News
April 02, 2018
Duke Launches Engineering Scholars Program with $15M Gift
Newly announced $15 million from the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation to establish a new undergraduate program focused on leadership, service, and business and entrepreneurship
March 30, 2018
Yiran Chen Recieves Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers
Fellowship will allow Chen to work with collaborators in Germany on memristor-based neuromorphic computing systems
March 28, 2018
Data & Decision Sciences
By teaching students to leverage statistical analysis to glean useful insights from complex, real-world datasets, a new course aims to make data competency a signature strength of every Duke Engineering undergraduate
March 27, 2018
Natasha Litchinitser: Structuring Materials to Control Light
New faculty member Natasha Litchinitser brings expertise in engineering materials to manipulate visible light waves to Duke’s pioneering metamaterials group
March 26, 2018
Beyond Materials: From Invisibility Cloaks to Satellite Communications
Duke-developed “metamaterials” are carefully designed structures that control all sorts of physical waves in previously impossible ways
March 22, 2018
Real-World Design
An innovative course gives first-year students early engineering experience as they work in teams to design, prototype and deliver solutions to meet real community needs
March 20, 2018
Student-produced Performance Illuminates Links Between Energy, Technology and the Body
A Bass Connections team explores and provokes deeper questioning of energy use
March 15, 2018
Duke Names Engineering Quadrangle in Honor of Thomas and Susan Harrington
The central quadrangle at the Pratt School of Engineering has been named the “Harrington Engineering Quadrangle” in honor of Thomas E. Harrington E’66 and Susan C. Harrington
March 13, 2018
Inaugural Baquerizo Innovation Grant Recipients Named
Student inventors of devices to safely move hospital patients and to diagnose eye diseases won the first BIG grants – a $20,000 program that supports Duke Engineering undergraduate entrepreneurship
March 08, 2018
Tarokh Joins Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences Scientific Advisory Panel
Vahid Tarokh has joined the Scientific Advisory Panel for the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences