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Chancellor Woodson visits College; tours Engineering Building III

Chancellor Randy Woodson visited several labs during his tour of Engineering Building III on April 4, including the Human Physiology of Wearable Robotics (PoWeR) Lab. (Photo: Rebecca Kirkland) See more photos below.
Chancellor Randy Woodson visited several labs during his tour of Engineering Building III on April 4, including the Human Physiology of Wearable Robotics (PoWeR) Lab. (Photo: Rebecca Kirkland) See more photos below.

Chancellor Randy Woodson was treated to a tour of North Carolina State University’s newest engineering building and several of its laboratories on April 4.

The College of Engineering hosted the chancellor for the tour of the 248,000-square-foot Engineering Building III, which opened in 2010. It contains about 80 laboratories and houses the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Joint NC State-UNC Department of Biomedical Engineering. The tour was part of the chancellor’s annual visit to the College.

Woodson, accompanied by Dr. Louis A. Martin-Vega, dean of the College of Engineering, visited the Biomedical Microfabrication Laboratory, where researchers use ultraviolet lithography equipment to design, fabricate, and test microfabricated sensors and devices. The chancellor also toured the Electromechanics Research Laboratory, where he operated a robotic catheter and learned about the lab’s medical and engine research. Then it was on to the building’s subsonic wind tunnel and flight research lab.

Woodson also visited the NC State facilities of the Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors, a $122 million multi-institution research initiative that is using computer models to develop innovative new approaches to nuclear power that will result in safer, more cost-effective energy. NC State plays a leading role in the new center.

Near the end of the tour, Woodson toured to the Human Physiology of Wearable Robotics (PoWeR) Lab, where researchers study the science and physiology of wearable robotics and what it could mean for humans with disabilities, aging baby-boomers and soldiers on the battlefield.

Finally, Woodson met with NC State’s Aerial Robotics Club, where he used a computer to fly a simulated unmanned aerial vehicle over Centennial Campus.

 

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