Featured Story
Not All Who Wander Are Lost
Engineering students find inspiration in the arts, becoming creative problem solvers.
Growth comes from the exploration, and Duke University’s two undergraduate schools, the Pratt School of Engineering and the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, offer endless opportunities for students to explore as they chart their individual courses.
Many engineering students incorporate aspects of their studies in the arts and humanities into engineering projects as they advance through their engineering coursework, while others focus their energy on completing multiple rigorous tracks of study. However a student chooses to orchestrate their own experiences, their mindset grows in creativity, alongside their willingness to approach challenges with flexibility and innovation.
Meet a danger, a designer, and a musician, and learn how immersion in creative pursuits shaped their Duke Engineering experience.
Fall 2022 Issue
New Certificate Options Enable Master’s Students to Customize their Duke BME Degree
As one of the top 10 biomedical engineering programs in the country, Duke BME is an ideal home for students who wish to pursue a graduate degree.
Introducing Aaron Kyle
New faculty member Aaron Kyle hopes to expand and enhance the biomedical engineering design programs for students inside and outside Duke.
Detecting How COVID-19 Can Directly Infect and Damage Human Kidney Cells
A fortuitous collaboration between Duke BME’s Samira Musah and the Duke Human Vaccine Institute’s Maria Blasi helps illuminate why COVID is so adept at attacking kidney cells.
The Roboticists Are Coming
Already boasting a strong team focused on areas such as precision robotic aids for clinical applications, controlling complex swarms of robots collaborating on a single mission, and securing autonomous systems from nefarious attacks, Duke Robotics is expanding its areas of expertise with the hiring of Siobhan Oca and Boyuan Chen.
AI-Powered Golden Sheet Pushes the Boundaries of Soft Materials
Engineers at Duke University have developed a scalable soft surface that can continuously reshape itself to mimic objects in nature. Relying on electromagnetic actuation, mechanical modeling and machine learning to form new configurations, the surface can even learn to adapt to hindrances such as broken elements, unexpected constraints or changing environments.
“Nothing short of a revolution”: How the Internet of Things is shaping accessible tech
For hundreds of years, the luminous white marble domes and minarets of the Taj Mahal made it one of the world’s most recognizable landmarks. In the 1980s, though, the icon began to lose its luster.
Thinking Outside the Classroom
From the stairs of Duke Chapel to the most remote parts of the world, civil engineering students discover the fun in seeing practical knowledge put to work.
Engineering the End of Forever
A tale of two Duke CEE researchers working to identify and obliterate the “forever chemicals” tainting North Carolina’s drinking water.
Engineering the Duke BME Wet Lab Space
The Nello L. Teer Building is the first building that people walk by as they enter Duke University’s Harrington Engineering Quad from Science Drive.
Welcome to the Microbial Revolution
Say the word “microbe” and many people reflexively reach for a bottle of disinfectant. But where most see an adversary to be destroyed posthaste, Claudia Gunsch has always seen potential. She believes that microbiomes — the communities of microorganisms thriving all around us — can be engineered to serve both environmental and human health.
Beyond the Pinnacle
With the additions of Guillermo Sapiro in 2022, Duke ECE now has four faculty members who belong to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). The NAE’s peer-elected members hail from business, academia, and government and are among the world’s most accomplished engineers.
SMIF – Thinking Small
Duke’s Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility cultivates a collaborative and empowering environment for engineers who work at the tiniest scales.
Not All Who Wander Are Lost
Growth comes from the exploration, and Duke University’s two undergraduate schools, the Pratt School of Engineering and the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, offer endless opportunities for students to explore as they chart their individual courses.
The Dawning of the Age of the Metaverse
As I slid the headset’s clear lenses down over my eyes, the plastic skull on the table in front of me jumped into technicolor. Several inches beneath its smooth, white cranium, I could see vibrantly colored neurological structures waiting to be punctured by the medical instrument I held in my quivering hand.