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Pratt School of Engineering
(919) 660-8403
Fax: (919) 660-8416
deborah.hill@duke.edu

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Audio Interviews

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(919) 681-8067
pager (919) 970-2036
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Click on a topic below to view information about our experts.

Biomedical Research

• AIDS, Biological Fluid Mechanics
• Atherosclerosis
• Computational Biology
• Contraception, Biofluid Mechanics
• Drug Delivery
• Heart, Electrophysiology
• Injury and Orthopedic Biomechanics
• Medical Imaging
• Memory
• Neural Prosthesis
• Polymer &Amp; Protein Engineering
• Sports Injuries
• Tissue Repair, Engineering

Civil Engineering

• Bridges
• Computational Mechanics
• Design
• Earthquake Engineering, Adaptive Structures
• Failure Analysis
• Structural Engineering

Diversity in Science and Engineering

• Women in Engineering
• Minorities in Science and Engineering

Education

• Disability Issues and Accommodations
• Education, Engineering
• K-12 Science and Mathematics Education

Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Biological Computing
• Communications, Optical
• Computer Engineering
• Land Mine Detection
• Microelectromechanical Machines
• Nanoscale/Microscale Computing Systems
• Photonics
• Sensors
• Self-Assembled Computer Architecture

Engineering Management

• Engineering Management

Environmental Research

• Atmospheric Science
• Climate Modeling
• Microbial Engineering, Biological Remediation
• Geophysics
• Hydrology
• Waste, Hazardous, Remediation
• Water Resources and Treatment

Ethics in Engineering

• Ethical Practice of Engineering
• Engineering Management

History

• History, Engineering

Homeland Security

• Homeland Security

Materials

• Biological Materials
• Solar Energy Materials
• Nanomaterial Manufacturing and Characterization
• Polymer &Amp; Protein Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

• Acoustics
• Aerodynamics
• Chaos, Dynamics
• Constructal Theory
• Lubrication
• Microelectromechanical Machines
• Nonlinear Dynamics
• Robotics
• Thermodynamics

technology policy

• policy, science and engineering
• technology transfer

Acoustics (2)

Robert L. Clark, Ph.D.(visit website)
Thomas Lord Professor of Engineering, Senior Associate Dean, and Director, Center for Biologically Inspired Materials and Material Systems

Specialty: Active control of sound, vibration, and aeroelastic systems. Instrumentation development for mechanical characterization at the nanoscale and manufacturing at the nanoscale.
E-mail: rclark@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5435

Linda P. Franzoni, Ph.D. (visit website)
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education

Specialty: Acoustics of enclosures (rooms or vehicle interiors) and underwater acoustics (acoustic radiation and scattering from submarines).
E-mail: franzoni@mems.egr.duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5436

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Aerodynamics (3)

Donald B. Bliss, Ph.D. (visit website)
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Specialty: Aerodynamics of lifting surfaces and vortex wakes. For helicopter wakes he has developed models that have been incorporated into commercially available computer programs used by industry and government to predict helicopter performance, vibration, and noise.
E-mail: dbb@acpub.duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5452

Earl H. Dowell, Sc.D (visit website)
J.A. Jones Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Specialty: Aeroelasticity -- the study of the dynamic interaction between an aerodynamic flow and an elastic structure, such as aircraft wings in high speed flight.
E-mail: dowell@mail.ee.duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5302

Kenneth C. Hall, Sc.D (visit website)
Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Specialty: Unsteady aerodynamics; structural dynamics; aeroelasticity of turbomachinery and aerospace vehicles; general aviation.
E-mail: kenneth.c.hall@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5328

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AIDS, biological fluid mechanics (1)

David Katz, Ph.D. (visit website)
Nello L Teer Jr. Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Specialty: Basic reproductive biology, contraception and sexually transmitted diseases including HIV AIDS; physiological fluid mechanics.
E-mail: dkatz@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5452

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Atherosclerosis (2)

Morton Friedman, Ph.D. (visit website)
Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Specialty: Role of mechanical forces in the localization and development of vascular disease, particularly atherosclerosis.
E-mail: mort.friedman@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5122

George Truskey, Ph.D. (visit website)
Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering

Specialty: Mechanisms in the development of atherosclerosis.
E-mail: gtruskey@acpub.duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5147

