These are some of the very real obstacles that engineers from Duke University faced while field testing sanitation systems aimed at making the world a heathier place. As leaders of the Center for ...

Previously, Briggs used a baby manikin of her own design — the original “Tommy the Trach Baby” — to train families. However, as essentially a plastic doll with a hole drilled in its neck, the original ...

Established in 1987, the Per Bruel Gold Medal for Noise Control and Acoustics honors Dr. Per Bruel, who pioneered the development of sophisticated noise and vibration measuring and processing ...

Robots, in contrast, have long relied solely on visual information such as cameras or lidar to move through the world. Outside of Hollywood, multisensory navigation has long remained challenging for ...

On an overcast, and at times rainy, May weekend in Durham, students and their families and supporters celebrated the 101st class of graduates from Duke University. Within a jam-packed weekend ...

I’m a visiting international student from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia, where women make up about 20% of the engineering cohort. That kind of imbalance shapes your experience ...

One effect is particularly evident in the Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula, a four-hour drive east of Duke campus. Though the coastal region is almost entirely composed of natural wetland, here and there, ...

Professor Bertram entered college at Georgia Tech with the intention of studying medicine, following her father, a pulmonary and critical care physician. As she pursued her degree in biomedical ...

Brooke has long co-taught the course with Douglas Nowacek, the Repass-Rodgers Distinguished Professor of Marine Conservation Technology, jointly appointed in the Nicholas School of the Environment and ...

Sitting down with pencil and paper, Bejan went through the equations and calculations that govern heat flow and transfer within two similar shapes: a long roof with a triangular cross section and a ...

MSI Press Release MOCA Systems, Inc‬‭. (MSI), provider of‬‭ Touchplan‬‭ ®,‬‭ the industry-leading construction‬ planning platform, has acquired‬ ‭ QuikCal‬‭, an innovative‬‭ software application, and ...

Text2Robot leverages emerging AI technologies to convert user text descriptions into physical robots. The process begins with a text-to-3D generative model, which creates a 3D physical design of the ...