Pratt School of Engineering

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Pratt School of Engineering
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Established1939
Parent institution
Duke University
Dean Jerome P. Lynch, PhD, F.EMI
Academic staff
156
Undergraduates 1,257 [1]
Postgraduates 1,281
Location
Website pratt.duke.edu OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

The Pratt School of Engineering is the engineering school of Duke University, a private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States.

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Research expenditures at Duke Engineering exceed $88 million per year. Its faculty is highly ranked in overall research productivity among U.S. engineering schools by Academic Analytics. [2] More than 30 Duke alumni and faculty have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Engineering since its founding in 1964. [3]

The Pratt School of Engineering also maintains these academic departments: [4]

The school was created by Duke's Board of Trustees in 1939. It was named in 1999 following a $35 million gift by Edmund T. Pratt Jr., a 1947 graduate and former chief executive of Pfizer. [5] The Duke University Pratt School of Engineering celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2014–2015. [6]

Education

Undergraduate

Majors

Duke awards the Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE) and offers five ABET-accredited engineering majors and independent interdisciplinary options: [7]

Minors

Engineering minors offered at Duke include:

Certificates

Undergraduate engineering certificates offered by Duke include: [8]

Master's degrees

Duke awards master's degrees in: [9]

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering entered into partnership to support technological innovation in the banking and financial services sectors. According to Jimmie Lenz, director of Duke’s Master of Engineering programs in FinTech and Cybersecurity, “...This partnership highlights the dramatic changes taking place in finance, and recognition by the FDIC of the key role Duke Engineering is playing in this dynamic environment.” [10]

Doctorate

Duke's Pratt School of Engineering awards PhDs in: [11]

With Duke's School of Medicine, Duke's Department of Biomedical Engineering offers a dual MD-Master of Engineering degree program. [12] Also, medical students in Duke's MD/PhD Medical Science Training Program, can earn a doctorate in an engineering discipline in partnership with Duke's Pratt School of Engineering. [13]

Doctoral Certificate Programs

Professional education

Standalone graduate-level certificates, intended for working professionals, are granted in: [14]

Research

Duke Engineering faculty research is grouped into four signature themes: [15]

Faculty research

The school's faculty research laboratories have played major roles in the development of many high-impact technologies, [16] including:

Student research

More than 62 percent of all Duke engineering undergraduates report having participated in some way in research in a faculty research lab. [17]

Since July 2018, Duke engineering students have held the Guinness World Record for inventing the world's most fuel-efficient vehicle—powered by a fuel cell, it achieved 14,573 miles per gallon equivalent. [18] In 2019, Duke Engineering students earned a second Guinness World Record for the world's most efficient all-electric vehicle—797 miles per kilowatt-hour. [19]

Leadership

Former deans

History

The precursor to the school of engineering dates back to 1851, when Duke was known as Normal College and located in Randolph County, North Carolina. At that time, engineering was included in a classical course for seniors. A course in engineering was introduced in 1887, eventually becoming a regular course offering in 1903. ' At that time, engineering courses were limited to such fields as architecture and surveying until 1924, when Trinity College was renamed Duke University. Engineering was taught in the new separate departments of civil and electrical engineering. In 1931, a mechanical engineering department was created. Duke's Board of Trustees created the College of Engineering in 1939, with William H. Hall its first dean.

The College of Engineering graduated its first female graduates in 1946. The next year, the three departments moved from East Campus to West Campus. It became the Duke School of Engineering in 1966. Two years later the school's first black students graduated. The Division of Biomedical Engineering was created in 1967 — the first accredited biomedical engineering department at a U.S. university — in September 1972. [21]

In 1997, the Master of Engineering Management was established.

The school was renamed the Edmund T. Pratt Jr. School of Engineering in 1999, in honor of the 1947 graduate and former CEO of Pfizer.

Facilities

Duke Engineering occupies more than 300,000 net square feet of educational, administrative and research space on and near the Duke campus in Durham, North Carolina. [22]

The Duke Engineering campus is adjacent to Duke University Medical Center and 10 miles from Research Triangle Park.

Pratt's faculty, labs, and courses can be found in Hudson Hall, the Nello L. Teer Engineering Building, the Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences (also known as FCIEMAS), Gross Hall, the North Building, the Levine Science Research Center (also known as the LSRC) and in The Chesterfield, a former cigarette factory near downtown Durham that has been redeveloped into academic and industry research space. [23]

Wilkinson Building

This 150,000-square-foot building opened for classes in early 2021 with new spaces for education and research related to interdisciplinary themes of improving human health, advancing computing and intelligent systems, and sustainability. [24]

The Wilkinson Building, located at Research Drive and Telcom Drive next to Bostock Library, also houses Duke Engineering's entrepreneurship initiatives.

The building's name recognizes lifetime philanthropic and service contributions of Duke Engineering alumnus Jerry C. Wilkinson and family. [25]

Fitzpatrick Center

The Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences (FCIEMAS) opened in August 2004. Research facilities focus on the fields of photonics, bioengineering, communications, and materials science and materials engineering. The aim of the building was to emphasize interdisciplinary activities and encourage cross-departmental interactions. The building houses numerous wet bench laboratories (highlighted by a world-class nanotechnology research wing), offices, teaching spaces, and a café. [26] FCIEMAS is also home to the Master of Engineering Management Program offices. The construction of FCIEMAS took more than three years and cost more than $97 million.