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Atmospheric science (4)

Roni Avissar, Ph.D. (visit website)
W.H. Gardner Jr. Professor and Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Specialty: development of sensors and simulators to study the climate system.
E-mail: avissar@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5458

Ana Barros, Ph.D. (visit website)
Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and Professor of History

Specialty: Investigating the dynamics of water presence and water pathways in the environment. Understanding the physics of the hydrological cycle at all spatial and temporal scales, and applying this new knowledge to research and developing technologies for environmental assessment, prediction and control.
E-mail: ana.barros@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5200

Andrey Khlystov, Ph.D. (visit website)
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering and Professor of History

Specialty: Effect of ambient aerosol on the global climate and how aerosol hygroscopic growth affects the magnitude of climate forcing; exploring the relationship between particulate matter and adverse health effects; and development of new automatic measurement techniques to study the properties and transformations of ambient aerosol.
E-mail: andrey@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5209

Amilcare Porporato, Ph.D. (visit website)
Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and Professor of History

Specialty:Ecohydrology and coupled dynamics of the soil-plant-atmosphere system; environmental fluid mechanics and turbulence dynamics; dynamical system approach and stochastic modeling of hydrological and biogeophysical processes; nonlinear time series analysis; flood forecasting.
E-mail: amilcare@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5211

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Biological Computing (1)

Chris Dwyer, Ph.D. (visit website)
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Specialty: design and fabrication of nanoelectronic computer architectures using DNA self-assembly
E-mail: dwyer@ece.duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5275

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Biological Materials (4)

Ashutosh Chilkoti, Ph.D. (visit website)
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Specialty: Genetically engineered biopolymers for drug delivery, nanobiotechnology, molecular surface engineering, protein arrays.
E-mail: chilkoti@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5373

Robert L. Clark, Ph.D. (visit website)
Thomas Lord Professor of Engineering, Senior Associate Dean, and Director, Center for Biologically Inspired Materials and Material Systems

Specialty: Instrumentation development for mechanical characterization at the nanoscale and manufacturing at the nanoscale.
E-mail: rclark@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5435

David Needham, Ph.D. (visit website)
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Specialty: Biologically inspired materials and materials systems; physical properties of biopolymers, microparticles, artificial membranes, biological membranes and cells; drug and agent delivery to tumors using microparticles, such as liposomes, 2-phase microsystems; emulsions; microcrystallization; microsolidification; nanoparticles.
E-mail: d.needham@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5355

Lori Setton, Ph.D. (visit website)
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Specialty: Functional tissue engineering, cartilage, meniscus and intervertebral disc regeneration, osteoarthritis
E-mail: setton@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5376, 5131 (office while on sabbatical)

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Bridges (1)

Henry Petroski, Ph.D. (visit website)
Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and Professor of History

Specialty: Bridge design and history.
E-mail: petroski@duke.edu
Home: 919-489-9416
Office: 919-660-5203

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Chaos, Dynamics (2)

Earl Dowell, Ph.D. (visit website)
J. A. Jones Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Specialty: Dynamics of complex and chaotic systems.
E-mail: dowell@mail.ee.duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5321

Laurens Howle, Ph.D. (visit website)
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Specialty: Numerical simulation of nonlinear convection systems, nonlinear dynamics and control of chaotic systems, thermal science, fluid dynamics, and nonlinear dynamics
E-mail: laurens.howle@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5331

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Climate Modeling (3)

Roni Avissar, Ph.D. (visit website)
W.H. Gardner Jr. Professor and Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Specialty: development of sensors and simulators to study the climate system.
E-mail: avissar@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5458

Ana Barros, Ph.D. (visit website)
Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and Professor of History

Specialty: long-range predictability and risk analysis of natural disasters.
E-mail: ana.barros@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5200

Amilcare Porporato, Ph.D. (visit website)
Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and Professor of History

Specialty:Ecohydrology and coupled dynamics of the soil-plant-atmosphere system; environmental fluid mechanics and turbulence dynamics; dynamical system approach and stochastic modeling of hydrological and biogeophysical processes; nonlinear time series analysis; flood forecasting.
E-mail: amilcare@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5211

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Communications, Optical (1)

David J. Brady, Ph.D. (visit website)
Director, Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics and Communications Systems; Professor of Electrical Engineering

