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Duke Engineering

A podcast from Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, dedicated to the ingenious ways that engineers are solving society's toughest problems

  1. PhD to CEO: Insights into Making the Leap

    11/06/2025

    PhD to CEO: Insights into Making the Leap

    He had no intention of becoming an entrepreneur. She chose Duke explicitly for the chance to pursue a start-up. His company just became cashflow-positive. She’s already on her second after a $100 million success story. Both have words of wisdom for PhD students looking to follow in their footsteps. Listen in on their conversation.

    25 min
  2. Lightning Talks

    07/17/2024

    Lightning Talks

    Lightning has been striking the Earth for billions of years, but it’s only in the past few decades that scientists have started to uncover its flashiest secrets. Is lightning the same everywhere in the world? Does harvesting its energy to power our society—or a time machine—make any sense? From enormous bolts streaking toward space to powerfully mysterious gamma ray bursts, we explore this common but little understood natural phenomenon with one of the world’s leading researchers on the topic Professor Steve Cummer. Transcript: pratt.duke.edu/news/lightning-talks

    22 min
  3. Game Changer

    06/21/2024

    Game Changer

    In this episode, Jamal sat down with Ernesto Escobar, the Executive Director of Duke's Game Design Development and Innovation Master's Program, and founder of Fanaticus XR. Together, they explore the positive impact of video games, debunk common misconceptions, and discuss the importance of diversity and inclusivity in the gaming industry. Transcript: https://pratt.duke.edu/news/game-changer

    18 min
  4. A Blue Devil Family

    04/16/2024

    A Blue Devil Family

    When Becky Simmons first got to Duke in the 1990s, she wouldn’t have guessed it then, but a future awaited her that included graduate school, a husband, two daughters, professorship and ties that would bind them all to Duke for decades. Transcript: pratt.duke.edu/news/blue-devil-family

    25 min
  5. Pop Quantum

    03/19/2024

    Pop Quantum

    Andrew Van Horn and Debopriyo Biswas, two grad students from the Duke Quantum Center, chat about how quantum technology is portrayed is popular film and tv. What does pop quantum get right? What does it get wrong? And why does it even matter? Transcript: pratt.duke.edu/news/pop-quantum

    23 min
  6. What Makes a Happy Community?

    04/12/2023

    What Makes a Happy Community?

    Duke CEE faculty member Andrew Jones investigates how and where bacterial communities thrive in the built environment—and imagines a future water smart grid that’s accessible to everyone. Transcript available at https://pratt.duke.edu/about/news/podcast/what-makes-happy-community

    18 min
  7. Multiplying Microscopes

    03/30/2023

    Multiplying Microscopes

    Today, researchers use a variety of imaging techniques to visualize and analyze biological systems, but there are limits to how much—and how well—these tools can see. But Duke BME’s Roarke Horstmeyer and his team are creating new microscopes and imaging algorithms to capture biomedical images at never-before-seen scales. Transcript available at https://pratt.duke.edu/about/news/podcast/multiplying-microscopes

    15 min
  8. Resonance

    03/14/2023

    Resonance

    She’s an analyst. He’s an algebrist. She loves displays of unbridled creativity; he has journaled every day for thirty years. Between the two of them, Duke power couple Ingrid Daubechies and Robert Calderbank have changed the way society shares and processes information. Transcript available at https://pratt.duke.edu/about/news/podcast/resonance

    22 min
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A podcast from Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, dedicated to the ingenious ways that engineers are solving society's toughest problems

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  • Creator
    Duke Engineering
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2025
  • Episodes
    24
  • Rating
    Clean
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