Levine Science Research Center

The Levine Science Research Center (LSRC) is a 341,000-square-foot (31,700 m2) facility. When it was opened in 1994, the LSRC was the largest single-site interdisciplinary research facility in the U.S. Its classrooms are shared by several departments, but the majority of its offices and laboratories are utilized by the Nicholas School of the Environment, the Pratt School of Engineering, the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience and Developmental and the departments of Computer Science, Pharmacology and Cancer Biology and Cell and Molecular Biology. [27] The building was named for Leon Levine, the CEO of Family Dollar Stores. [26]

Hudson Hall

Hudson Hall is the oldest engineering building at Duke, constructed in 1948. It was renamed to honor Fitzgerald S. "Jerry" Hudson (E'46) in 1992. [26]

Nello L. Teer Building

The Nello L. Teer Library Building opened in 1984. Located adjacent to Hudson Hall, it is now called the Nello L. Teer Building, and houses the Dean's offices, a computing lab, a circuits lab, an auditorium and a student lounge. The building's name honors Teer, its donor and a Durham, North Carolina-based builder and philanthropist. [26]

Hudson Hall HudsonHall.jpg
Hudson Hall
Nello L. Teer Building TeerBuilding.jpg
Nello L. Teer Building
Fitzpatrick Center CIEMAS1.jpg
Fitzpatrick Center
LSRC LSRC.jpg
LSRC

Notable alumni

Notes

  1. "About Duke Engineering". Duke University Pratt School of Engineering. Retrieved October 15, 2019.
  2. "Duke Engineering Facts & Stats". Duke Pratt School of Engineering. Retrieved October 15, 2019.
  3. "Duke Members of the National Academy of Engineering". Duke Pratt School of Engineering. May 8, 2015. Retrieved October 15, 2020.
  4. "Departments & Centers". Duke Pratt School of Engineering. April 2, 2012. Retrieved October 15, 2020.
  5. "Distinguished Alumnus, Edmund Pratt | Duke magazine". dukemagazine.duke.edu. Retrieved November 16, 2018.
  6. "Our History". Duke Pratt School of Engineering. January 23, 2014. Retrieved November 16, 2018.
  7. "Undergraduate Studies". Duke Pratt School of Engineering. March 15, 2012. Retrieved October 15, 2020.
  8. "Undergraduate Certificates at Duke". Duke University Pratt School of Engineering. Retrieved June 1, 2021.
  9. "Master's Degree Programs". Duke Pratt School of Engineering. September 6, 2017. Retrieved October 15, 2020.
  10. "FDIC and Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering Announce Strategic Partnership to Promote Innovation". FDIC. April 12, 2021. Retrieved February 1, 2023.
  11. "PhD Programs". Duke Pratt School of Engineering. March 19, 2012. Retrieved October 15, 2020.
  12. "MD-Master of Engineering Dual Degree". Duke Biomedical Engineering. Duke University Pratt School of Engineering. Retrieved June 1, 2021.
  13. "Medical Science Training Program (MD/PhD)". Duke University School of Medicine. Retrieved June 1, 2021.
  14. "Online Graduate Certificates". Duke Pratt School of Engineering. May 29, 2020. Retrieved October 15, 2020.
  15. "High-Impact Research". Duke University Pratt School of Engineering. April 19, 2018. Retrieved August 7, 2019.
  16. "Research Timeline". Duke Pratt School of Engineering. October 17, 2014. Retrieved November 16, 2018.
  17. "About Duke Engineering". Duke University Pratt School of Engineering. March 14, 2012. Retrieved June 1, 2021.
  18. "Duke students make Guinness record for world's most efficient vehicle". newsobserver. Retrieved November 16, 2018.
  19. "Duke students set world record with electric vehicle". ABC 11 WTVD. July 11, 2019. Retrieved September 3, 2019.
  20. "Bellamkonda Named Provost at Emory; Glass to Serve as Interim Dean". February 16, 2021.
  21. Biomedical Engineering Celebrates 30 Years, Pratt School of Engineering, November 2001
  22. "About Duke Engineering | Location". March 14, 2012. Retrieved August 20, 2019.
  23. "The Chesterfield Re-Engineered: Collaborative Space for High-Impact Discovery and Entrepreneurship Opens". Duke University. May 15, 2018. Retrieved November 9, 2018.
  24. "Duke Engineering New Building" . Retrieved May 23, 2019.
  25. "Duke's New Engineering Building Named to Honor Wilkinson Family". Duke Pratt School of Engineering. October 15, 2020. Retrieved October 15, 2020.
  26. 1 2 3 4 About Pratt Facilities
  27. "Duke University Maps".
  28. "Citation for Dr. Robert E. Fischell, member, National Academy of Engineering". National Academy of Engineering. Retrieved May 30, 2019.

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