Specialty: Optical systems, including fiber optics, digital imaging, optical memories and infrared imaging.
E-mail: dbrady@duke.edu
Office: 919-660 5394

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Computational Biology (1)

Craig Henriquez, Ph.D. (visit website)
W.H. Gardner Jr. Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering; co-director of Center for Neuroengineering

Specialty: large scale computational biology.
E-mail: ch@epi.mc.duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5168

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Computational mechanics (2)

John Dolbow, Ph.D. (visit website)
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Specialty: Theoretical and applied mechanics, computational fracture mechanics, nonlinear interfacial constitutive laws, finite element and mesh free methods.
E-mail: jdolbow@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5202

Tod A. Laursen, Ph.D. (visit website)
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Senior Associate Dean for Education

Specialty: Engineering education; scientific and engineering computing; structural and engineering mechanics.
E-mail: laursen@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5430

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Computer Engineering (4)

John Board, D. Phil. (visit website)
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Specialty: High performance scientific computing and simulation, novel computer architectures, cluster computing and parallel processing; ubiquitous computing.
E-mail: jab@ee.duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5272

Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Ph.D. (visit website)
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Specialty: Design and testing of integrated circuits and systems; distributed sensor networks; fault-tolerant and real-time embedded systems.
E-mail: krish@ee.duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5244

Richard Fair, Ph.D. (visit website)
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Specialty: Semiconductor devices and processing; integrated circuit design; microfluidic devices; bioMEMS; electronic materials; technology computer aided design (TCAD).
E-mail: rfair@ee.duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5277

Kishor Trivedi, Ph.D. (visit website)
Hudson Professor Of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Specialty: High availability, fault tolerance, reliability engineering, software reliability and software rejuvenation.
E-mail: kst@ee.duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5269

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Constructal theory (1)

Adrian Bejan, Ph.D. (visit website)
Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science

Specialty: founded constructal theory
E-mail: abejan@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5314

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Contraception, biofluid mechanics (1)

David Katz, Ph.D. (visit website)
Nello L Teer Jr. Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Specialty: Basic reproductive biology, contraception and sexually transmitted diseases; biofluid mechanics and biorheology
E-mail: dkatz@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5452

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Design (1)

Henry Petroski, Ph.D. (visit website)
Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and Professor of History

Specialty: product design. (Author of Small Things Considered (Alfred A. Knopf, September 2003).
E-mail: petroski@duke.edu
Home: 919-489-9416
Office: 919-660-5203

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Disability Issues and Accommodations (1)

Martha Absher
Assistant Dean, Education and Outreach Programs

Specialty: Engineering and science education and outreach programs to undergraduate, graduate, and K-12 students. Special focus areas: diversity, women's programs, programs for persons with disabilities.
E-mail: martha.absher@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5139

Diversity in science and engineering (3)

Martha Absher
Assistant Dean, Education and Outreach Programs

Specialty: Engineering and science education and outreach programs to undergraduate, graduate, and K-12 students. Special focus areas: diversity, women's programs, programs for persons with disabilities.
E-mail: martha.absher@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5139

April Brown, Ph.D. (visit website)
Chair and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Specialty: Women in engineering, diversity in scienice and engineering
E-mail: abrown@ee.duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5442

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Drug Delivery (4)

Ashutosh Chilkoti, Ph.D. (visit website)
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Specialty: Genetically engineered biopolymers for drug delivery, nanobiotechnology, molecular surface engineering, protein arrays.
E-mail: chilkoti@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5373

David Needham, Ph.D. (visit website)
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Specialty: drug and agent delivery to tumors using microparticles, such as liposomes, 2-phase Microsystems; biologically inspired materials and materials systems; physical properties of biopolymers, microparticles, artificial membranes, biological membranes and cells;; emulsions; microcrystallization.
E-mail: d.needham@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5355

Wanda Krassowska, Ph.D. (visit website)
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Specialty: Drug and DNA delivery by electroporation, the creation of large and long-lived pores in the lipid bilayer of the membrane in response to electric shocks.
E-mail: wanda.krassowska@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5105

Fan Yuan, Ph.D. (visit website)
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Associate Professor of Ophthamology

Specialty: delivery of therapeutic agents in solid tumors and the eyes; mechanisms of drug transport in biological tissues.
E-mail: fyuan@acpub.duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5411

