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Engineering an Uplifting Society
For over a century, Duke has championed knowledge in service of society. Today, we meet people where they are, creating routes to prosperity through active learning, entrepreneurial ventures, and community-driven research.
Explore our strategic vision
Watch launch video
Community-Based Innovation
Our dedicated staff and faculty build local and global partnerships with neighbors and communities with complex needs. Real-world problems challenge our students to design workable solutions. Working together to achieve them provides better outcomes for clients and a holistic education for our future engineers.
Pushing Character Forward
Every university shapes the character of its students, often implicitly and unintentionally. We are explicitly integrating issues of character and ethics into every level of our curriculum to graduate not only technologically adept engineers, but also better people.
Eliminating Financial Barriers
Duke meets 100% of demonstrated financial need for its undergraduates, providing over $170 million need-based scholarships each year. With an eye to serving our local communities, we provide full tuition grants to admitted students from the Carolinas whose families earn $150,000 or less.
Engineering Solutions, Empowering Communities
Each year, student-led teams travel around the globe to collaborate with local partners identifying critical needs, co-designing solutions, and implementing projects in the field. Duke Engineers for International Development (DEID) is an immersive program that builds real-world experience and a sense of global responsibility, preparing engineers to drive positive change worldwide.
Explore These Transformative Experiences
Bringing Engineering Design to Our Communities
We are committed to inspiring the next generation of STEM leaders through intentional outreach programs led by our passionate faculty, staff, and students. Meeting students and their teachers alike where they are multiplies these efforts.
Helping Teachers Organize Outreach : I/O Magazine 2025
YouTube Video SlXkKBkuQ0Q
Outreach Design Education
Through collaborative projects and local partnerships, Outreach Design Education (ODE) expands access to hand-on design learning for students from underserved communities. Real-world STEM challenges build practical skills and spark curiosity, helping students envision and create the innovations of tomorrow.
InventHERs Institute
Our faculty are revolutionizing how girls and women see themselves in STEM fields. By creating a “counterspace” where everyone can authentically belong and thrive, they connect with elementary school girls and their caregivers through a three-tier mentorship model that makes STEM education a more powerful and inclusive tool for common good.
Duke Global Health Institute
Designing cancer screening tools that can be used in rural clinics. Training local engineering students how to design biomedical tools that work in their communities. Field testing sanitation solutions for billions without it in their own distinct circumstances. We work to achieve health equity for vulnerable groups and individuals around the world.
3/19
Student Experience
One Line at a Time: Programming Good Code and Forming Good People in First-Year Computing
Genevieve Lipp reframes teamwork as a virtue as part of her efforts to integrate ethics into her First-Year Computing class.
Priorities in Action
All news
Duke IEEE Students Explore the Future of Space at SATSHOW 2026
Nine Faculty Named 2026 Bass Chairs
Jungsang Kim Receives South Korea’s Top Science and Technology Honor
Scientists tested the creativity of AI models, and the results were surprisingly homogeneous
Upcoming Events
All events
Climate Solutions: Conversation with Katharine Hayhoe
Katharine Hayhoe is the chief scientist for the Nature Conservancy, a distinguished professor at Texas Tech University and the author of Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and […]
Apr 23
5:00 pm
Divinity School Goodson Chapel
Apr
23
DQC Seminar Series
Upcoming seminars 23 Apr: Sophia Economou 21 May: Florian Ungerechts
12:00 pm
Apr
23
Kewaune Lecture: Engineering Human Tissues for Medical Impact
ENGINEERING HUMAN TISSUES FOR MEDICAL IMPACT Tissue engineering has progressed in response to the growing clinical demand for biological substitutes capable of restoring tissues compromised by trauma or disease, with […]
2:00 pm
Fitzpatrick Center Schiciano Auditorium
Apr
23
Climate Solutions: Conversation with Katharine Hayhoe
Katharine Hayhoe is the chief scientist for the Nature Conservancy, a distinguished professor at Texas Tech University and the author of Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and […]
5:00 pm
Divinity School Goodson Chapel
Explore our Programs
A Duke Engineering education leads to lives of purpose and integrity that are as rewarding as they are impactful. Explore our supportive and inclusive community that defines excellence in engineering.
Undergraduate
Solve hard problems. Have fun doing it.
Master’s
Master tomorrow’s challenges.
PhD
Prepare for a high-impact career.
