universities nationwide to receive the 2005 HP Technology for Teaching grant, which is designed to transform and improve learning in the classroom through innovative uses of technology. Duke University will receive an award package of Hewlett-Packard products and a faculty stipend valued at more than $74,000. Each of the HP Technology for Teaching grant recipients will use HP wireless technology to enhance learning ...
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  • April 29, 2005

    Duke Wins HP Technology Grant

    DURHAM, NC - Duke University was selected as one of 31 colleges and universities nationwide to receive the 2005 HP Technology for Teaching grant, which is designed to transform and improve learning in the classroom through innovative uses of technology. Duke University will receive an award package of Hewlett-Packard products and a faculty stipend valued at more than $74,000. Each of the HP Technology for Teaching grant recipients will use HP wireless technology to enhance learning ...
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  • 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 Young Alumnus Award. Professor F. Hadley Cocks of the Pratt School of Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science (MEMS), received the Distinguished Service Award for 33 years of service to the School of Engineering, joining the school in 1972 as assistant professor after six ...
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  • April 1, 2005

    Duke Students Teaming Up with Carnegie Mellon to Win $2 million Robot Prize

    Students from Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering are partnering with Carnegie Mellon University's "Red Team" in an effort to win a $2 million prize from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). All they have to do is complete the toughest ground course ever devised for a self-guided robotic vehicle. The contest, called the DARPA Grand Challenge, is a race between fully self-guided ground vehicles to be conducted in the Southwestern United States on Oct. ...
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  • April 1, 2005

    Duke Students Teaming Up with Carnegie Mellon to Win $2 million Robot Prize

    Students from Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering are partnering with Carnegie Mellon University's "Red Team" in an effort to win a $2 million prize from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). All they have to do is complete the toughest ground course ever devised for a self-guided robotic vehicle. The contest, called the DARPA Grand Challenge, is a race between fully self-guided ground vehicles to be conducted in the Southwestern United States on Oct. ...
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  • April 1, 2005

    Crosby Receives Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship

    Patrick Crosby Duke senior Patrick Crosby has been selected to receive a 2005 Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship from the Australian-American Fulbright Commission. The award will provide Crosby support for up to 12 months of research and coursework at the University of Melbourne. Crosby, from Abbeville, S.C., is double majoring in electrical and computer engineering and computer science, and is scheduled to graduate in May. The Fulbright Exchange program was established in 1946 as an initiative of Sen. J. William ...
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  • April 1, 2005

    Crosby Receives Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship

    Patrick Crosby Duke senior Patrick Crosby has been selected to receive a 2005 Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship from the Australian-American Fulbright Commission. The award will provide Crosby support for up to 12 months of research and coursework at the University of Melbourne. Crosby, from Abbeville, S.C., is double majoring in electrical and computer engineering and computer science, and is scheduled to graduate in May. The Fulbright Exchange program was established in 1946 as an initiative of Sen. J. William ...
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  • March 31, 2005

    Hwang Wins Goldwater Scholarship

    William (Billy) Hwang, a junior majoring in biomedical engineering, physics, and electrical and computer engineering, is one of three Duke students awarded Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships for their achievements in the sciences, mathematics or engineering. In addition to Hwang, who is from Potomac, Md., this year's winners are Peter Q. Blair, a junior from Chicago who is majoring in mathematics and physics; and Adam Chandler, a junior from Burlington, N.C., majoring in mathematics and chemistry. They ...
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  • March 22, 2005

    Crosby Receives Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship

    DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University senior Patrick Crosby has been selected to receive a 2005 Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship from the Australian-American Fulbright Commission. The award will provide Crosby support for up to 12 months of research and coursework at the University of Melbourne. Crosby, from Abbeville, S.C., is double majoring in electrical and computer engineering and computer science, and is scheduled to graduate in May. The Fulbright Exchange program was established in 1946 as an initiative of ...
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  • March 15, 2005

    Research in Australia for ECE student Crosby

    By Gabriel Chen,'05 The buildings that line the street are six stories high with exteriors covered in balconies full of spectators and news crews. On the other side of wooden barricades is an ocean of even more spectators and swarms of medics carrying plastic stretchers and neck braces. On the streets, people scream and run for their lives and some push themselves against the wall as far away from the center as possible. They are chased ...
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  • March 8, 2005

    Duke University Engineers Join "Red Team" Robotic Vehicle Team

    DURHAM, N.C. -- Students from Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering are partnering with Carnegie Mellon University's "Red Team" in an effort to win a $2 million prize from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). All they have to do is complete the toughest ground course ever devised for a self-guided robotic vehicle. The contest, called the DARPA Grand Challenge, is a race between fully self-guided ground vehicles to be conducted in the Southwestern United ...
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  • March 1, 2005

    soundSense: Where Movement and Data are Turned Into Music

    The children really get it, says Steve Feller. The adults walk in, hear the music, look around, stick their hands in their pockets and think about it. They act like adults. The children, however, realize that they control the music, the data and the lines appearing on the screens. "We had two kids come in yesterday, and immediately they started running around, making music, holding hands as they danced around," Feller said. "They figured out which ...
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  • March 1, 2005

    soundSense: Where Movement and Data are Turned Into Music

    The children really get it, says Steve Feller. The adults walk in, hear the music, look around, stick their hands in their pockets and think about it. They act like adults. The children, however, realize that they control the music, the data and the lines appearing on the screens. "We had two kids come in yesterday, and immediately they started running around, making music, holding hands as they danced around," Feller said. "They figured out which ...
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  • March 1, 2005

    'Oracle' Computer Could Hold All the Answers

    Instead of waiting weeks for computers to grind out solutions to complex problems, scientists may someday get answers instantly thanks to a new type of "oracle" computer that will have all the answers built in, Duke computer scientists and engineers predict. When a question is posed, the computer will provide the answer already paired with the question in the very structure of the computer's processing unit. "We call this kind of computer an oracle because, like ...
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  • March 1, 2005

    'Oracle' Computer Could Hold All the Answers

    Instead of waiting weeks for computers to grind out solutions to complex problems, scientists may someday get answers instantly thanks to a new type of "oracle" computer that will have all the answers built in, Duke computer scientists and engineers predict. When a question is posed, the computer will provide the answer already paired with the question in the very structure of the computer's processing unit. "We call this kind of computer an oracle because, like ...
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  • February 15, 2005

    Eric Schwartz To Pursue Investment Banking

    By Gabriel Chen,'05 It is mid-afternoon and a chess game is underway. The game proceeds at a furious pace. On one side of the table, white creates a pawn lever and then unleashes the light squared bishop to strengthen the center. White sees no way for black to attack immediately and therefore feels safe. After thirty minutes, black cannot stop the threatening mate and resigns. A win no doubt, but for Eric Schwartz, a biomedical and ...
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  • February 10, 2005

    Duke Engineers to Collaborate with Saudi Arabia's Effat College on Computer Engineering Curriculum

    DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering and Saudi Arabia's Effat College, a privately funded women's college, will collaborate on the first undergraduate engineering curriculum for women in Saudi Arabia. Pratt Dean Kristina Johnson and Dr. Haifa Jamal Al Lail, dean of Effat College, signed a cooperative agreement Jan. 30. The effort is funded by a $100,000 grant from the U.S. State Department's Middle East Partnership Program Initiative. Pratt engineers will assist Effat in developing ...
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  • February 1, 2005

    Root for the 'Underdog of Electrical History'

    From left: Adam Durity, Gary Ybarra, John Wagner and April Brown with the bust of Tesla in Vesic Library. Duke has joined a short list of prestigious universities charged by retired elementary school teacher John Wagner with preserving the memory of Nikola Tesla, a man he calls the "underdog of electrical history." To help kick off that endeavor, Wagner presented the electrical and computer engineering (ECE) department with a $6,000 bronze bust of Tesla, which now ...
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  • February 1, 2005

    Root for the 'Underdog of Electrical History'

    From left: Adam Durity, Gary Ybarra, John Wagner and April Brown with the bust of Tesla in Vesic Library. Duke has joined a short list of prestigious universities charged by retired elementary school teacher John Wagner with preserving the memory of Nikola Tesla, a man he calls the "underdog of electrical history." To help kick off that endeavor, Wagner presented the electrical and computer engineering (ECE) department with a $6,000 bronze bust of Tesla, which now ...
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  • February 1, 2005

    First Annual Virtual Reality Jam a Success

    From left: Duke DiVE researchers Steve Feller, Rachael Brady, John Bower, and David Zielinski. Virtual reality experts from across the country descended on Duke Nov. 10-11 for the first Annual Virtual Reality Jam Session in the new Duke Immersive Virtual Environment (DiVE) facility located in the Fitzpatrick Center. The event offered the VR gurus a chance to trade computer applications and experiences with the immersive technology. During the two-day jam session, Rachael Brady, director of the Visualization ...
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  • February 1, 2005

    First Annual Virtual Reality Jam a Success

    From left: Duke DiVE researchers Steve Feller, Rachael Brady, John Bower, and David Zielinski. Virtual reality experts from across the country descended on Duke Nov. 10-11 for the first Annual Virtual Reality Jam Session in the new Duke Immersive Virtual Environment (DiVE) facility located in the Fitzpatrick Center. The event offered the VR gurus a chance to trade computer applications and experiences with the immersive technology. During the two-day jam session, Rachael Brady, director of the Visualization ...
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  • January 1, 2005

    Robot Car with Duke Radar Races Across Desert

    Left, Jason Ziglar, right, Josh Johnston A modified, driverless Humvee using a radar system developed by Duke students finished second by 11 minutes Oct. 8 in a demanding seven-hour, 131.6-mile Nevada desert race sponsored by the Defense Department to pave the way for autonomous military vehicles for future warfare. The 1986 robot truck called Sandstorm beat its stable mate, a 1999 Hummer named H1ghlander, by nine minutes. Both vehicles were developed by the "Red Team" put together ...
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  • January 1, 2005