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Earthquake engineering, adaptive structures (1)

Henri Gavin, Ph.D. (visit website)
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Specialty: earthquake engineering; response and reliability of structures to extreme loads; adaptive structures and vibration control.
E-mail: hpgavin@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5201

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Education, Engineering (5)

Martha Absher
Assistant Dean, Education and Outreach Programs

Specialty: Engineering and science education and outreach programs to undergraduate, graduate, and K-12 students. Special focus areas: diversity, women's programs, programs for persons with disabilities.
E-mail: martha.absher@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5139

Tod A. Laursen, Ph.D. (visit website)
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Senior Associate Dean for Education

Specialty: Engineering education; scientific and engineering computing; structural and engineering mechanics.
E-mail: laursen@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5430

Miguel A. Medina Jr., Ph.D. (visit website)
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Specialty: international engineering education.
E-mail: Miguel.medina@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5195

Gary Ybarra, Ph.D. (visit website)
Associate Professor Of The Practice Electrical & Computer Engineering

Specialty: engineering education in K-12; training K-12 teachers in engineering and inquiry-based science.
E-mail: gary@ee.duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5220

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Engineering management (2)

Brad Fox, Ph.D. (visit website)
Executive Director, Master of Engineering Management Program

Specialty: engineering management
E-mail: brad.fox@duke.edu
Office: 919--660-5516

Jeff Glass, Ph.D. (visit website)
Director of the Master of Engineering Management Program

Specialty: engineering management
E-mail: jeff.glass@duke.edu
Office: 919--660-5431

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Ethics in engineering (1)

Daniel Vallero, Ph.D. (visit website)
Adjunct Professor of Engineering Ethics

Specialty: ethical practice of engineering
E-mail: daniel.vallero@duke.edu
Office: 919-541-3306

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Failure Analysis (1)

Henry Petroski, Ph.D. (visit website)
Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and Professor of History

Specialty: design and failure.
E-mail: petroski@duke.edu
Home: 919-489-9416
Office: 919-660-5203

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Geophysics (3)

Fred K. Boadu, Ph.D. (visit website)
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Specialty: Engineering and environmental geophysics. Inverse theory applied to groundwater modeling and contaminant transport. Environmental mechanics. Characterization of fractured media using geophysical methods. Contamination detection and assessment using geophysical methods. Application of inverse theory and artificial neural networks to engineering and environmental problems.
E-mail: boadu@akoto.egr.duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5432

Thomasz Hueckel , Ph.D. (visit website)
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Specialty: theoretical soil mechanics, rock mechanics, and environmental geomechanics, as well as in theory of plasticity. His current projects deal with thermo-plasticity and chemo-plasticity of clays, and in general in mechanics of materials composed of chemically reacting solids and liquids.
E-mail: hueckel@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5205

Amilcare Porporato, Ph.D. (visit website)
Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and Professor of History

Specialty:Ecohydrology and coupled dynamics of the soil-plant-atmosphere system; environmental fluid mechanics and turbulence dynamics; dynamical system approach and stochastic modeling of hydrological and biogeophysical processes; nonlinear time series analysis; flood forecasting.
E-mail: amilcare@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5211

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Heart, Electrophysiology (4)

Roger Barr, Ph.D. (visit website)
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Specialty: Electrical stimulation of the heart; electrocardiography.
E-mail: roger.barr@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5123

Craig Henriquez, Ph.D. (visit website)
W.H. Gardner Jr. Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering; co-director of Center for Neuroengineering

Specialty: Abnormal heart rhythms
E-mail: ch@epi.mc.duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5168

Wanda Krassowska, Ph.D. (visit website)
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Specialty: Control of Cardiac Arrhythmias.
E-mail: wanda.krassowska@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5105

Patrick D. Wolf, Ph.D. (visit website)
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Specialty: advanced instrumentation for diagnosis and treatment of electrophysiological problems of the heart and brain.
E-mail: pdw@eel-mail.mc.duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5114

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History, Engineering (1)

Henry Petroski, Ph.D. (visit website)
Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and Professor of History

Specialty: History of engineering.
E-mail: petroski@duke.edu
Home: 919-489-9416
Office: 919-660-5203

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Homeland security (3)

