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Explore our vision for engineering in service to society, through featured homepage content.

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Celebrating Student Success

As the academic year comes to a close, we celebrate the success of our students—each one a new Duke Engineer, ready to make an impact.

May 2025

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A Student Experience That Engages & Inspires

Duke’s engineering students receive unparalleled support. A world-class campus experience shapes them into confident problem-solvers with global impact.

April 2025

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Impactful Research to Fight Diseases & Save Lives

Duke Engineering is committed to improving the health of individuals, communities and the environment.

March 2025

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Tomorrow’s Technologies Invented Today

AI, quantum computing and robotics make headlines every day. Duke Engineering is behind more than its fair share of them, enabling science-fiction-like abilities through innovative hardware and materials.

February 2025

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2024 Impact Report

Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering is dedicated to educating the engineering leaders needed to tackle the world’s toughest problems while making a positive impact on those around us. Detailed within this report are a strong lineup of national research centers and productive faculty that are helping to define the evolution of some of tomorrow’s critical and impactful technologies.

December 2024-January 2025

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Creating Sustainable and Equitable Solutions

Education, research and external engagement toward a resilient, flourishing, carbon-neutral world.

November 2024

Duke first-year students work on team projects together with oversight and guidance from faculty during a new Engineering Design Pod class. The program is part of a new initiative designed to give all engineering students project- and problem-based experiences right from the start. One of the projects involves developing a prosthetic arm for nursing students learning to put in IV lines.

Building Character and Educational Excellence

Equipping future engineering leaders with innovation and ethical responsibility to tackle real-world challenges.

October 2024

DEID in Uganda 2024.

In Service to Communities

Duke Engineering is strengthening local and global connections through community-engaged research, transformative learning and impactful STEM outreach. Our mission is to serve society by turning innovation into action and making a lasting difference in the communities we serve.

August-September 2024