    Robot Car with Duke Radar Races Across Desert

    Left, Jason Ziglar, right, Josh Johnston A modified, driverless Humvee using a radar system developed by Duke students finished second by 11 minutes Oct. 8 in a demanding seven-hour, 131.6-mile Nevada desert race sponsored by the Defense Department to pave the way for autonomous military vehicles for future warfare. The 1986 robot truck called Sandstorm beat its stable mate, a 1999 Hummer named H1ghlander, by nine minutes. Both vehicles were developed by the "Red Team" put together ...
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  • December 1, 2004

    Two Robot Vehicles Set for $2 Million Desert Race

    Two robotic vehicles using radar systems provided by students at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering performed well in initial qualifying runs and appeared likely to be selected to compete in the $2 million Grand Challenge race sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on Oct. 8. The two sensor-laden, driverless vehicles were developed by a team led by the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. Called the Red Team, the group is an alliance ...
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  • December 1, 2004

    Two Robot Vehicles Set for $2 Million Desert Race

    Two robotic vehicles using radar systems provided by students at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering performed well in initial qualifying runs and appeared likely to be selected to compete in the $2 million Grand Challenge race sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on Oct. 8. The two sensor-laden, driverless vehicles were developed by a team led by the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. Called the Red Team, the group is an alliance ...
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  • December 1, 2004

    Robot Designed by Pratt Students Wins Wall Climb

    A 2.5-pound robot named "Wallter" designed by Pratt School of Engineering students at Duke has won for the second year in a row an international wall-crawling robotics competition held in London. Wallter, now a two-year-old, competed against university teams from the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy this year to win a $900 prize at the 8th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots Sept. 12-15. Each team's robot was required to move from the floor to ...
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  • December 1, 2004

    Robot Designed by Pratt Students Wins Wall Climb

    A 2.5-pound robot named "Wallter" designed by Pratt School of Engineering students at Duke has won for the second year in a row an international wall-crawling robotics competition held in London. Wallter, now a two-year-old, competed against university teams from the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy this year to win a $900 prize at the 8th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots Sept. 12-15. Each team's robot was required to move from the floor to ...
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  • November 5, 2004

    Duke robot climbs to victory in Madrid

    Note to editors: A high-resolution, downloadable photo of the Duke robot is available at http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/images/robot1104.jpg. The students pictured are: top left, Andrew Meyerson; top right, Julien Finlay; bottom center, Kevin Parker. DURHAM, N.C. -- A wall-climbing, book-sized autonomous vehicle made by a Duke University team drove up a challenging vertical course to win first prize in an international competition Sept. 22-24 in Madrid. The student competition was part of the seventh annual International Conference on Climbing and ...
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  • October 15, 2004

    Self-motivation Key to Success for Hwang

    Gabriel Chen, Oct. 2004 It's hard to imagine a college student with a more energetic schedule than that of junior William Hwang's. After all, Hwang, an Angier B. Duke Scholar, is a triple major in Biomedical Engineering, Physics, and Electrical and Computer Engineering, and a double minor in English and Chemistry. Outside the classroom, he plays for the Duke Men's Volleyball Team, serves as an Editor for Eruditio, the Duke Undergraduate Journal for Humanities, Associate ...
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  • October 12, 2004

    Kristina M. Johnson Receives Society of Women Engineers' Highest Honor

    MILWAUKEE, Wis., October 13, 2004 The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) announced today that Dr. Kristina M. Johnson, dean of Duke University's Edmund T. Pratt School of Engineering is the recipient of the 2004 SWE Achievement Award, the highest award given by the Society for her outstanding contributions to the field of engineering for more than 20 years. Dr. Johnson receives the Achievement Award in recognition of her contributions to optoelectronic processing systems ...
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  • September 15, 2004

    Ness Balances Competive Athletics and Engineering Course Load

    By Gabriel Chen, September 2004 Who is Katie Ness? A student to some, but to the Duke swimming team, however, she is one of their finest swimmers. In February 2004, the then-sophomore stunned the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) by winning the 200-yard individual medley event with a time of 2:00.27, a Duke record that also automatically qualified Ness for the National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA) Championships. Ness is now the first swimmer from Duke to finish ...
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  • September 14, 2004

    Grant Allows Duke to Launch New Electrical and Computer Engineering Undergraduate Curriculum

    DURHAM, N.C. - A National Science Foundation grant to Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering will allow the school to launch a new undergraduate curriculum that focuses on the most important emerging applications in electrical and computer engineering today. The new curriculum will integrate four key fields of electrical and computer engineering -- circuits and devices, signals and systems, electromagnetics, and computer engineering -- around an integrated sensing and information-processing theme. The goal is to expose ...
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  • September 1, 2004

    Nine New Faculty Join Pratt

    The Pratt School of Engineering has hired nine new professors, bringing the total number of tenure track faculty for this academic year to 91. The new professors bring expertise in a wide range of fields, including neural prosthesis and neuroengineering, cancer imaging, materials, nanoscience, photonics, sensing, microbial engineering, environmental science and power and propulsion system development. The Department of Biomedical Engineering has three new tenure track faculty starting the semester. Jean-Marc Fellous Jean-Marc Fellous, previously a post-doctoral fellow ...
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  • September 1, 2004

    Nine New Faculty Join Pratt

    The Pratt School of Engineering has hired nine new professors, bringing the total number of tenure track faculty for this academic year to 91. The new professors bring expertise in a wide range of fields, including neural prosthesis and neuroengineering, cancer imaging, materials, nanoscience, photonics, sensing, microbial engineering, environmental science and power and propulsion system development. The Department of Biomedical Engineering has three new tenure track faculty starting the semester. Jean-Marc Fellous Jean-Marc Fellous, previously a post-doctoral fellow ...
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  • September 1, 2004

    Duke Students Win Praise For Innovative Design In International Robotics Competition

    A translucent blue flying-saucer-shaped underwater robot created by Duke students whirled and skimmed its way to a prize for the most innovative design at a recent competition. Dubbed Charybdis -- after a mythical Greek sea monster that gulped and spewed seawater to create deadly whirlpools -- the robot won the $1,000 prize for innovation in the international 2004 Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition. The competition, sponsored by the Association for Underwater Vehicles Systems International and the Office ...
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  • September 1, 2004

    Duke Students Win Praise For Innovative Design In International Robotics Competition

    A translucent blue flying-saucer-shaped underwater robot created by Duke students whirled and skimmed its way to a prize for the most innovative design at a recent competition. Dubbed Charybdis -- after a mythical Greek sea monster that gulped and spewed seawater to create deadly whirlpools -- the robot won the $1,000 prize for innovation in the international 2004 Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition. The competition, sponsored by the Association for Underwater Vehicles Systems International and the Office ...
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  • August 26, 2004

    ECE Department hires three new faculty

    As the fall semester begins, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering welcomes three new faculty members. "We are very excited about the new faculty additions," said April S. Brown, ECE Chair. "The department is continuing its growth with emphasis on the Pratt School's strategic initiatives. Each of the new faculty members has expertise in areas that spans more than one of these areas, including materials and nanoscience, photonics, and sensing. We now have 28 faculty ...
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  • August 21, 2004

    Duke Robot Named Most Innovative in Recent Underwater Competition

    A translucent, blue flying-saucer-shaped underwater robot created by Duke students whirled and skimmed its way to a prize for the most innovative design at a recent competition. Dubbed Charybdis -- after a mythical Greek sea monster that gulped and spewed seawater to create deadly whirlpools -- the robot won the $1,000 prize for innovation in the international 2004 Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition. The competition, sponsored by the Association for Underwater Vehicles Systems International and the Office ...
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  • August 15, 2004

    Darkoch Settles on ECE/Economics Double Major

    By Claire Cusick, 2004 Justin Darkoch has all his bases covered. As a double major electrical engineering and economics he studies technical processes and big-picture outcomes. He also volunteers his time teaching computer skills to children in local Durham schools and plays on Duke's baseball team. The Wayne, New Jersey native strives to have a full and fulfilling life, and that is part of the reason why he chose to pursue engineering at ...
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  • June 18, 2004

    Jungsang Kim Joins ECE Department

    Jungsang Kim has joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University as the John-Kelly C. Warren Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Kim, who received his Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University in 1999, comes to Duke from Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, where he has worked for five years. An expert in photonics and MEMS, he joins the Fitzpatrick Center and the department "Jungsang has great breadth in research -- ...
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  • June 15, 2004

    Electrical Engineer Rebekah Osborn Weighs Career Options

    Written by Claire Cusick, 2004 Whatever the future brings, Duke electrical engineering graduate Rebekah Osborn feels she is prepared. "I'm thankful for my engineering courses," she said. "They taught me a good work ethic. And it seems trite, but they also taught me problem-solving skills." Interviewed a day after graduation, the 22-year-old alumna looks forward to her first hard-core engineering job for the summer of 2004, and is considering her options for life beyond that. Osborn, from Peoria, Ill., ...
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  • June 8, 2004

    Duke Graduate Student Dies in Weekend Car Accident

    DURHAM, N.C. - An electrical engineering graduate student at Duke University died early Monday from injuries sustained in a car accident late Sunday. Zhaochun Xu, 31, was a member of the Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics and Communications, where he worked with professor David Brady. He was scheduled to receive his Ph.D. in May 2005. "Zhaochun was a brilliant signal processor, working on mathematical data analysis for a new kind of optical biomedical sensor to enable in ...
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  • May 1, 2004

    Professor Lisa Huettel Wins Klein Family Distinguished Teaching Award

    Lisa G. Huettel, assistant professor of the practice of electrical and computer engineering, has won the first Klein Family Distinguished Teaching Award at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering. Huettel, who received a plaque and $2,000 at the Engineering Alumni Banquet April 24, was nominated by Pratt undergraduates and selected by a faculty committee. "You should take great pride in the fact that in a school with many outstanding teachers, your contributions to our educational programs ...
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  • May 1, 2004

