ECE Master’s Alumni Share Experiences and Advice
Three ECE master’s program alumni share their experiences at Duke.
Creating Sustainable and Equitable Solutions
Education, research and external engagement toward a resilient, flourishing, carbon-neutral world.
Design Climate
Design Climate empowers interdisciplinary student teams to create impactful solutions toward a more sustainable future. Through hands-on projects with real-world stakeholders, students create products and business models that address urgent environmental challenges while driving change at the community level.
Engineering A Greener World
Discover how Duke takes a holistic, community-building approach through a deep bench of incredible faculty to tackle global challenges in environmental engineering, sustainability and climate innovation.
Engineering the Acceptance of Climate Change Solutions
No matter how clean our technologies become, people must be persuaded to use them to make a difference.
Meet Duke’s New Climate Faculty
Throughout the disciplines and across its schools and programs, Duke is employing and empowering climate-fluent leaders to educate a new generation of students.
Collaborative Diamonds Form Under Pressure of Climate Change
A closer look at the unexpected collaborations with nurses, finance and divinity that are a hallmark of the Duke Climate Commitment.
Industry-Approved Curriculums
We’ve curated career-ready disciplines to meet the demands of the rapidly evolving industries.
Resilient Systems & the Environment
From earthquakes to financial crashes to the impacts of climate change and manmade materials, the world is full of uncertainties. Duke Engineering researchers are finding new ways to assess risk, inform decision-making and engineer safer, more resilient systems to create a more secure, sustainable future.
Making an Impact
Leanne Gilbertson
Gilbertson designs innovative materials for sustainable solutions in drinking water, food production, and antimicrobial resistance, bridging environmental and public health for a better future.
Liang Feng
Imagine a material so intricately structured that unfolding just one gram would cover Wallace Wade Stadium. Feng is pioneering this approach to tackle climate change by capturing and storing gas molecules efficiently.
Jeseth Delgado Vela
Delgado Vela uses environmental biotechnology to enhance urban water systems, applying molecular tools and modeling to understand microbial interactions in water treatment.
Time 100 Climate Innovators
Alumna Megan O’Connor, Ph.D., founded Nth Cycle in 2017 to tackle electronic waste and boost the domestic supply of critical minerals for the energy transition. Learn why she was named one of Time 100’s Climate Innovators. (Photo credit: Time Magazine)
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 with CEE PhD student Shannon Plunkett for her work on mercury toxicity caused by artisanal gold mining.
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.
Creating Digital Twins to Save Lives
Amanda Randles pioneers computer models that non-invasively diagnose disease
New CRISPRs Expand Upon the Original’s Abilities
By scouring thousands of bacterial genomes for new CRISPR-Cas systems, researchers have discovered some that could expand the technology’s impact in research, biotechnology and medicine
Upcoming Events
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Mar 17
Coffee Monday for Engineering Master’s Programs Students
Kick-start your week with Coffee Monday for Engineering Master’s Programs Students! Join us every Monday from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM at the Teer 102 Student Lounge. Enjoy a cup […]
10:00 am
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Mar 17
Coffee Monday for Engineering Master’s Programs Students
Kick-start your week with Coffee Monday for Engineering Master’s Programs Students! Join us every Monday from 11:30 AM to 3:30 PM at the Teer 102 Student Lounge. Enjoy a cup […]
11:30 am
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