PRATT MEMP News

  • May 22, 2009

    Industry-Based Practicums Offer Students Real-World Project Experiences

    Duke's Pratt School of Engineering encourages student collaboration with industry, and the Master of Engineering Management Program (MEMP) fosters such collaboration through practicums, internships, seminars, and workshops. One successful example is the MEM Consulting Practicum Program (CPP) offered through the popular course EGRMGMT 296. Conceived in 2004 by MEM Directors Jeff Glass and Brad Fox, the CPP provides students with 4-5 industry-based projects per semester with sponsors that have included Microsoft, Parsons Engineering, Alliance One International, ...
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  • May 13, 2009

    MEM Student Start-Up Sure to Be a Success

    When Baris Guzel, a Turkey native working in Germany, came to the US to get his MEM degree at Duke, he quickly discovered that America, among other things, is a country that uses technology efficiency. His in-box was quickly bombarded with emails asking him to complete surveys for anything from rating student services to registering for Fuqua courses. This was a new phenomenon for Baris, one that he had not experienced in Europe. He saw ...
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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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  • May 8, 2009

    Giving Gasoline That Power Shot -- Greenly

    How's this for a great recipe -- use environment toxins to improve energy efficiency? Start with two chemicals, each of which is a noxious industrial byproduct. Combine. Package resulting liquid in eight-ounce bottles. Slap PowerShot on the label. Sell for $4.95 a pop. Put in gas tank. "When added at same time you fill your car up with gasoline, PowerShot can boost octane, and improve gas mileage from between 5 to 15 percent," said Jacqueline Coates, one ...
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  • May 4, 2009

    MEM Student Brings Many Talents to the Entrepreneurial World

    Legions of genetically souped-up silkworms could someday produce a substance that more effectively protects troops in battle at less than half the weight of current body armor. It has been long known that the silk spun by spiders is remarkably strong and flexible. However, the main challenge to date in harnessing this natural wonder is the difficulty in lining enough spiders to produce high quantities of silk. That's where the silkworms come in. Scientists have developed a way ...
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  • April 1, 2009

    Diverse Interests Drive Success for MEM Student Gautham Pandiyan

    As a young man growing up in Chennai, India and in England, Gautham Pandiyan has always sought out new experiences and opportunities. When he came to Duke to pursue a PhD in Molecular Cancer Biology he took advantage of Duke's interdisciplinary approach to education and tried a few Fuqua classes. Quickly realizing that he had a flare for business and innovation, Gautham completed his MS and made the switch to the MEM program where he ...
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  • January 9, 2009

    Winter MEMories

    The fall semester was extremely busy for MEM students. Somewhere between building a roller coaster for Dr. Fox's project management class, sampling the finest cuisine that the world has to offer at the International Food Fest, and sorting through page upon page of corporate finance cases for Professor Skender, the semester came and went. Many students who weren't leaving Durham for the winter break had a lot of free time on their hands after the dust ...
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  • 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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  • November 17, 2008

    Duke University Smart Home is a Cool Concept

    Visiting 'The Home Depot Smart Home' at Duke University is truly enlightening. Recently, MEM administrators had the opportunity to tour the house with Jim Gaston, Duke Smart Home Program Director. Designed and managed by the Pratt School of Engineering, Duke's Smart Home was completed in 2007 and earned a Platinum rating in LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) from the United States Green Building Council. LEED Platinum is the highest possible rating in green building. MEM ...
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  • November 15, 2008

    MEMP Student Helps Entrepreneurship and Technology Ideas "Hatch" at Duke and Beyond

    When Ali Habib made the decision to leave his home town of Karachi, Pakistan to come to Duke as a Master of Engineering Management student, he knew he was embarking on a journey that would change him forever. What he didn't know, was how much impact he would have on the Master of Engineering Management program, the Pratt School of Engineering, Duke at large, and really, the whole world. Ali is a Fulbright Scholar, so obviously ...
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  • November 13, 2008

    MEMP Recruiters Hit the Road

    The Fall of 2008 presented a busy recruiting schedule for MEM administrators and students. This year, not only did MEM focus on graduate school fairs, we also held informal Information Sessions throughout the country to attract students to our program. A highlight of these trips was the dedicated recruitment effort by many of our current students. September kicked off the fall recruiting schedule with a trip to Cornell and Syracuse by Student Services Officer Bridget Fletcher ...
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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 2, 2008