David J. Brady, Ph.D. (visit website)
Director, Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics and Communications Systems; Professor of Electrical Engineering

Specialty: Optical systems, including fiber optics, digital imaging, optical memories and infrared imaging.
E-mail: dbrady@duke.edu
Office: 919-660 5394

Lawrence Carin, Ph.D. (visit website)
William H. Younger Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; director Duke Center for Advanced Remote Sensing

Specialty: Remote detection and disarming of land mines and unexploded ordnance.
E-mail: lcarin@ee.duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5270

Leslie Collins, Ph.D. (visit website)
Associate Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Specialty: Statistical signal processing with applications in remote sensing and auditory prostheses; land mine detection.
E-mail: lcollins@ee.duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5260

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Hydrology (4)

John Albertson, Ph.D. (visit website)
Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and Professor of History

Specialty: Environmental fluid mechanics, scaling in hydrology and boundary layer meteorology, use of computational fluid dynamics and field experiments to address issues of mass and energy exchange between the land and the atmosphere
E-mail: john.albertson@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5468

Ana Barros, Ph.D. (visit website)
Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and Professor of History

Specialty: Investigating the dynamics of water presence and water pathways in the environment. Understanding the physics of the hydrological cycle at all spatial and temporal scales, and applying this new knowledge to research and developing technologies for environmental assessment, prediction and control.
E-mail: ana.barros@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5200

Fred K. Boadu, Ph.D. (visit website)
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Specialty: Engineering and environmental geophysics. Inverse theory applied to groundwater modeling and contaminant transport. Environmental mechanics. Characterization of fractured media using geophysical methods. Contamination detection and assessment using geophysical methods. Application of inverse theory and artificial neural networks to engineering and environmental problems.
E-mail: boadu@akoto.egr.duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5432

Miguel A. Medina Jr., Ph.D. (visit website)
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Specialty: international water resources; contaminant transport hydrology; modeling surface and ground water interactions.
E-mail: Miguel.medina@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5195

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Injury and Orthopedic Biomechanics (1)

Barry S. Myers, M.D., Ph.D. (visit website)
Anderson-Rupp Professor and Director of Graduate Studies of Biomedical Engineering

Specialty: Head and neck injury.
E-mail: barry.myers@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5150

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K-12 Education in Science and Mathematics (1)

Gary Ybarra, Ph.D. (visit website)
Associate Professor Of The Practice Electrical & Computer Engineering

Specialty: engineering education in K-12; training K-12 teachers in engineering and inquiry-based science.
E-mail: gary@ee.duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5220

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Lubrication (1)

Josiah D. Knight, Ph.D. (visit website)
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Specialty: Research in lubrication to develop reliable and efficient methods of determining the temperatures and pressures in a lubricant film in order to predict the forces contributed by the film to the dynamics of a rotating shaft.
E-mail: jknight@acpub.duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5337

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Medical imaging (6)

Joseph Izatt, Ph.D. (visit website)
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Associate Professor of Ophthalmology

Specialty: application of optical technologies for non-invasive, high-resolution imaging and sensing in living biological tissues; optical coherence tomography (OCT).
E-mail: jizatt@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5128

Kathryn Nightingale, Ph.D. (visit website)
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Specialty: ultrasonic imaging, specifically nonlinear propagation, acoustic streaming and radiation force; the intentional generation of these phenomena for the purpose of tissue characterization; finite element modeling of normal and diseased tissue when exposed to ultrasound, and performing both phantom and clinical experiments investigating these phenomena.
E-mail: kathy.nightingale@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5175

Stephen Smith, Ph.D. (visit website)
Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Specialty: medical ultrasound image quality for applications in cardiology, radiology and obstetrics.
E-mail: ssmith@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5160

Gregg Trahey, Ph.D. (visit website)
James L and Elizabeth M. Vincent Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Professor of Radiology

Specialty: advanced ultrasonic imaging methods with a focus on breast and vascular imaging.
E-mail: get@egr.duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5169

Olaf T. von Ramm, Ph.D. (visit website)
Thomas Lord Professor of Engineering; Professor of Medicine; Director, Center for Emerging Cardiovascular Technologies

Specialty: development of new ultrasonic techniques for better visualization of the human anatomy; improved ultrasonic detection of tumors; improved detection and visualization of blood flow; general medical imaging and cardiovascular instrumentation.
E-mail: oramm@acpub.duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5137

