‘Embrace the Ditch,’ and Other Lessons Learned in Duke CEE’s Overture Engineering
Civil and environmental engineering students learn to design buildings within less-than-optimal parameters in a collaborative capstone course
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Integrated Design Challenge in Duke ECE Restores Balance to The Force
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Feb 18
MEMS Seminar: Carmel Majidi (Carnegie Mellon), “Soft-Matter Engineering for Robotics and Wearables”
Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science (MEMS) Spring 2026 Distinguished Seminar Speaker Series welcomes Carmel Majidi (Carnegie Mellon) to present the MEMS Seminar, “Soft-Matter Engineering for Robotics […]
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iiD Community Lunch with Ophelia Venturelli (B&B)
Lunch is provided for attendees. Professor Ophelia Venturelli from the Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Department will share her current research.
12:00 pm – 12:00 pm Gross Hall, Ahmadieh Family Grand Hall, Room 330
Feb 18
Hierarchical Intelligence for Multi-Agent Autonomy on the Edge: From Semantic Coordination to In-Context Adaptation
Autonomous multi-agent systems operating in resource-constrained environments with limited communication and computation face a fundamental tension between global, long-horizon planning and local, real-time control. This talk presents a hierarchical framework […]
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