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We’ll Leave the Maker Space Open For You
Duke Engineering packs all of the amenities and experiences of a big land-grant institution into a fun-sized package you’ll love to call home. Stroll through our Gothic wonderland on your way to modern classrooms and laboratories, refreshing gardens and a fun place we call the design pod. Come see it for yourself.
Take the Undergraduate Engineering Tour
Prospective students: Explore Duke with our knowledgeable guides—in-person or virtually. Be sure to ask about the fancy new espresso machine in Twinnies Café.
Buildings
Our engineering campus is adjacent to Duke University Medical Center—proximity that facilitates collaboration with world-leading clinicians.
Wilkinson Building
This 81,000-square-foot LEED-certified facility features research neighborhoods on the upper floors focused on health, advanced computing, and the environment. On the main floor, stop by Bseisu Coffee Bar for a snack and build in the Garage Labs.
Fitzpatrick Center
By design, this complex encourages creative interaction across a vast 125,000 square feet. Conduct research in wet labs. Fabricate nanotech materials in a Class 1000 cleanroom. Attend a seminar in Schiciano Auditorium. Meet for lunch at Twinnies.
Hudson Hall
This elegant building opened in 1948 and has been greatly expanded and modernized many times since. On the main floor, catch a visiting speaker’s presentation in Vincent Lecture Hall or check in at your department’s office. In the labs, run an experiment in the subsonic wind tunnel or explore acoustics in the anechoic chamber.
Nello L. Teer Building
This modernist structure is where you can share a fist-bump with the dean, map out your academic plan with your advising dean, take a selfie with the Engineering Alumni Mural and grab a free copy of I/O Magazine.
Research & Development Facilities
Duke Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility (SMiF)
This Duke-based National Science Foundation affiliate provides university and industry access to technologies vital to the development of new nanoscale materials—including 4,000 square feet of class 100 and class 1000 cleanroom, and suites for electron and atomic force microscopy and X-ray analysis. Located in the Fitzpatrick Center.
Duke Robotics Lab
This 6,000-square-foot collaborative workspace in the North Building gives multidisciplinary robotics faculty room to thrive. There are simulation and robotics platforms, two rooms for private human-in-the-loop experiments, a central observation room and large open lab space for experiments and demonstrations.
Duke BRiDGE
Duke BRiDGE is an incubator for Duke spin-out companies working in biotechnology and related industries. The center, located in a former cigarette factory near downtown Durham (renovated and repurposed for life sciences research) includes well-appointed laboratories and corporate amenities. Seasoned executives-in-residence provide advice and coaching to startups.
Christensen Family Center for Innovation
For students, CFCI is a product lab in the Wilkinson Building where prototypes are designed and products developed. What CFCI’s experts learn about making innovation better and faster is freely shared across Duke, our neighboring community and beyond.
Experiential Learning Spaces
Duke Engineering Design Pod
This 5,000-square-foot learning lab is integral to Duke Engineering’s First-Year Design course. Located in the Jinny and Ed Pratt Commons at the Levine Science Research Center (LSRC), it is home to a flexible work and design area perfect for student teams. The walls are lined with racks of hand, power and rapid prototyping tools.
The Foundry
In this 7,600-square-foot collaborative maker space, students build ideas from the ground up. This part of Gross Hall houses a variety of tools and a 3D Systems ProX DMP320 direct metal printing machine.
Duke Smart Home
The Smart Home is a residence hall and a living laboratory of sustainable design and residential automation. The 10 students who live in this LEED Platinum house conduct research and give public tours.
Pratt Student Shop
Our undergraduate students have access to a modern machine shop to complete course work that requires turning, milling, grinding, shaping, cutting or drilling. The shop is overseen by professional toolmakers who teach a mandatory safety course.