ECE Undergrads.
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Contact.
ECE Department
Duke University
Box 90291
Durham, NC 27708
(919)-660-5252
(919)-660-5293 FAX
About ECE.
Duke ECE offers programs leading to the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees. We currently have 100 full-time graduate students and graduate more than 80 undergraduates every year. We offer programs in both Electrical Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering leading to the Bachelor of Science degree as well as several double major programs including Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, and Electrical Engineering and Physics.
The Department has some 31 primary (tenure track and professors of the practice) and 16 secondary faculty directing advanced research, and offering undergraduate and graduate courses in major areas of Electrical Engineering such as Signal Processing, Optical Systems, Microelectronics, Electromagnetics and Sensing and Computer Engineering.
Numerous opportunities for Research and Teaching Assistantships in the above areas exist for qualified graduate students. All applicants are also considered for Duke's prestigious and highly competitive J.B. Duke and International Fellowships.
ECE News
July 1, 2008
Professor Jeffrey T. Glass has been appointed Senior Associate Dean for Education, Dean Tom Katsouleas announced on July 1, 2008. He succeeds Tod Laursen, who served in that capacity since 2003 and will now become chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science.
"Jeff has the ideal background to help the faculty and the departments to develop innovative and exciting new educational programs that respond to the nation’s need for engineers that will be ...
June 19, 2008
Residence hall/laboratory receives state's first platinum LEED rating
DURHAM, NC -- The Home Depot Smart Home at Duke University, a 10-person student residence hall for green living and learning, has achieved a top-level platinum standard for its design from the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED rating system. The building becomes the first in North Carolina to achieve that standard.
LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.
The 6,000-square foot-residence, designed by students and advisers, earned 59 ...
May 11, 2008
Duke University and its Pratt School of Engineering awarded degrees to 230 undergraduate and 174 graduate students May 11 and engineering Dean Robert L. Clark said Pratt’s graduating seniors are ready to help tackle some of the many challenges facing the nation and the global society.
“You are about to accept a much greater responsibility for yourselves, and as engineers, for all of humanity,” Clark told a standing-only-crowd of graduates, and their friends and families gathered ...
May 8, 2008
DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering has received a gift of $5 million from an anonymous donor to establish a new undergraduate curriculum that will encourage students to think critically about problems that lack obvious solutions, like those they will encounter after graduation, President Richard H. Brodhead announced Wednesday.
The planned curriculum will be open to undergraduates from all majors.
“Duke’s strategic plan, ‘Making a Difference,’ calls for investments in programs that help students ...
April 23, 2008
Dan Roberts, a junior in Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering, was one of three Duke students to receive a prestigious Goldwater Scholarship for the 2008-2009 academic year. Another engineering student, Stephen DeVience, received an honorable mention.
The scholarships, which provides up to $7,500 toward annual tuition and expenses, are awarded to college sophomores and juniors in the field of mathematics, science or engineering. This year, 321 scholarships were given out of a field of 1,035 applicants. ...
April 21, 2008
Two years after receiving prestigious fellowships designed to support women scientists, three Pratt graduate students are well into their research with such diverse projects as brain-computer interfaces, nanoparticle exposures and a new method for breast cancer screening.
In 2006, Katie Hedlund, Christine Robichaud and Christina Shafer were named Clare Boothe Luce Fellows. The fellowship program is the largest such private program for women studying science, mathematics or engineering. More than 1,500 women scientists have received support ...
