Attention Undergraduates! Your perfect graduate school program may be *very* close by. Drop in at the Fitzpatrick Atrium for pizza, swag, and info about the growing variety of master's degree programs at Duke Engineering. Stop by and see us on October 2nd from 11-1:30 pm. No RSVP needed.
Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science Fall 2024 Seminar Series welcomes Douglas Holmes, professor of Mechanical Engineering at Boston University, for a talk on "Engineering with Instability: From Battling Beams and Kirigami Computing." ABSTRACT: Engineers design structures to predictably resolve forces and moments through a primary load path in which deformations are […]
Duke community invited. Come, see -- and play -- new twists on classic boardwalk and carnival games designed by seniors in Mechanical Engineering. Through hands-on application of all they have learned at the Pratt School of Engineering, these newest Duke Engineers have answered a design challenge for safe, fun games designed specifically for children aged […]
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
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
