Duke ECE Hardware Startup Selected for Y Combinator
Researchers Tania Roy and Sanjeev Chauhan will take their retina-inspired semiconductor startup, Synapse Semiconductor, to Y Combinator this summer.
Master’s Student Outcomes
Launch into a High-Impact Career
When our ECE students complete their master’s degrees, they don’t leave Duke. They launch.
Our graduates accelerate from our forward-looking programs with wide-ranging connections and opportunities. During your studies, you’ll work 1:1 with a career coach and discover how far your purpose and drive can take you.
Graduates of our ECE program have gone on to careers with some of the world’s leading tech companies.
Select Recent Employers
- Amazon / Amazon Web Services
- Apple
- Cadence Design Systems
- Meta
- Microsoft
- NVIDIA
Select Recent Universities
- Duke University
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Meet Duke ECE Alumni
How a Tiny Yellow Handheld Changed How Duke University Teaches Game Design
Duke’s MEng in Game Design, Development, and Innovation program connected with an alumnus to use a quirky, yellow, handheld game console to teach iterative design.
From ECE Master’s to the High-Performance Computing Industry
Patrick Pensabene, MEng ’14, shares his experience in the ECE master’s program at Duke University. A rigorous curriculum plus supportive faculty with industry connections opened the path to the exact career he wanted in high-performance computing.