Majors & Minors

Be Blown Away by the Opportunities

Duke is chock-full of choices—including 6 engineering majors and 3 engineering minors.

Learn about tissue engineering, deploy AI, explore mechatronics and more. And that’s just the beginning.

As an engineering student, you can explore all of Duke—including dozens of horizon-expanding options across the arts and sciences.

6

engineering majors

Including a customizable interdisciplinary option

3

engineering minors

Options include AI, energy and computer engineering

ABET Accredited

Each of Duke’s department-based engineering majors is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET.

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Engineering Majors at Duke

Picking a major is a big decision.

But making it doesn’t close out options, it widens the horizon. Selecting a major is picking a road from which a huge number of multidisciplinary paths branch off.

During the summer after First Year, you’ll declare your major. As you move down that road, you’ll encounter options to layer on minors and certificates, and perhaps even a second major.

Biomedical Engineering

Take on societally critical challenges in biology and health care, including the design of medical technology.

Study Areas Include

  • Imaging and instrumentation
  • Tissue engineering
  • Double-major options with civil, environmental, electrical and computer, mechanical, and computer science
Explore BME
the lab of Shyni Varghese, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, and Orthopaedic Surgery PhD student Vardhman Kumar
Descriptive and quantitative hydrology, hydraulics of pressure conduits and measurement of flow, compound pipe systems, analysis of flow in pressure distribution systems, open channel flow, reservoirs and distribution system storage. Groundwater hydrology and well-hydraulics. Probability and statistics in water resources.
Civil & Environmental Engineering (CEE) 463L class at American Tobacco Complex- Water Resources Engineering Descriptive and quantitative hydrology, hydraulics of pressure conduits and measurement of flow, compound pipe systems, analysis of flow in pressure distribution systems, open channel flow, reservoirs and distribution system storage. Groundwater hydrology and well-hydraulics. Probability and statistics in water resources. Instructors: Gabriel (Gaby) Katul, Professor of Hydrology and Micrometeorology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering David Schaad, Professor of the Practice and Associate Chair, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Civil Engineering

Lead the Fifth Industrial Revolution—designing solutions aimed at broadly-shared well-being, for people and the planet.

Study Areas Include

  • Structural engineering and mechanics
  • Environmental engineering and water resources
  • Double-major option with biomedical engineering
Explore CE

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Integrate computing and electronic knowledge with design skill to create new devices and software.

Study Areas Include

  • Computer engineering and digital systems
  • Solid-state devices and integrated circuits
  • Double-major option with biomedical engineering
Explore ECE
Mark Kuzyk an Electrical and Computer Engineering Postdoctoral Fellow in the Brown Lab works on a quantum computer setup.
scientists work in a laboratory
Photos of Jeseth Delgado Vela, Andrew D Jones, Nicole Rockey, in their labs on the second floor of the Wilkinson building on January 6, 2025. These images will be used to update imagery on the Pratt website.

Environmental Engineering

Develop systems and structures that restore and protect the planet’s air, water and soil.

Study Areas Include

  • Water resources engineering
  • Biotechnology and bioremediation
  • Double-major option with biomedical engineering
Explore EnvE

Mechanical Engineering

Invent machines that improve lives, in fields as varied as health care, manufacturing, energy and transportation.

Study Areas Include

  • Mechatronics
  • Mechanical design
  • Double-major option with biomedical engineering
Explore ME
Shyni Varghese, professor of biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering and materials science and orthopaedics (right), in her Duke University lab. She is taking a microscope slide from a colleague.

Interdisciplinary Option: IDEAS

Through our IDEAS: Interdisciplinary Engineering & Applied Science program, you explore a topic important to you. It’s a customized major—pick a pre-approved template or propose your own.

IDEAS curricula are not specifically accredited by ABET but satisfy national general engineering accreditation criteria. Click to get started.

Download IDEAS Template

IDEAS Major in Risk, Data & Financial Engineering

The template for this interdisciplinary major (RDFE) is approved and ready to go. Click for details.

Download RDFE Template
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Engineering Minors at Duke

A minor is a sequence of courses focused on a discipline.

All Duke Minors

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Enhance your engineering major with a minor in the digital technologies that are increasingly embedded in machines and devices.

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Energy Engineering

Explore renewable energy technologies while you prepare for a career designing solutions to challenges in generation, transmission and storage.

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Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence

Build a solid foundation of the theory behind—and the possible applications of—AI technologies.

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