Six Duke Engineers Named to Global Highly Cited List
Annual Clarivate Analytics list includes 38 Duke researchers
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Duke Undergrad Course in Robotics Gets Reboot with Help of Engineering Doctoral Student
Through a Bass Connections Collaborative Project Expedition in Summer 2021, Siobhan Oca worked with Genevieve Lipp and Sophia Santillan to design ME 490: Introduction to Robotics, an undergraduate course that introduces students to the basic computational concepts.
Bass Instructional Fellowships Broaden Teaching, Career Opportunities
Seeing her students engaging with the lesson that she had constructed was one of Siobhan Oca’s favorite experiences teaching an undergraduate course in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science–an experience made possible through her Bass Instructional Fellowship.
Electrochromic material could help buildings heat up and cool down
MEMS Professor Po-Chun Hsu demonstrates a smart material that can passively heat and cool buildings.
Smart Material Switches Between Heating and Cooling in Minutes
Deployed on roofs or facades, passive technology could greatly reduce HVAC energy consumption in buildings
Duke Soft Matter Symposium Attracts Worldwide Audience
Duke Materials Initiative’s milestone event on polymer networks engages 300+ attendees from 16 nations
Design Health Team Places on International Top 20 Shortlist for 2021 James Dyson Award
With a device to make cardiovascular procedures safer, Duke’s ArchGuard team was recognized out of 2,000 applicants
Five Questions with ArchGuard Co-Founders Kevin Rosenthal & Kelly Yang
Duke Design Health Fellows who invented a novel medical device which helps prevent stroke during cardiac surgery advanced to finalists in the Collegiate Inventors Competition and need your vote to win
Cell-Filled Pouch Creates Temporary “Chimeras” to Treat Disease
Device protects human liver cells producing critical biomolecules for six months in mice
Christensen Family Gift Endows Center for Student Design Education at Duke
Naming honors gift by the family of Clayton Christensen, the management thinker who coined ‘disruptive innovation’
Christensen Family Center Is Home to a New View on Innovation
The new Duke Engineering center seeks to not only develop student innovators, but discover how to make innovation easier, faster, cheaper
Time in the Mind
MEMS Professor Adrian Bejan theorizes that the reason we remember our childhood as lasting much longer than our adult life is due to the fact that our brains process images more slowly as our bodies age.