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Lectures will be given by invited speakers drawn from many university and medical center departments including
Biomedical Engineering, radiology, physics, radiation safety, and radiation oncology. Prerequisites: background in
engineering or physics. 1 CC (0.5 ES/0.5 ED). Consent of instructor required. Instructor: Lo and Samei. 1 unit.
360. Leading Medical Devices: Innovation to Market. Interdisciplinary examination of the medical device landscape
for business, engineering, and medicine. Provides core tools for individuals interested in product design and
development. Includes market definition and modeling, financing, reimbursement, business plan modeling, and the
global marketplace. Case-based and team-based learning including developing a business plan and 510K approval will
augment core instruction and guest lecturers. Consent of instructor required. Instructor: Chopra. 3 units.
362. Invention to Application: Healthcare Research Commercialization. Interdisciplinary teams of students from
engineering, medical science, business, and medicine work together to understand and evaluate the commercial
potential of Duke faculty research innovations and develop a comprehensive research translation and business plan for
one chosen opportunity. Learning includes understanding technology, product development, marketing, finance,
regulatory requirements, and reimbursement. In addition to weekly lectures, students are mentored in this real world
experience by a team including technology transfer experts, venture capitalists, researchers, physicians, and
entrepreneurs. Prerequisites: none. Consent of instructor required. Instructor: Myers, Uzbil. 3 units.
365. Advanced Topics for Graduate Students in Biomedical Engineering. Advanced subjects related to programs within
biomedical engineering tailored to fit the requirements of a small group. Consent of instructor required. Instructor: Staff.
3 units.
370. Graduate Seminars in BME. Graduate seminars in BME. Discussions on topics of interests to BME graduate
students. Instructor: Staff. 1 unit.
399. Special Readings in Biomedical Engineering. Individual readings in advanced study and research areas of
biomedical engineering. Approval of director of graduate studies required. 1 to 3 units each. Instructor: Staff. Variable
credit.
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Professor Albertson, Chair (121 Engineering); Associate Professor of the Practice Schaad, Associate Chair; Professor
Dolbow, Director of Graduate Studies; Professors Albertson, Barros, Deshusses, Ferguson, Hueckel, Laursen, Medina,
Petroski, Porporato, Scruggs, Virgin, Wiesner; Associate Professors Boadu, Dolbow, Gavin, Kabala, Peirce; Assistant
Professors Gunsch, Hsu-Kim, Khlystov; Associate Professors of the Practice Nadeau and Schaad; Professors Emeriti
Brown and Wilson; Adjunct Associate Professor Linden; Adjunct Assistant Professor Schuler; Lecturer Brasier;
Secondary Appointments: Professors Haff (geology), Malin (seismology), Reckhow (water resources), Trangenstein
(mathematics), Vallero (engineering ethics); Associate Professor Kasibhatla (environmental chemistry); Assistant
Professor of the Practice Goodall (geospacial analysis)
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at Duke University offers programs of study and
research leading to the MS and PhD degrees with a major in Civil and Environmental Engineering. CEE pursues
diverse research and educational activities to improve the fundamental safety, health, and quality of life in our society.
These activities focus on three broad areas: (1) materials, structures, and geo-systems; (2) hydrology and fluid
dynamics; and, (3) environmental process engineering.
Overlapping at times, these areas represent the three tracks of study offered by our graduate faculty. The specific
areas include engineering mechanics, computational mechanics, geo-materials and environmental geo-mechanics,
engineering and environmental geophysics, structural engineering, water resources engineering, hydrology,
environmental fluid dynamics, and environmental process engineering aspects of water, atmosphere, and soil
pollution.
Current research in these areas focuses on new computational paradigms for complex mechanical systems,
including contact, fracture and damage problems; environmental geomechanics and geophysics; adaptive materials and
structures and their use in structural dynamics; microstructured materials; deterministic and stochastic water resources
and contaminant hydrology; global and regional water cycle; ocean-land-atmosphere interactions; biological and
chemical aspects of pollution and its remediation in water, air, and soil.
Additionally, students may explore interdisciplinary research topics within a new strategic initiative undertaken by
CEE in the area of “Extreme Environments.” Research in this field will ensure a safer response of the environment and
structures to various extreme conditions, occurring spontaneously, incidentally or by design. The Department also
supports two new multidisciplinary research thrusts in (1) instrument and sensor technology applied to measurements
in and monitoring of environmental, structural and geo-environmental systems; and, (2) mathematical and experimental
simulators, all broadly related to the natural and engineered environments. With the latter initiatives the Department
plans to lead the profession in developing a new physical models aimed at simulating the chemical, biological, physical,
and mechanical aspects of the environment and structures. That includes scaling laws to extrapolate processes from the
model scale to the local, regional and global scales, or from the micro-structural to macro-structural scale. These new
physical models will also provide a means of studying the fundamental processes necessary to develop self-sustained
environmental systems to be used for long-term space exploration missions.
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