W. J. Seeley served as the Dean of Duke University's

Edmund T. Pratt Jr. School of Engineering The Pratt School of Engineering is located at Duke University in the United States. The school's associated research, education, alumni and service-to-society efforts are collectively known as Duke Engineering. Research expenditures at Duke Engi ...

from 1953 until 1963. He also served as chairman of the Electrical Engineering Department at

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

. He was formerly an engineering professor at

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. During World War II, he served as Director of the Naval Ordnance Laboratory. He graduated from the

Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn The New York University Tandon School of Engineering (commonly referred to as Tandon) is the engineering and applied sciences school of New York University. Tandon is the second oldest private engineering and technology school in the United Sta ...

(now New York University Tandon School of Engineering). The Walter J. Seeley Scholastic Award is awarded annually at

to the member of the graduating class of the

who has achieved the highest scholastic average in all subjects.

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