<p>What do you foresee will happen at this university over the next 5 years? </p>
<p>I've been asked this a few times by helicopter parents with kids in middle school and high school.</p>
<p>It's intentionally posed as a broad topic. Just curious if anyone has any interesting insight.</p>
<p>So basically anything. Academically, Socially, Financially, Perception-Wise. W/e</p>
<p>We won't be studying lemurs in the primate center anymore, instead the lemurs will be studying us! I for one welcome our lemur overlords and assure them that I will do all I can to ensure that the new lemur world order enjoys a long and prosperous reign.</p>
<p>god almighty</p>
<p>Is Duke any different than it was 5 years ago, even taking into account the LAX deal? How about 10 years ago?</p>
<p>^^^^Certainly.</p>
<p>Just a few things:</p>
<p>-The financial aid program has been vastly improved.</p>
<p>-The new DukeEngage Program</p>
<p>-Duke Global Health Institute Launched</p>
<p>-Huge Construction Binge:
Bostock
Nasher Museum
von der Heyden Pavilion
Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy
French Science Family Center
The plaza
Bell Tower
various engineering buildings (Duke Home Depot Smart Home, etc.)
Law and Business School renovation</p>
<p>I think in 10 yrs the reputation of Duke Engineering will be approaching the top 10 nationally, given that effect of CIEMAS will be complete. CIEMAS has already lured in a huge number of new faculty and has created a number of new research opportunities.</p>
<p>Certainly Duke engineering's reputation will grow. </p>
<p>I also see the medical school improving as Duke's various departments increase cooperation. Duke's engineering school has already been cooperating heavily with researchers and doctors from the med center and I can see more innovations in the future from these research ties. </p>
<p>In terms of the rest of the school, I can see expansion on the part of Nicholas School (new location, new faculty, etc) and general expansion of the campus (new buildings, faculty, etc.)</p>
<p>Haha....Duke's engineering is already at the top isn't it? They are like at the top (#2) for biomedical engineering already...</p>
<p>But Pratt also includes ME, CEE, and ECE...I can see those climb in the rankings as we recruit more talented faculty and open new facilities...</p>
<p>^^^ The person is referring to Duke's engineering program from an aggregate perspective -- not from a single department. Duke is not top 10 in engineering overall yet, but that is what it is aiming for, and I can see that happening in 10 years.</p>
<p>Perhaps more than 4 possible majors in Pratt?</p>
<p>unlikely... mainly because the student body is not increasing in size.... also those 4 majors cover the fundmentals for any type of engineering.</p>
<p>except for maybe chemical engineering...</p>
<p>Violence on Campus and around the area will increase...</p>
<p>I disagree, violence isn't like inflation where the price of a pizza is almost guaranteed to be higher in 5 years. I think the rate of violence will be relatively stable.</p>
<p>I know the number of students in Pratt isn't increasing, but I feel like the fact that we only have 4 possible majors is causing some of the lack of increase...Or is this a trend in engineering programs throughout the nation?</p>
<p>I agree that the violence will probably stay around this level.</p>
<p>While I think that having only 4 majors is a factor in the level of enrollment I also think that having 4 majors that we are good at is much more important than having a large engineering school with a bunch of mediocre departments. Quality over quantity and all that...</p>
<p>Well I don't know about recent trends but my year the engineering school increased its enrollment a little too quickly, so I don't think growth of the engineering school is really an issue. (plus I don't think we want it to get too much bigger than in already is, I dunno)</p>
<p>The "only four majors" thing is kinda an issue but not really that much. BME is already ridiculously popular and adding more majors isn't really going to change that so you'd get really really small graduating classes for the rest of the majors. (you already have pretty small classes anyway)</p>
<p>So unless Pratt really increases its enrollment I wouldn't expect many more majors anytime soon.</p>
<p>BME is so popular at Duke because it is so good. If we had another department that ranked in the top 5 then I think a lot more people will go for it. Not that I'm saying the other three departments are bad, but I bet some engineers applied to pratt with BME in mind because the program is ranked #2.</p>
<p>Sure, havening another department in the top five would see more people applying to come study in that department. But I think if anything that would work against getting more varied majors in Pratt. (not really something I support actually, we just aren't a big enough school to support as many majors as other engineering schools) Unless we could somehow get all of our majors in the top five (which would be nice) we will probably continue to see an unbalanced major pool coming out of Pratt.</p>