Pratt School of Engineering

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Pratt School of Engineering

Established	1939
Parent institution	Duke University
Dean	Jerome P. Lynch, PhD, F.EMI
Academic staff	156
Undergraduates	1,257[1]
Postgraduates	1,281
Location	Durham, North Carolina, United States
Website	pratt.duke.edu

The Pratt School of Engineering is the engineering school of Duke University, a private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States.

Research expenditures at Duke Engineering exceed $88 million per year. Its faculty is highly ranked in overall research productivity among U.S. engineering schools by Academic Analytics.^[2] More than 30 Duke alumni and faculty have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Engineering since its founding in 1964.^[3]

The Pratt School of Engineering also maintains these academic departments:^[4]

• Biomedical Engineering
• Civil & Environmental Engineering
• Electrical & Computer Engineering
• Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science

The school was created by Duke's Board of Trustees in 1939. It was named in 1999 following a $35 million gift by Edmund T. Pratt Jr., a 1947 graduate and former chief executive of Pfizer.^[5] The Duke University Pratt School of Engineering celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2014–2015.^[6]