Engineering an Uplifting Society
For over a century, Duke has championed knowledge in service of society. Today, we meet people where they are, creating routes to prosperity through active learning, entrepreneurial ventures, and community-driven research.
Explore our strategic vision
Watch launch video
Community-Based Innovation
Our dedicated staff and faculty build local and global partnerships with neighbors and communities with complex needs. Real-world problems challenge our students to design workable solutions. Working together to achieve them provides better outcomes for clients and a holistic education for our future engineers.
Pushing Character Forward
Every university shapes the character of its students, often implicitly and unintentionally. We are explicitly integrating issues of character and ethics into every level of our curriculum to graduate not only technologically adept engineers, but also better people.
Eliminating Financial Barriers
Duke meets 100% of demonstrated financial need for its undergraduates, providing over $170 million need-based scholarships each year. With an eye to serving our local communities, we provide full tuition grants to admitted students from the Carolinas whose families earn $150,000 or less.
Engineering Solutions, Empowering Communities
Each year, student-led teams travel around the globe to collaborate with local partners identifying critical needs, co-designing solutions, and implementing projects in the field. Duke Engineers for International Development (DEID) is an immersive program that builds real-world experience and a sense of global responsibility, preparing engineers to drive positive change worldwide.
Explore These Transformative Experiences
Bringing Engineering Design to Our Communities
We are committed to inspiring the next generation of STEM leaders through intentional outreach programs led by our passionate faculty, staff, and students. Meeting students and their teachers alike where they are multiplies these efforts.
Helping Teachers Organize Outreach : I/O Magazine 2025
YouTube Video SlXkKBkuQ0Q
Outreach Design Education
Through collaborative projects and local partnerships, Outreach Design Education (ODE) expands access to hand-on design learning for students from underserved communities. Real-world STEM challenges build practical skills and spark curiosity, helping students envision and create the innovations of tomorrow.
InventHERs Institute
Our faculty are revolutionizing how girls and women see themselves in STEM fields. By creating a “counterspace” where everyone can authentically belong and thrive, they connect with elementary school girls and their caregivers through a three-tier mentorship model that makes STEM education a more powerful and inclusive tool for common good.
Duke Global Health Institute
Designing cancer screening tools that can be used in rural clinics. Training local engineering students how to design biomedical tools that work in their communities. Field testing sanitation solutions for billions without it in their own distinct circumstances. We work to achieve health equity for vulnerable groups and individuals around the world.
3/19
Student Experience
One Line at a Time: Programming Good Code and Forming Good People in First-Year Computing
Genevieve Lipp reframes teamwork as a virtue as part of her efforts to integrate ethics into her First-Year Computing class.
Priorities in Action
All news
Duke IEEE Students Explore the Future of Space at SATSHOW 2026
Nine Faculty Named 2026 Bass Chairs
Jungsang Kim Receives South Korea’s Top Science and Technology Honor
Scientists tested the creativity of AI models, and the results were surprisingly homogeneous
Upcoming Events
All events
Climate Solutions: Conversation with Katharine Hayhoe
Katharine Hayhoe is the chief scientist for the Nature Conservancy, a distinguished professor at Texas Tech University and the author of Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and […]
Apr 23
5:00 pm
Divinity School Goodson Chapel
Apr
23
DQC Seminar Series
Upcoming seminars 23 Apr: Sophia Economou 21 May: Florian Ungerechts
12:00 pm
Apr
23
Kewaune Lecture: Engineering Human Tissues for Medical Impact
ENGINEERING HUMAN TISSUES FOR MEDICAL IMPACT Tissue engineering has progressed in response to the growing clinical demand for biological substitutes capable of restoring tissues compromised by trauma or disease, with […]
2:00 pm
Fitzpatrick Center Schiciano Auditorium
Apr
23
Climate Solutions: Conversation with Katharine Hayhoe
Katharine Hayhoe is the chief scientist for the Nature Conservancy, a distinguished professor at Texas Tech University and the author of Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and […]
5:00 pm
Divinity School Goodson Chapel
Explore our Programs
A Duke Engineering education leads to lives of purpose and integrity that are as rewarding as they are impactful. Explore our supportive and inclusive community that defines excellence in engineering.
Undergraduate
Solve hard problems. Have fun doing it.
Master’s
Master tomorrow’s challenges.
PhD
Prepare for a high-impact career.