Engineering More Sustainable Materials for the Future
A new venture focused on materials development seeks to make greener materials for infrastructure, energy and resource health.
Signature Research Topics
Creating a healthier, safer and more sustainable world
Duke CEE’s research efforts focus on complex earth, water and built systems. With collaborators around the globe, we apply engineering methods to find solutions to significant challenges—with the goal of a healthier, safer and more sustainable world.
Major Research Areas
Computational Mechanics & Scientific Computing
Developing precise algorithms to study and solve complex problems governed by the laws of mechanics.
Environmental Health Engineering
Studying connections between human health and ecosystem health, to understand risks and to build resilience in both.
Geomechanics & Geophysics for Energy and the Environment
Exploring issues in underground engineering, resource use and environmental hazards.
Hydrology & Fluid Dynamics
Focused on fundamental problems and critical challenges in fluid dynamics and water resources.
Risk & Resilient Systems
Seeking new and better ways to estimate and quantify the dynamics and uncertainty in engineered and natural systems.
Latest Research News
Uncovering the Might of Microbes Around Us
Join Dean Jerry Lynch and Professor Claudia Gunsch as they discuss how Duke’s NSF-funded PreMiEr center is revolutionizing microbiome technology: boosting the good, minimizing the bad and transforming public health.
Planting the Seeds for a More Sustainable Future
Students in the first Master of Engineering in Climate & Sustainability Engineering cohort share their experiences in this new and unique program.