Duke Engineering Research

Quick Facts

Duke is a leader in areas such as biophotonics, ultrasound imaging, compressive imaging, aerodynamics and aeroelasticity, microfluidics, computer architecture and performance integrity, applied signal processing, micro and nano device design and fabrication, applied metamaterials, nonlinear and computational mechanics, and environmental science and bioremediation.

Annual Research Expenditures 

  • $84 million

National ranking by specialty (Source: 2010 U.S. News & World Report)

  • #4 Biomedical Engineering

National ranking by productivity of faculty members (Source: 2008 Chronicle of Higher Education) 

  • #1 Biomedical engineering department
  • #7 electrical and computer engineering department
  • #8 mechanical engineering department




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Major Research Awards:

  • $24.8 million - Maximally scalable Optical Sensor Array Imaging with Computation (MOSAIC) - Department of Defense. Led by Professor David Brady.
  • $15 million - Modular Universal Scalable Ion-trap Quantum Computer (MUSIQC) - Army Research Office. Led by Associate Professor Jungsang Kim.
  • $6.25 million Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative - Transformational Optical Metamaterials funded by the Army Research Office. Led by Professor David Smith.
  • $6.4 million Multidisciplinary University Research initiative - Integrated Quantum Circuits, funded by the Army Research Office. Co-PI Associate Professor Jungsang Kim.

Members of the National Academy of Engineering

  • Earl H. Dowell, William Holland Hall Professor and Dean Emeritus. Elected in 1993 for contributions to aeroelasticity and structural dynamics, which provide continuing insights into the behavior of complex structural systems.
  • Henry Petroski, Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and Professor of History. Elected in 1997 for books, articles, and lectures on engineering and the profession that have reached and influenced a wide range of audiences.
  • Robert Plonsey, Pfizer-Pratt University Professor Emeritus of Engineering, Duke University. Elected in 1986 for the application of electromagnetic field theory to biology, and for distinguished leadership in the emerging profession of biomedical engineering.
  • Robert Calderbank, professor of electrical engineering and Dean of Natural Sciences at Duke. Elected in 2005 for leadership in communications research, from advances in algebraic coding theory to signal processing for wire-line and wireless modems.
  • 10 Duke engineering alumni are NAE members; 9 Duke math and physics alumni are also NAE members.

 

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