News
November 05, 2018
Reinventing the Toilet: Seeking a ‘Safe and Dignified Solution’ to the Sanitation Crisis
Supported through multiple grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Center for WaSH-AID and two emerging technologies hope to reshape the lives and health of billions of people both worldwide and at home
November 14, 2018
CEE Graduate Named a Forbes '30 Under 30' in Energy
Megan O'Connor PhD '17 is the cofounder of Nth Cycle, a company that helps recycle rare earth metals from used electronics
October 26, 2018
Duke Startup Converts Fecal Sludge To Clean Reusable Water
Supercritical water oxidation uses high pressure and temperature to break down complex organic compounds into clean water and CO2
October 25, 2018
Ten Years In, What Has CEINT Taught Us?
Maintaining the complexity of natural systems is crucial to environmental research at the nanoscale. The Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (CEINT) has led the way
October 18, 2018
Duke Engineering Buoys Banner Year for Duke Entrepreneurial Efforts
Record-setting year includes 32 issued patents, 11 licensing agreements and five new start-up companies from engineering faculty
October 17, 2018
Safeguarding Storage for Nuclear Waste
New international research project aims to keep nuclear waste isolated, 10,000 years into the future
September 24, 2018
Enhancing Research Innovation and Impact through a 'Faculty Springboard'
Two-year pilot program to support newly tenured faculty pursuing high-risk, high-reward pathbreaking research ventures
September 17, 2018
New Engineering Graduate Communications Center Offers Courses and Coaching
Offerings range from mastering conversation to effective writing to giving a research presentation
September 10, 2018
Fifteen Earn National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships
Highly competitive national awards will help 14 new and returning Duke Engineering graduate students conduct research on campus
August 28, 2018
All That Is Gold Is Not Biochemically Stable
Researchers stumble upon the lesson that typically stable gold nanoparticles can’t always be trusted
August 23, 2018
Nathaniel Chaney: Harnessing Petabytes to Better Understand the Global Water Cycle
New faculty member Nathaniel Chaney studies how the geological and manmade features over land influence the global water cycle and as a result, impact weather, water resources and agriculture