    Professor Lisa Huettel Wins Klein Family Distinguished Teaching Award

    Lisa G. Huettel, assistant professor of the practice of electrical and computer engineering, has won the first Klein Family Distinguished Teaching Award at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering. Huettel, who received a plaque and $2,000 at the Engineering Alumni Banquet April 24, was nominated by Pratt undergraduates and selected by a faculty committee. "You should take great pride in the fact that in a school with many outstanding teachers, your contributions to our educational programs ...
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  • May 1, 2004

    New Photonics Certificate Program

    Engineers are harnessing light to perform useful tasks in ways that we could never have imagined just a few decades ago. Recognizing the limitless future of this new field of photonics, Duke's Graduate School has created a certificate program in photonics at the Pratt School of Engineering. The program is designed to pull together components in different departments and programs and give professional masters and Ph.D. students in the sciences and engineering a broad foundation in ...
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  • May 1, 2004

    New Photonics Certificate Program

    Engineers are harnessing light to perform useful tasks in ways that we could never have imagined just a few decades ago. Recognizing the limitless future of this new field of photonics, Duke's Graduate School has created a certificate program in photonics at the Pratt School of Engineering. The program is designed to pull together components in different departments and programs and give professional masters and Ph.D. students in the sciences and engineering a broad foundation in ...
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  • 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 Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering. Huettel, who received a plaque and $2,000 at the Engineering Alumni Banquet April 24, was nominated by Pratt undergraduates and selected by a faculty committee. "You should take great pride in the fact that in a school with many outstanding teachers, ...
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  • April 1, 2004

    Huettel appointed ECE Director of Undergraduate Labs

    Lisa G. Huettel, Assistant Professor of the Practice of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been appointed Director of Undergraduate Laboratories for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. "I am very appreciative that Lisa has taken on this effort," said April S. Brown, ECE Department Chair. "Her experience and excellence in teaching, as well as laboratory design and enhancement, make her uniquely suited for this new position." Huettel will work with her colleagues in ECE to ensure ...
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  • April 1, 2004

    Huettel appointed ECE Director of Undergraduate Labs

    Lisa G. Huettel, Assistant Professor of the Practice of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been appointed Director of Undergraduate Laboratories for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. "I am very appreciative that Lisa has taken on this effort," said April S. Brown, ECE Department Chair. "Her experience and excellence in teaching, as well as laboratory design and enhancement, make her uniquely suited for this new position." Huettel will work with her colleagues in ECE to ensure ...
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  • April 1, 2004

    Pratt Alumnus Wins Soros Fellowship

    Pavan Cheruvu, a 2001 Pratt alumnus and Rhodes Scholar, has won a 2004 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans and will enter the Health Science and Technology program of Harvard University and MIT in September. Cheruvu, a triple major at Duke in electrical and biomedical engineering and chemistry, is currently pursuing M.S. degrees in Neuroscience and Computer Science at Oxford University. He was among 30 2004 recipients of the Soros Fellowships selected from 1,300 applicants. ...
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  • April 1, 2004

    Pratt Alumnus Wins Soros Fellowship

    Pavan Cheruvu, a 2001 Pratt alumnus and Rhodes Scholar, has won a 2004 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans and will enter the Health Science and Technology program of Harvard University and MIT in September. Cheruvu, a triple major at Duke in electrical and biomedical engineering and chemistry, is currently pursuing M.S. degrees in Neuroscience and Computer Science at Oxford University. He was among 30 2004 recipients of the Soros Fellowships selected from 1,300 applicants. ...
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  • April 1, 2004

    Duke Summer Seminar: Topics in Modern Optics set for July 26-28

    The Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics and Communications Systems at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering will hold a seminar titled "Topics in Modern Optics" for industrial and academic technology managers and researchers July 26-28. The second annual summer seminar in photonics will focus on the current research trends in photonics, the melding of light with electronics to manage and transmit information. "In a rapidly changing field like modern optics and photonics it is difficult to formulate a perspective ...
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  • April 1, 2004

    Duke Summer Seminar: Topics in Modern Optics set for July 26-28

    The Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics and Communications Systems at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering will hold a seminar titled "Topics in Modern Optics" for industrial and academic technology managers and researchers July 26-28. The second annual summer seminar in photonics will focus on the current research trends in photonics, the melding of light with electronics to manage and transmit information. "In a rapidly changing field like modern optics and photonics it is difficult to formulate a perspective ...
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  • March 25, 2004

    Duke Summer Seminar: Topics In Modern Optics Set For July 26-28

    The Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics and Communications Systems at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering will hold a seminar titled "Topics in Modern Optics" for industrial and academic technology managers and researchers July 26-28. The second annual summer seminar in photonics will focus on the current research trends in photonics, the melding of light with electronics to manage and transmit information. "In a rapidly changing field like modern optics and photonics it is difficult to formulate a perspective ...
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  • March 2, 2004

    Pratt Junior Josh Johnston Wins March Mayhem

    Nearly 100 people watched the 3rd Annual Mechanical Engineering "March Mayhem" robot competition March 1. Each team's goal was to sink as many ping pong balls into the plexiglass baskets as possible in a 2-minute round, but the crowd was just as pleased with an unsuccessful scoring attempt if there was innovative design behind it. First place and a $500 purse went to Pratt junior Josh Johnston and his robot, "Dr. J." Pratt sophomore John Cornwell ...
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  • March 1, 2004

    David Brady to Step Down as Director of Duke's Fitzpatrick Center

    David Brady plans to step down as director of the burgeoning Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics and Communications Systems at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering to take on increasing research responsibilities at the center, Dean Kristina Johnson announced Feb. 4. Brady, who joined Pratt in 2001 to start the Fitzpatrick Center, leads a research program in computational sensors for biomedical and national defense applications and will continue to head the Duke Integrated Sensing and Processing laboratory, one ...
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  • March 1, 2004

    David Brady to Step Down as Director of Duke's Fitzpatrick Center

    David Brady plans to step down as director of the burgeoning Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics and Communications Systems at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering to take on increasing research responsibilities at the center, Dean Kristina Johnson announced Feb. 4. Brady, who joined Pratt in 2001 to start the Fitzpatrick Center, leads a research program in computational sensors for biomedical and national defense applications and will continue to head the Duke Integrated Sensing and Processing laboratory, one ...
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  • March 1, 2004

    Josh Johnston Wins MEMS March Mayhem

    Nearly 100 people watched the 3rd Annual Mechanical Engineering March Mayhem robotics competition March 1. Each team's goal was to sink as many ping pong balls into the plexiglass baskets as possible in a 2-minute round, but the crowd was just as pleased with an unsuccessful scoring attempt if there was innovative design behind it. First place and a $500 purse went to Pratt junior Josh Johnston and his robot, "Dr. J." Pratt sophomore John Cornwell ...
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  • March 1, 2004

    Josh Johnston Wins MEMS March Mayhem

    Nearly 100 people watched the 3rd Annual Mechanical Engineering March Mayhem robotics competition March 1. Each team's goal was to sink as many ping pong balls into the plexiglass baskets as possible in a 2-minute round, but the crowd was just as pleased with an unsuccessful scoring attempt if there was innovative design behind it. First place and a $500 purse went to Pratt junior Josh Johnston and his robot, "Dr. J." Pratt sophomore John Cornwell ...
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  • February 5, 2004

    David Brady to Step Down as Director of Duke's Fitzpatrick Center

    DURHAM, N.C. -- David Brady plans to step down as director of the burgeoning Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics and Communications Systems at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering to take on increasing research responsibilities at the center, Dean Kristina Johnson announced Wednesday. Brady, who joined Pratt in 2001 to start the Fitzpatrick Center, leads a research program in computational sensors for biomedical and national defense applications and will continue to head the Duke Integrated Sensing and Processing ...
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  • January 14, 2004

    NSF supports more K-12 outreach from the Pratt School of Engineering

    The National Science Foundation recently awarded $1.4 million to the Pratt School of Engineering, continuing to support Pratt's math and science and engineering outreach in neighboring elementary and middle schools. The latest grant, entitled MUSIC: Math Understanding through Science Integrated with Curriculum, is a five-year project headed by Gary Ybarra, Associate Professor of the Practice in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Martha Absher, Assistant Dean for Education and Outreach. The MUSIC Program partners Pratt ...
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  • January 1, 2004

    Duke Bags Honor as IEEE's 1 millionth Online Technology Document

    The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) released its 1 millionth online technical document to researchers in January. There are now more than 1,000,200 full-text technology papers, articles and standards in IEEE Xplore, the delivery system for IEEE online publications. The milestone document, "Novel Frame Buffer Pixel Circuits for Liquid-Crystal-on-Silicon Microdisplays," was published in the January issue of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. The paper was written by IEEE Members Sangrok Lee and James C. Morizio ...
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  • January 1, 2004

    Duke Bags Honor as IEEE's 1 millionth Online Technology Document

    The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) released its 1 millionth online technical document to researchers in January. There are now more than 1,000,200 full-text technology papers, articles and standards in IEEE Xplore, the delivery system for IEEE online publications. The milestone document, "Novel Frame Buffer Pixel Circuits for Liquid-Crystal-on-Silicon Microdisplays," was published in the January issue of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. The paper was written by IEEE Members Sangrok Lee and James C. Morizio ...
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  • January 1, 2004

    Kristina M. Johnson Receives Society Of Women Engineers' Highest Honor

    The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) announced today that Kristina M. Johnson, dean of Duke University's Edmund T. Pratt School of Engineering is the recipient of the 2004 SWE Achievement Award, the highest award given by the Society for her outstanding contributions to the field of engineering for more than 20 years. Johnson received the Achievement Award in recognition of her contributions to optoelectronic processing systems and liquid crystal devices. "SWE has a 50-year tradition of ...
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  • January 1, 2004