Adam Wax , Ph.D. (visit website)
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Specialty: optical spectroscopy for early cancer detection, novel microscopy and interferometry techniques.
E-mail: a.wax@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5143

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Memory (1)

Jean-Marc Fellous, Ph.D. (visit website)
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Specialty: Semiconductor devices and materials; synthesis and design of nanostructures and microelectronic devices.
E-mail: fellous@duke.edu
Office: (919) 681-6536

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Microbial engineering, biological remediation (2)

Claudia Gunsch , Ph.D. (visit website)
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Specialty: microbial degredation of pollutants, biosensors fo pathogen detection, microbial ecology, biological treatment models
E-mail: ckgunsch@duke.edu
Office: (919) 660-5208

Andrew J. Schuler, Ph.D. (visit website)
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Specialty: Nutrient removal from wastewater, use of molecular methods for the characterization of microbial populations involved in wastewater treatment, the effects of bacterial storage products on sedimentation processes.
E-mail: aschuler@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5480

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Micro-electronic mechanical machines (MEMS) (2)

Jungsang Kim, Ph.D. (visit website)
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Specialty: quantum information science, advanced semiconductor photonic devices, micro and nano fabrication technologies, micro-electromechanial systems (MEMS) technology, integrated optical systems, fundamental and practical limits of sensors
E-mail: yoshie@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5258

Jonathan Protz, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Specialty: micro-electromechanical machines
E-mail: jonathan.protz@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5310

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Nanomaterial manufacturing and characterization(1)

Stefan Zauscher, Ph.D. (visit website)
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Specialty: Atomic Force Microscopy, characterization (elasticity, friction, adhesion) of materials including organic thin films, self-assembled monolayers (SAMs), synthesis of polymer brushes and thin films; stimulus-responsive materials; nano-patterning; surface specific characterization (SEM, ESCA, elliposmetry); cellulosic materials.
E-mail: zauscher@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5360

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Nanoscale/microscale computing systems (3)

April Brown, Ph.D. (visit website)
Chair and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Specialty: Semiconductor devices and materials; synthesis and design of nanostructures and microelectronic devices.
E-mail: abrown@ee.duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5442

Nan Marie Jokerst, Ph.D. (visit website)
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Specialty: hybrid optoelectronic integration and packaging of compound semiconductor devices with optical and electronic host substrates, embedded optoelectronic interconnections in high density interconnection substrates, alignment tolerant optoelectronic links for micro to long haul interconnections, three dimensional electrical and optical integration of Si circuits for massively parallel processing and interconnect, new integrated emitter, detector, transmitter, and receiver designs, and alignment tolerant optoelectronic free space, substrate, and fiber optic interconnect.
E-mail: njokerst@ee.duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5503

Jeff Glass, Ph.D. (visit website)
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Specialty: microsystem design and solid state, thin film deposition and characterization
E-mail: jeff.glass@duke.edu
Office: 919--660-5431

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Nonlinear Dynamics (3)

Lawrence Virgin, Ph.D. (visit website)
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Specialty: Nonlinear dynamical systems, and relating theory to problems of practical engineering importance such as nonlinear rolling motion of ships leading to capsize; buckling of axially-loaded structural components; and aeroelastic flutter of aircraft panels at high supersonic speeds.
E-mail: l.virgin@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5342

Laurens Howle, Ph.D. (visit website)
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Specialty: Numerical simulation of nonlinear convection systems, nonlinear dynamics and control of chaotic systems, thermal science, fluid dynamics, and nonlinear dynamics
E-mail: laurens.howle@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5331

Ana Barros, Ph.D. (visit website)
Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and Professor of History

Specialty: computational environmental fluid mechanics and nonlinear dynamics
E-mail: ana.barros@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5200

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Neural Prosthesis (1)

Warren Grill, Ph.D. (visit website)
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Specialty: Research interests: electrodes and stimulation methods, the electrical properties of tissues and cells, computational neuroscience, neural engineering and neural prostheses.
E-mail: warren.grill@duke.edu
Office: (919) 660-5276

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Photonics (6)

David J. Brady, Ph.D. (visit website)
Director, Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics and Communications Systems; Professor of Electrical Engineering

