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Fall/Winter 2015

Oct 6, 2015

Meet the Dean’s Circle

Alumni. Friends. Faculty members. Sons and daughters. Spouses. Members of the Dean’s Circle, the College’s signature annual giving fund, are connected to NC State engineering in different ways. 

Oct 6, 2015

Endowed professorships help recruit top researchers

If the College of Engineering is to sustain its position as one of the leading public colleges of engineering in the country, it is critical to have the best faculty in the country. 

Oct 6, 2015

Foundation board changes leadership

Robin (Rob) E. Manning, who holds a bachelor’s in electrical engineering from NC State and a master’s in business administration from Queens College in Charlotte, took over as president of the NC State Engineering Foundation, Inc.’s board of directors in January. He replaces Thomas R. McPherson Jr., who has two degrees in electrical engineering from NC State and is a Distinguished Engineering Alumnus. 

Oct 6, 2015

Foundation Year in Review

The NC State Engineering Foundation, Inc. had another record-setting fundraising year with $21,741,828.00 in private gifts and new commitments for fiscal year 2014-15 in support of students, faculty and programs in the College of Engineering. 

Oct 6, 2015

From Galileo to Steer

The advent of the Information Age has made it much easier to track one’s family history, turning days spent poring over dusty vital records into a few hours online. 

Dr. Wilhelm F. Gauster, professor of electrical engineering, performs a rod-gap experiment with a student in the College’s High Voltage Laboratory in 1952.

Oct 6, 2015

Engineering energy

NC State electrical engineering students have always spent a lot of time in the lab.