    Kristina M. Johnson Receives Society Of Women Engineers' Highest Honor

    The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) announced today that Kristina M. Johnson, dean of Duke University's Edmund T. Pratt School of Engineering is the recipient of the 2004 SWE Achievement Award, the highest award given by the Society for her outstanding contributions to the field of engineering for more than 20 years. Johnson received the Achievement Award in recognition of her contributions to optoelectronic processing systems and liquid crystal devices. "SWE has a 50-year tradition of ...
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  • January 1, 2004

    Duke Robot Climbs to Victory in Madrid

    From left to right: Andrew Meyerson, Brian Burney, Kevin Parker, and Julien Finlay. Parker holds "Wallter" the wall-climbing robot during the robotics conference in Madrid. A wall-climbing, book-sized autonomous vehicle made by a Duke University team drove up a challenging vertical course to win first prize in an international competition Sept. 22-24 in Madrid. The student competition was part of the seventh annual International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots. Jason Janet, an adjunct professor in Duke's electrical and computer engineering ...
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  • January 1, 2004

    Duke Robot Climbs to Victory in Madrid

    From left to right: Andrew Meyerson, Brian Burney, Kevin Parker, and Julien Finlay. Parker holds "Wallter" the wall-climbing robot during the robotics conference in Madrid. A wall-climbing, book-sized autonomous vehicle made by a Duke University team drove up a challenging vertical course to win first prize in an international competition Sept. 22-24 in Madrid. The student competition was part of the seventh annual International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots. Jason Janet, an adjunct professor in Duke's electrical and computer engineering ...
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  • January 1, 2004

    NSF supports more K-12 outreach from the Pratt School of Engineering

    The National Science Foundation recently awarded $1.4 million to the Pratt School of Engineering for continued support to Pratt's math, science and engineering outreach in neighboring elementary and middle schools. The latest grant, entitled MUSIC: Math Understanding through Science Integrated with Curriculum, is a five-year project headed by Gary Ybarra, associate professor of the practice in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Martha Absher, assistant dean for education and outreach. The MUSIC Program partners Pratt ...
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  • January 1, 2004

    NSF supports more K-12 outreach from the Pratt School of Engineering

    The National Science Foundation recently awarded $1.4 million to the Pratt School of Engineering for continued support to Pratt's math, science and engineering outreach in neighboring elementary and middle schools. The latest grant, entitled MUSIC: Math Understanding through Science Integrated with Curriculum, is a five-year project headed by Gary Ybarra, associate professor of the practice in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Martha Absher, assistant dean for education and outreach. The MUSIC Program partners Pratt ...
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  • December 1, 2003

    Droplets Key to Next Generation Diagnostic Testing Tool

    Two Duke electrical engineering postdocs parlayed their graduate work into a new business in the spring of 2004. Advanced Liquid Logic founders Michael Pollack, Ph.D., and Vamsee Pamula, Ph.D., are now carefully cultivating their company at a new business incubator in Research Triangle Park, N.C. The concept behind Advanced Liquid Logic is simple take advantage of a natural property of liquid drops called surface tension. Surface tension keeps drops sphere-shaped instead of flattened out. Pollack and ...
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  • December 1, 2003

    Droplets Key to Next Generation Diagnostic Testing Tool

    Two Duke electrical engineering postdocs parlayed their graduate work into a new business in the spring of 2004. Advanced Liquid Logic founders Michael Pollack, Ph.D., and Vamsee Pamula, Ph.D., are now carefully cultivating their company at a new business incubator in Research Triangle Park, N.C. The concept behind Advanced Liquid Logic is simple take advantage of a natural property of liquid drops called surface tension. Surface tension keeps drops sphere-shaped instead of flattened out. Pollack and ...
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  • December 1, 2003

    Grant Allows Pratt to Launch New Electrical and Computer Engineering Undergraduate Curriculum

    A National Science Foundation grant to Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering will allow the school to launch a new undergraduate curriculum that focuses on the most important emerging applications in electrical and computer engineering today. The new curriculum will integrate four key fields of electrical and computer engineering -- circuits and devices, signals and systems, electromagnetics, and computer engineering -- around an integrated sensing and information-processing theme. The goal is to expose students to the full ...
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  • December 1, 2003

    Grant Allows Pratt to Launch New Electrical and Computer Engineering Undergraduate Curriculum

    A National Science Foundation grant to Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering will allow the school to launch a new undergraduate curriculum that focuses on the most important emerging applications in electrical and computer engineering today. The new curriculum will integrate four key fields of electrical and computer engineering -- circuits and devices, signals and systems, electromagnetics, and computer engineering -- around an integrated sensing and information-processing theme. The goal is to expose students to the full ...
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  • December 1, 2003

    Engineers Wanted for Duke Start-up Challenge 2005

    Have you always wanted take the engineering skills you're learning in the classroom and shape them into next year's hot start-up? Last year, nine start-up companies from Duke competed for over $100,000 in seed capital and services in the final round of the Duke Start-Up Challenge's multi-stage competition. Pratt engineers won the Duke Startup Challenge for the second year in a row. The Fitzpatrick Center's David Brady and Mike Sullivan and graduate student Prasant Potuluri won ...
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  • December 1, 2003

    Engineers Wanted for Duke Start-up Challenge 2005

    Have you always wanted take the engineering skills you're learning in the classroom and shape them into next year's hot start-up? Last year, nine start-up companies from Duke competed for over $100,000 in seed capital and services in the final round of the Duke Start-Up Challenge's multi-stage competition. Pratt engineers won the Duke Startup Challenge for the second year in a row. The Fitzpatrick Center's David Brady and Mike Sullivan and graduate student Prasant Potuluri won ...
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  • November 15, 2003

    New Computer Cluster Farm to Help Duke Research

    Duke's computing experts hope to help faculty campus-wide raise a bumper crop of research using a new "cluster farm" approach to high-end computing. The farm, a growing collection of high-powered processors racked up in the North Building, will give Duke researchers the dedicated, 24/7 computing power they need -- without the headaches of storage and administration. Developed by the Center for Computational Science, Engineering and Medicine (CSEM) and the Office of Information Technology (OIT), the cluster ...
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  • October 31, 2003

    Pratt's ECE Department Wins $100,000 Grant From NSF for New Undergraduate Curriculum

    The National Science Foundation has awarded the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University $100,000 to pioneer a new undergraduate curriculum. The Departmental-Level Reform of Undergraduate Engineering Education Planning Grant, as it is officially called, is for one year, after which the department will apply for a follow-up implementation grant (a three-year, $1.5-million award). The project's Principal Investigator is Leslie Collins, associate professor of ECE, who is heading a department-wide team. Though the current curriculum is ...
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  • October 28, 2003

    Faculty Profile: Nan Jokerst -- Engineering on Smaller Scales

    By Monte Basgall Fresh from 14 successful years at Georgia Institute of Technology, during which her research drew praise and her teaching drew national recognition, Nan Marie Jokerst has come to the Pratt School of Engineering to advance her research and teaching even more dramatically. In fact, the new professor of electrical engineering and computer science said she arrived at Duke a year early to prepare facilities for what she believes will be major research achievements. She and ...
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  • September 23, 2003

    Duke to Partner with Taiwanese University in Photonics Research and Education

    DURHAM, N.C. Duke University and the National Chiao Tung University of Taiwan formally agreed to establish new collaborative education and research programs in photonics and electro-optics, in a ceremony held Tuesday at the Duke campus. Dr. Chun-Yun Chang, president of the National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), and Duke President Nannerl O. Keohane signed the agreement after touring the Duke campus and the future home of Duke's Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics and Communication Systems. Duke's Pratt ...
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  • September 11, 2003

    N.C. and Duke Launch Pre-college Engineering Program

    Duke University Office of News & Communications DURHAM, N.C. -- In universities across the nation, half of all engineering students drop out of the program because they are not ready for the academics and can't catch up. Not surprisingly, the United States suffers from a shortage of engineers in all fields of engineering. To address this ongoing problem, Duke University and the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction signed a partnership agreement Thursday to launch Project Lead ...
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  • September 1, 2003

    Johnson Named to Science Foundation Ireland Board

    DUBLIN, Ireland Dean Kristina M. Johnson of Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering has been appointed to the 12-member board of Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), the foundation announced Aug. 5. The board includes leaders from the engineering and scientific research communities, business, academia and public service. The members were selected "on the basis of their leadership experience and accomplishments in their careers," SFI said. "I am extremely pleased that we have been able to name ...
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  • September 1, 2003

    Johnson Named to Science Foundation Ireland Board

    DUBLIN, Ireland Dean Kristina M. Johnson of Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering has been appointed to the 12-member board of Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), the foundation announced Aug. 5. The board includes leaders from the engineering and scientific research communities, business, academia and public service. The members were selected "on the basis of their leadership experience and accomplishments in their careers," SFI said. "I am extremely pleased that we have been able to name ...
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  • September 1, 2003

    Pratt Dean Kristina Johnson Named to Women in Technology International Hall of Fame

    Kristina M. Johnson, among the pioneers of applications of liquid crystals, including micro displays for high-definition projection television, and dean of Duke's Pratt School of Engineering, was inducted into the Women in Technology International (WITI) Hall of Fame on June 25, at a ceremony at the group's annual meeting in San Jose, Calif. WITI, a global organization dedicated to advancing women in technology careers, established the Hall of Fame in 1996 to recognize outstanding women for ...
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  • September 1, 2003

    Pratt Dean Kristina Johnson Named to Women in Technology International Hall of Fame

