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
September 28, 2009
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the research arm of the U.S. Department of Defense, has awarded Duke University $19.5 million for an effort led by the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy (IGSP) to design a portable, easy-to-use diagnostic device that can reveal who is infected with an upper respiratory virus before the first cough or sneeze.
DARPA is interested in such a device because it could offer military commanders in the field ...
August 24, 2009
DURHAM, N.C. -- With a very lucky shot, Duke University scientists have captured a one-second image and the electrical fingerprint of a huge jolt of lightning that flowed 40 miles upward from the top of an offshore tropical storm.
These rarely seen, highly charged meteorological events are known as gigantic jets, and they flash up to the lower levels of space, or ionosphere. While they do not occur every time there is lightning, they are substantially ...
July 14, 2009
Two Duke University engineers have received the highest honor given to scientists by the U.S. government.
Adrienne Stiff-Roberts and Chris Dwyer, both assistant professors of electrical and computer engineering at Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering, each received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The awards are intended recognize young investigators and support them in the early stages of their independent research careers.
The award also carries up to $1 million in research support ...
July 6, 2009
When one thinks about working for the federal government, one often thinks of large conglomerates feeding off our tax dollars at the public trough.
However, there is actually a not-for-profit company that not only manages large programs for such federal agencies as the Department of Defense, the Federal Aviation Administration, the Internal Revenue Service and Departments of Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security, but does so in the public interest. And the chief technology officer and vice ...
June 26, 2009
Some day, people will routinely watch 3-D movies in their living rooms just as they now watch movies on their computer monitors.
Electrical engineer Amy Reibman (B.S. ’83, M.S. ’84, Ph.D. ’87) has been involved in both of these technologies. During her 18 years at AT&T Labs – Research, she has worked to improve the quality of video transmitted over networks, just as she is now in the early stages of making 3-D television readily available.
“I’ve ...
June 10, 2009
It’s a familiar scene in airports and train stations. Hands full with luggage, briefcase, laptop or coat and there’s something you need to remember, like the level and row numbers where you parked your car in the deck. What do you do?
Instead of relying on your memory, or finding a place to put all your stuff down to find a pen and paper, wouldn’t it be so convenient to simply write “level 4, row H” ...
