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4/19/23 Pratt School of Engineering

‘Embrace the Ditch,’ and Other Lessons Learned in Duke CEE’s Overture Engineering

Civil and environmental engineering students learn to design buildings within less-than-optimal parameters in a collaborative capstone course

In ECE 110L’s Integrated Design Challenge (IDC), students demonstrate mastery of sensor data acquisition and processing. 2023’s IDC is Star Wars-themed; students build small robots that collect and process data on a tabletop-sized playing field.

4/14/23 Pratt School of Engineering

Integrated Design Challenge in Duke ECE Restores Balance to The Force

On a Star Wars-themed field of play, student teams deployed small robots they had constructed

Computer image and photo of the adjustable, inexpensive and easy-to-store cradle for rare books designed by Duke Engineering first-year students.

9/4/19 Pratt School of Engineering

‘I Can Do This’—Duke’s First-Year Design Course Boosts Student Self-Efficacy

Two projects from First-Year Design course are patent-pending. Student surveys suggest the course also fosters teamwork, leadership and communication skills.

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Nov 25

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 […]

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Nov 25

Multimodal Characterization of Cell States at Single-Cell Resolution

Advent of single-cell genomics has enhanced our ability to study heterogeneous cell populations (1) to track course of temporal processes, such as cellular differentiation, (2) to identify novel and rare […]

12:00 pm – 12:00 pm French Family Science Center 4233

Nov 25

Similarities and discrepancies between carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur cycling genes and model predictions in the Chesapeake Bay

As the volume of hypoxic waters grows around the globe, numerical models are increasingly used to understand the drivers of hypoxia and guide decisions that will mitigate its impacts. Such […]

12:00 pm – 12:00 pm Wilkinson Building, room 021 auditorium