Input/Output Magazine 2024-2025

There’s an old adage that you get out of an endeavor whatever you put in. But just as important as the inputs and outputs is the slash between them—the planning, the infrastructure, the programs, the relationships. We hope the content within this magazine helps you not only discover a little more about Duke Engineering, but also ideas and inspiration that make your own slashes a bit bigger.

Imagining the Robots of Tomorrow

Duke researchers are pursuing robots that learn like humans, help perform delicate surgeries, and look after crewed space flights.

Operations

A woman prepares a sailboat for a voyage.

Collaborative Diamonds Form Under Pressure of Climate Change

A closer look at the design experiences becoming more common in engineering schools across the country.

DALLE artificial intelligence generated image of the Duke Chapel on the beach of the Outer Banks.

AI is on a Runaway Cybersecurity Train: All Aboard, or Pull the Brakes?

With great potential comes great cybersecurity risks, from uncontrollable drones to deep faked illegal images.

black silhouette of industry buildings on orange sky

Engineering the Acceptance of Climate Change Solutions

No matter how clean our technologies become, people must be persuaded to use them to make a difference.

Integrations

Artistic illustration of fruit inside a cell

Genomic Medicine Beyond CRISPR

Taking stock of genome-based approaches to healthcare.

Engineering Design Experiences While Designing Engineering Curricula

A closer look at the design experiences becoming more common in engineering schools across the country.

purple cross between robot and blue devil

Integrating Ethics Into Engineering

Engineers face ethical dilemmas, and students need to learn how to handle them.

Tangents

Ken Gall, Aaron Franklin, Ashutosh Chilkoti, and Sonia Grego

The Hard-Earned Lessons of Academic Entrepreneurs

Faculty entrepreneurs from Duke Engineering share their experiences of what it takes to spin a startup out of a university.

Social Media: Friend or Foe?

Examining the advantages and drawbacks of pursuing social media accounts as a researcher.

Leveling Up Our Game

With more game studios finding a home in North Carolina’s Research Triangle, augmented and virtual realities growing in scope, and video game design reaching more diverse audiences, it’s time we start understanding the medium beyond its tropes and stereotypes.

The I/O Team

Publisher:
Jerome P. Lynch, PhD, F.EMI
Vinik Dean of Engineering

Executive Director:
Angela Brockelsby, EdD

Editor-in-Chief:
Ken Kingery

Project Manager:
Mandy Butler

Designer:
Lacey Chylack

Content Creators and Contributors:
Johnny Dickerson, Alissa Kocer, Fedor Kossakovski, Michaela Martinez,
Jamal Michel, Jenn A. Miller, Joanne Park, Alex Mousan Sanchez, Mark Schreiner, Miranda Volborth

Faculty Advisory Council:
Laura Dalton, PhD; Aaron Franklin, PhD; Jeff Glass, PhD; Cameron Kim, PhD; Amanda Randles, PhD; Stefan Zauscher, PhD

I/O magazine cover featuring a white fluffy dog with a small white dog-shaped robot