Pratt Facilities
Walking Tours
Summer Tour Schedule 2008
All tours begin in the atrium of the Fitzpatrick Center, at the bottom of the staircase on the first level. The atrium side of the Fitzpatrick Center contains the SMIF, the DiVE, and the SoundSense room. Please be sure you are in this location at the bottom of the stairs (and NOT at the bottom of the stairs next to Twinnie's Cafe). Park in the visitor parking section of the Bryan Center PGIV Parking Garage. Print out these directions to take with you.
Tours are NOT offered on the weekends, and reservations are NOT necessary. The Pratt tour schedule allows visitors the opportunity to attend both the University tour, as well as the Pratt tour--which lasts approximately 45 minutes. The summer tour schedule begins on May 19, 2008 and runs through June 20th. The tours will be on Monday, Wednesday and Friday @ 10:30 a.m. during this time.
Please check back for the tour schedule that will run from June 30th to August 6th. Our Fall 2008 tour schedule will be begin on August 25, 2008 and run through December 5, 2008---please check back for those details as well.
Because we rely on the expertise of our students, tours will not be taking place on the following dates:
- Monday, May 26th (Memorial Day Holiday)
- Monday, June 23rd through Friday, June 27th (End of Summer Session 1 and Finals)
- Friday, July 4th (Independence Day Holiday)
- August 7th through August 22nd (end of Summer Session 2 and Finals; Interim and Freshman Orientation)
- Monday September 1st (Labor Day Holiday)
- Friday, October 10th through Tuesday, October 14th (Fall Break, tours will resume on Wednesday, October 15th)
- Wednesday, November 26th through Friday, November 28th (Thanksgiving Holiday, tours will resume on Monday, December 1st)
- Monday, December 9, 2008 through Monday, January 12, 2009 (Holiday Break, check back in December for the Spring 2009 tour schedule)
Questions about tours can be directed to Lupita Temiquel-McMillian at 660-5573 or lupita.mcmillian@duke.edu.
Questions about regular university tours can be directed to the Admissions Office at 919-684-3214.
The Fitzpatrick Center
The Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences (FCIEMAS) is designed to position the Pratt School and its partners to make major advancements in the fields of bioengineering, photonics, materials science and environmental engineering. It will support specialized initiatives that drive interdisciplinary activities, and encourage the creative interactions essential for making significant progress in these fields. Students working in the Fitzpatrick Center will learn that major advances occur at the boundaries between disciplines.
This comprehensive facility provides extensive wet bench laboratories, departmental offices, teaching labs, and other lab support spaces, and provide direct access to the café. A highlight will be a state-of-the-art cleanroom for nanotechnology research. The center’s carefully designed interaction spaces and proximity to the Medical Center and colleagues in photonics and materials engineering foster highly productive collaborative projects. The center is also the home of Pratt's computational resources.
The Home Depot Smart Home at Duke
The Home Depot Smart Home at Duke University is a 6,000 square foot live-in research laboratory operated by Duke's Pratt School of Engineering. The Home Depot Smart Home, part of a Duke Smart Home Program, creates a dynamic "living laboratory" environment that contributes to the innovation and demonstration of future residential building technology. The central concept of this project is our belief that smart homes can improve that quality of life for people of all ages and incomes.
Hudson Hall
Hudson Hall
Hudson Hall is the oldest of the buildings in the Engineering Complex. It was built in 1948 when the Engineering School moved to Duke's West Campus and was known as "Old Red." An Annex was built onto the back of the building in 1972, and in 1992 the building was expanded again and renamed Hudson Hall to honor Fitzgerald S. "Jerry" Hudson (E'46).
Hudson Hall is home to all four departments in the Pratt School of Engineering, as well as some of the school's laboratories, offices, and classrooms.
Teer Building
Teer Building
The Nello L. Teer Library Building opened in 1984. It is located next to Hudson Hall, separated by an azalea-filled courtyard and a walkway. The Teer Engineering Building houses the Vesic Library, the Dean's Office, and more.
The Vesic Library for Engineering, Mathematics and Physics
, named in memory of Dr. Aleksandar Vesic, houses books and journals supporting the teaching and research interests in the following engineering disciplines: biomedical, civil, computer, electrical, materials science and mechanical. The Vesic Library also houses the university's computer science holdings, a microcomputer cluster, and terminals providing online access to the entire university library system.
LSRC - B Wing
LSRC
The Levine Science Research Center (LSRC), named for Leon Levine, the CEO of Family Dollar Stores, is a 341,000-square-foot facility located behind Hudson Hall and was opened in 1994. The LSRC is a multipurpose facility housing classrooms, student labs and the Love Family Auditorium, and shared by the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Pratt School of Engineering, Department of Pharmacology, the Molecular Cancer Biology group, our NSF-Engineering Research Center, the Cell and Molecular Biology group, the Center for Macromolecular Structure, Center for Cellular and Biosurface Engineering, and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience.
When LSRC opened, Duke hailed it as a paradigm shift in how universities coordinate academics, research and administration. Not only does the LSRC enhance laboratory space, faculty offices and teaching facilities campus-wide, but it fosters collaboration between researchers from a variety of disciplines and cooperation between administrative units.
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