    Kristina M. Johnson, among the pioneers of applications of liquid crystals, including micro displays for high-definition projection television, and dean of Duke's Pratt School of Engineering, was inducted into the Women in Technology International (WITI) Hall of Fame on June 25, at a ceremony at the group's annual meeting in San Jose, Calif. WITI, a global organization dedicated to advancing women in technology careers, established the Hall of Fame in 1996 to recognize outstanding women for ...
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  • September 1, 2003

    Duke Engineer Receives Humbolt Fellowship

    Krishnendu Chakrabarty, an associate professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at Duke University, has received a research fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He will spend the spring semester of 2004 in Germany. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation grants research fellowships and research awards to highly qualified scholars and scientists of all nationalities not resident in Germany, enabling them to undertake periods of research in Germany, as well as research fellowships to ...
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  • September 1, 2003

    Duke Engineer Receives Humbolt Fellowship

    Krishnendu Chakrabarty, an associate professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at Duke University, has received a research fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He will spend the spring semester of 2004 in Germany. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation grants research fellowships and research awards to highly qualified scholars and scientists of all nationalities not resident in Germany, enabling them to undertake periods of research in Germany, as well as research fellowships to ...
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  • September 1, 2003

    Jeffrey Glass Named Head of Master of Engineering Management Program at Duke

    Jeffrey T. Glass has joined Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering as the Hogg Family Director of Engineering Management and Entrepreneurship and professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. In announcing the appointment July 10, Pratt Dean Kristina Johnson said Glass will expand an already successful professional program that provides advanced training in engineering management, finance and marketing so its graduates "can hit the ground running" in industry upon graduation. "Jeff brings outstanding scholarship and ...
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  • September 1, 2003

    Jeffrey Glass Named Head of Master of Engineering Management Program at Duke

    Jeffrey T. Glass has joined Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering as the Hogg Family Director of Engineering Management and Entrepreneurship and professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. In announcing the appointment July 10, Pratt Dean Kristina Johnson said Glass will expand an already successful professional program that provides advanced training in engineering management, finance and marketing so its graduates "can hit the ground running" in industry upon graduation. "Jeff brings outstanding scholarship and ...
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  • September 1, 2003

    Summer Course in Photonics a Success

    Pratt's Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics and Communications Systems sponsored its inaugural "Summer Course in Photonics" on July 29-30, in the Teer building on Duke's campus. The event drew more than 70 Duke students and faculty for two days of lectures and socializing. "We are very pleased with this year's course," said David Brady, director of Pratt's Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics and Communication Systems. "The attendance was far greater than we expected, and next year we plan ...
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  • September 1, 2003

    Summer Course in Photonics a Success

    Pratt's Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics and Communications Systems sponsored its inaugural "Summer Course in Photonics" on July 29-30, in the Teer building on Duke's campus. The event drew more than 70 Duke students and faculty for two days of lectures and socializing. "We are very pleased with this year's course," said David Brady, director of Pratt's Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics and Communication Systems. "The attendance was far greater than we expected, and next year we plan ...
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  • August 21, 2003

    Duke Engineer Receives Humboldt Fellowship

    Krishnendu Chakrabarty, an associate professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at Duke University, has received a research fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He will spend the spring semester of 2004 in Germany. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation grants research fellowships and research awards to highly qualified scholars and scientists of all nationalities not resident in Germany, enabling them to undertake periods of research in Germany, as well as research fellowships to ...
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  • August 15, 2003

    Entrepreneurial Engineering Student Gets Taste Of Start Up Company

    Neil Abraham started his first company a technology news Web site with four friends while still in high school in Nutley, New Jersey. Abraham and friends served as consumer-testers for new hardware and software products that companies sent them for free. The team assessed the product performance and then wrote comparative reviews for the Web. "I was careful to be very professional, and did my work mostly through e-mail, so companies sending me products didn't know I ...
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  • August 6, 2003

    Duke Engineer Honored by National Academy of Engineering

    Steven A. Cummer, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, has been selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering's (NAE) ninth annual Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. Cummer is one of 83 engineers between the ages of 30-45 selected from a field of 170 nominees across the nation to take part in the symposium, to be held Sept. 18-20 at the National Academies' Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center ...
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  • August 6, 2003

    Pratt Dean Kristina Johnson Named to Board of Science Foundation Ireland

    DUBLIN, Ireland Dean Kristina M. Johnson of Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering has been appointed to the 12-member board of Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), the foundation announced Tuesday. The board includes leaders from the engineering and scientific research communities, business, academia and public service. The members were selected "on the basis of their leadership experience and accomplishments in their careers," SFI said. "I am extremely pleased that we have been able to name such ...
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  • July 16, 2003

    Lawrence Carin Named William H. Younger Professor of Engineering at Duke

    DURHAM, N.C. Professor Lawrence Carin of the Department of Electrical and Computer at the Duke's Pratt School of Engineering, has been named the William H. Younger Professor of Engineering, Dean Kristina Johnson announced. Carin earned B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering at the University of Maryland, in College Park. He joined the Electrical Engineering Department at Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, NY, in 1989 as an assistant professor, and became an associate professor ...
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  • June 20, 2003

    Pratt Dean Kristina Johnson Named to Women in Technology International Hall of Fame

    Kristina M. Johnson, among the pioneers of applications of liquid crystals, including micro displays for high-definition projection television, and dean of Duke's Pratt School of Engineering, will be inducted into the Women in Technology International (WITI) Hall of Fame on June 25, at a ceremony at the group's annual meeting in San Jose, Calif. WITI, a global organization dedicated to advancing women in technology careers, established the Hall of Fame in 1996 to recognize outstanding women ...
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  • June 1, 2003

    Dean Johnson Reappointed to Second Term

    The Duke University Board of Trustees May 10 reappointed Kristina M. Johnson dean of the Pratt School of Engineering to a second five-year term to run through 2008-2009. Johnson was named dean of the Pratt School in 1999 and led the development of the school's strategic plan as part of "Building on Excellence." Each university officer and dean undergoes a review after the first four years of their term and Provost Peter Lange said he and ...
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  • June 1, 2003

    Dean Johnson Reappointed to Second Term

    The Duke University Board of Trustees May 10 reappointed Kristina M. Johnson dean of the Pratt School of Engineering to a second five-year term to run through 2008-2009. Johnson was named dean of the Pratt School in 1999 and led the development of the school's strategic plan as part of "Building on Excellence." Each university officer and dean undergoes a review after the first four years of their term and Provost Peter Lange said he and ...
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  • May 1, 2003

    Pratt Honors Faculty and Alumni

    Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering recognized two alumni for their achievements and two faculty members for excellence in teaching and research at the annual alumni banquet April 26 that concluded the spring meeting of the school's Board of Visitors. Mechanical Engineering and Materials Sciences Professor Charles Harman received the distinguished faculty teaching award, consisting of a plaque and $2,000. The award, selected by a faculty committee with student input, recognizes "superior dedication to undergraduate teaching." Harman joined the faculty in 1961 and ...
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  • May 1, 2003

    Pratt Honors Faculty and Alumni

    Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering recognized two alumni for their achievements and two faculty members for excellence in teaching and research at the annual alumni banquet April 26 that concluded the spring meeting of the school's Board of Visitors. Mechanical Engineering and Materials Sciences Professor Charles Harman received the distinguished faculty teaching award, consisting of a plaque and $2,000. The award, selected by a faculty committee with student input, recognizes "superior dedication to undergraduate teaching." Harman joined the faculty in 1961 and ...
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  • May 1, 2003

    Duke Students Secure $50,000 in Funding in Entrepreneurship Competition

    DURHAM, N.C. -- MBright, a Durham-based, next-generation digital display technology company, secured the first-place seed funding of $50,000 in the April 26 Duke Start-Up Challenge. Nine start-up companies competed for more than $125,000 in seed capital and services in the final round of the Duke Start-Up Challenge's multi-stage competition. All of the participating start-up companies included students from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, Pratt School of Engineering, School of Law, School of Medicine and undergraduate School of Arts & Sciences. MBright, which competed ...
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  • May 1, 2003

    Duke Students Secure $50,000 in Funding in Entrepreneurship Competition

    DURHAM, N.C. -- MBright, a Durham-based, next-generation digital display technology company, secured the first-place seed funding of $50,000 in the April 26 Duke Start-Up Challenge. Nine start-up companies competed for more than $125,000 in seed capital and services in the final round of the Duke Start-Up Challenge's multi-stage competition. All of the participating start-up companies included students from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, Pratt School of Engineering, School of Law, School of Medicine and undergraduate School of Arts & Sciences. MBright, which competed ...
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  • April 30, 2003

    Duke Students Secure $50,000 in Funding in Entrepreneurship Competition

    DURHAM, N.C. -- MBright, a Durham-based, next-generation digital display technology company, secured the first-place seed funding of $50,000 in the April 26 Duke Start-Up Challenge. Nine start-up companies competed for more than $125,000 in seed capital and services in the final round of the Duke Start-Up Challenge's multi-stage competition. All of the participating start-up companies included students from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, Pratt School of Engineering, School of Law, School of Medicine and undergraduate ...
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  • April 30, 2003

    Duke Students Secure $50,000 in Funding in Entrepreneurship Competition

    DURHAM, N.C. -- MBright, a Durham-based, next-generation digital display technology company, secured the first-place seed funding of $50,000 in the April 26 Duke Start-Up Challenge. Nine start-up companies competed for more than $125,000 in seed capital and services in the final round of the Duke Start-Up Challenge's multi-stage competition. All of the participating start-up companies included students from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, Pratt School of Engineering, School of Law, School of Medicine and undergraduate ...
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  • April 1, 2003

    SITAR Project Develops New Methods to Protect Computers

    Triangle software researchers will complete in June a three-year experimental project on a new kind of security software called an intrusion-tolerant system developed in part by electrical and computer engineering professor Kishor Trivedi at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering. The researchers from Duke and the Advanced Network Research Group at MCNC in Research Triangle Park say continuing security breaches, whether attacks by malicious software or theft of confidential information, demonstrate the need for better computer security. ...
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  • April 1, 2003