Specialty: Optical systems, including fiber optics, digital imaging, optical memories and infrared imaging
E-mail: dbrady@duke.edu
Office: 919-660 5394

Nan Marie Jokerst, Ph.D. (visit website)
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Specialty: hybrid optoelectronic integration and packaging of compound semiconductor devices with optical and electronic host substrates, embedded optoelectronic interconnections in high density interconnection substrates, alignment tolerant optoelectronic links for micro to long haul interconnections, three dimensional electrical and optical integration of Si circuits for massively parallel processing and interconnect, new integrated emitter, detector, transmitter, and receiver designs, and alignment tolerant optoelectronic free space, substrate, and fiber optic interconnect.
E-mail: njokerst@ee.duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5503

Jungsang Kim, Ph.D. (visit website)
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Specialty: quantum information science, advanced semiconductor photonic devices, micro and nano fabrication technologies, micro-electromechanial systems (MEMS) technology, integrated optical systems, fundamental and practical limits of sensors
E-mail: yoshie@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5258

Adrienne Stiff-Roberts, Ph.D. (visit website)
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Specialty: epitaxial growth and characterization of bulk and quantum-confined semiconductor materials, as well as the design, fabrication, and characterization of optoelectronic and photonic devices, particularly in the infrared regime
E-mail: adrienne.stiffroberts@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5560

Yomoyuki Yoshie, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Specialty: photonics and nanofabrication, encompassing photonic crystals, quantum optics, nonlinear optics, optical signal detection, optical signal generation, communication and processing and energy conservation
E-mail: yoshie@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5252

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Policy, Science and Engineering (2)

Earl Dowell, Ph.D. (webmail)
J. A. Jones Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Specialty: science and technology policy.
E-mail: dowell@mail.ee.duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5321

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Polymer and Protein Engineering (2)

Ashutosh Chilkoti, Ph.D. [website]
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Specialty: Genetically engineered biopolymers for drug delivery, nanobiotechnology, molecular surface engineering, protein arrays.
E-mail: chilkoti@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5373

William Reichert, Ph.D. (visit website)
Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Co-director, University Program in Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering

Specialty: Biosensors for detecting blood proteins and genetic screening; protein mediated cell adhesion; wound healing.
E-mail: reichert@acpub.duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5151

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Robotics (1)

Devendra P. Garg, Ph.D. (visit website)
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Specialty: Characterization and control of nonlinear phenomena in physical systems such as robots, automated manufacturing, and high-speed ground transportation.
E-mail: dpgarg@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5330

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Self-assembled computer architecture (1)

Chris Dwyer, Ph.D. (visit website)
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Specialty: design and fabrication of nanoelectronic computer architectures using DNA self-assembly
E-mail: dwyer@ece.duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5275

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Sensors (7)

David J. Brady, Ph.D. (visit website)
Director, Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics and Communications and Communications Systems; Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Specialty: Computational sensors for biomedical and national defense applications.
E-mail: dbrady@ee.duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5394

Lawrence Carin, Ph.D. (visit website)
William H. Younger Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; director Duke Center for Advanced Remote Sensing

Specialty: Remote detection and disarming of land mines and unexploded ordnance.
E-mail: lcarin@ee.duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5270

Leslie Collins, Ph.D. (visit website)
Associate Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Specialty: Statistical signal processing with applications in remote sensing and auditory prostheses; land mine detection.
E-mail: lcollins@ee.duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5260

Jungsang Kim, Ph.D. (visit website)
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Specialty: quantum information science, advanced semiconductor photonic devices, micro and nano fabrication technologies, micro-electromechanial systems (MEMS) technology, integrated optical systems, fundamental and practical limits of sensors
E-mail: yoshie@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5258

Jeffrey Peirce, Ph.D. (visit website)
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Specialty: environmental sensors
E-mail: peirce@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5210

William Reichert, Ph.D. (visit website)
Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Co-director, University Program in Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering

Specialty: Biosensors for detecting blood proteins and genetic screening; protein mediated cell adhesion; wound healing.
E-mail: reichert@acpub.duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5151

Jeffrey Krolik, Ph.D. (visit website)
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Specialty: Surveillance radars and microwave remote sensing; active and passive sonar; medical imaging.
E-mail: jk@ee.duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5274

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Solar Energy Materials (1)

