Nothing propels progress like focus. A graduate certificate enhances your master's degree by focusing a portion of your courses on an emerging field.
The certificates offered to Duke MEMS graduate students flow from our faculty's research discoveries and are guided by the needs of employers and society.

Aerospace Research
Design more efficient and safer aircraft. Explore aerodynamics, acoustics, mathematical and computational methods, structures and dynamics.
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AI for Materials Science
Create data-driven artificial intelligence (AI) approaches to develop new materials with the properties needed to solve the biggest challenges.
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Medical Robotics
Design machines that improve lives. In addition to four high-impact courses, you'll join the uncommonly collaborative engineering and medical research neighborhood at Duke.
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Robotics & Autonomy
Understand the autonomous systems driving independent, intelligent machines. The topic spans robotics, cyber-physical systems, internet of things, and medicine.
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Photonics
Explore light-based technologies. Career options include communications, computing, health care and more. Offered through our campus partner, the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics at Duke.
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Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Transform ideas into impacts. For aspiring innovators and founders — Offered through our campus partner, Duke’s Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative.