Departments & Centers
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Departments
Biomedical Engineering (BME)
Duke BME is consistently ranked as one of the top biomedical engineering programs in the nation.
Areas of Interest
- Bioelectric Engineering
- Biomaterials
- Biomechanics and Mechanobiology
- Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics
- Biosensors and Bioinstrumentation
- Biotechnology
- Computational Modeling of Biological Systems
- Drug and Gene Delivery
- Health Data Science
- Immune Engineering
- Neural Engineering
- Synthetic and Systems Biology
- Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
Civil & Environmental Engineering (CEE)
Duke CEE pursues diverse discovery in areas that improve the fundamental health, resilience and safety of society.
Areas of Interest
- Computational Mechanics and Scientific Computing
- Geomechanical Modeling and Characterization
- Dynamics and Control
- Systems, Risks and Decision
- Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology
- Environmental Process Engineering
- Hydrology and Fluid Dynamics
Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE)
Duke ECE faculty members are actively involved in advanced research and teaching in all major areas of electrical and computer engineering.
Areas of Interest
- Computer Engineering
- Engineering Physics
- Nanoelectronics and nanotechnology
- Photonics
- Robotics
- Signal and Information Processing
Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science (MEMS)
Duke's research in mechanical engineering and materials science addresses a number fundamental and applied engineering problems.
Areas of Interest
- Acoustics, Aerodynamics and Aeroelasticity
- Biomechanics and Biomaterials
- Computational Mechanics and Scientific Computing
- Robotics: Dynamics, Controls and Human-Machine Interaction
- Energy Technology and Thermodynamics
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer
- Material Science
- Computational Materials Science
Centers
Coded Aperture Miniature Mass Spectrometer for Environmental Sensing (CAMMS-ES)
Part of the U.S. Department of Energy's MONITOR program, CAMMS-ES is developing a next-generation methane detector.
Center for Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering (CBTE)
Coordinates interdisciplinary discovery and training across three areas: protein engineering, cellular engineering and tissue engineering.
Center for the Environmental Implications of NanoTechnology (CEINT)
A six-university collaboration headquartered at Duke exploring the effect of nanomaterials in the environment and biologically.
Center for Materials Genomics (CMG)
A research hub, linking U.S. and international collaborators, focused on theoretical and computational methods of materials research.
Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics (CMIP)
Explores the capabilities and limitations of electromagnetic metamaterials.
Error-corrected Universal Reconfigurable Ion-trap Quantum Archetype (EURIQA)
A five-year, $31.9 million advanced research project to address qubit degradation with ion technology for quantum information applications.
Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics (FIP)
Research and training efforts of FIP are focused on photonics as information science, including: quantum optics, opto-electronics, information spaces and biophotonics.
Medicine + Engineering at Duke (MEDx)
A joint initiative of Duke's Pratt School of Engineering and School of Medicine, MEDx fosters research and educational collaboration to advance health care innovation.
Research Triangle MRSEC (RT-MRSEC)
Impacts soft matter materials science through new fundamental insights and theoretical understanding, design and application of colloidal and macromolecular materials and their higher-order assemblies.
Center for Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Infectious Disease (WaSH-AID)
Facilitating development and sustainable deployment of novel technology-based health solutions for developing regions across the globe.