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clusters are housed in the department. Many problems addressed by the faculty and students of the Department of
Civil and Environmental Engineering are computationally complex and could not be approached without the
substantial computing facilities available at Duke.
Electrical and Computer Engineering. General computing laboratory equipped with several IBM RS-6000s servers
and a fast interconnect network in a UNIX environment for interactive design, graphics, computation, and computeraided
engineering; Sun SPARC workstations for VLSI design; ethernet network for connection to regional, national,
and international data networks; Signal Processing Laboratory with Sun workstations; microwave facilities for
experimentation up to 35 GHz; robotics with a GE P-50 robot; microprocessor laboratory; Digital Systems Laboratory;
solid-state power conditioning laboratories with dedicated computers for controlling instruments, including digital
processing oscilloscopes and network and impedance analyzers, and for computer-aided design; clean room and
semiconductor nMOS fabrication laboratory for integrated circuits; a molecular beam epitaxy laboratory for III-V
compound semiconductor crystal growth using a Riber Model 3R&D MBE system; access to the design, fabrication,
and research facilities of the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina; and an ion implanter and MOCVD epitaxial
growth system in a III-V compound semiconductor lab at the Research Triangle Institute.
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science. The department has a number of well-equipped laboratories for
studies in aerodynamics, acoustics, nonlinear dynamics and chaos, microscale and convective heat transfer,
computational fluid mechanics and heat transfer, control theory, cell and membrane biomechanics, biorheology,
polymer engineering, corrosion, electronic materials, physical metallurgy, positron annihilation spectroscopy, and
expert systems. Equipment in these laboratories includes a wind tunnel, several scanning electron microscopes and
scanning tunneling microscopes, doppler broadening and lifetime positron systems, a liquid helium cryostat, DSC/
DMA facilities and diffusion furnace, inverted microscopes, low-light-level video cameras and a photon counter, cellculture
systems, an anechoic chamber, dynamic signal analyzers and laser velocimeters for dynamic analysis, an X-ray
generator and diffractometer, FTIR spectrometer, high-power lasers with lock-in amplifier, and fluorescence
microscopes.
The Duke Hypo-Hyperbaric Center is a major center for research, treatment and training involving hyperbaric
and hypobaric exposure and simulation. The facility includes the F. G. Hall Laboratory, a large multi-chamber complex,
and supporting clinical and laboratory serv ices. Hyperbaric oxygen is used in the treatment of many disorders, including
decompression illness, gas gangrene, carbon monoxide poisoning and wound healing. The hyperbaric facility is fully
equipped with state-of-the-art hemodynamic and blood gas monitoring equipment, allowing uninterrupted delivery of
critical care for patients requiring intermittent hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
As the headquarters of the National Diver's Alert Network (DAN), the lab is a major resource for the referral and
treatment of serious diving accidents and air embolism cases and for the largest recreational diving illness data base
in the world. The laboratory provides opportunities for research and for training for physicians, postdoctorates, and
graduate students in pressure-related medicine and physiology. The program is multidisciplinary with major
participation by the Departments of Anesthesiology, Medicine, Surgery, Cell Biology, Neurobiology, and the Pratt
School of Engineering.
The Medical Center. Currently the Medical Center at Duke University occupies approximately 140 acres on the
West Campus. The southern quadrant is contiguous with the main quadrangle of the university and consists of the
following: Davison Building, Duke Hospital South, Baker House, Barnes Woodhall Building, Diagnostic and Treatment
Building, Ewald W. Busse Building, Eugene A. Stead Building, Clinical Research II, and the Edwin A. Morris Clinical
Cancer Research Building.
The northern portion includes the Joseph and Kathleen Bryan Research Building for Neurobiology, Nanaline H.
Duke Medical Sciences Building, Alex H. Sands Medical Sciences Building, Edwin L. Jones Basic Cancer Research
Building, Clinical and Research Laboratory Building, Bell Building, Seeley G. Mudd Communications Center and
Library, Joseph A. C. Wadsworth Building (Eye Center), Duke Hospital North Division and Anlyan Tower, and
Lenox Baker Hospital.
In the eastern section of the campus are Pickens Rehabilitation Center, Civitan Mental Retardation and Child
Development Center, and Trent Drive Hall.In the western section of the campus are: Surgical Oncology Research
Building; Environmental Safety Building; Research Park Buildings I, II, III, and IV; the Vivarium; and the Cancer
Center Isolation Facility.
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