materials science and engineering

May 19, 2021

How a tougher skin could change the shape of stealth aircraft

A new material promises to make stealth aircraft even stealthier. 

May 17, 2021

NC State announces inaugural Goodnight Early Career Innovators

Ten faculty members in the College of Engineering or affiliated departments are among the 24 recognized by a new program for promising NC State early-career faculty whose scholarship is in STEM or STEM education. 

Apr 23, 2021

Augustyn and Garcia Menendez named 2021 recipients of Blessis Outstanding Undergraduate Advisor Award

Veronica Augustyn, assistant professor in MSE, and Fernando Garcia Menendez, assistant professor in CCEE, are being honored for their dedicated commitment to supporting engineering students. 

Apr 8, 2021

Brenner part of nationwide team developing materials hard enough to stir steel

A multi-university team funded by the Department of Defense is working to develop new super-hard "high entropy" materials, as well as AI tools. 

Mar 26, 2021

Trapped configurations of plasmon-coupled gold nanoparticles useful for thermal history sensing

Basically, you can use light to see how hot the material got. 

Mar 18, 2021

Study finds plants would grow well in solar cell greenhouses

An interdisciplinary team of NC State researchers found that greenhouses made of see-through solar panels good for growing plants and making electricity. 

Feb 19, 2021

Inaugural cohort of Impact Scholars announced

Two College of Engineering faculty members are part of the inaugural cohort of Impact Scholars. 

Feb 1, 2021

New photonics research makes smaller, more efficient virtual and augmented reality tech possible

The advance is a fundamentally new device architecture for photonic devices. 

Dec 2, 2020

2 carbon electronics cluster faculty named among top-cited researchers

Harald Ade from the Department of Physics and Aram Amassian from the College of Engineering were named to a list of the world’s most highly cited researchers.