PRATT Entrepreneurship News

  • January 9, 2009

    MEMP Student Makes the World Smaller, One Project at a Time

    Keddy Chandran is no stranger to travel. As a child he moved several times to various locations throughout the US and Canada, and in his adult life has traveled to just about any part of the globe you can think of. In fact, he was traveling across Europe last summer when his Blackberry alerted him to an email announcing the Stanford Technology Venture Programs Fellowship for the Roundtable on Entrepreneurship Education. The challenge caught his eye ...
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  • December 17, 2007

    Duke Undergraduate Entrepreneurs in Action

    Ideas that included promoting childrens books for African-Americans and creation of a cooperative kitchen for low-income single mothers were among the student presentations Dec. 6 at the Undergraduate Entrepreneurs Pitch Session, part of the University's inaugural Entrepreneurship Week. Six groups of undergraduate entrepreneurs made presentations before a large audience and a panel of venture capitalists and other professional entrepreneurs, including Chris Kroeger, partner of The Aurora Funds, which co-sponsored the event; Bonny Moellenbrock, director of SJF ...
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  • October 3, 2007

    MEM Program Led Tam to Start Non-Profit Aimed at Cervical Cancer's Prevention

    Theoderick Tam Master's of Engineering Management/ Class of 2007 ImaGyn Experience written by Theoderick Tam Imagine if you had a year to do whatever you wanted. What would you do? Well, I decided to spend my year in Durham, North Carolina, and I discovered adventure here. My name is Theo Tam and I am an engineer from California. Before beginning the Master of Engineering Management program at Pratt, I designed parts for Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company as ...
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  • October 1, 2007

    In New Position, Lawrence Boyd to Boost Student Entrepreneurship at Duke

    Lawrence Boyd teaches a new course called Introduction to Business and Technology-Based Companies. Three days after completing his doctoral work in biomedical engineering, Lawrence Boyd got started in a completely new role, as associate director of Duke's Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization (CERC). The position was created with funding support from several departments and programs across the university in an effort to boost student entrepreneurship at Duke. Founded and directed by Biomedical Engineering Professor Barry Myers, ...
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  • October 1, 2007

    In New Position, Lawrence Boyd to Boost Student Entrepreneurship at Duke

    Lawrence Boyd teaches a new course called Introduction to Business and Technology-Based Companies. Three days after completing his doctoral work in biomedical engineering, Lawrence Boyd got started in a completely new role, as associate director of Duke's Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization (CERC). The position was created with funding support from several departments and programs across the university in an effort to boost student entrepreneurship at Duke. Founded and directed by Biomedical Engineering Professor Barry Myers, ...
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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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  • January 1, 2007

    Immigrants Found One in Four Engineering and Technology Startups

    The Masters of Engineering Management Program's immigrant study team. Immigrant entrepreneurs founded 25.3 percent of the U.S. engineering and technology companies established in the past decade, according to a new study from Duke University. What's more, foreign nationals -- those living in the United States who are not citizens -- contributed to an estimated 24.2 percent of international patent applications in 2006. The study, conducted by a student research team at Duke's Master of Engineering Management Program, ...
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  • January 1, 2007

    Immigrants Found One in Four Engineering and Technology Startups

    The Masters of Engineering Management Program's immigrant study team. Immigrant entrepreneurs founded 25.3 percent of the U.S. engineering and technology companies established in the past decade, according to a new study from Duke University. What's more, foreign nationals -- those living in the United States who are not citizens -- contributed to an estimated 24.2 percent of international patent applications in 2006. The study, conducted by a student research team at Duke's Master of Engineering Management Program, ...
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  • November 27, 2006

    Cancer Spinoff Company Bags Early Attention in Duke Start-Up Challenge

    A company founded in June 2006 by Assistant Biomedical Engineering (BME) Professor Adam Wax and (BME) Research Scientist William Brown has won the "Most Intriguing Idea" award in the healthcare category of the Phase 1 competition of the Duke Start-Up Challenge. The company is called Oncoscope and its goal is to build an accurate, quick and cost effective optical biopsy system for detecting pre-cancerous cells in epitheal tissues. The initial target is the esophagus. The Oncoscope ...
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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 11, 2006

