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Machine Learning Master’s Program Adapts to Meet Industry Needs
11/4/24 Pratt School of Engineering

Machine Learning Master’s Program Adapts to Meet Industry Needs

A new curriculum in the master’s program in Electrical and Computer Engineering’s Machine Learning and Big Data study track will debut in Fall 2025, aligning student training with current industry needs.

Del Cudjoe, Alec Liu, and Ken Kalin
QuikCal: From First-Year Design Idea to Reality
10/30/24 Pratt School of Engineering

QuikCal: From First-Year Design Idea to Reality

A student team rekindled a class project with the help of ChatGPT and debuted their construction site delivery scheduling system over the summer.

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Faculty on Social Media: Friend or Foe?
10/15/24 Pratt School of Engineering

Faculty on Social Media: Friend or Foe?

Examining the advantages and drawbacks of pursuing social media accounts as a researcher.

Pranam Chatterjee speaks with a student in his lab
The Increasingly Inescapable Need to Integrate Ethics
10/15/24 Pratt School of Engineering

The Increasingly Inescapable Need to Integrate Ethics

Engineers are facing more ethical dilemmas in their professional lives than ever before. Students need to be taught how to handle them

Ken Gall, Aaron Franklin, Ashutosh Chilkoti, and Sonia Grego
The Hard-Earned Lessons of Academic Entrepreneurs
10/15/24 Pratt School of Engineering

The Hard-Earned Lessons of Academic Entrepreneurs

Faculty entrepreneurs from Duke Engineering share their experiences of what it takes to spin a startup out of a university.

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NASA’s U-2 Spy Plane Found Gamma Rays in 90% of Lightning Storms
10/2/24 Popular Science

NASA’s U-2 Spy Plane Found Gamma Rays in 90% of Lightning Storms

Professor Steve Cummer says, "There is way more going on in thunderstorms than we ever imagined. As it turns out, essentially all big thunderstorms generate gamma rays all day long in many different forms.”

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Most Tropical Lightning Storms Are Radioactive
10/2/24 Pratt School of Engineering

Most Tropical Lightning Storms Are Radioactive

New observations from a retrofitted U2 spy plane reveal a surprising amount and variety of gamma radiation is produced in large tropical thunderstorms