    My UNique Internship

    Written by Pranay Jinna, a Duke MEM student from Hyderabad, India. I spent an incredible two months interning at the United Nations headquarters in New York. My summer began with an orientation in the hallowed chambers of the Trusteeship council which is on the same floor as the Security Council and the General Assembly. After my orientation, we met our supervisors where we were given our tasks. My internship was in the Aviation Transport Section (ATS). The ...
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  • July 17, 2008

    Business Savvy, Environmentally Conscious Degree Opportunity

    Each year, the Master of Engineering Management Program (MEMP) builds on the foundation that an undergraduate degree in engineering or science has established. The program uses a combination of core business and management courses and technical electives to develop a skill set that includes advanced technical knowledge along with a strong understanding of management and business. In recent years, the MEMP has seen an increasing number of students looking to add another component to the degree; ...
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  • July 17, 2008

    MEMP Student Gets Face Time with Warren Buffett

    by Bridget Fletcher When Pratik Shah, a Master of Engineering Management student from Aurangabad, India joined the Duke Investment Club, he expected to meet other students with a similar interest in investing and finance and to get some valuable networking opportunities. He did not expect a lunch meeting with Warren Buffett. More than 150 students from Duke, the University of Tennessee, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were extended an invitation to dine with Warren Buffett in ...
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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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  • 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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  • 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

    Expert Advice: How to 'Pitch your Idea'

    At an interactive workshop sponsored by Women in Science and Engineering, Joseph Holmes, president and CEO of Acuity Edge and an adjunct professor in the Master's of Engineering Management program, offered his expertise to help refine the networking and communications skills of more than 30 graduate students on Sept. 26. Acuity Edge is a management consulting firm that offers strategic services for corporate, university, government and venture capital clients. The goal was for the participants to ...
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  • October 1, 2007

    Expert Advice: How to 'Pitch your Idea'

    At an interactive workshop sponsored by Women in Science and Engineering, Joseph Holmes, president and CEO of Acuity Edge and an adjunct professor in the Master's of Engineering Management program, offered his expertise to help refine the networking and communications skills of more than 30 graduate students on Sept. 26. Acuity Edge is a management consulting firm that offers strategic services for corporate, university, government and venture capital clients. The goal was for the participants to ...
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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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  • August 7, 2007

    MEM Program Led Lingamneni Straight to Career at Microsoft

    After traveling across the globe from his birthplace in Hyderabad, India to join Duke's Masters of Engineering Management Program, 21-year-old Nishanth Lingamneni found himself one of the youngest people in his class, having no prior full-time work experience. Nevertheless just one year later--he had his choice of two prime U.S. jobs: product manager for Microsoft Corp or senior marketing analyst for Alltel Communications. In July 2007, after a six-month hiatus rediscovering his home country 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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  • May 1, 2007

    CUREs Winner Tackles Cervical Cancer in Haiti and Around the World

    The winning CUREs team with EWH founder Robert Malkin. The winning team of the second annual Duke-Engineering World Health CUREs non-profit business competition has developed a device to help catch cervical cancer early in women of developing countries. The low-cost device called a cerviScope might also hold promise for use in industrialized countries, including the U.S., according to Duke physicians familiar with the new cancer-screening instrument. "Our ambition is to save the lives of 19,000 women in ...
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  • May 1, 2007

    CUREs Winner Tackles Cervical Cancer in Haiti and Around the World

    The winning CUREs team with EWH founder Robert Malkin. The winning team of the second annual Duke-Engineering World Health CUREs non-profit business competition has developed a device to help catch cervical cancer early in women of developing countries. The low-cost device called a cerviScope might also hold promise for use in industrialized countries, including the U.S., according to Duke physicians familiar with the new cancer-screening instrument. "Our ambition is to save the lives of 19,000 women in ...
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  • April 1, 2007