    Pratt spinoff company, Bioptigen, Lands $1.3 million in First-Round Funding

    DURHAM, N.C. Business is coming more into focus for Bioptigen, an optical start up company founded by biomedical engineering Professor Joseph Izatt at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering. The Durham-based startup, which has licensed technology from Duke University, has closed on $1.3 million in financing. Investors include two angel networks Piedmont Angel Network and the Inception Micro-Angel Fund as well as several individuals. Bioptigen is developing a new class of ...
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  • June 1, 2006

    Students Aim for Smarter Fuel, Smarter Homes

    MEMP student finalists in the Graduate Student Licensing Competition With gasoline prices on the rise, graduate students in the Master of Engineering Management Program are working toward a solution. A business plan they wrote for a novel fuel additive meant to boost gasoline efficiency and reduce tailpipe emissions won them a spot in the final round of a national licensing competition. The glycerin-derived chemical "GTBE" could replace one recently phased out due to problems with water contamination. "We ...
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  • June 1, 2006

    Students Aim for Smarter Fuel, Smarter Homes

    MEMP student finalists in the Graduate Student Licensing Competition With gasoline prices on the rise, graduate students in the Master of Engineering Management Program are working toward a solution. A business plan they wrote for a novel fuel additive meant to boost gasoline efficiency and reduce tailpipe emissions won them a spot in the final round of a national licensing competition. The glycerin-derived chemical "GTBE" could replace one recently phased out due to problems with water contamination. "We ...
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  • May 1, 2006

    New Course Introduces Undergrad Engineers to Business

    A course now being offered for the first time at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering gives engineering undergraduates an introduction to business. The pilot course, EGR 165.03: Introduction to Business in Technology-Based Companies, aims to provide a basic understanding of business concepts in preparation for future careers in industry. Jeff Glass "In today's high-tech environment, engineers are expected to be conversant in, and able to function across, multiple disciplines," said director of the Master of Engineering Management ...
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  • May 1, 2006

    New Course Introduces Undergrad Engineers to Business

    A course now being offered for the first time at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering gives engineering undergraduates an introduction to business. The pilot course, EGR 165.03: Introduction to Business in Technology-Based Companies, aims to provide a basic understanding of business concepts in preparation for future careers in industry. Jeff Glass "In today's high-tech environment, engineers are expected to be conversant in, and able to function across, multiple disciplines," said director of the Master of Engineering Management ...
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  • April 18, 2006

    Duke Student Entrepreneurs To Compete for Start Up Funds

    DURHAM, N.C. - Physicians who have struggled for years to monitor and treat the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa could soon have a low-cost solution thanks to a team of students at Duke University. These students, and others with unique ideas to improve health care technology in developing countries, are vying for the top prize in a Duke University business plan competition Saturday. The student business named Global ImmunoDiagnostics has developed what its organizers believe is ...
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  • April 18, 2006

    Duke Student Entrepreneurs To Compete for Start Up Funds

    DURHAM, N.C. - Physicians who have struggled for years to monitor and treat the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa could soon have a low-cost solution thanks to a team of students at Duke University. These students, and others with unique ideas to improve health care technology in developing countries, are vying for the top prize in a Duke University business plan competition Saturday. The student business named Global ImmunoDiagnostics has developed what its organizers believe is ...
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  • April 1, 2006

    Duke Awards First Coulter Translational Research Grants

    The Duke-Coulter Translational Partners Grant Program has selected its first four projects for funding, focusing on improved cancer treatment, intraoperative breast cancer diagnoses, improved therapy for degenerative arthritis of the knee, and bioengineered cartilage for hip joint repair. Each team will receive roughly $100,000 to bring their technology to a marketable stage. Farshid Guilak, professor of orthopaedic surgery and biomedical engineering, is partnering with Kam Leong, professor of biomedical engineering and surgery and T. Parker Vail, ...
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  • April 1, 2006

