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Left: person wearing the fluid motor attached to artificial muscles. Center: artificial muscle lifts suitcase off the ground. Right: robotic leg attached to artificial muscle flexes its ankle.

Jul 2, 2024

Portable engine can power artificial muscles in assistive devices

What sets the new engine apart is its ability to generate significant force without being tethered to an external power source. 
Several layers of scrap metal with ragged edges laid over top of each other. Oxidation has occurred on them producing varying red, green and brown colors on the surfaces.

Jul 1, 2024

Complex alloys reacting with oxygen paves way for better alloys

Complex alloys incorporate multiple metals or other principal elements, giving them desirable properties for a range of modern applications in aerospace and beyond– but their complex nature does not necessarily mean they do not rust or fail over time.  A new study provides a deeper understanding of how oxidation occurs in these complex alloys. 
Color photo of howling wolf metal scuplture.

Jul 1, 2024

CSC’s Rouskas recognized for optical network research

The Outstanding Technical Achievement Award is a prestigious, annual award for lifetime contributions to optical networking.  Rouskas is being recognized for his “pioneering research in the design, implementation, operation, and control of fiber optic networks”. 
NC State belltower and US flag in early morning light.

Jul 1, 2024

CBE’s Kelly elected as AIChE Fellow

Robert Kelly, the Alcoa Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been elected as an AIChE Fellow. Candidates are nominated by their peers with the primary criterion for election being significant professional accomplishment or service to the profession.  In addition, the candidate must have significant chemical engineering experience, normally 25 years, and be a Senior Member of the society. 
image shows three different configurations of 3-D cubes

Jun 28, 2024

Mechanical computer relies on kirigami cubes, not electronics

The mechanical computer uses a complex structure of rigid, interconnected polymer cubes to store, retrieve and erase data without relying on electronic components. 
The “WolfPack Baby” Pilot Plant Paper Machine, a small-scale paper machine, painted in red and grey with a series of large rollers in the background. In the right foreground, there is a large metal frame holding a metal roller. A caution sign in red and white on a white background reading DANGER: HOT is stuck to the side.

Jun 26, 2024

BETTER Project: Global partnership advancing paper making at NC State and beyond

The Department of Forest Biomaterials, in partnership with Aalto University, Valmet, and Tapio Measurement Technologies, is excited to announce the successful completion of the initial stages of the BETTER experiment at the “WolfPack Baby” Pilot Plant Paper Machine. 
The NC State Belltower at dusk and night.

Jun 26, 2024

Mattingly named American Nuclear Society Fellow

Dr. John Mattingly, professor of nuclear engineering and university faculty scholar, will be one of twelve fellows honored at the opening plenary of the 2024 American Nuclear Society (ANS) Annual Conference on June 17th in Las Vegas. 
multicolored code streams across a computer monitor

Jun 25, 2024

Six NFR strategies to improve software performance and security

Non-functional requirements (NFRs) are important aspects of a software system, but are often overlooked by developers. 
Spring blooms around the Memorial Belltower on an April afternoon. Photo by Becky Kirkland.

Jun 21, 2024

Abolhasani to receive 2024 CRE Early Career Investigator Award

Milad Abolhasani has been named the recipient of AIChE’s 2024 Catalysis & Reaction Engineering Division Early Career Investigator Award, the Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos Award.