February 11, 2003

Rabiei Receives NSF Career Award

Dr. Rabiei (Photo: Lance Mangum)

Dr. Afsaneh Rabiei, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at North Carolina State University, is the recipient of a Faculty Early Career Development (Career) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), effective April 1, 2003, to run through March 31, 2008.  The award is one of the highest honors given by NSF to university faculty in science and engineering.

As part of the award, NSF will provide $400,000 in funding over the next five years. Rabiei will use the award to support her research project entitled, “Processing and Development of a New Ultra-Light High-Strength Material.”

Rabiei’s research interests include processing and characterization of advanced materials for structural, biomedical and aerospace applications.  She worked at Harvard University as a researcher from 1997 to 2000.  She is fluent in English, Japanese and Persian.

She received her bachelor’s degree in materials science and engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1986 and her doctorate in advanced materials at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology of the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1997.

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