Overview
George Delagrammatikas joined Duke University in January 2020 as Assistant Chair and Director of Master's Studies (DMS). As a Professor of the Practice, he focuses on establishing and promoting high-impact educational opportunities for MEMS students in both graduate and undergraduate courses. George brings expertise in design thinking, hands-on learning environments, automotive engineering, and design optimization.
His research is linked directly to in-class activities. Samples of this work can be found in the Master of Science capstone course: ME 555 - Experiment Design and Research Methods (https://sites.duke.edu/memscapstone/).
George has been committed to STEM outreach and initiated the Duke Summer STEM Academy in 2022 in order to expose rising juniors and seniors in high school to the process of engineering design through real-world application to problems of societal importance (https://sites.duke.edu/summerstem/).
Competitive undergraduate racing has been an interest of George's since his college days on a solar car team that raced across the United States. He brings his love for racing to his position as faculty advisor to the Duke Motorsports Team where he teaches students about engineering design, systems thinking, and project management.
George chaired the External Advisory Board for the MEMS Department (2022, 2023, 2024) and completed his terms as both DMS and Associate Chair of Academic Planning in December 2024.
His research is linked directly to in-class activities. Samples of this work can be found in the Master of Science capstone course: ME 555 - Experiment Design and Research Methods (https://sites.duke.edu/memscapstone/).
George has been committed to STEM outreach and initiated the Duke Summer STEM Academy in 2022 in order to expose rising juniors and seniors in high school to the process of engineering design through real-world application to problems of societal importance (https://sites.duke.edu/summerstem/).
Competitive undergraduate racing has been an interest of George's since his college days on a solar car team that raced across the United States. He brings his love for racing to his position as faculty advisor to the Duke Motorsports Team where he teaches students about engineering design, systems thinking, and project management.
George chaired the External Advisory Board for the MEMS Department (2022, 2023, 2024) and completed his terms as both DMS and Associate Chair of Academic Planning in December 2024.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Professor of the Practice in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
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2020 - Present
Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science,
Pratt School of Engineering
Recent Publications
Pre-college design ”Tech for Good”: As a member of a collaborative team, students believe they can change the world.
Conference ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Conference Proceedings · January 1, 2025 This paper describes the project facilitation strategies and evaluation results from a 3-week engineering design program for high school students. The program features student-led project ideation and teaming to develop “Tech for Good”. Students were taske ... Full text CiteMeasuring the traction limits and suspension forces of a formula SAE racecar
Conference ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Conference Proceedings · June 15, 2019 Intercollegiate competitions have established themselves as authentic engineering experiences as both extracurricular learning opportunities and hands-on supplements to traditional course instruction. The following paper describes the integration of a Form ... CiteUsing human-centered design to drive project-based learning in a high school summer stem course (evaluation)
Conference ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Conference Proceedings · June 15, 2019 This paper presents a case study describing improvements made to an existing makerspace high school summer outreach course, by using survey data to evaluate the effectiveness of adding Human Centered Design (HCD) into a project-based inventorship curriculu ... CiteEducation
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor ·
2001
Ph.D.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor ·
1996
M.S.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology ·
1995
B.S.M.E.