Research

Overview

See our latest research innovations from biomedical engineering, civil and environmental engineering, electrical and computer engineering, and mechanical engineering and materials science.

Noteworthy

$31.9 million award: Error-corrected Universal Reconfigurable Ion-trap Quantum Archetype (EURIQA) – Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity. Led by Professor Jungsang Kim.

$14.4 million award: Center for Environmental Implications of NanoTechnology (CEINT) – the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Led by Professor Mark Wiesner.

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Overview

Many of today’s grand challenges must be met by merging fundamental laws that govern the universe with engineering ingenuity to develop devices that bend physics to their will. Examples: New types of materials can interact with and bend waves in useful ways; quantum physicists take advantage of the “spooky” properties of matter at the smallest scales to create more powerful computers.

Featured Centers and Programs:

• Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics (CMIP)
• Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility (SMIF)
• Duke Imaging and Spectroscopy Program (DISP)
• Error-corrected Universal Reconfigurable Ion-trap Quantum Archetype Program (EURIQA)

See what faculty members are doing in this area:

• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Noteworthy

Major Research Awards

$31.9 million award: Error-corrected Universal Reconfigurable Ion-trap Quantum Archetype (EURIQA) – Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity. Led by Professor Jungsang Kim.

$7.5 million: Acoustic Metamaterials - Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative. Led by Professor Steven Cummer.

$6.25 million: Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative – Transformational Optical Metamaterials funded by the Army Research Office. Led by Professor David Smith.

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Overview

Duke engineers are developing new methods to model airflows and understand their more complicated behaviors to improve the computational design process of many technologies.

Featured Centers and Programs:

• Center for Aeromechanics GUIde 5 Consortium
• Aeroelasticity Group

See what faculty members are doing in this area:

• Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Recent News

June 16, 2016

Dowell Receives Highest Individual Honor for Achievement in Aeronautics

April 20, 2016 | AIAA Momentum

Momentum Member Spotlight – April 2016: AIAA Congratulates Earl H. Dowell

June 26, 2015

Kenneth Hall Named Editor of ASME Journal of Turbomachinery

Overview

Advances in stem cell technology and biocompatible materials are opening research into engineered materials that can be used to improve human health. Duke engineers are working on projects that include growing new tissues, repairing damaged organs, delivering drugs and improving gene therapy techniques.

Featured Centers and Programs

• Center for Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering (CBTE)
• Triangle Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC)

See what faculty members are doing in this area:

• Department of Biomedical Engineering
• Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

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Nanomaterials are becoming ubiquitous in consumer products ranging from sunscreens to antimicrobial coatings. Because these materials have novel properties, there is concern that they may also have new, unexpected effects on ecosystems. Duke engineers are testing many different types of nanoparticles to determine their potential effects.

Featured Center:

• Center for the Environmental Implications of NanoTechnology (CEINT)

See what faculty members are doing in this area:

• Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Noteworthy

Major Research Awards

$14.4 million award: Center for Environmental Implications of NanoTechnology (CEINT) – the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Led by Professor Mark Wiesner.

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Overview

The world we live in produces more data than at any point in human history. These oceans of information can provide valuable insight into fields ranging from individualized medicine to energy-saving technologies. Duke is creating a centralized hub for big-data scientists to work, mingle and collaborate on new algorithms and improved analysis techniques.

Featured Program:

• Information Initiative at Duke (iiD)

See what faculty members are doing in this area:

• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Duke engineers are using the full electromagnetic spectrum to diagnose and treat people in innovative ways. Examples: Advancements in optical coherence tomography are changing eye surgery; altered genes allow can be controlled with a mere flash of light.

Featured Centers and Programs:

• Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics
• Center for Global Women's Health Technologies

See what faculty members are doing in this area:

•  Department of Biomedical Engineering

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We need to develop new materials to spur the invention of new and make existing technologies cheaper. Duke engineers are searching for these new materials by computationally building them atom-by-atom.

Featured Center:

• Center for Materials Genomics's AFLOW distributed materials repository

See what faculty members are doing in this area:

• Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Noteworthy

Major Research Award

$8.6 million: Center for Materials Genomics - Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative. Led by Professor Stefano Curtarolo.

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