Mechanical engineer Laurens Howle with scale model of humpback whale flipper used in wind tunnel. [high res download]
Duke University and its Pratt School of Engineering awarded degrees to 294 undergraduate and graduate students Sunday in a series of ceremonies beginning with a university-wide commencement exercise in Wallace Wade Stadium and winding up with a rousing ceremony in Duke Chapel.A total of 235 students, including 13 who completed their work in December and six last September, received Bachelor of Science in Engineering degrees from Dean Kristina M. Johnson before a standing-room-only crowd of...
Engineers are harnessing light to perform useful tasks in ways that we could never have imagined just a few decades ago. Recognizing the limitless future of this new field of photonics, Duke's Graduate School has created a certificate program in photonics at the Pratt School of Engineering.The program is designed to pull together components in different departments and programs and give professional masters and Ph.D. students in the sciences and engineering a broad foundation in photonics on...
StudentsHelawe Betre, senior BME graduate student in Professor Lori Setton's laboratory, was awarded an UNCF-Merck Graduate Science Research Dissertation Fellowship to support the completion of his doctoral studies. Betre will use these funds to support his dissertation on novel materials for intra-articular drug delivery for the treatment of osteoarthritis. The award supports Betre's stipend with an additional $10,000 to support supplies, equipment and travel related to the pursuit of his...
The U.S News & World Report has issued their rankings of graduate schools for 2005, and this year Pratt placed 30th in a tie with Rice for top graduate schools of engineering in the United States. Last year (2004 rankings), Pratt was ranked 33 in a tie with RPI. Pratt was ranked No. 34 in 2002 (2003rankings).The magazine also ranks engineering specialties. For this year, Pratt ranked as follows:
BME was tied for 6th with Case Western Reserve (No. 2 last year)
Civil Engineering was ranked...
Duke University engineers have demonstrated that enzymes can be used to create nanoscale patterns on gold. Since many enzymes are already commercially available and well characterized, the potential for writing with enzyme ‘ink’ represents an important advance in nanomanufacturing.
This research was funded by the National Science Foundation through a Nanotechnology Interdisciplinary Research Initiative (NIRT) grant.
On April 24, the Pratt School of Engineering honored three exceptional individuals at the annual Engineering Alumni Banquet, held at the Washington Duke Inn. Alan L. Kaganov BSME'60, received the Distinguished Alumnus Award; Gregory R. Maletic BSE'90, received the Distinguished Young Alumnus Award; and William H. Younger Jr. received the Distinguished Service Award.Kaganov was awarded the 2004 Distinguished Alumnus by the Engineering Alumni Association for his achievement in the health care and...
Lisa G. Huettel, assistant professor of the practice of electrical and computer engineering, has won the first Klein Family Distinguished Teaching Award at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering.
Karl Linden, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering, has received the new Stansell Family Distinguished Research Award for his work on using ultraviolet light to disinfect drinking water and destroy chemical pollutants.Linden, who joined the Pratt faculty in 1999, was selected by a committee of senior associate deans headed by Pratt Dean Kristina M. Johnson. The award, consisting of a plaque and $2,000, was presented at...
Duke biomedical engineers have received more than $2.2 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue their explorations of how the complex moving and flexing of blood vessels during a heartbeat might contribute to heart disease.
