October 2017

Oct 9, 2017

In our labs

One way to describe Dr. Gracious Ngaile’s lab in Engineering Building III on NC State’s Centennial Campus is “heavy metal.” 

Oct 9, 2017

NSF Engineering Research Centers: ASSIST and FREEDM

In its first five years, ASSIST focused on building the platforms for wearable health monitoring systems and the sensors that would drive them. As those platforms have matured and the center moves into its sixth year of National Science Foundation (NSF) funding, ASSIST’s focus is transitioning to placing its technologies into clinical trials. Now in its ninth year, FREEDM hopes to demonstrate both the system it has worked to create — an improved electric grid that can handle bidirectional energy flow and integrate larger percentages of renewable energy sources — and the pieces that make it work. 

Oct 9, 2017

Challenge accepted

The National Academy of Engineering in 2008 announced 14 Grand Challenges of Engineering in the 21st century, calling on the nation’s engineers to tackle these problems and improve the lives of every person on the planet. In this story, you will learn about the 14 challenges and just some of the ways in which the College of Engineering is answering the call. 

Oct 9, 2017

Engineers across borders

The College helps revive a study abroad program that takes students to China. 

Oct 9, 2017

Manufacturing USA

NC State and the College are giving U.S. manufacturing an advantage 

Oct 9, 2017

Benefits of advanced wood-burning stoves greater than previously thought

A recent study out of the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering (CCEE) finds that advanced wood-burning stoves designed for use in the developing world can reduce air pollution more than anticipated because gaseous emissions from traditional wood stoves form more particulate matter in the atmosphere than researchers previously thought. 

Oct 9, 2017

Paper pumps power portable microfluidics, biomedical devices

Researchers in the UNC/NC State Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) have developed inexpensive paper pumps that use capillary action to power portable microfluidic devices, opening the door to a range of biomedical tools. 

Oct 9, 2017

Alumna becomes finalist on “Mythbusters: The Search”

Growing up, Tamara Robertson had aspirations of becoming an attorney in the military, but a visit to NC State’s campus where she had the chance to sit in on an engineering class changed her mind and her life. “I just fell in love almost immediately,” she said. “It’s a school that you feel at home at.”… 

Oct 9, 2017

New technique ‘sees’ radioactive material even after it’s gone

A new technique allows researchers to characterize nuclear material that was in a location even after the nuclear material has been removed — a finding that has significant implications for nuclear nonproliferation and security applications.