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Students tackled community-centered design challenges, engaged in service projects and connected to socially conscious engineering education efforts. Launched in 2023, the Clark Scholars Program Network helps train the next generation of engineers by making engineering education more accessible. It brings together exceptional undergraduate scholars and leaders from 11 engineering institutions to confront society’s key challenges with a multidisciplinary, socially-conscious and entrepreneurial approach. Program participants take engineering and business classes, participate in community service and attend seminars and events with leaders in the field.

Railinc and Duke University’s Christensen Family Center for Innovation (CFCI) announced a new collaboration to explore practical innovations that advance freight rail safety and efficiency. The initiative will harness Duke’s Product Lab, a student-led program where teams co-create solutions in rapid sprints with industry partners to deliver prototypes that have both immediate impact and long-term potential.

This year marks an exciting new chapter for CFCI as we expand opportunities for collaboration, leadership, and innovation. Through closer partnerships with industry sponsors in Product Lab, the launch of a new Business Leadership course co-taught with Mike Salvino, and the introduction of a student-led structure for the Clark Scholars program, we're empowering our community in fresh and meaningful ways.

Intensive program gives service members the tools to pitch, prototype and scale defense innovations that address real battlefield needs while earning credit toward a graduate engineering certificate or master’s degree.

Here at CFCI, we are constantly changing the way we think, updating processes, and offering new opportunities to innovators. We hope that this changelog newsletter will provide you with a timely record of all our updates.

The Christensen Family Center for Innovation would like to congratulate our recent A. James Clark Scholars graduates from the Class of 2025.

The Christensen Family Center for Innovation had a huge success showcasing twelve Duke Engineering start-ups for our 2025 Spring Showcase!

Startup built by three Duke Engineering undergraduates is acquired by industry-leading construction planning platform.