    China Outpacing Rivals in Producing Graduate-Level Engineers, Study Finds

    China is "racing ahead" of both the United States and India in producing graduates with advanced engineering and technology degrees and in its ability to perform basic research, according to new findings in a Duke University-authored article published in the online edition of Issues in Science and Technology. The trend is part of a complex picture that challenges popular wisdom and sheds new light on how the United States and its two emerging Asian rivals - ...
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  • April 1, 2007

    China Outpacing Rivals in Producing Graduate-Level Engineers, Study Finds

    China is "racing ahead" of both the United States and India in producing graduates with advanced engineering and technology degrees and in its ability to perform basic research, according to new findings in a Duke University-authored article published in the online edition of Issues in Science and Technology. The trend is part of a complex picture that challenges popular wisdom and sheds new light on how the United States and its two emerging Asian rivals - ...
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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 1, 2007

    Taking Advice from Alumni

    Natalie Wisniewski, a Pratt alumna and medical device consultant On Feb. 9, Pratt school alums offered advice to current students at two different forums. Natalie Wisniewski, a medical device consultant who obtained her doctorate in biomedical engineering in Professor Monte Reichert's lab, spoke at a Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) event on enhancing personal innovation and problem solving. Later in the day, John Glushik, a venture capitalist who obtained his bachelor's in mechanical engineering from ...
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  • March 1, 2007

    Taking Advice from Alumni

    Natalie Wisniewski, a Pratt alumna and medical device consultant On Feb. 9, Pratt school alums offered advice to current students at two different forums. Natalie Wisniewski, a medical device consultant who obtained her doctorate in biomedical engineering in Professor Monte Reichert's lab, spoke at a Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) event on enhancing personal innovation and problem solving. Later in the day, John Glushik, a venture capitalist who obtained his bachelor's in mechanical engineering from ...
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  • January 4, 2007

    Skilled, Educated Immigrants Contribute Significantly to U.S. Economy

    Note to Editors: "America's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs" is available online. Durham, NC -- 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 ...
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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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  • December 1, 2006

    Pratt's Engineering Management Program Attracts International Fulbright Scholars

    International Fulbrighters: Genoveva Wong (front left), Valerie Speth (front right), Adnan Haider (back left) and Erdem Sahillioglu (back right) Although they come from varied backgrounds hailing from Germany, Panama, Pakistan and Turkey four of this year's Masters of Engineering Management (MEM) class share a common bond: all have traveled from their home countries to the Duke University Pratt School of Engineering with the full support of a Fulbright Scholarship. "When I found out I got the Fulbright, ...
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  • December 1, 2006

    Pratt's Engineering Management Program Attracts International Fulbright Scholars

    International Fulbrighters: Genoveva Wong (front left), Valerie Speth (front right), Adnan Haider (back left) and Erdem Sahillioglu (back right) Although they come from varied backgrounds hailing from Germany, Panama, Pakistan and Turkey four of this year's Masters of Engineering Management (MEM) class share a common bond: all have traveled from their home countries to the Duke University Pratt School of Engineering with the full support of a Fulbright Scholarship. "When I found out I got the Fulbright, ...
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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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  • November 7, 2006

    Common Interests Lured Four Fulbright Scholars to Pratt's Engineering Management Program

    Although they come from varied backgrounds hailing from Germany, Panama, Pakistan and Turkey four of this year's Masters of Engineering Management (MEM) class share a common bond: all have traveled from their home countries to the Duke University Pratt School of Engineering with the full support of a Fulbright Scholarship. "When I found out I got the Fulbright, I was ecstatic," said Adnan Haider from Pakistan, noting that the competitive program draws thousands of applicants in ...
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  • October 23, 2006

    NAE Workshop on the Offshoring of Engineering: Facts, Myths, Unknowns, and Implications

    The National Academy of Engineering is hosting a public workshop on October 24-25 on offshoring of engineering jobs. "Offshoring" is the shifting of engineering and other high-skill jobs from the United States to developing countries. This workshop brings together policy makers, industry representatives, academic experts, and the public to explore the implications, debates, and outlook for offshoring. MEMP's Executive in Residence Vivek Wadhwa will be presenting the results of an industry survey conducted by Wadhwa ...
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  • October 3, 2006

