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December 07, 2018
EGR 190: Mission Impossible?
Second-year mechanical engineering students learn to overcome intractable challenges
December 04, 2018
Drones Collaboratively Explore Scenarios with Limited Communications
Researchers develop algorithms for teams of drones to collaboratively explore new terrain while falling in and out of communication with one another
December 03, 2018
Verma Wins 2019 Marshall Scholarship
With an education steeped in novel solutions for solar energy production, Shomik Verma is the fifth Duke engineer to win the prestigious scholarship, and the first since 2011
November 28, 2018
Seven Duke Engineers Named to 2018 Highly Cited Researchers List
November 26, 2018
Disordered Materials Could Be Hardest, Most Heat-Tolerant Ever
November 12, 2018
The Long Overdue Science of Phlegm
November 01, 2018
Atomic Path from Insulator to Metal Messier than Thought
Events
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See more media coverageBoston Globe | November 26, 2018
How a New Simulator Helps Scientists Study Whale Entanglements
Featuring Laurens Howle
Gizmodo | November 16, 2018
New Mucus Study Could Hold the Key to Clearing Your Phlegm
Featuring Michael Rubinstein
New York Magazine | November 8, 2018
When Will My Self-Driving Car Get Here?
Featuring Missy Cummings
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2
major externally funded materials research centers: Materials Genomics and Biomolecular & Tissue Engineering
Top 15
in U.S. mechanical engineering faculty research productivity —Academic Analytics
$9.6 million
in new research awards in fiscal year 2018
86%
of Duke MEMS students have a job or job offers before graduation—2018 survey