Left: Dean Johnson with students Cen Zhang, Jessica Manson, Ashley Burns, Brian Hilgeford and Danielle Hyatt in front of the Fitzpatrick Center.
Middle: Professor Roni Avissar's Helicopter Observational Platform carries specialized instruments attached to its nose and in belly pods to perform environmental observations that are missed by high-flying and fast airplanes, satellites, and balloons and sounding rockets.
Right: Pratt Fellow Chris Einmo's work includes the design and construction of a bench-scale UV reactor, photochemical experiments using toxic materials, and High Performance Liquid Chromatographic ( HPLC)-UV spectrometry analysis of samples.
About Pratt // Our School
Who We Are
Pratt's DiVE Tank
Duke’s Pratt School of engineering is a vibrant teaching and research institution focused on educating and exploring the frontiers of engineering in a bold, personal, cross-disciplinary environment. A Pratt education is built on a foundation of partnership and shared commitment between students and faculty.
The mission of the Pratt School of Engineering is to provide a rigorous engineering education for our students, enabling them to lead productive, rewarding, and ethical lives for the betterment of society. It is our vision that Pratt students and faculty will be catalysts for generating and integrating knowledge across the disciplines required to address complex issues facing a global society.
We offer degrees majoring in biomedical engineering, civil and environmental
engineering, electrical and computer engineering, mechanical engineering and
materials science. We also offer a professional master's in engineering management
degree.
Pratt and the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences are the undergraduate schools of Duke University. We are also one of Duke’s seven graduate and professional schools and have extensive collaboration with the School of Medicine, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, School of Law, Fuqua School of Business and the Graduate School.
We are located near North Carolina’s famed Research Triangle Park, named for the Triangle formed by Duke University in Durham, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University in Raleigh. The 7,000-acre Research Triangle Park, recognized internationally as a center for cutting-edge research and development, is home to more than 140 organizations and more than 100,000 employees.
As of the fall 2006 semester, Pratt's faculty included 97 tenure-track individuals,
5 professors of the practice, and 13 research professors. We have 1,110 undergraduates
and 449 graduate students.
Faculty Awards and Recognition in 2005-2006:
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Society Leadership and Recognition
- Expert panel member, International Physiome Project - Mort
Friedman
- Expert panel member, NIH's Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal
and Skin Diseases - Lori
Setton
- National Academies, Keck Futures Initiative Program Committee for "Smart
Prosthetics: Exploring Devices for the Body and Mind - Warren
Grill
- National Institutes of Health, Instrumentation and Systems Development
Study Section in Center for Scientific Review - William
Reichert
- U.S. National Committee for the UNESCO International Hydrology Program
- Ana
Barros
- National Institutes of Health: Nanotechnology and Nanoscience Special
Emphasis Panel - Piotr
Marszalek
- Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
- Ashutosh
Chilkoti
- Senior Member of the IEEE - Warren Grill
- Member, National Research Council Biomolecular Materials and Processes
Committee - David
Needham
- Delegation Member, U.S. State Department/National Academies Global Developments
in Emerging Science and Sensor Networks 2005 - Nan
Jokerst
- Member of the International Geosphere Biosphere Program (IGBP), Integrated
Land Ecosystem-Atmosphere Processes Study - Roni
Avissar
- Vice-Chair, Microscopy and OCT Technical Group, Optical Society of America's
Science and Engineering Council - Adam
Wax
- Marshall Urist Award for Excellence in Tissue Regeneration, Orthopedic Research Society - Farshid Guilak
- Chairman of the Membership and Education Services Council, Optical Society
of America - Adam
Wax
- Editorial Board of Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing - Warren Grill
- Global Indus Technovators Awards for 2005 - Nimmi
Ramanujam
- Board of Governors, IEEE Engineering Management Society - Brad Fox
- 2005 Quadrennial Defense Review - Jonathan
Protz
- Board of Directors, International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)
- Kristina
Johnson
- Director, Boston Scientific Corp. - Kristina Johnson
- Editorial Board of Bioinspiration & Biomimetics - Robert
Clark
- Editor in Chief, NanoBiotechnology Journal - Tuan
Vo-Dinh
- Member, Model Expert Group of the Americas - Andrew
Schuler
- Fellow, Electrochemical Society - Hisham
Massoud
Teaching, Mentoring and Research Awards
- Descartes Award, European Union - David
R. Smith
- Washington Award - Henry
Petroski
- 2006 Electronics and Photonics Division Award of the Electrochemical Society (ECS) - Hisham Massoud
- 2005 Department of Defense Cleanup Project of the Year - Larry
Carin
- 2005 International Crime Analysis Association Research Award - Silvia
Ferrari
- 2005 Benjamin Franklin Key Award - Benjamin
Yellen
- 2005 Rayleigh Lecturer, American Society of Mechanical Engineers - Robert
Clark
- Chandran Research Award for Molecular Imaging in Neuro-oncology - Ashutosh
Chilkoti
- Chancellor's Medal, Louisiana State University - Farshid Guilak
- Klein Family Distinguished Teaching Award - Henri
Gavin
- Stansell Family Distinguished Research Award - David
R. Smith
- Lois and John L. Imhoff Distinguished Teaching Award - John
Board
- Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Teaching and Research
- Adam
Wax
- Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Mentoring and Advising
- Linda
Franzoni
- Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Mentoring and Advising
- David
Schaad
- Leading at Duke, Outstanding Volunteer Advisor - David Schaad
- University of Michigan School of Engineering's Alumni Society Merit
