mechanical and aerospace engineering
Researchers make robots from self-folding kirigami materials
Researchers have demonstrated a new way to make robots.
Faculty highlights
Recent awards and honors extended to College of Engineering faculty members.
Composite metal foam outperforms aluminum for use in aircraft wings
Metal foam outperforms aluminum for use in airplane wings.
Zhu to receive outstanding achievement award
Professor Yong Zhu has been selected to receive the 2019 ASME Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award by the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME) and Pi Tau Sigma.
Novel approach to ultrasound raises possibility of new medical applications
A new ultrasound technique provides a non-invasive way of assessing bone structure on the microscale.
Envisioning Research contest winners offer glimpses of discovery
Researchers use images to learn about the world around us and to help viewers engage with the work of discovery.
Inside NC State’s leading-edge 3D printing hub
NC State’s Center for Additive Manufacturing and Logistics pushes the boundaries of 3D printing to solve complex research problems.
2019 UGPN Research Collaboration Fund awarded
The University Global Partnership Network recently awarded the eighth round of the annual Research Collaboration Fund to nine projects between the consortium’s universities. NC State is represented on six of the funded projects this year.
Huang named recipient of presidential award for young scientists and engineers
Dr. Hsiao-Ying Shadow Huang, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at North Carolina State University, has been named a recipient of the 2019 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
MAE alum designs hardware for future human space travel
For NC State alumnus AJ Rackl, a normal day at work often includes highly specific technical work on hardware that will go into space. But he says it’s the soft skills — how to lead a project, work in a group and network with people — that have helped him the most since graduating from NC State.