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Spring / Summer 2021 NC State Engineering Magazine

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Welcome to the Spring / Summer 2021 issue of NC State Engineering magazine.

Contents

From the dean

Basnight remembered as a champion for the College of Engineering

Simon named head of Department of Chemical and Molecular Engineering

Q&A: Julie Swann

Features

70 years of nuclear engineering
The College celebrates its role in the founding of global nuclear engineering research and education.

Endless possibilities
Researchers in the College are working with Colleagues across campus to drive the CRISPR-Cas Revolution

Engineering education close to home
From the mountains to the sea, the College makes it easy for students across North Carolina (and around the world) to receive an engineering education that is second to none.

The right space
Fitts-Woolard Hall provides faculty members and students the opportunity to reach their full potential.

Grad students make the college go
Graduate students play a key role in the groundbreaking research that is conducted in the College of Engineering

Pack Points

Understanding and controlling materials’ antiviral properties can lead to better PPE

Study reveals extent of privacy vulnerabilities with Amazon’s Alexa

Dean Martin-Vega elected to National Academy of Engineering

NC State ranks in top 10 for online master’s engineering programs (again)

Rural Works! program continues to grow, despite pandemic

Pericardial injection effective, less invasive way to get regenerative therapies to heart

Reduced heat leakage improves wearable health device

Artificial Chemist 2.0: Quantum dot R&D in less than an hour

Think and Lead: Master’s program offers management training for engineers

Faculty Highlights

Six engineering faculty members named AAAS Fellows

Ligler recognized by National Academy of Engineering with leadership award

Grant elected as 2022 AIChE president

Jones receives 2020 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Award

Foundations

College of Engineering meets campaign fundraising goal

Fitts-Woolard Hall is driven by alumni support

Butler, Stutts and Washington receive Distinguished Engineering Alumnus award

Alumni and friends of the College help set new Day of Giving record

Annual giving

Recent Kolbas gift supports ECE students academically and socially

Anonymous donors provide vital support for deans’ priorities

Wolfpack Women in Philanthropy give back, together

From the board

Young alumni spotlight: Matthew Ostrowski

Ways to give to the NC State Engineering Foundation

COE Departments get creative for commencement

Leaders needed


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NC STATE ENGINEERING MAGAZINE
VOL. XIVI, ISSUE I


DEAN
Dr. Louis A. Martin-Vega

ADVISORY BOARD

Dr. John Gilligan, Executive Associate Dean of Engineering

V. Nelson Peeler, Jr. (EE ‘88), President, Board of Directors, NC State Engineering Foundation, Inc.

Griffin Lamb, Assistant Dean for Development and College Relations, Executive Director of the NC State Engineering Foundation, Inc.

EDITOR Brent Lancaster

SENIOR ASSOCIATE EDITOR Danielle Herman

ART DIRECTOR Candice Wallace

ASSISTANT GRAPHIC DESIGNER Jacob Fremderman

ILLUSTRATIONS Jie Sun

CONTRIBUTORS Lisa Coston Hall ▪ Mick Kulikowski ▪ Tracey Peake ▪ Matt Shipman ▪ Rachel Young

IMAGES Milad Abolhasani ▪ Lauren Alvarez ▪ Linda Butler ▪ Lisa Cook ▪ Julie Williams Dixon ▪ Steffanie Easter ▪ Lazar Gugleta ▪ Marc Hall ▪ Basil Hassan ▪ Timothy Holder ▪ Camilo Jimenez ▪ Megan Johnson ▪ Becky Kirkland ▪ Yan Kolbas ▪ Robert Lasson ▪ Lisa Marshall ▪ Tiffany Chin Moore ▪ Sayak Mukherjee ▪ Matthew Ostrowski ▪ Mehmet Ozturk ▪ Deval Parikh ▪ Shutterstock ▪ Sindee Simon ▪ Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries ▪ Carl Stutts, Jr. ▪ Hans Warren ▪ Sahaj Zalavadia

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