    MEMP Students Get Head Start on Career Development

    MEMP students get acquainted through a team-building exercise at an intensive two-day orientation. Students in the Masters of Engineering Management Program (MEMP) are getting a head start in their career development through a series of workshops led in part by Lee Hecht Harrison (LHH), the world's leading career services company. Before classes even started, the students were introduced to the program in an intensive two-day orientation. The new career development program was developed over several months by ...
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  • October 3, 2006

    MEMP Students Get Head Start on Career Development

    MEMP students get acquainted through a team-building exercise at an intensive two-day orientation. Students in the Masters of Engineering Management Program (MEMP) are getting a head start in their career development through a series of workshops led in part by Lee Hecht Harrison (LHH), the world's leading career services company. Before classes even started, the students were introduced to the program in an intensive two-day orientation. The new career development program was developed over several months by ...
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  • August 27, 2006

    MEM Outsourcing Study cited in new edition of Thomas Friedman's book The World is Flat

    The effect of engineering outsourcing on the global economy is a discussion of keen interest in business, policy and academic circles. In the fall 2005 and spring 2006 a team of Master of Engineering Management students, led by Ben Rissing under the direction of MEM Executive in Residence, Vivek Wadhwa, and Sociology Professor Gary Gereffi, challenged the faulty statistics that have been used to compare undergraduate engineering graduation rates in the United States, India, and ...
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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 24, 2006

    Senner Well on Way to Construction Management Career

    In an autobiography written by Will Senner in one of his elementary school yearbooks, he made a prediction: He was going to go to Duke. Although it wasn't a comment the Connecticut native initially remembered when applying to colleges, it turned out he had been right. He enrolled at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering in 2002. Now a senior civil engineering major and economics minor, Senner is already looking forward to kicking off a career in ...
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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 23, 2006

    Duke Student's Idea For Treating Jaundice In Newborns Could Impact Millions In Developing World

    PhotoGenesis launches as a not-for-profit after winning Duke student business plan competition DURHAM, N.C. A team led by Duke University engineering graduate student Vijay Anand has developed an affordable LED-based jaundice treatment for newborns that will cost roughly 95 percent less than currently available technology. The technology, called Photogenesis, won the $100,000 Duke University Engineering World Health CUREs competition. Anand will receive an executive salary and one year of incubation in Duke's Pratt School ...
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  • April 23, 2006

    Duke Student's Idea For Treating Jaundice In Newborns Could Impact Millions In Developing World

    PhotoGenesis launches as a not-for-profit after winning Duke student business plan competition DURHAM, N.C. A team led by Duke University engineering graduate student Vijay Anand has developed an affordable LED-based jaundice treatment for newborns that will cost roughly 95 percent less than currently available technology. The technology, called Photogenesis, won the $100,000 Duke University Engineering World Health CUREs competition. Anand will receive an executive salary and one year of incubation in Duke's Pratt School ...
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  • April 7, 2006

    Corcuera, a Textron Fellow, Gets Taste of Corporate Engineering

    Mariella Corcuera may ultimately pursue a career in medicine or medical devices, but she'll always be an engineer at heart. Through Pratt's Master of Engineering Management Program at Duke, Corcuera got the chance to experience the life of a corporate engineer as a Textron Fellow. In 2004, Textron (http://www.textron.com/index.jsp), a $10 billion dollar multi-industry company, established a Textron Fellowship for Duke graduate women and minorities interested in engineering management. Textron offers the fellows both tuition and ...
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  • April 1, 2006

    MEMP Students Create Labs for Saudi Arabian Women Engineering Students

    The Duke MEM student team with Dean Kristina Johnson and Senior Associate Dean Tod Laursen. From left, Srikanth Chunduri, Bansi Kotecha, Rahul Raj Gogna, Anjana Bhagavan, Kristen Yoder, Johnson, Laursen. For college students, work study projects are typically a hum drum but necessary part of financing an education. But five Master of Engineering Management students working on interactive electrical engineering projects got a surprise trip of a lifetime to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from Feb. ...
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  • April 1, 2006

    MEMP Students Create Labs for Saudi Arabian Women Engineering Students

    The Duke MEM student team with Dean Kristina Johnson and Senior Associate Dean Tod Laursen. From left, Srikanth Chunduri, Bansi Kotecha, Rahul Raj Gogna, Anjana Bhagavan, Kristen Yoder, Johnson, Laursen. For college students, work study projects are typically a hum drum but necessary part of financing an education. But five Master of Engineering Management students working on interactive electrical engineering projects got a surprise trip of a lifetime to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from Feb. ...
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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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  • December 27, 2005