    SITAR Project Develops New Methods to Protect Computers

    Triangle software researchers will complete in June a three-year experimental project on a new kind of security software called an intrusion-tolerant system developed in part by electrical and computer engineering professor Kishor Trivedi at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering. The researchers from Duke and the Advanced Network Research Group at MCNC in Research Triangle Park say continuing security breaches, whether attacks by malicious software or theft of confidential information, demonstrate the need for better computer security. ...
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  • March 22, 2003

    SITAR Project Develops New Methods to Protect Computers

    Triangle software researchers will complete in June a three-year experimental project on a new kind of security software called an intrusion-tolerant system developed in part by electrical and computer engineering professor Kishor Trivedi at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering. The researchers from Duke and the Advanced Network Research Group at MCNC in Research Triangle Park say continuing security breaches, whether attacks by malicious software or theft of confidential information, demonstrate the need for better computer security. ...
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  • February 1, 2003

    Computer Cluster Farm to Help Duke

    Duke's computing experts hope to help faculty campus-wide raise a bumper crop of research using a new "cluster farm" approach to high-end computing. The farm, a growing collection of high-powered processors racked up in the North Building, will give Duke researchers the dedicated, 24/7 computing power they need -- without the headaches of storage and administration. Developed by the Center for Computational Science, Engineering and Medicine (CSEM) and the Office of Information Technology (OIT), the cluster ...
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  • February 1, 2003

    Computer Cluster Farm to Help Duke

    Duke's computing experts hope to help faculty campus-wide raise a bumper crop of research using a new "cluster farm" approach to high-end computing. The farm, a growing collection of high-powered processors racked up in the North Building, will give Duke researchers the dedicated, 24/7 computing power they need -- without the headaches of storage and administration. Developed by the Center for Computational Science, Engineering and Medicine (CSEM) and the Office of Information Technology (OIT), the cluster ...
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  • February 1, 2003

    Jazz Pioneer Herbie Hancock Lectures on Music and Engineering

    Though jazz musician Herbie Hancock said he never was an engineer, he revealed he had the soul of a tinkerer during a public lecture Nov. 11 in Reynolds Theater. The lecture, entitled "Digital Dolphin Dance: The Influence of Engineering Technology in the Musical Life of Herbie Hancock," was part of a two-day residency sponsored by The Duke Union OnStage Committee, the Duke University Department of Music, The Duke University Institute of the Arts and the Pratt ...
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  • February 1, 2003

    Jazz Pioneer Herbie Hancock Lectures on Music and Engineering

    Though jazz musician Herbie Hancock said he never was an engineer, he revealed he had the soul of a tinkerer during a public lecture Nov. 11 in Reynolds Theater. The lecture, entitled "Digital Dolphin Dance: The Influence of Engineering Technology in the Musical Life of Herbie Hancock," was part of a two-day residency sponsored by The Duke Union OnStage Committee, the Duke University Department of Music, The Duke University Institute of the Arts and the Pratt ...
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  • February 1, 2003

    Brady named an OSA Fellow

    David J. Brady, the Addy Family Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and director of Pratt's Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics and Communications, has been named a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA). OSA President G. Michael Morris notified Brady of the honor in a letter dated Oct. 27. The society recognizes Brady's development of three-dimensional optical systems for interferometric and tomographic imaging, computational sensing and information processing, Morris wrote. Brady holds a B.A. in physics ...
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  • February 1, 2003

    Brady named an OSA Fellow

    David J. Brady, the Addy Family Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and director of Pratt's Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics and Communications, has been named a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA). OSA President G. Michael Morris notified Brady of the honor in a letter dated Oct. 27. The society recognizes Brady's development of three-dimensional optical systems for interferometric and tomographic imaging, computational sensing and information processing, Morris wrote. Brady holds a B.A. in physics ...
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  • February 1, 2003

    Self-assembling Circuits Using DNA May Represent Next Computer Breakthrough

    The same DNA that carries genetic information may assemble electronic components when they become so minuscule that current manufacturing techniques no longer work, said researchers working on a $1.2 million project funded by the National Science Foundation to develop processes for submicroscopic DNA assembly. Their aim is to use the innate self-assembling properties of DNA to transport submicroscopic carbon "nanotubes" into place to function as transistors and connectors in computer circuitry. "Reducing the size of features ...
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  • February 1, 2003

    Self-assembling Circuits Using DNA May Represent Next Computer Breakthrough

    The same DNA that carries genetic information may assemble electronic components when they become so minuscule that current manufacturing techniques no longer work, said researchers working on a $1.2 million project funded by the National Science Foundation to develop processes for submicroscopic DNA assembly. Their aim is to use the innate self-assembling properties of DNA to transport submicroscopic carbon "nanotubes" into place to function as transistors and connectors in computer circuitry. "Reducing the size of features ...
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  • January 1, 2003

    Pratt Students Mentor Youngsters at Sally Ride Science Camp

    By Jessica Manson (Manson is a sophomore double majoring in Biomedical and Electrical Engineering) "Science camp?" That is the question most of these middle-school girls would probably hear if they told their peers how they spent their summer vacation. However, this past summer, a new science camp tore down the common stereotypes of lab scientists or engineers and replaced them with new ideas about those who pursue science and engineering. This summer, the Sally Ride Science Camp, held ...
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  • January 1, 2003

    Pratt Students Mentor Youngsters at Sally Ride Science Camp

    By Jessica Manson (Manson is a sophomore double majoring in Biomedical and Electrical Engineering) "Science camp?" That is the question most of these middle-school girls would probably hear if they told their peers how they spent their summer vacation. However, this past summer, a new science camp tore down the common stereotypes of lab scientists or engineers and replaced them with new ideas about those who pursue science and engineering. This summer, the Sally Ride Science Camp, held ...
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  • January 1, 2003

    ECE Department wins $100,000 grant from NSF for new undergraduate curriculum

    The National Science Foundation has awarded the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University $100,000 to pioneer a new undergraduate curriculum. The Departmental-Level Reform of Undergraduate Engineering Education Planning Grant, as it is officially called, is for one year, after which the department will apply for a follow-up implementation grant (a three-year, $1.5-million award). The project's principal investigator is Leslie Collins, associate professor of ECE, who is heading a department-wide team. Though the current curriculum is ...
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  • January 1, 2003

    ECE Department wins $100,000 grant from NSF for new undergraduate curriculum

    The National Science Foundation has awarded the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University $100,000 to pioneer a new undergraduate curriculum. The Departmental-Level Reform of Undergraduate Engineering Education Planning Grant, as it is officially called, is for one year, after which the department will apply for a follow-up implementation grant (a three-year, $1.5-million award). The project's principal investigator is Leslie Collins, associate professor of ECE, who is heading a department-wide team. Though the current curriculum is ...
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  • December 7, 2002

    Researchers Wiring Together PCs for Supercomputer-Like Performance

    Besides saving money, users of these collectives of high end but off-the-shelf PCs -- often called "Beowulf clusters - can avoid the negative side of relying on supercomputing centers from Research Triangle Park to San Diego. "In the past we used a supercomputer," said Roni Avissar, the chairman of the Pratt School of Engineering's civil and environmental engineering department. "The problem is you had to share the supercomputer with a lot of other people." He now uses ...
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  • December 1, 2002

    Pratt's Underwater Turtle-Bot Takes 3rd Place

    The Duke Robotics Club placed third in a field of 12 in the 6th International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition in August in San Diego. In taking third, the club scored a noteworthy victory over the team from MIT, which placed fourth. The Pratt club's robot, Gamera, is a 30-inch wide autonomous assembly of electrical motors, computers and batteries named after a giant flying turtle that starred in a Japanese monster movie. The Pratt robot's most turtle-like ...
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  • December 1, 2002

    Pratt's Underwater Turtle-Bot Takes 3rd Place

    The Duke Robotics Club placed third in a field of 12 in the 6th International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition in August in San Diego. In taking third, the club scored a noteworthy victory over the team from MIT, which placed fourth. The Pratt club's robot, Gamera, is a 30-inch wide autonomous assembly of electrical motors, computers and batteries named after a giant flying turtle that starred in a Japanese monster movie. The Pratt robot's most turtle-like ...
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  • December 1, 2002

    Duke Partners With State to Prepare Pre-college Students for Engineering Careers

    DURHAM, N.C. -- In universities across the nation, half of all engineering students drop out of the program because they are not ready for the coursework and can't catch up. Not surprisingly, the United States suffers from a shortage of engineers in all specialties. To address this ongoing problem, Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering and the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction signed a partnership agreement Sept. 11 to launch Project Lead the Way (PLTW) ...
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  • December 1, 2002

    Duke Partners With State to Prepare Pre-college Students for Engineering Careers

    DURHAM, N.C. -- In universities across the nation, half of all engineering students drop out of the program because they are not ready for the coursework and can't catch up. Not surprisingly, the United States suffers from a shortage of engineers in all specialties. To address this ongoing problem, Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering and the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction signed a partnership agreement Sept. 11 to launch Project Lead the Way (PLTW) ...
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  • October 26, 2002

    Homecoming For Pratt School's New Electrical And Computer Engineering Head

    DURHAM, NC -- When April Brown was a high school student in nearby Hillsborough, she thought about becoming a psychologist. It was her father, an electrical engineer who got his Ph.D. at Duke and spent most of his career at Research Triangle Institute, who encouraged her to first try engineering. "He had a perspective that engineering is a wonderful broad degree that could lead to many other types of careers," recalled Brown, who quickly discovered she was ...
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  • October 11, 2002

