Siobhan Rigby Oca

Assistant Director for Robotics and Autonomy in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Appointments and Affiliations

• Assistant Professor of The Practice in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
• Assistant Director for Robotics and Autonomy in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Contact Information

• Email Address: siobhan.rigby@duke.edu

Education

• Ph.D. Duke University, 2022
• M.S. University of California San Francisco, School of Medicine, 2017
• B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016

Courses Taught

• ECE 383: Introduction to Robotics and Automation
• ECE 495: Special Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering
• EGR 393: Research Projects in Engineering
• ME 442: Introduction to Robotics and Automation
• ME 490: Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering
• ME 555: Advanced Topics in Mechanical Engineering
• ME 591: Research Independent Study in Mechanical Engineering or Material Science

In the News

• Undergraduate Course in Robotics Gets Reboot with Help of Engineering Doctoral Student (Nov 16, 2021)
• Bass Instructional Fellowships Broaden Teaching, Career Opportunities (Nov 10, 2021)
• NASA Climbs Aboard with Support for Robot Project (Jun 26, 2020)

Representative Publications

• Oca, SR; Navas, A; Leiman, E; Buckland, DM, Effect of language interpretation modality on throughput and mortality for critical care patients: A retrospective observational study., J Am Coll Emerg Physicians Open, vol 2 no. 4 (2021) [10.1002/emp2.12477] [abs].