    Huber Named Editor of Journal of Marketing Research

    Joel Huber, professor of marketing, has been named editor of the Journal of Marketing Research. Huber is a professor in the Fuqua School of Business who teaches the core MEM marketing course. His three-year term begins April 1, 2006.
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  • October 13, 2005

    Duke's Brad Fox Elected to IEEE Engineering Management Society's Board of Governors

    Brad Fox, executive director of the Master of Engineering Management Program at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, has been elected to the IEEE Engineering Management Society's Board of Governors. Fox will serve a three-year term, beginning Jan. 1. "Brad Fox's appointment to the EMS Board of Governors is an opportunity to advance engineering management and is recognition of his credentials the stature and quality of Duke's Master of Engineering Management program," said Jeff Glass, Hogg ...
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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 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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  • March 27, 2005

    MEM Program Featured in Prism Magazine

    Pratt's Master of Engineering Management Program was featured in the March 2005 issue of Prism Magazine, a publication by the American Society for Engineering Education. The article, titled ...
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  • March 15, 2005

    Desire to Make a Global Impact Drives Lauren Matic

    Through the Master of Engineering Management (MEM) program, Lauren Matic, a native of Kenilworth, Illinois, is crafting a career where she can make a difference in the world.Matic graduated from Duke in May 2004 with a double major in biomedical/electrical engineering and a minor in French. She spent the summer evaluating projection technology to set up a new visualization laboratory and assessing the novelty of new head mounted optical microdisplay system, but her real love ...
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  • March 15, 2005

    Brandon Jones Crafts Career from Life Experiences, Personal Interests

    If he had the chance to give advice, Charlotte, North Carolina native Brandon Jones would tell fellow students to make the most of their time at Duke by getting involved."There is just so much to do here, and I love that you can be interested and involved in many different areas," said Jones, who graduated in 2004 with a B.S. double major in biomedical and electrical engineering, and then entered the Master of Engineering Management ...
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  • March 1, 2005

    Duke and Navy Agree on Master of Engineering Management Enrollment

    Pratt School of Engineering and the U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program have agreed to establish a partnership that will enable nuclear-trained Navy officers to enroll in Pratt's Master of Engineering Management degree program. The agreement signed Feb. 9 formalizes a cooperative effort that began last semester. Two Navy officers are now students in the Master of Engineering Program, which integrates engineering and business principles to develop future leaders of technology-based organizations. Under the agreement signed by Pratt ...
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  • March 1, 2005

    Duke and Navy Agree on Master of Engineering Management Enrollment

    Pratt School of Engineering and the U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program have agreed to establish a partnership that will enable nuclear-trained Navy officers to enroll in Pratt's Master of Engineering Management degree program. The agreement signed Feb. 9 formalizes a cooperative effort that began last semester. Two Navy officers are now students in the Master of Engineering Program, which integrates engineering and business principles to develop future leaders of technology-based organizations. Under the agreement signed by Pratt ...
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  • February 15, 2005

    Duke and Navy Agree to Enroll Nuclear-Trained Naval Officers in Master of Eng. Management Program

    DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering and the U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program have agreed to establish a partnership that will enable nuclear-trained Navy officers to enroll in Pratt's Master of Engineering Management degree program. The agreement signed Feb. 9 formalizes a cooperative effort that began last semester. Two Navy officers are now students in the Master of Engineering Program, which integrates engineering and business principles to develop future leaders of technology-based organizations. Under ...
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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

    Masters of Engineering Management Program Launches New Web Site

    Pratt's Masters of Engineering Management Program launched a new Web site on June 2. The site provides a program overview, curriculum requirements, contact information, as well as a section targeted at industry. The new site also provides in-depth information on how students can customize the degree to further their technical engineering interests. Current and prospective students can access information such as frequently asked questions, application guidelines and course listings, as well as profiles of past graduates. "We ...
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  • June 1, 2004