    One-Question Interview: Gary Ybarra

    One-Question Interview: Gary Ybarra Pratt School Professor Gary Ybarra describes his ongoing projects to assist the teaching of math and science in K-12 programs Thursday, October 10, 2002 | Q: Gary, you and your colleagues are developing a reputation for innovative efforts to improve K-12 math and science education in North Carolina. What are some of the things that your team is doing? A: Just last week, three colleagues at Duke's Center for Inquiry-Based Learning (CIBL) and I ...
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  • October 4, 2002

    Duke Engineering Chair Calls for Use of Title IX to Increase Number of Women Engineers

    WASHINGTON -- Professor April Brown, chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, urged a Senate committee Thursday to apply Title IX, the federal gender anti-discrimination law usually used in athletics, to encourage more women to become engineers and scientists. "The resulting pool of scientists and engineers will be larger and more diverse, which means we as a nation will be better prepared for the technological challenges our ...
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  • September 1, 2002

    Pratt Dean Tells U.S. Senate Nation Needs Women, Minorities in Engineering

    WASHINGTON -- The dean of Duke's Pratt School of Engineering has urged the Senate to act to improve the science and math education of America's children, particularly girls and minorities, so the nation will have the intellectual wherewithal to deal with terrorism and other complex issues. "It is clear we are engaged in a different kind of war that must be won with advanced logistics, networking, sensors and communications systems," Kristina Johnson told the Senate Subcommittee ...
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  • September 1, 2002

    Pratt Dean Tells U.S. Senate Nation Needs Women, Minorities in Engineering

    WASHINGTON -- The dean of Duke's Pratt School of Engineering has urged the Senate to act to improve the science and math education of America's children, particularly girls and minorities, so the nation will have the intellectual wherewithal to deal with terrorism and other complex issues. "It is clear we are engaged in a different kind of war that must be won with advanced logistics, networking, sensors and communications systems," Kristina Johnson told the Senate Subcommittee ...
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  • September 1, 2002

    Cummer, Three Others, Win Presidential Award

    Steven Cummer, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering, was one of four Duke faculty members who visited the White House July 12 to be honored for their 2001 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), a special recognition for young federally-funded investigators. Begun by President Clinton, the PECASE program provides additional recognition for a select group of researchers whose projects are deemed of greatest benefit to their funding agencies' missions. Cummer, an assistant ...
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  • September 1, 2002

    Cummer, Three Others, Win Presidential Award

    Steven Cummer, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering, was one of four Duke faculty members who visited the White House July 12 to be honored for their 2001 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), a special recognition for young federally-funded investigators. Begun by President Clinton, the PECASE program provides additional recognition for a select group of researchers whose projects are deemed of greatest benefit to their funding agencies' missions. Cummer, an assistant ...
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  • July 25, 2002

    Pratt Dean Says Nation Needs Women, Minorities in Engineering

    WASHINGTON -- The leader of Duke University's engineering school Wednesday urged America to improve the science and math education of its children, particularly girls and minorities, so the nation will have the intellectual wherewithal to deal with terrorism and other complex issues. "It is clear we are engaged in a different kind of war that must be won with advanced logistics, networking, sensors and communications systems," said Kristina Johnson, dean of the Pratt School of Engineering. ...
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  • July 13, 2002

    Engineer, Three Other Faculty Members Receive Presidential Awards

    A Duke engineer uses lightning discharges as tools to probe an under-studied region of Earth's atmosphere. A Duke chemist develops a better method to measure the stability of proteins. One Duke medical researcher studies the roles of two genes in molecular pathways that regulate the structural development of the head and face. A second works to improve the quality of life for dying patients. All four Duke faculty were among 60 in the nation honored July ...
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  • April 24, 2002

    Duke Leads Defense Department-Funded Studies to Detect Hidden Targets With Robotic Sensors

    DURHAM, N.C. -- A vision of futuristic robotic aircraft and land vehicles that can sense and close in on targets hidden in trees, caves or bunkers is being explored by a new four-university research initiative led by Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering.The hunt would begin over a wide area, using stationary and moving sensors that might scan for communications signals emanating from a bunker, or the different kinds of electromagnetic signatures put out by ...
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  • March 2, 2002

    Free Space: Dance Meets Optics

    Dance meets optics by Monte Basgall As befits experimental ventures of the technical kind, the "Free Space" dance concerts, a three-night art and engineering collaboration at Duke's Sheafer Theater Feb. 21-23, started with a problem that needed a quick fix. Because of the oversensitivity of light engineers' heat-sensing cameras, "glowing" performers of Winston-Salem's alban elved dance company failed to materialize as planned in one opening night routine, said Steve Feller, manager of the Duke Information Spaces Project (DISP). DISP, ...
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  • February 13, 2002

    Major International Conference on Information Science Set for March

    MAJOR INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION SCIENCES SET FOR MARCH About 400 engineers, scientists and technology managers from 34 countries are expected to attend the sixth Joint Conference on Information Sciences in Research Triangle Park next month to discuss the latest high-tech developments in areas such as artificial intelligence and optical ommunications. The meeting, which will include 10 workshops and specialty conferences, will be held March 8-13 at the Imperial Sheraton Hotel and Convention Center in Durham. "The concept ...
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  • February 8, 2002

    Optical engineering meets dance

    Seminar to combine arts, technology to explore movement "Free Space," a dance concert at Duke University using infrared cameras, laser beams, aerial acrobatics, live music and video projections streamed via an experimental camera cluster from the Duke Information Spaces Project (DISP), will merge art with the frontiers of optical engineering. The alban elved dance company of Winston-Salem, N.C., will perform "Free Space" at 8 p.m. Feb. 21-23 at the Sheafer Theater in the Bryan Center on Duke's ...
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  • February 5, 2002

    April Brown Named Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    DURHAM, N.C. April S. Brown, professor of electrical and computer engineering and executive assistant to the president at Georgia Institute of Technology, has been appointed chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering. Pratt Dean Kristina Johnson announced the appointment Monday and said Brown "is a strategic thinker and an internationally recognized scholar whose field of expertise lies in the fabrication of electronic and optoelectronic materials ...
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  • February 4, 2002

    Rachael Brady Explores New Realm of Scientific Analysis

    by Monte Basgall On a large screen at Duke's North Building, a projected videotape shows a shadowy figure walking through a hugely magnified sperm tail of a fruit fly. As the person steps forward or stoops to peer at how particular features link up, the display -- a cluster of points of light that seems to float within a special room known as a CAVE -- spookily adjusts its own position to maintain a proper perspective. "Think of ...
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  • February 1, 2002

    Board of Visitors Discusses Financial Aid and ECE

    Thirty-nine members of the Pratt Board of Visitors attended its semi-annual meeting Nov. 1-2 and it was a busy and productive session. Committee meetings opened the first day, followed by a report from April Brown on the plans of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. After a memorial service for Edmund Pratt (http://www.egr.duke.edu/News/Stories/86.html), members received an update on undergraduate financial aid by Financial Aid Director Jim Belvin, a briefing on student affairs by Vice President Larry Moneta, ...
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  • February 1, 2002

    Board of Visitors Discusses Financial Aid and ECE

    Thirty-nine members of the Pratt Board of Visitors attended its semi-annual meeting Nov. 1-2 and it was a busy and productive session. Committee meetings opened the first day, followed by a report from April Brown on the plans of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. After a memorial service for Edmund Pratt (http://www.egr.duke.edu/News/Stories/86.html), members received an update on undergraduate financial aid by Financial Aid Director Jim Belvin, a briefing on student affairs by Vice President Larry Moneta, ...
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  • January 19, 2002

    Talking with light: Brady sees growth in photonics

    by Monte Basgall In his futuristic office in Hudson Hall, David Brady uses computers and remote closed-circuit TV links to project images on screens throughout the room. This way, he can observe several events at once at distant out-of-state locations. This proved helpful earlier this year, when he monitored his family's progress as they moved from Illinois to Durham. "I can see what's going on in different places," the Brian F. Addy Endowed Director of Duke's new Fitzpatrick ...
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  • January 1, 2002

    Pratt's Faculty Attracts April Brown to Duke

    When April Brown was a high school student in nearby Hillsborough, she thought about becoming a psychologist. It was her father, an electrical engineer who got his Ph.D. at Duke and spent most of his career at Research Triangle Institute, who encouraged her to first try engineering. "He had a perspective that engineering is a wonderful broad degree that could lead to many other types of careers," recalled Brown, who quickly discovered she was an engineering natural. Today, Brown is not only became ...
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  • January 1, 2002

    Pratt's Faculty Attracts April Brown to Duke

    When April Brown was a high school student in nearby Hillsborough, she thought about becoming a psychologist. It was her father, an electrical engineer who got his Ph.D. at Duke and spent most of his career at Research Triangle Institute, who encouraged her to first try engineering. "He had a perspective that engineering is a wonderful broad degree that could lead to many other types of careers," recalled Brown, who quickly discovered she was an engineering natural. Today, Brown is not only became ...
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  • January 1, 2002

    One-Question Interview: Gary Ybarra

    Q: Gary, you and your colleagues are developing a reputation for innovative efforts to improve K-12 math and science education in North Carolina. What are some of the things that your team is doing? A: Just last week, three colleagues at Duke's Center for Inquiry-Based Learning (CIBL) and I received a five-year, $5.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation for TASC (Teachers and Scientists Collaborating). The TASC Force, as we call it, seeks to narrow achievement gaps, improve end-of-grade science and ...
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  • January 1, 2002

    One-Question Interview: Gary Ybarra

    Q: Gary, you and your colleagues are developing a reputation for innovative efforts to improve K-12 math and science education in North Carolina. What are some of the things that your team is doing? A: Just last week, three colleagues at Duke's Center for Inquiry-Based Learning (CIBL) and I received a five-year, $5.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation for TASC (Teachers and Scientists Collaborating). The TASC Force, as we call it, seeks to narrow achievement gaps, improve end-of-grade science and ...
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  • January 1, 2002

