Last day to withdraw with W from Fall 2024 classes (undergraduates only)
Last day to withdraw with W from Fall 2024 classes (undergraduates only)
Last day to withdraw with W from Fall 2024 classes (undergraduates only)
Registration ends for Spring 2025
Join the rest of the Pratt School of Engineering Community in a special dedication of a special new place on our campus -- the Thomas E. Harrington E'66 GREAT IDEAS BENCH. The dedication will take place at the BENCH, located where Hudson Hall meets Harrington Engineering Quad.
The Colorado River Basin (CRB) is a vitally important resource for Western US water supply, agriculture, and hydropower. The 1922 Colorado River Compact promoted growth by allocating a fixed amount of water to Upper and Lower Basin states, not foreseeing potential conflicts over inadequate supply. Lakes Powell and Mead have the capacity to store up […]
Join us for a special screening of Force of Water, a documentary film that follows two communities, one in Ecuador and one in Uganda, as they mobilize to build their own piped water systems. This one-hour documentary follows two communities - one in Ecuador and one in Uganda - as they embark on the monumental […]
Abstract: Most microbes in drinking water do not pose a human health risk, but the presence of pathogenic microbes can have severe public health implications. Hence, the current paradigm for drinking water quality management includes technologies (1) to inactivate, starve, or remove microorganisms during treatment and minimize growth during water distribution and (2) source-to-tap monitoring […]
The Maputo Sanitation (MapSan) trial is a long-term study of the health impact of upgraded shared, private latrines constructed by Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor in urban Maputo, Mozambique. Children born into households served by these facilities experienced reduced exposure to enteric pathogens and increased linear growth compared with a comparable cohort of […]
To meet climate goals, there is a need to lower the embodied carbon of concrete. A potential pathway is to implement carbon mineralization schemes to convert industrial wastes (e.g. construction and demolition waste) into fillers and supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs). This can simultaneously upcycle waste and provide a permanent form of CO2 storage. Further, by […]
Join Duke's Pratt School of Engineering during this week-long event celebrating how engineers make a difference in our world. More at pratt.duke.edu/e-week
Reduced-order models (ROM) provide practical solutions to problems that were once considered too computationally expensive. In Cardiovascular Mathematics, surgical optimization takes Personalized Medicine to an unprecedented level. Meanwhile, Data Assimilation (DA) may play a pivotal role in bridging theory with clinical practice. DA involves a set of techniques that integrate mathematical models with measurements to […]
Thin plates are an elegant and versatile design platform that combine strength and efficiency. They appear in stately geodesic domes, workaday corrugated cargo containers and in countless natural settings, from leaves to cellular membranes. In each case, their mechanical response is derived not only from their composition but also from their patterning, such as corrugation […]
An increasing number of extreme events - including wildfires and hurricanes - are now being live-streamed online. These streams often emerge from the repurposing of existing infrastructure (such as smart doorbells), as well as from so-called 'influencers' producing social media content. In addition to generating large viewerships, streams have contributed to both fatalities (of streamers) […]