    Duke Awards First Coulter Translational Research Grants

    The Duke-Coulter Translational Partners Grant Program has selected its first four projects for funding, focusing on improved cancer treatment, intraoperative breast cancer diagnoses, improved therapy for degenerative arthritis of the knee, and bioengineered cartilage for hip joint repair. Each team will receive roughly $100,000 to bring their technology to a marketable stage. Farshid Guilak, professor of orthopaedic surgery and biomedical engineering, is partnering with Kam Leong, professor of biomedical engineering and surgery and T. Parker Vail, ...
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  • March 1, 2006

    Invention 101

    Donna Cookmeyer, Brook Byers and Rob Valli Technology transfer experts at a panel discussion Feb. 17 urged Duke students and faculty members to speed their research to its potential applications by thinking more like entrepreneurs. Commercialization benefits society by making novel discoveries and technologies available to the public, the group said. The panel featured venture capital investor Brook Byers of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), of Menlo Park, Calif. KPCB partners have supported entrepreneurs in building hundreds ...
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  • March 1, 2006

    Invention 101

    Donna Cookmeyer, Brook Byers and Rob Valli Technology transfer experts at a panel discussion Feb. 17 urged Duke students and faculty members to speed their research to its potential applications by thinking more like entrepreneurs. Commercialization benefits society by making novel discoveries and technologies available to the public, the group said. The panel featured venture capital investor Brook Byers of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), of Menlo Park, Calif. KPCB partners have supported entrepreneurs in building hundreds ...
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  • March 1, 2006

    Students Take on International Outsourcing Debate

    After a slew of late-night phone calls overseas and hours spent slogging through numbers, an international group of Pratt students in the Master of Engineering Management Program has gathered evidence challenging the notion that the U.S. is losing its technological edge to developing nations like China and India. Faculty leader Vivek Wadhwa with the MEMP outsourcing study group. Led by MEMP student and Virginia native Ben Rissing, the group sought to offer a more refined analysis of ...
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  • March 1, 2006

    Students Take on International Outsourcing Debate

    After a slew of late-night phone calls overseas and hours spent slogging through numbers, an international group of Pratt students in the Master of Engineering Management Program has gathered evidence challenging the notion that the U.S. is losing its technological edge to developing nations like China and India. Faculty leader Vivek Wadhwa with the MEMP outsourcing study group. Led by MEMP student and Virginia native Ben Rissing, the group sought to offer a more refined analysis of ...
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  • October 1, 2005

    Entrepreneur Kimberly Jenkins Named Executive-In-Residence at Duke Engineering Management Program

    Note to editors: A photo of Kimberly Jenkins is available at: http://photo1.dukenews.duke.edu/pages/Duke_News_Service/Jenkins.jpg. DURHAM, N.C. - Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering has appointed information technology entrepreneur Kimberly J. Jenkins as executive-in-residence in the Master of Engineering Management (MEM) program. Jenkins is now serving, on a volunteer basis, as a mentor to students in the MEM program and faculty at Duke interested in technology commercialization. She also plans to explore ways to increase the number of women ...
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  • October 1, 2005

    Entrepreneur Kimberly Jenkins Named Executive-In-Residence at Duke Engineering Management Program

    Note to editors: A photo of Kimberly Jenkins is available at: http://photo1.dukenews.duke.edu/pages/Duke_News_Service/Jenkins.jpg. DURHAM, N.C. - Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering has appointed information technology entrepreneur Kimberly J. Jenkins as executive-in-residence in the Master of Engineering Management (MEM) program. Jenkins is now serving, on a volunteer basis, as a mentor to students in the MEM program and faculty at Duke interested in technology commercialization. She also plans to explore ways to increase the number of women ...
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  • September 29, 2005

