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4/19/23 Pratt School of Engineering

‘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

In ECE 110L’s Integrated Design Challenge (IDC), students demonstrate mastery of sensor data acquisition and processing. 2023’s IDC is Star Wars-themed; students build small robots that collect and process data on a tabletop-sized playing field.

4/14/23 Pratt School of Engineering

Integrated Design Challenge in Duke ECE Restores Balance to The Force

On a Star Wars-themed field of play, student teams deployed small robots they had constructed

Computer image and photo of the adjustable, inexpensive and easy-to-store cradle for rare books designed by Duke Engineering first-year students.

9/4/19 Pratt School of Engineering

‘I Can Do This’—Duke’s First-Year Design Course Boosts Student Self-Efficacy

Two projects from First-Year Design course are patent-pending. Student surveys suggest the course also fosters teamwork, leadership and communication skills.

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Sep 15

2026 Neurology Research Symposium

The Duke Department of Neurology Division of Translational Brain Sciences, Duke Comprehensive Epilepsy Center and Neurology Residency Program are excited to invite you to their 2026 Research Symposium. All clinical, […]

4:00 pm – 4:00 pm Trent Semans Center for Health Education – Great Hall

Sep 16

MEMS Distinguished Seminar: Robert Clark, “Walkabout: From Engineering Research and Entrepreneurship to Academic Leadership— and Back Again”

The Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science hosts Professor Robert Clark (University of Rochester) to present the MEMS Distinguished Seminar, “Walkabout: From Engineering Research and Entrepreneurship to […]

12:00 pm – 12:00 pm Fitzpatrick Center Schiciano Auditorium Side A, room 1464

Sep 16

FIP Seminar: Non-destructive 3D pathology and analysis for optimizing treatments

We are developing non-destructive slide-free 3D pathology methods for clinical decision support and surgical guidance. In comparison to conventional slide-based pathology, 3D pathology provides: (1) vastly greater sampling of tissue […]

12:00 pm – 12:00 pm Wilkinson Building, room 021 auditorium