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July 01, 2022
Duke Technology Launches PFAS-Destroying Waste Treatment Company to Nasdaq
Based on supercritical water oxidation waste treatment technology invented on Duke’s campus, 374Water rings Nasdaq’s bell
August 12, 2012
Pratt, RTI to Develop Waterless Toilets
A grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will fund development of the toilet for use in developing nations
July 26, 2012
Needham Receives Prestigious Professorship
As a new Niels Bohr Professor, Duke engineer David Needham will establish the Center for Single Particle Science and Engineering at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), in Odense, Denmark.
July 09, 2012
Smart Home Project Aims to Improve Irrigation
Experience a normal day in the life of the Duke Smart Home
July 05, 2012
Finger-Spacing Increases Swimming Speeds
Adrian Bejan believes that human swimmers can achieve greater power in each swimming stroke if their fingers are slightly spaced
July 05, 2012
Precise Indoor Localization? There's an App for That
The application has been dubbed UnLoc, short for unsupervised indoor localization.
January 15, 2009
Next Generation Cloaking Device Demonstrated
Duke engineers have produced a device with a broad frequency bandwidth
December 01, 2006
Invisibility Cloak Lands Duke Engineers on ‘Scientific American 50′
Two researchers at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering have been named to the "Scientific American 50" for their work on developing an "invisibility cloak."
October 19, 2006
First Demonstration of a Working Invisibility Cloak
A team led by scientists at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering has demonstrated the first working "invisibility cloak." The cloak deflects microwave beams so they flow around a "hidden" object inside with little distortion, making it appear almost as if nothing were there at all.
December 01, 1986
Duke's First Women Engineers Remembered
In 1986, a student profiled the first two female graduates of Duke's College of Engineering