2015

Nov 10, 2015

Researchers find way to create wide variety of new holograms

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed techniques that can be used to create ideal geometric phase holograms for any kind of optical pattern – a significant advance over the limitations of previous techniques. 

Nov 10, 2015

Researchers find way to make metals stronger without sacrificing ductility

Researchers at North Carolina State University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a technique to make titanium stronger without sacrificing any of the metal’s ductility – a combination that no one has achieved before. 

Nov 5, 2015

Hassan’s giving takes flight

Hassan A. Hassan has enjoyed a productive career at NC State University. The mechanical and aerospace engineering professor has notched more than 200 publications in the aerospace field, served as principal investigator on countless research projects for NASA and others and received awards including the Alexander Quarles Holladay Medal for Excellence, the university’s highest faculty honor. 

Nov 4, 2015

Engineering Career Fair draws students, leading companies

The fall 2015 NC State Engineering Career Fair at the university’s Jane S. McKimmon Center was filled to the brim with well-dressed students who had their résumés in hand and questions on the tip of their tongues. 

Nov 3, 2015

Zikry receives 2015 RJ Reynolds Award

Dr. Mohammed Zikry, Zan Prevost Smith Distinguished Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at North Carolina State University, is the thirty-first recipient of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Awards for Excellence in Teaching, Research and Extension. Zikry delivered an award lecture Monday, Nov. 2, at the Larry K. Monteith Engineering Research Center on NC State’s Centennial Campus. His lecture was entitled, “Material Integration for Failure Resistant Systems: What Can Modeling Provide?” 

Nov 3, 2015

Westmoreland has been named a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor at Imperial College of Science and Technology

Professor Phillip R. Westmoreland of North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA, has been named a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor at Imperial College of Science and Technology in London. 

Oct 29, 2015

Engineering students sweep NC State’s first 3 minute thesis

Engineering students took all three prizes Oct. 28 in the first-ever 3 Minute Thesis competition at NC State University. The international competition challenges students to describe their dissertation research in 3 minutes, using just one slide. 

Oct 21, 2015

Reeves named associate dean for graduate programs

Dr. Douglas Reeves, professor of computer science and electrical and computer engineering, has been named associate dean for graduate programs in the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University. 

Oct 21, 2015

From exoplanets to Rainbow Station: Using lasers to print in four dimensions

In 2010, Michael Escuti received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study and make novel hologram technologies. He created a tool that did much more.