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Duke electrical engineering Professor Emeritus John Leslie Artley, Ph.D., of Hot Springs, N.C., died Sept. 27 on his 84th birthday from the effects of a stroke suffered on June 12, 2007, his family said. Artley received his doctorate in electrical engineering from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 1955 and then joined the faculty of Duke University, where he taught electrical engineering for 25 years.
Interviewing: Best Practices & Case Interviewing
Using enzymes from E. coli bacteria, Duke University chemists and engineers have introduced a hundred-fold improvement in the precision of features imprinted to create microdevices such as labs-on-a-chip.
"Career Mapping: Short and Long Term Strategies." Road maps are a useful tool for finding your way to a particular destination. They identify a specified location and the multiple ways to reach it. Career maps can be just as useful, but constructing them is difficult. What is the right career destination for me? What skills and attributes will I need? What roads are likely to get me where I want to go as quickly as possible? How do I overcome road blocks? This seminar will explore ways of...
Mr. Ward is currently the Head of Commercialization for RTI International, a $550 million, 2700 employee, independent, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization conducting research in health, life science, environment, education, engineering, international development and energy fields. Prior to joining RTI, Brent was responsible for business development, marketing and sales activities in multiple spin-up’s, out of RTI, RTP and Silicon Valley. At RTI, Brent has served the role of identifying,...
Student members of the Duke Engineers Without Borders (EWB) chapter took part in three projects over the past summer–— all designed to improve the quality of life for people living in Uganda and Peru. Meanwhile, Engineering World Health (EWH), an organization founded by the Pratt School of Engineering's Robert Malkin, took more than 40 students to Tanzania and Central America to install or repair medical equipment in local clinics and hospitals.
Summer 2007 -- After taking CEE Professor Ana Barros’ Focus program course in his freshman year, William Patrick took the initiative to ask if Barros might have anything he could do for the summer.
Special Panel: A Discussion on Managing Innovation –Getting the Best from Your People and Technology With Distinguished Panelists Clarence Chandran and William Monahan
John Board, associate professor and associate chair of electrical and computer engineering at Duke, has been appointed associate chief information officer, Duke Chief Information Officer Tracy Futhey announced today.Board will provide strategic leadership for the university’s information technology environment through the collective resources of the schools, departments and Duke’s information technology units. He will divide his duties between the Pratt School of Engineering and the...