Award - Gregg
Trahey
- University of Southern California 2006 Alumnus Award in Academia - Nan
Marie Jokerst
Faculty Awards and Recognition in 2004-2005:
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Awards from Previous Academic Years
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Faculty Awards and Recognition in 2003-2004
- 2004 Ragnar Granit Prize - Robert Plonsey
- Fellow of the Optical Society of America - David Brady
- Office of Naval Research Young Investigator - Silvia Ferrari
- Biomedical Engineering Society Distinguished Service Award - Morton Friedman
- 2003 ASME Edwin F. Church Medal for Distinguished Service to Mechanical Engineering Education - Devendra Garg
- Klein Family Distinguished Teaching Award - Lisa G. Huettel
- Society of Women Engineer's Achievement Award - Dean Kristina Johnson
- Stansell Family Distinguished Research Award - Karl Linden
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Henry Petroski
- President of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society - Roger Barr
- Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering - Barry Myers
- Editor-in-Chief, North American, Journal of Biomechanics - Farshid Guilak
- Member of National Institutes of Health's Bioengineering, Technology and Surgical Science Section - Laura Niklason
- Board of Director, World Council on Biomechanics - Lori Setton
- Steering Committee, North Carolina Tissue Engineering Interest Group - Lori Setton
- Permanent Member, National Institutes of Health, Skeletal Biology and Regeneration Study Section - Lori Setton
- Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring, Duke Graduate School - Lori Setton
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Henry Petroski
- 2004 Institute Research Institute Maurice Holland Award - Jeff Glass
- Invited participant National Academy of Engineering 10th Annual Frontiers in Engineering Symposium - Robert Clark
- Invited participate Japan-America 4th Annual Frontiers in Engineering Symposium - Robert Clark
- Member of National Institutes of Health’s Biomedical Imaging Technology Study Section - Gregg Trahey
Faculty Awards and Recognition in 2002-2003
- Women in Technology International (WITI) Hall of Fame – Kristina M. Johnson
- Board of Directors of the Biomedical Engineering Society – George Truskey
- President-elect of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society – Roger Barr
- Orthopedics and Musculoskeletal Study Section in the Center for Scientific Review – Lori Setton
- 2003 Ellwood Award from FACCT, the Foundation for Accountability – Professor Emeritus William (Ed) Hammond
- Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II – Krishnendu Chakrabarty
- Electrochemical Society Award in Solid State Science and Technology – Richard Fair
- National Science Foundation Early Career Award from the Division of Materials Research – Stefan Zauscher
- QEM (Quality Education for Minorities) Catalyst for Institutional Change Award – Martha Absher
- Delegate to the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering – Mort Friedman
- Outstanding Engineering Educator Award of the Eastern North Carolina section of IEEE – Gary Ybarra
- ASME Board of Governors Recognition Award for Accomplishments as Chair of the Board of Director of the International Gas Turbine Institute (IGTI) of the ASME – Robert Kielb
- Board of Director of the International Gas Turbine Institute (IGTI) of the ASME – Kenneth Hall
- 2003 Electrochemical Society Award in Solid State Science and Technology – Richard B. Fair
- Distinguished Lecturer of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers – Adrian Bejan
- Editor-in-chief, North America, for the Journal of biomechanics – Farshid Guilak
- Duke University Diversity Award – Martha Absher
- Member of the World Council for Biomechanics – Lori Setton
- Co-chair of National Academy of Sciences/Russian Academy of Sciences committee on the Endpoints of High Level Waste and Spent Nuclear Fuel – John Ahearne
- President of the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication engineers – Josiah Knight
- Chair of the U.S. National Committee of the International Union of Radio Science – Jeffrey Krolik
- Fulbright Scholar
- Member Air Force Board of Science and Technology of National Academy of Engineering – Earl Dowell
- Co-chair of Aviation R&D Steering Committee of ASME/White House OSTP Committee
- Advisory Board Member, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering – Tod Laursen
- President of the American Medical Informatics Association – W. Ed Hammond
- Chair of the Global Water Cycle Science Steering Committee, US Global Climate Research Program – Roni Avissar
- National Research Council award for outstanding contributions to hydrology – Roni Avissar
- Member of the National Research Council Committee on Radiative Forcing on Climate – Roni Avissar
Walking Tours (Summer Schedule)
All tours begin in the atrium of the Fitzpatrick Center, at the bottom of the staircase on the first level. Park in the visitor parking section of the Bryan Center PGIV Parking Garage. Print out directions to take with you.
- May 16 to June 29, 2007
Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 11:30am
- July 2 to July 6, 2007
Monday, July 2 at 11:30am
Tuesday, July 3 at 11:30am
Wednesday, July 4 -- NO TOUR/HOLIDAY
Friday, July 6 at 11:30am
- July 9 to July 13, 2007
Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 11:30am
- July 16 to July 27, 2007
Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 1:30pm*
There will be an additional tour at 11:30am on Monday, July 16th only.
- July 30 to August 3, 2007
Monday, July 30 at 1:30pm
Tuesday, July 31 at 11:30am
Wednesday, August 1 at 1:30pm
Thursday, August 2 at 11:30am
Friday, August 3 at 11:30am and 1:30pm
- August 6 to August 10, 2007
Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 1:30pm
Any tour requests after the Summer Session ends on August 10th should be directed to Lupita Temiquel-McMillian at 660-5573 or lupita.mcmillian@duke.edu. Every effort will be made to accommodate tour requests, however, they are not guaranteed when students are not in session.
