All Engineering Alumni Profiles
Alumni profiles are ordered most recent profile, first.
Capers W. McDonald, President and Chief Executive Officer of BioReliance Corporation since 1992, graduated from Duke University in 1974 with a Bachelors degree in engineering. After moving on to earn a Masters degree in engineering from MIT (1976), an MBA from Harvard Business School (1983), and establishing himself as a successful corporate leader, community member and family man, McDonald proudly admits, “I still bleed Duke Blue after all these years.”
McDonald describes his undergraduate experience as ...
Just where can a degree in engineering take a motivated individual? Every issue of the DukEngineer spotlights a different alumnus ...
The profile of an entrepreneur would include several common characteristics: a desire for responsibility, willingness for moderate risk, confidence in their ability to succeed, a high energy level, and superb organizational skills. Because they are constructing businesses and industries in environments flooded by uncertainty and molded by rapid change, entrepreneurs recognize that failure is likely to be a part of their lives; yet, they are never paralyzed by that fear. One man undoubtedly befitting of ...
BS in Electrical Engineering
Magna Cum Laude, 1947MBA, University of Pennsylvania
Wharton School of Business, 1949
Rose from salesman to controller of IBM World Trade Corp. during his 14 years with IBM
Recruited to serve as Assistant Secretary for Financial Management ...
There is something intriguing about an entrepreneur. Rising from nothingness to become distinguished in a competitive market, a successful entrepreneur has taken great risks to ...
BS in Civil Engineering
1981
Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Vinik Asset Management, which has grown in less than five years into one of the largest hedge ...
Class of 1992, Mechanical Engineering
Duke engineering graduates aspiring to work for Microsoft are by no means a rare breed. But when Terry Myerson, class of 1992, moved to Seattle early last year to ...
Mr. John Chambers was born and raised in West Virginia. As the son of two physicians, his mother was a psychiatrist and his father was an obstetrician, he had early ambitions of becoming a doctor. He soon ...
Architecture and engineering, although often considered separate disciplines, result in a unique and powerful course when Combined. This is the very path that Mr. Edward Reefe has chosen, and ...
“We can’t look to particular institutions to provide success and satisfaction.”
Wise words from a Duke grad, father, businessman, and community leader.
James (Jim) F. Rabenhorst, Engineering ‘64, a Duke ...
The year was 1967 when Jerry C. Wilkinson graduated from Duke University’s School of Engineering with his BSE in ...
Being the president of a major engineering corporation is the dream of many aspiring engineers. Mr. Lewis Campbell was ...
What do the hit television show “Home Improvement,” the blockbuster movie “True Lies, “and the Duke football team all have in common? Very little, you may say at first. One thing they do have in common however is that they all use products ...
Define a "successful career."
That’s a term that is hard to define, isn’t it? However, one man has managed to utilize education to ...
What has James Vogeley done since he left Duke University?
He has accomplished what every undergraduate engineer wants to do — be his own boss! Graduating from Duke with a BSE in Electrical Engineering ...
The average Duke Engineering graduate either goes on to graduate school or uses the degree to buy a bigger salary in the job ...
What do you call a man who provides advice to the federal government, is Chairman of the Board of Directors of two companies, ...
BS in Mechanical Engineering
1958
MBA, Wharton School of Business
University of Pennsylvania, 1962
Chairman Emeritus of Day & Zimmerman, a $1.5-billion diversified professional service firm with 24,000 employees that grew tenfold ...
Engineering is an inlet to different outlets of opportunity If you are willing to take a chance, starting out as an engineer does not necessarily imply ending up as one. “Don’t ...
Children are easily amused by automation. Young boys love playing with toy cars, train sets, and airplane models. Most decide right at age five that they are going to be train ...
When some people hear the word “engineer,” they immediately picture smart people with thick glasses clutching a calculator in one hand and a computer disk in the other. ...
To be successful in life—
1) you should have strong family ties and people to always tend to,
2) you should find a job or hobby that you enjoy, a job which promotes growth through ...
James H. Corrigan was a typical Duke engineering student; he studied his thermodynamics during the day and partied with ...
Engineers have traditionally held a reputation for their analytical abilities, problem solving skills, and contributions to modem technology. Rarely, does a person encounter an engineer ...
Minutes after calling his secretary to say he is on his way, an impressive Jerry Hudson arrives and extends a firm hand ...
As World War II drew to a close in 1945, Duke University graduated fifty-two engineers from its College of Engineering. In the ...
BS in Mechanical Engineering
1961
MBA, Wharton School of Business
University of Pennsylvania, 1963
Chairman of the Board of Biogen, Inc., the oldest independent biotechnology company in the world, with more than 1,400 employees worldwide and ...
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Duke University School of Engineering, making it appropriate to recognize a man whose family has helped to nurture and lead the school ...
Robert Everett, a 1942 Duke graduate, exemplifies the potential for success in engineering after graduation. After obtaining his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Everett ...