    Duke's Kristina Johnson to Speak at CED's InfoTech 2005

    September 28, 2005, Research Triangle Park, NC The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) today announced that Kristina Johnson, Ph.D., Dean of Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, will deliver featured comments at CED's InfoTech 2005 conference. Scheduled for October 12 at the Sheraton Imperial Hotel & Convention Center in the RTP. CED's 15th annual InfoTech conference will highlight North Carolina's IT industry and explore the latest ...
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  • September 29, 2005

    Duke's Kristina Johnson to Speak at CED's InfoTech 2005

    September 28, 2005, Research Triangle Park, NC The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) today announced that Kristina Johnson, Ph.D., Dean of Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, will deliver featured comments at CED's InfoTech 2005 conference. Scheduled for October 12 at the Sheraton Imperial Hotel & Convention Center in the RTP. CED's 15th annual InfoTech conference will highlight North Carolina's IT industry and explore the latest ...
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  • September 1, 2005

    Wadhwa Named Executive in Residence

    Vivek Wadhwa The Pratt School of Engineering has appointed technology entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa as executive-in-residence in the Master of Engineering Management program. Wadhwa will serve as a mentor to students in the program and assist faculty interested in commercializing technology developed at Duke. Wadhwa is the founder and ex-CEO of Relativity Technologies in Raleigh, N.C. He co-founded Seer Technologies in Cary, N.C., in 1990. From 1986 to 1990, he was vice president of information services at Credit ...
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  • September 1, 2005

    Wadhwa Named Executive in Residence

    Vivek Wadhwa The Pratt School of Engineering has appointed technology entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa as executive-in-residence in the Master of Engineering Management program. Wadhwa will serve as a mentor to students in the program and assist faculty interested in commercializing technology developed at Duke. Wadhwa is the founder and ex-CEO of Relativity Technologies in Raleigh, N.C. He co-founded Seer Technologies in Cary, N.C., in 1990. From 1986 to 1990, he was vice president of information services at Credit ...
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  • August 26, 2005

    Vivek Wadhwa Named Executive-in-Residence at Duke Engineering Management Program

    DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering has appointed technology entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa as executive-in-residence in the Master of Engineering Management program. Wadhwa will serve as a mentor to students in the program and assist faculty interested in commercializing technology developed at Duke. Wadhwa is the founder and ex-CEO of Relativity Technologies in Raleigh, N.C. He co-founded Seer Technologies in Cary, N.C., in 1990. From 1986 to 1990, he was vice president of information ...
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  • August 26, 2005

    Vivek Wadhwa Named Executive-in-Residence at Duke Engineering Management Program

    DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering has appointed technology entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa as executive-in-residence in the Master of Engineering Management program. Wadhwa will serve as a mentor to students in the program and assist faculty interested in commercializing technology developed at Duke. Wadhwa is the founder and ex-CEO of Relativity Technologies in Raleigh, N.C. He co-founded Seer Technologies in Cary, N.C., in 1990. From 1986 to 1990, he was vice president of information ...
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  • January 1, 2005

    Program Launched to Help Bring Research Products to Market

    The Pratt School of Engineering, in collaboration with RTI International, has launched a new program designed to identify, evaluate and bring research products to market. Unlike traditional technology transfer processes found at most universities today, the new program, named TechEval, pairs researchers with experienced business leaders and students from the Masters of Engineering Management (MEM) program at Pratt who then evaluate the technology in a practical, real-world environment. Qualified inventions are taken rapidly through the evaluation ...
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  • January 1, 2005

    Program Launched to Help Bring Research Products to Market

    The Pratt School of Engineering, in collaboration with RTI International, has launched a new program designed to identify, evaluate and bring research products to market. Unlike traditional technology transfer processes found at most universities today, the new program, named TechEval, pairs researchers with experienced business leaders and students from the Masters of Engineering Management (MEM) program at Pratt who then evaluate the technology in a practical, real-world environment. Qualified inventions are taken rapidly through the evaluation ...
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  • December 16, 2004

