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Monserate: Drawn to Environmental Engineering

Jan 31, 2012

Martha Monserrate found her calling in the most unlikely place, a former toxic waste dump. Monserrate was working at the infamous Love Canal in Niagara Falls, New York, where a neighborhood and school had been built on top of 21,000 tons of...

The Career of Gene Goodson

Jan 18, 2012

Gene Goodson grew up around cars. From the age of 12, he spent his summers helping out in his father’s automobile dealership, doing everything from putting on seat covers to changing oil to driving the wrecker on nights and weekends. So it would...

Armbrust Builds Young Minds

Jan 18, 2012

As the principal of a newly approved charter school in poverty-stricken East Austin, Texas, John Armbrust, ’04, knows the challenges he will face building a school system from scratch. He should; it was his idea to start the school in an area most...

Graduate Student Rewarded for Aeroelasticity Work

Jan 6, 2012

For his work on characterizing the properties of folding-wing aircraft, mechanical engineering graduate student Ivan Wang was recently awarded a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship from the Department of Defense and the...

Jumping Droplets Take A Lot Of Heat, As Long As It Comes In A Cool Way

Dec 12, 2011

Microscopic water droplets jumping between surfaces that repel and attract moisture could hold the key to a wide array of more energy efficient products, ranging from large solar panels to compact laptop computers.

New Elemental Cookbook Guides Efficient Thermoelectric Combinations

Nov 29, 2011

A materials genome repository developed by Duke University engineers will allow scientists to stop using trial-and-error methods for combining different elements to create the most efficient alloys for a promising method of producing electricity....

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