Events

Fall Engineering Faculty Meeting

Rubenstein Library Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room 153

All members of the Pratt School of Engineering's faculty are invited to the Fall Meeting. Presenters will include Dean Jerry Lynch. Hosted by the Engineering Faculty Council. 11:30 am to 2:00 pm, Tuesday, October 8, in the Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room in Rubenstein Library. Find more at https://inside.pratt.duke.edu/EFC

MEMS Seminar: Wei Gao, “Skin-Interfaced Wearable Biosensors”

Wilkinson Building, room 021 auditorium

Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science Fall 2024 Seminar Series welcomes Wei Gao, assistant professor of Medical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, for a talk on "Skin-Interfaced Wearable Biosensors" ABSTRACT: The rising research interest in personalized medicine promises to revolutionize traditional medical practices. This presents a tremendous opportunity for developing […]

Character Forward Workshop

We invite Pratt faculty & staff to join us for a Character Forward Workshop where we will learn about character education, reflect on the history of engineering ethics education, identify character traits we want to cultivate, and consider strategies for cultivating those traits inside and outside the engineering classroom.

DMI/MEMS Seminar Presented by Prof. Hao Yan

Wilkinson Building, room 021 auditorium

Designer Nucleic Acid Architectures for Programmable Molecular Systems. My lab uses nature's design rules as inspiration to advance biomedical, energy-related, and other technological innovations through the use of self-assembling molecules and materials. We aim to create intelligent materials with better component controls at the atomic and molecular levels. Speciically, we are interested in designing bio-inspired […]

Duke Medical Robotics Symposium

Trent Semans Center for Health Education - Great Hall

In conjunction with the Duke Faculty Advancement Seed Grant Program, Duke Robotics, and the Duke Traineeship in the Advancement of Surgical Technology, the Duke Medical Robotics Symposium will be held on October 25, 2024, on the Duke School of Medicine Campus. Our mission is to foster research collaboration, curricula development, and a sense of community […]

Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning for Robot Navigation and Manipulation

LSRC D106

While there have been huge advances in Machine Learning in recent years, many of the successes have relied on immense amounts of training data. Especially for sequential-decision-making tasks (the realm of reinforcement learning), obtaining such data from online experience can take a very long time. On the other hand, learning can often be dramatically accelerated […]

MEMS Seminar: Robert Webster, “Can Needle-Sized Robot Tentacles Help Surgeons Save Lives?”

Wilkinson Building, room 021 auditorium

Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, Fall 2024 Seminar Series, welcomes Robert Webster, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Vanderbilt University, to present his lecture, "Can Needle-Sized Robot Tentacles Help Surgeons Save Lives?" ABSTRACT: Thin, flexible robots able to bend and elongate can help surgeons reach deeper and more accurately into the human […]