F. Hadley Cocks, Sc.D. (visit website)
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Specialty: Solar energy materials.
E-mail: hadley01@acpub.duke.edu
Office number: 919-660-5301

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Sports Injuries (1)

Barry S. Myers, M.D., Ph.D. (visit website)
Anderson-Rupp Professor and Director of Graduate Studies of Biomedical Engineering

Specialty: Impact injury biomechanics and orthopedic biomechanics
E-mail: barry.myers@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5150

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Structural Engineering (2)

Henri Gavin, Ph.D. (visit website)
Associate Professor Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Specialty: response and reliability of structures to extreme loads; adaptive structures and vibration control.
E-mail: hpgavin@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5201

Tod A. Laursen, Ph.D. (visit website)
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Senior Associate Dean for Education

Specialty: response and reliability of structures to extreme loads; adaptive structures and vibration control.
E-mail: laursen@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5430

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Technology Transfer (3)

Henry Berger, Ph.D.
Director of Licensing

Specialty: technology transfer and licensing.
E-mail: hrberger@duke.edu
Office: 919-684-3311

Earl Dowell, Ph.D. (website)
J. A. Jones Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Specialty: Science and Technology Policy
E-mail: dowell@mail.ee.duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5321

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Thermodynamics (2)

Adrian Bejan, Ph.D. (visit website)
Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science

Specialty: thermal engineering: entropy generation minimization, exergy analysis, natural convection, combined heat and mass transfer, convection in porous media, transition to turbulence, melting, solidification, condensation, fouling, solar energy conversion, cryogenics, applied superconductivity and tribology
E-mail: abejan@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5314

Laurens Howle, Ph.D. (visit website)
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Specialty: Numerical simulation of nonlinear convection systems, nonlinear dynamics and control of chaotic systems, thermal science, fluid dynamics, and nonlinear dynamics
E-mail: laurens.howle@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5331

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Tissue Repair, Engineering (4)

Nenad Bursac, Ph.D. (visit website)
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Specialty: engineering of heart tissue substitutes with controllable geometry and function; experimental and therapeutic applications; optical mapping of electrical propagation in excitable tissues
E-mail: nenad.bursac@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5510

Laura Niklason, M.D., Ph.D. (website)
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology; Assistant Professor of Surgery

Specialty: Tissue engineering, especially engineered arteries; vascular biology; critical care medicine.
E-mail: nikla001@mc.duke.edu
Office: 919-681-3892

William Reichert, Ph.D. (visit website)
Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Co-director, University Program in Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering

Specialty: Biosensors for detecting blood proteins and genetic screening; protein mediated cell adhesion; wound healing.
E-mail: reichert@acpub.duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5151

Lori Setton, Ph.D. (visit website)
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Specialty: Functional tissue engineering, cartilage, meniscus and intervertebral disc regeneration, osteoarthritis
E-mail: setton@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5376, 5131 (office while on sabbatical)

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Waste, Hazardous (1)

Jeffrey Peirce, Ph.D. (visit website)
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Specialty: contaminated soil remediation; environmental sensors; environmental cyberinfrastructure networks; hazardous waste storage.
E-mail: peirce@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5210

Daniel Vallero, Ph.D. (visit website)
Adjunct Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Specialty: fate and transport of contaminants in the environment, environmental sampling and analysis, aerosol and fiber characterization
E-mail: daniel.vallero@duke.edu
Office: 919-541-3306

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Water, Resources and Treatment (3)

Karl G. Linden, Ph.D. (visit website)
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Specialty: Alternative disinfectants and advanced oxidation for water and wastewater treatment.
E-mail: kglinden@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5196

Miguel A. Medina Jr., Ph.D. (visit website)
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Specialty: international water resources; contaminant transport hydrology; modeling surface and ground water interactions.
E-mail: Miguel.medina@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5195

Andrew J. Schuler, Ph.D. (visit website)
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Specialty: Nutrient removal from wastewater, use of molecular methods for the characterization of microbial populations involved in wastewater treatment, the effects of bacterial storage products on sedimentation processes.
E-mail: aschuler@duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5480

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Women in Engineering (2)

April Brown, Ph.D. (visit website)
Chair and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Specialty: Women in engineering.
E-mail: abrown@ee.duke.edu
Office: 919-660-5442

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