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Alexandra Rivera
From CEE Student to CTO
6/12 Alumni Engagement

From CEE Student to CTO

Alexandra Rivera (BS ’23) shares how the mentors she found and the research she did during undergrad led her to become CTO of a Duke spinoff company.

Bea Hardacre
From Building Sites to Basketball Stadiums
6/12 Student Experience

From Building Sites to Basketball Stadiums

Community is a vital part of the undergrad experience for civil engineering sophomore Bea Hardcacre —whether she's building water systems in Eswatini or painting her face blue at a basketball game.

Headshots of Tania Roy and Sanjeev Chauhan
Duke ECE Hardware Startup Selected for Y Combinator
6/8 Entrepreneurship

Duke ECE Hardware Startup Selected for Y Combinator

Researchers Tania Roy and Sanjeev Chauhan will take their retina-inspired semiconductor startup, Synapse Semiconductor, to Y Combinator this summer.

A professor and students sit around a conference table during a chip design discussion. A large monitor and laptop display a printed circuit board layout, while participants listen and gesture during the meeting.
Chen Wins IEEE Donald O. Pederson Best Paper Award
6/3 Awards

Chen Wins IEEE Donald O. Pederson Best Paper Award

Award-winning publication provides a blueprint for chip design companies to train machine learning models that help detect lithography hotspot patterns in IC layouts before fabrication while protecting proprietary layout data.

NAE leadership, Duke Engineering leadership, and speakers pose for a group photo at the NAE regional meeting on May 20, 2026.
Duke Hosts NAE Regional Meeting Focused on Aviation
5/28 Research

Duke Hosts NAE Regional Meeting Focused on Aviation

Leading experts in aerospace from industry and academia gathered to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing the quickly evolving aviation industry.

Michimasa Fujino takes a selfie with Alec Gallimore.
Exploring Technological Advancements in Aircraft Design
5/28 Research

Exploring Technological Advancements in Aircraft Design

The second session on day 1 of the NAE regional meeting held at Duke looked at ambitious ideas of aircraft design to solve challenges in commercial aviation.