Engineering Design Experiences While Designing Engineering Curricula
A closer look at the design experiences becoming more common in engineering schools across the country
Building Character and Educational Excellence
Equipping future engineering leaders with innovation and ethical responsibility to tackle real-world challenges.
Innovative Educational Programs
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.
First-Year Computing
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.
First-Year Design
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.
Entrepreneurship
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.
Character Forward Initiative
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.
Industry-Approved Curriculums
We’ve curated career-ready disciplines to meet the demands of the rapidly evolving industries.
Making an Impact
Ann Saterbak
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.
Cameron Kim
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.
Rich Eva
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.
$25 Million Gift to Establish New STEM+ Scholars Program
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.
Top Ranked Programs
Our Priority: Student Success
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.
Launching Curiosities
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.
New Areas of Study
FinTech 12 Month Track
A new accelerated 12 month track for a financial technology master of engineering degree.
Explainable Artificial Intelligence
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.
Exploring the Depths
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.
News from Duke Engineering
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.
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Upcoming Events
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Duke Cybersecurity Conference
The Cybersecurity at Duke Conference is an annual event that brings together key players and thought leaders in cybersecurity, information technology, technology policy, and legal and regulatory experts interested in […]
Oct 24 8:00 am-5:00 pm Penn Pavilion
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Oct 16
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Oct 16
Career Coach Drop-In Hours for Engineering Master’s Students
All engineering Master’s students are invited to use this weekday service to have an individual conversation with a career coach about any topic. No appointment is needed and the conversation […]
11:30 am Online
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Oct 16
FIP Seminar: Development and application of a calcium sensor for recording neuronal activity in freely-moving mice at cellular resolution
Recording large-scale brain activity patterns at cellular resolution in freely-behaving mice using current recording approaches presents several challenges. First, linear microscopy methods lack the depth penetration and optical sectioning required […]
12:00 pm Fitzpatrick Center Schiciano Auditorium Side A, room 1464
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