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![Black-and-white video still shows a ringlike object in a square space that has one gap for an entrance. A bright white line shows the path that the object has taken in tracing the contours of the space.](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/yin-orbit-header-1500.jpg)
New soft robots roll like tires, spin like tops and orbit like moons
![Image shows a composite image of one of the original engineering buildings from the early twentieth-century juxtaposed next to the new Fitts-Woolard Hall with three students walking beside it.](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Spring-Summer-2023-Alumni-Magazine-cover-comp.jpg)
2023: a year of reminiscing and forward thinking
![Ramon Sanchez](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/ramon-sanchez-header.jpg)
Ramon Sanchez knows no way but forward
![Fitts-Woolard reflects the dusk light and a deep blue sky.](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/BK-9760.jpg)
College mourns the loss of Edgar S. Woolard
![Caleby Jolly dressed in a red short-sleeved shirt and khaki pants, flashes the Wolfpack sign while standing on catwalk at Talley Student Union.](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Caleb-Jolley.jpg)
ME grad is ready to make the world a greener place
![Alumna Christina Koch, right, speaks with Chancellor Randy Woodson during a recent Red Chair Chats podcast. A red banner runs across the bottom of the image with the NC State wolf silhouette on the left.](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/RCC-Christina-Koch.jpg)
To the Moon: Chancellor Woodson talks Artemis II and chasing dreams with NASA astronaut Christina Koch
![illustration shows two pieces of metal foam being welded together using an induction welder. Several inches away from the site of the weld (which is white hot), the metal foam is cool enough to touch with a bare hand.](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/rabiei-welding-header.jpg)
Researchers find way to weld metal foam without melting its bubbles
![Ning Lu, wearing a lavender cardigan sweater and red lanyard, stands in front of laboratory equipment.](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Ning-Lu.jpg)
Lu named Blessis Outstanding Undergraduate Advisor Award recipient
![Sammi Easton, wearing a red graduation gown, flashes the NC State wolf sign in front of Fitts-Woolard Hall.](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Sammi-Easton.jpg)