    Masters of Engineering Management Program Launches New Web Site

    Pratt's Masters of Engineering Management Program launched a new Web site on June 2. The site provides a program overview, curriculum requirements, contact information, as well as a section targeted at industry. The new site also provides in-depth information on how students can customize the degree to further their technical engineering interests. Current and prospective students can access information such as frequently asked questions, application guidelines and course listings, as well as profiles of past graduates. "We ...
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  • June 1, 2004

    Engineers Lead Volleyball Champs

    The Duke men's club volleyball team, with nine engineering students and coached by a Pratt alumnus, fought its way to a first-ever national championship in April. After a successful conference tournament at James Madison University, the 19-member team was seeded 8th in the D1AA division at the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association (NIRSA) National Tournament held in Charlotte April 8-10. The tournament fielded 153 men's teams. The team finished first in pool play at Nationals on days one ...
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  • June 1, 2004

    Engineers Lead Volleyball Champs

    The Duke men's club volleyball team, with nine engineering students and coached by a Pratt alumnus, fought its way to a first-ever national championship in April. After a successful conference tournament at James Madison University, the 19-member team was seeded 8th in the D1AA division at the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association (NIRSA) National Tournament held in Charlotte April 8-10. The tournament fielded 153 men's teams. The team finished first in pool play at Nationals on days one ...
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  • March 15, 2004

    Ryan Wallace Finds his Niche in Industry

    By David King Ryan Wallace strives to be a leader. As early as high school, Wallace remembers his aspirations to become a leader in the field of engineering. And now at DuPont Cyrel@, Wallace is a leader, with a bright future ahead of him.Wallace joined DuPont Cyrel@ as a part of their Field Engineering Program immediately after completing his Duke Masters of Engineering Management (MEM) degree in May 2002. DuPont's program, designed to shape talented engineers ...
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  • March 15, 2004

    MEMP Prep Launches Career in Automotive Industry for Gonce

    by David King What one word best sums up the results of Andrew Gonce's MEM degree? Acceleration. Not a bad choice for an engineer who spends much of his time working to improve the Ford Mustang. "What I learned in earning my MEM degree helped to accelerate the start of my career," Gonce said, and his achievements certainly support his statement. After completing the MEM degree at Duke, Gonce had several job offers from which to choose, ...
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  • February 20, 2004

    Nobel Laureate to Speak at Duke on 'Innovative Science -- Charlatans and Geniuses'

    Physicist and Nobel Laureate Bob Richardson will deliver a lecture titled "Innovative Science - Charlatans and Geniuses" on Thursday, Feb. 26, at Duke University. The 4 p.m. lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the Love Auditorium in the Levine Science Research Center on Duke's West Campus. Parking is available in the parking garage adjacent to the Bryan Center. Richardson, who received his Ph.D. from Duke in 1966, was awarded the ...
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  • January 1, 2004

    Engineering Management Masters Accelerates a Career

    By David King What one word best sums up the results of Andrew Gonce's MEM degree? Acceleration. Not a bad choice for an engineer who spends much of his time working to improve the Ford Mustang. "What I learned in earning my MEM degree helped to accelerate the start of my career," Gonce said, and his achievements certainly support his statement. After completing the MEM degree at Duke, Gonce had several job offers from which to choose, ...
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  • January 1, 2004

    Engineering Management Masters Accelerates a Career

    By David King What one word best sums up the results of Andrew Gonce's MEM degree? Acceleration. Not a bad choice for an engineer who spends much of his time working to improve the Ford Mustang. "What I learned in earning my MEM degree helped to accelerate the start of my career," Gonce said, and his achievements certainly support his statement. After completing the MEM degree at Duke, Gonce had several job offers from which to choose, ...
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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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  • 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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  • October 15, 2003

    Seasoned Engineer Marc Clay Gets Career Boost from MEMP

    By David King For Marc Clay, his MEM degree may have been a long time coming, but the dividends were immediate. "My perspective is a bit different than those graduates who went straight from undergrad to the MEM program," Clay said. Having worked for Los Alamos National Laboratory for twenty years before returning to earn his Masters of Engineering Management degree from Duke, Clay took nothing he learned for granted. "I was a person who had fought 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

    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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  • July 11, 2003

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

    DURHAM, N.C. -- 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 Wednesday, 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 ...
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