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Kip Coonley

Assistant Professor Of The Practice in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Box 90291, Durham, NC 27708-0291
130 Hudson Hall, Box 90291 130 Hudson Hall, Durham, NC 27708

Overview


Kip D. Coonley received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Duke University, Durham, NC in 2023, the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, in 1999 and the B.S. degree in Physics from Bates College, Lewiston, ME, in 1997. Following graduation from Dartmouth, he developed electronically controlled dimmers for fluorescent and incandescent lamps at Lutron Electronics, Coopersburg, PA. From 2001 to 2005, he was a Research Engineer at RTI International, where he designed high-efficiency thermoelectrics using epitaxially grown superlattice thin-film structures. Since 2005, he has been the Undergraduate Laboratory Manager in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University, Durham, NC earning the doctoral degree in 2023. His research interests include undergraduate engineering education, energy harvesting, RFID, power electronics, plasma physics, and thin films.

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Assistant Professor Of The Practice in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science · 2025 - Present Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Pratt School of Engineering
Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering · 2025 - Present Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering

Recent Publications


Board 149: Pioneering Pathways for High School Students in STEM Education (Work in Progress)

Conference ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings · June 23, 2024 Our program aims to impact local high school students by highlighting engineering as a vital component of STEM education and building bridges to college life. A distinguished high school known for its robust engineering program serves as our partner, with ... Cite

LINEAR ELECTROSTATIC OSCILLATOR WITH VISCOUS DAMPING

Conference Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference · January 1, 2023 Experimental analysis of a translating spring-mass system with a constant electrostatic force in the presence of viscous damping is presented. The challenge in this effort has been to develop an analytical model for the electrostatic system and experimenta ... Full text Cite

BYOE: Microelectronic non-idealities laboratory explorations

Conference ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings · June 22, 2020 Microelectronic circuits and semiconductor devices are presented to students and treated in circuits as ideal. This makes sense initially. Unfortunately, it is often not possible to delve fully into the many non-ideal behaviors these devices can exhibit in ... Cite
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Education, Training & Certifications


Duke University · 2023 Ph.D.
Dartmouth College · 1999 M.S.
Bates College · 1997 B.S.

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