    Brown Calls for Use of Title IX to Increase Women Engineers

    WASHINGTON -- Professor April Brown, chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Pratt School of Engineering, urged a Senate committee Oct. 3 to apply Title IX, the federal gender anti-discrimination law usually used in athletics, to encourage more women to become engineers and scientists. "The resulting pool of scientists and engineers will be larger and more diverse, which means we as a nation will be better prepared for the technological challenges our future will bring," Brown said in ...
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  • January 1, 2002

    Brown Calls for Use of Title IX to Increase Women Engineers

    WASHINGTON -- Professor April Brown, chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Pratt School of Engineering, urged a Senate committee Oct. 3 to apply Title IX, the federal gender anti-discrimination law usually used in athletics, to encourage more women to become engineers and scientists. "The resulting pool of scientists and engineers will be larger and more diverse, which means we as a nation will be better prepared for the technological challenges our future will bring," Brown said in ...
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  • December 11, 2001

    Engineering Student Is One of Three Duke Rhodes Scholarship Winners

    Pavan Cheruvu, a triple major in biomedical engineering, electrical engineering and chemistry, was one of three Duke seniors to win a prestigious 2002 Rhodes Scholarship. The awards were announced Sunday. Cheruvu, of Tampa, has been involved in research on artificial hearts, and has helped develop a software model for a cardiac device. He has a 4.0 grade point average. He spent a summer in southern India, where he worked in a community hospital as the organizer of ...
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  • October 28, 2001

    Panelists: Technology Offers Opportunity to Fight Terrorism

    by Steven Wright Information will be the most important weapon in the war against terrorism, five Duke University professors said Thursday night (Oct. 25). "This is the largest opportunity for engineers in a generation to contribute to the public good," said David Brady, director of the Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics and Communication Systems and professor of electrical engineering. The Pratt School of Engineering forum, the seventh in a series sponsored by the university to address issues confronting ...
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  • October 22, 2001

    Durham Schools, Pratt School of Engineering and General Electric Launch Math Project

    DURHAM, N.C. - Duke University engineering students will team with Durham middle and elementary students this year to tend gardens, study worms, predict the weather and other projects aimed at boosting the younger scholars' math skills. The innovative program, titled Math Understanding through the Science of Life, or MUSCLE, will bring together students from Lakewood Elementary and Rogers-Herr Middle School with undergraduates from Duke's Pratt School of Engineering. "Math has traditionally been thought of - and taught ...
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  • October 16, 2001

    Larry Lenihan

    Just where can a degree in engineering take a motivated individual? Every issue of the DukEngineer spotlights a different alumnus ...
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  • October 16, 2001

    Brian F. Addy

    The profile of an entrepreneur would include several common characteristics: a desire for responsibility, willingness for moderate risk, confidence in their ability to succeed, a high energy level, and superb organizational skills. Because they are constructing businesses and industries in environments flooded by uncertainty and molded by rapid change, entrepreneurs recognize that failure is likely to be a part of their lives; yet, they are never paralyzed by that fear. One man undoubtedly befitting of ...
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  • April 24, 2001

    OptXCon Named 'Associate Partner' in Duke's Photonics Center

    DURHAM, N.C. - OptXCon Inc., a Research Triangle Park-based company developing optical communications products, has become an associate partner in the Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics and Communication Systems at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering. In announcing the alliance Monday, Pratt Dean Kristina Johnson said OptXCon will contribute $150,000 over three years to the center, which is a collaboration principally funded by industry, government and private donors. The center will focus research and teaching on light-wave communications ...
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  • April 24, 2001

    OptXCon Named 'Associate Partner' in Duke's Photonics Center

    DURHAM, N.C. - OptXCon Inc., a Research Triangle Park-based company developing optical communications products, has become an associate partner in the Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics and Communication Systems at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering. In announcing the alliance Monday, Pratt Dean Kristina Johnson said OptXCon will contribute $150,000 over three years to the center, which is a collaboration principally funded by industry, government and private donors. The center will focus research and teaching on light-wave communications ...
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  • April 17, 2001

    Nortel Networks Named 'Founding Partner' in Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics at Duke University

    DURHAM, N.C. - Nortel Networks has been named a "founding partner" in the Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics and Communication Systems at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering, opening an industry alliance aimed at boosting the center's research into the burgeoning technology that melds light with electronics. The announcement was made Tuesday by Pratt School Dean Kristina Johnson during a "Photonics in the Forest" symposium at the university on leading-edge photonics technology. As part of its agreement with Duke, ...
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  • April 17, 2001

    Nortel Networks Named 'Founding Partner' in Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics at Duke University

    DURHAM, N.C. - Nortel Networks has been named a "founding partner" in the Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics and Communication Systems at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering, opening an industry alliance aimed at boosting the center's research into the burgeoning technology that melds light with electronics. The announcement was made Tuesday by Pratt School Dean Kristina Johnson during a "Photonics in the Forest" symposium at the university on leading-edge photonics technology. As part of its agreement with Duke, ...
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  • February 3, 2001

    Long-Range Magnetic Studies Explain How Delayed 'Sprites' Get Their Energy

    LONG-RANGE MAGNETIC STUDIES EXPLAIN HOW DELAYED 'SPRITES' GET THEIR ENERGY DURHAM, N.C. -- Magnetic field measurements by a German researcher and analyses by a Duke University engineer explain how dual electrical discharges associated with the creation of ghostly, high-altitude "sprites" can sometimes be separated by unusually long intervals lasting as much or more than one-tenth of a second. Their studies show that previously undocumented strong cloud-to-ground electrical currents can persist between the first and the follow-up discharges, maintaining ...
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  • December 14, 2000

    Duke Photonics Center Will Help State Cultivate a 'Photon Forest'

    DURHAM, N.C. -- The new $100 million Fitzpatrick Center for Advanced Photonics and Communications Systems at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering aims to help turn North Carolina into a "photon forest" where research and development in photonics can create the kind of technological advance and economic growth found in California's Silicon Valley. Stimulating the development of the Duke center is a $25 million gift to the university from high-tech entrepreneur Michael J. Fitzpatrick and his ...
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  • December 13, 2000

    $25 Million Gift to Launch Center for Advanced Photonics and Communications Systems at Duke

    $50 MILLION GIFT TO LAUNCH CENTERS FOR ADVANCED PHOTONICS AND COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS AT STANFORD AND DUKE DURHAM, N.C.-- High-tech entrepreneur Michael J. Fitzpatrick and his wife, Patty, will donate $25 million each to Duke and Stanford universities to establish new centers for advanced photonics, the presidents of both institutions announced Dec. 13, 2000. Engineers say photonics, a technology that melds light with electronics, is at a stage of development similar to where electronics was in the 1950s. ...
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  • December 13, 2000

    $25 Million Gift to Launch Center for Advanced Photonics and Communications Systems at Duke

    $50 MILLION GIFT TO LAUNCH CENTERS FOR ADVANCED PHOTONICS AND COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS AT STANFORD AND DUKE DURHAM, N.C.-- High-tech entrepreneur Michael J. Fitzpatrick and his wife, Patty, will donate $25 million each to Duke and Stanford universities to establish new centers for advanced photonics, the presidents of both institutions announced Dec. 13, 2000. Engineers say photonics, a technology that melds light with electronics, is at a stage of development similar to where electronics was in the 1950s. ...
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  • October 16, 2000

    Edmund T. Pratt Jr.

    BS in Electrical Engineering Magna Cum Laude, 1947MBA, University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business, 1949 Rose from salesman to controller of IBM World Trade Corp. during his 14 years with IBM Recruited to serve as Assistant Secretary for Financial Management ...
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  • October 16, 1999

    Scott Olson

    There is something intriguing about an entrepreneur. Rising from nothingness to become distinguished in a competitive market, a successful entrepreneur has taken great risks to ...
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  • May 27, 1999

    Duke University Names Kristina Johnson New Engineering Dean

    DURHAM, N.C. -- Kristina Johnson, a University of Colorado electrical engineering professor and leader in interdisciplinary research that melds light with electronics, has been named dean of the Duke University School of Engineering, Provost John Strohbehn announced Wednesday. Johnson, 42, is an internationally known expert in optics, signal processing and computing and director emeritus of the Optoelectronics Computing Systems Center at the University of Colorado. She succeeds Earl Dowell, who is stepping down June 30 after ...
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  • October 16, 1998

    John Chambers

    Mr. John Chambers was born and raised in West Virginia. As the son of two physicians, his mother was a psychiatrist and his father was an obstetrician, he had early ambitions of becoming a doctor. He soon ...
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  • June 3, 1998

    Duke Engineers Apply 'Fuzzy' Thinking to Hotel Management

    DURHAM, N.C. - Duke engineers have shown that intentionally imprecise rules of thinking called "fuzzy logic" can help hotel computers sell the right room to the right customer at the right time, thus boosting income. In a pilot study at two North Carolina hotels, researchers at the Duke School of Engineering's Machine Intelligence Laboratory found that the Bass Hotels and Resorts chain could achieve a "measurable" revenue increase by adding a fuzzy logic expert system to ...
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  • October 16, 1996

    Jerry Wilkinson

    The year was 1967 when Jerry C. Wilkinson graduated from Duke University's School of Engineering with his BSE in ...
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  • October 16, 1994

    James Vogeley

    What has James Vogeley done since he left Duke University? He has accomplished what every undergraduate engineer wants to do be his own boss! Graduating from Duke with a BSE in Electrical ...
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  • October 16, 1990

    John Derrick

    To be successful in life 1) you should have strong family ties and people to always tend to, 2) you should find a job or hobby that you enjoy, a job which promotes growth ...
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  • October 16, 1987

    Robert Everett

    Robert Everett, a 1942 Duke graduate, exemplifies the potential for success in engineering after graduation. After obtaining his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, Everett ...
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