Equipping future engineering leaders with innovation and ethical responsibility to tackle real-world challenges.
Duke Engineering is constantly working to evolve the engineering education paradigm by focusing on teaching the engineering design process, providing real-world, project-based learning opportunities, and integrating character and ethical considerations into all levels of the curriculum. Explore some examples of how our forward-thinking faculty are exploring these concepts in a wide range of opportunities for our students.
Our reimagined First-Year Computing course helps students to “think like an engineer,” teaching them the fundamentals of carefully constructing a step-by-step algorithm before writing a single line of code. A set of real-world projects that spans disciplines also helps students realize how coding confidence will help them in their careers, regardless of their intended major.
Students gain early experience as they work in multi-disciplinary teams to design and build prototype solutions to solve real-world, client-based problems. Not only do students learn the engineering design process, which will empower their future projects regardless of their career destinations, they get to try on the cloak of an engineer and see themselves as practicing professionals.
Creating impact is about more than mastering a set of skills. It’s a way of looking at the world. Engaged engineers need to understand how solutions will affect communities beyond their clients and how to design products that people will choose to use.
We aim to intentionally cultivate positive character traits through our curricular and co-curricular activities. The goal is that our graduates receive a rigorous engineering education while also becoming better people.
We’ve curated career-ready disciplines to meet the demands of the rapidly evolving industries.
The architect of our signature First-Year Design experience, Ann Saterbak has been teaching team project classes at the collegiate level since 1999. Her efforts earned her the Biomedical Engineering Lifetime Faculty Mentor Award from the American Society for Engineering Education Biomedical Engineering Division this year.
A Duke Engineering alumnus, Cameron Kim is a professor of the practice dedicated to challenging students to think about the possible impacts of the work biomedical engineers do, and think not only about the field’s current challenges, but also the future ethical challenges they may face as these technologies evolve.
Director of Duke Engineering’s new Character Forward Program, Rich Eva is working with faculty, staff and students to incorporate ethics into every level of our curriculum, helping our students cultivate character traits like kindness, patience, curiosity and intellectual humility.
The Karsh STEM+ Scholars Program will match undergraduate students who have declared majors in disciplines in the natural sciences, engineering, and STEM-related fields with faculty in the Pratt School of Engineering and Trinity College of Arts & Sciences. The “plus” part of the STEM+ scholars program is the addition of economics, which Bruce Karsh, an alumnus from the class of 1977, studied as an undergraduate at Duke.
Getting hands-on experience inside and outside of the classroom is essential to student success. And at Duke Engineering, collaboration isn’t just a concept – it’s our way of life. See this central tenet on full display as our interdisciplinary cybersecurity team takes home national awards.
The Duke AERO Club provides aerospace-focused engineering opportunities in the form of rocket design and fabrication, along with community/industry networking opportunities. See why co-curricular opportunities such as this provide opportunities to explore projects and technologies on a longer-term scale than most classes allow.
A new accelerated 12 month track for a financial technology master of engineering degree.
A new coursera series designed to empower future AI leaders with the skills needed to design solutions for real-world challenges that are both powerful and ethically responsible.
Join the Duke Robotics club as they prepare their custom-built autonomous underwater vehicle for national competition, getting hands-on experience in areas such as full-stack electronics, systems integration, high-level programming and getting back up after failure.
Dive into the latest from Duke Engineering: where ambitious discovery fuels societal impact, and our students, faculty and staff continually push the boundaries of what’s possible in the world through insightful engineering.
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.
Duke Engineering’s annual Graduate School Boot Camp provides resources for those interested taking their next academic step—at Duke or anywhere else
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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