Undergraduate Degree

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Engineering, Plus a Whole Lot More.

Yes, you’ll learn mathematics, physics and chemistry. But you’ll also experience hands-on design, from your first semester through senior capstone. We’ll make you a confident programmer, too.

And, you’ll have access to everything Duke has to offer—including the arts, humanities and social sciences.

Rigorous Engineering Courses, Plus:

  • Engineering Design Experiences
  • Computational Thinking & Programming
  • Academic Writing
  • Mathematics, Physics & Chemistry
  • Social Science & Humanities courses

Engineering Design Experiences

It starts in your first year with signature experiences in engineering design and computing and continues through hands-on courses like CEE 132L Engineering the Planet.

The experiences culminate in your fourth year when you play a role in an immersive Senior Design Capstone that simulates professional engineering work.

Senior Capstone

Major, Minors & Certificates

Enhance your degree. Select a major and, if applicable, a study track. Then, add depth, focus and career prep by pursuing a focused elective sequence, a double or second major, a minor or a certificate.

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Global Study

And, with Duke’s well-designed global experiences already in place, you can confidently choose to study away for a semester in Germany and other countries.

Study Away

Choose Your Major

Civil Engineering

Environmental Engineering

Civil + Biomedical Engineering

Double Major

4+1: Bachelor’s & Master’s Program

Earn two degrees in just five years

Architectural Engineering

Enhance your degree with an interdisciplinary certificate in Architectural Engineering. The program is directed by a practicing architect and includes immersive, hands-on design opportunities.

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Study Away

Global study is an important part of your Duke experience. With a little planning, you can study outside the United States in the fall semester of your Third Year. Options include programs with engineering courses and without them.

(Plus, study abroad during a summer semester is always available.)

  • Duke Engineering in Berlin

    Engineering students at Duke have a special opportunity to develop advanced proficiency in German through intensive language study from January through March and to take engineering courses in their major at the Technische Universität Berlin (TUB) from mid-April until the end of July.

    By the time you enroll in university courses at the TUB, you will have had three months of intensive language study and immersion in Berlin. Since this is an extended semester, you may earn up to six course credits.

    More about the Berlin Semester

    Additional Opportunities

    Duke offers pre-approved technical and engineering courses at select institutions around the world.

    See a list of programs by location

  • Work with your advisor to make these changes to your plan of study:

    • Move CEE 301L Fluid Mechanics to Second-Year Spring.
      (Note that CEE 301L has co-requisites of MATH 353 and EGR 244L, which are easily met if you have AP credit for MATH 21. CEE 301L will need to be offered on Tuesday/Thursday mornings in spring semesters.)
    • Move EGR 351 Engineering Economics, Risk, and Decision-Making to Fourth-Year Fall
    • Civil Engineering majors:
      • S/M Track: Move CEE 421L Matrix Structural Analysis to Fourth-Year Fall
      • E/W Track: Move CEE 461L Aquatic Chemistry to Fourth-Year Fall

CEE Undergraduate Handbook

For course planning, please refer to this PDF document. It is updated yearly.

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