News

| Bass Connections

Incorporating Ethics Into Engineering

Undergraduate Reya Magan joined a Bass Connections team to help prepare the next generation of engineers for their careers. The team designed modules for Engineering 101

| Duke Research Blog

How Freshman Engineers Solve Real-World Problems in EGR 101

From reducing injuries from intubations to helping elderly residents with their garbage bins, students in EGR 101 are as busy as ever.

| Duke Engineering News

Duke Engineering First-Year Design Team Impresses at NIH DEBUT Competition

Design team wins $15,000 National Cancer Institute prize for their innovative tool to help patients with colon cancer

| Duke Engineering News

What Lives in the Rainforest?

In competition for the newest XPRIZE, Duke engineering students develop drone-deployed tools to inventory the plant and animal life in rainforest ecosystems

| Pratt School of Engineering

Introducing Engineering Concepts in a Pandemic

First-Year Design finds ways to provide real-world engineering experiences during a difficult semester

| Duke Engineering News

Undergraduate Duke Engineering Design Teams Win National Prizes

Signature First-Year Design course inspires students to continue refining their projects, even years later

| Duke Alumni Magazine

Starving the Beast

First-Years work to alleviate trash issues in Durham's local waters.

| Skanska

Duke University students help advance construction safety

Members of Skanska’s Durham NC team supporter first-year Duke University students as they created a solution that could one day improve safety on job sites across the world

| Pratt School of Engineering

Duke First-Year Designers Get a Lift from Skanska

The company constructing Duke’s newest engineering building challenged students to solve a tricky safety problem

| Pratt School of Engineering

Season's Greetings from where the Magic Happens!

Wishing you and your family a happy and healthy holiday season, as we engineer an outrageously ambitious 2020!

| Pratt School of Engineering

FYD Showcase: Solutions for Puffins, Nurses and More

First-year design students spent the semester developing solutions for real clients across Duke, North Carolina and beyond

| First Year Design

SipClip receives exclusive invite to RESNA

A team's electric toothbrush attachment designed to assist those with ALS gains national attention!

| Pratt School of Engineering

'I Can Do This'—Duke’s First-Year Design Course Boosts Student Self-Efficacy

Student surveys also show improved teamwork, communication and leadership skills.

| Pratt School of Engineering

Michael Rizk: Personalizing Undergraduate Education

New faculty member Michael Rizk is the latest innovative mind to join Duke Engineering’s design education “dream team”

| Duke Forest

Engineering first-years build Mast

Duke Forest provides an update on Duke Student Activity, including how one FYD team took on the challenge of collecting and sorting mast (the fruit of forest trees and shrubs... like, acorns and nuts!).