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Brad Fox
Associate Dean, Professional Masters Programs
Pratt School of Engineering
Duke University
Brad.Fox@duke.edu
Erin Degerman
Admissions Officer, Professional Masters Programs
Pratt School of Engineering
Duke University
Erin.Degerman@duke.edu
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10 Academic Schools
7 Interdisciplinary Institutes
6600 Undergraduate students
7200 Graduate students
Top 10 US University
Research University
• 5th in US research funding
• 7 Major externally funded
centers in engineering
Bass Connections
Duke Smart Home
Clubs
Engineering World Health
Competitions
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Rotman Trading Competition
Pratt School of Engineering
• Mission
– To enable students to lead productive, rewarding, and ethical
lives for the betterment of society
– To prepare leaders and innovators of the 21st century global
workforce
– To lead in research that involves fundamental discoveries
applied to the grand challenges of our time
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Graduate Engineering Degrees
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PhD – Doctor of Philosophy
MS – Master of Science
MEng – Master of Engineering
MEM – Master of Engineering Management
Why Engineering and
Business?
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"The engineer of the future
will need a larger collection
of skills. They will need to
know as much about politics,
law and business as they will
about engineering."
- John Chambers, Chairman and CEO, CISCO.
In today’s complex, global world,
being an engineer is not enough.
Challenges Facing Today’s
Global Engineer
- Allyson Peerman
AMD's VP of Public Affairs
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How Do You Prepare For
Today’s Challenges?
Business Breadth
Technical Depth
To be more than an engineer,
develop “T-shaped” knowledge
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What Program Does Duke Offer to
Provide Engineering and Business?
Master of Engineering
• 2 Core Business courses
• 8 discipline based technical
electives
• Internship
Master of Engineering
Management
• 4 Core Business courses
• 4 technical electives
– Discipline based
– Implementation based
• Seminar and Workshop
Series
• Internship
Duke offers 2 interdisciplinary engineering masters degrees
to prepare engineers for today’s complex, global world.
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MEM and MEng
MEM
MS/PhD
MBA
Technical
Business
MEng
MS – Master of Science
PhD – Doctor of Philosophy
MEng – Master of Engineering
MEM – Master of Engineering Management
MBA – Master of Business Administration
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Master of Engineering Degree
Core Business Courses
Management of High Tech Industries
Business Fundamentals
Discipline Options
Biomedical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Environmental Engineering
Materials Science and Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Photonics and Optical Sciences
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Master of Engineering Management
Interdisciplinary degree in collaboration with the Fuqua School of
Business and the Duke School of Law
Core Business Courses
Marketing
Finance
Management
Law
Focus Areas
Innovation and Commercialization
Construction Mgmt. and Prop. Development
Data and Decisions
Entrepreneurship
Financial Engineering
Operations and Supply Chain Management
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Innovation
Innovation = Invention + Implementation
MEng
MEMP
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Preparing Students to Invent
Sample MEng – BME Technical Courses
CE 202 Applied Mathematics for Engineers
MEDPHY 205 Anatomy and Physiology for
Medical Physicists
BME 233 Modern Diagnostic Imaging
Systems
BME 264 Medical Instrument Design
BME 237 Biosensors
BME 248 Tissue Engineering
BME 262 Design Developing World
BME 254 Fundamentals Electrical
Stimulation Nervous System
MEng/PhD student Neil Terry investigates
the use of light to detect pre-cancerous cells.
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Preparing Students to Implement
Technical Elective Course Examples
Engineering Project Management
Operations Management
Supply Chain Management
Decision Models
Advanced Engineering Systems Optimization
and Simulation
Commercializing Technology Innovations
Managing Product Development
Product Management
Project Management teams are challenged
to complete a 1376 piece roller coaster in
2.5 hours that takes ~6 person-hours to
build.
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Where is Duke?
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The Triangle area of North Carolina: Durham, Raleigh and Chapel Hill
•Population of about 1,700,000
•Home to 3 major research universities and 9 colleges
•Home to Research Triangle Park, the largest research park in the world
•Highest number of MD’s and PhD’s per capita anywhere in the world
•International airport about 20 minutes from Duke’s campus
•USNWR : Durham one of top 10 places to live in US
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Can you see
yourself at
Duke?
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Questions?