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Learn how faculty across Duke Engineering navigate academia while nurturing the next generation of engineers—both at home and in the lab

The award recognizes Rudin’s foundational work on trustworthy AI, which is shaping the field of interpretable machine learning and making a major impact on sweeping societal changes.

From the stairs of Duke Chapel to the most remote parts of the world, civil engineering students discover the fun in seeing practical knowledge put to work.

Certificates in neural engineering and biomedical data science help Master of Science students pursue specialized research as they earn their degree

Say the word “microbe” and many people reflexively reach for a bottle of disinfectant. But where most see an adversary to be destroyed posthaste, Claudia Gunsch has always seen potential. She believes that microbiomes — the communities of microorganisms thriving all around us — can be engineered to serve both environmental and human health.

A tale of two Duke CEE researchers working to identify and obliterate the “forever chemicals” tainting North Carolina’s drinking water.

Already boasting a strong team focused on areas such as precision robotic aids for clinical applications, controlling complex swarms of robots collaborating on a single mission, and securing autonomous systems from nefarious attacks, Duke Robotics is expanding its areas of expertise with the hiring of Siobhan Oca and Boyuan Chen.

Discover how IoT is making technology more accessible, as Duke researchers develop low-cost sensor networks for real-world challenges like disaster detection.

Duke’s Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility cultivates a collaborative and empowering environment for engineers who work at the tiniest scales

Not ones to rest on their laurels, Duke ECE's four NAE members still engineer in service to society. Here’s what they’ve been working on recently.

Enabling the visionary future of the Metaverse requires research projects of many levels, ranging from AI-accelerating hardware to localized computing networks that can tackle complex software in the blink of an eye.

Soft surface adapts and reshapes itself to match a wide array of objects and motions