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DukEngineer Magazine 2017

In this issue: Drone Submarines and Robot Nurses, Reinventing the Toilet, Printing Metal in 3D and more

Editors: Efe Aras E'17, Amy Xiong E'17

students test a Motorsports vehicle on the Fitzpatrick Center patio

Faculty Focus

Professor Mike Bergin with students in Bolivia

From Bolivia to India: Of Our Air, Our Environment and Our Health

A career's worth of the world's environment explored with Michael H. Bergin, professor of civil and environmental engineering

Platform based on metal nanostructures that allows the lab to dramatically enhance the radiative properties of emitters and other materials.

Trapping Light to Enhance Material Properties

Q&A with Maiken Mikkelsen, Nortel Networks Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and assistant professor of physics

Global Impacts on Health

Engineering World Health demonstration

Engineering Change in the Developing World

After being founded in 2001, Engineering World Health now has over 40 different chapters at different universities across the nation

The beta prototype toilet system installed at the Center for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT) University in Ahmedabad, India

Engineering the Toilet

Duke takes on the modern sanitation crisis with projects for the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge, sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Tomorrow's Technologies

hands holding 3D printed metal pieces

A 3D Manufacturing Revolution: From Dreams to Reality

Duke Engineering becomes one of the first places in the nation to host a new production 3D titanium metal printer

Geoffrey Ginsburg, director of MEDx, stands to the left of MEDx co-director Ken Gall, chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

MEDx: An Engine for Collaboration and Innovation

New initiative sparks and supports partnerships between Medicine + Engineering at Duke

Yilun Zhou works with the team’s picking robot at the Amazon Picking Challenge in Leipzig, Germany.

Envisioning the Future of Robots

The Amazon Picking Challenge pits Pratt's finest against international professionals and the demands of tomorrow's industrial needs

duke robotics submarine in water

A Leviathan Lurking in the Foundry

Duke's first student Robosub in nearly a decade competes in an international competition

The three founders of Encapsio. From left to right - Wyatt Shields, Nick Kirby, and Wes Day

From Entrepreneurs to Encapsio

A Q&A with Three Duke Entrepreneurs Marrying Technology with Business

Profiles

pratt fellows collage

Meet the Pratt Research Fellows

The Pratt Research Fellows are a distinguished group of engineering undergraduates who do extensive research in their engineering major during their final two years at Duke.