Dear Colleagues,
Duke ECE has been at the forefront of electromagnetic wave manipulation through the use of metamaterials since our faculty co-invented them a quarter-century ago. Through a focused and collaborative effort with Duke’s Office of Translation and Commercialization, I’m proud to say that the technology that was once seen as a parlor trick is now the basis of a dozen startups backed by more than a billion dollars from one research lab alone.
Duke ECE has been long dedicated to transforming technologies from fundamental inquiries into products that make an impact on society, with metamaterials being just one example. This combination of research and translation is one of the many reasons that both our electrical engineering and computer engineering graduate programs were ranked in the top 20 by the US News and World Report.