    Technology Evaluation Program Connects Researchers to Business World

    DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, in collaboration with RTI International, has launched a new program designed to identify, evaluate and bring research products to market. Unlike traditional technology transfer processes found at most universities today, the new program, named TechEval, pairs researchers with experienced business leaders and students from the Masters of Engineering Management (MEM) program at Duke who then evaluate the technology in a practical, real-world environment. Qualified inventions are taken ...
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  • December 16, 2004

    Technology Evaluation Program Connects Researchers to Business World

    DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, in collaboration with RTI International, has launched a new program designed to identify, evaluate and bring research products to market. Unlike traditional technology transfer processes found at most universities today, the new program, named TechEval, pairs researchers with experienced business leaders and students from the Masters of Engineering Management (MEM) program at Duke who then evaluate the technology in a practical, real-world environment. Qualified inventions are taken ...
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  • June 1, 2004

    Pratt Reaches Out to Venture Capitalists

    Leaders of the Duke Bioengineering Initiative met with venture capitalists and leaders of technology based companies in California's Silicon Valley following graduation to outline some of the innovative bioengineering research underway at Pratt and School of Medicine. A symposium In Menlo Park May 11 discussed some of the most promising cross-school collaborations in the Duke Bioengineering Partnership. There were five presentations at the half-day event. Laura Niklason, M.D., Ph.D. (biomedical engineering and anesthesiology), discussed engineering the replacement ...
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  • June 1, 2004

    Pratt Reaches Out to Venture Capitalists

    Leaders of the Duke Bioengineering Initiative met with venture capitalists and leaders of technology based companies in California's Silicon Valley following graduation to outline some of the innovative bioengineering research underway at Pratt and School of Medicine. A symposium In Menlo Park May 11 discussed some of the most promising cross-school collaborations in the Duke Bioengineering Partnership. There were five presentations at the half-day event. Laura Niklason, M.D., Ph.D. (biomedical engineering and anesthesiology), discussed engineering the replacement ...
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  • January 1, 2004

    Bench to Bedside -- Leading Medical Devices to Market

    The medical devices sector is a rapidly growing industry, but getting new and often novel medical technology innovations from the idea to moneymaking stage is a long, complex process. Duke's Fuqua School of Business and the Pratt School of Engineering are offering a first-of-its-kind graduate course in medical device marketing and device business strategies to increase the chances of success for would-be inventers and industry leaders. "The premise for the course is taking a product from the ...
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  • January 1, 2004

    Bench to Bedside -- Leading Medical Devices to Market

    The medical devices sector is a rapidly growing industry, but getting new and often novel medical technology innovations from the idea to moneymaking stage is a long, complex process. Duke's Fuqua School of Business and the Pratt School of Engineering are offering a first-of-its-kind graduate course in medical device marketing and device business strategies to increase the chances of success for would-be inventers and industry leaders. "The premise for the course is taking a product from the ...
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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

    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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  • October 15, 2003

    Entrepreneurialism Lures Annu Sood to Software Company

    By David King When asked what drew engineer Annu Sood to her job at a software company, she quickly responds, "the company's entrepreneurial spirit." Her answer is not surprising, as Sood herself embodies that spirit, with quick thoughts and a vivaciousness that keeps you scurrying to keep up. She enjoys the new opportunities and new people she encounters each day at her product management job. She doesn't use much of the engineering she learned in her undergraduate ...
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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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  • 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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  • January 1, 2003

    Engineers wanted for Duke Start-up Challenge

    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 $125,000 in seed capital and services in the final round of the Duke Start-Up Challenge's multi-stage competition. MBright, a next-generation digital display technology company started by engineering Ph.D. candidates from Pratt and MBA candidates from Fuqua, secured the first place seed funding of $50,000 in ...
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  • January 1, 2003

    Engineers wanted for Duke Start-up Challenge

    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 $125,000 in seed capital and services in the final round of the Duke Start-Up Challenge's multi-stage competition. MBright, a next-generation digital display technology company started by engineering Ph.D. candidates from Pratt and MBA candidates from Fuqua, secured the first place seed funding of $50,000 in ...
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