Engineering Communications

Sep 28, 2018

National Security Agency renews Science of Security Lablet at NC State

NC State has again been awarded a Science of Security Lablet by the National Security Agency (NSA) to continue its work in developing the cybersecurity and privacy breakthroughs needed to safeguard cyberspace. 

Sep 28, 2018

Tech bends light more efficiently, offers wider angles for light input

Engineering and physics researchers at NC State have developed a new technology for steering light that allows for more light input and greater efficiency — a development that holds promise for creating more immersive augmented-reality display systems. 

Sep 28, 2018

New technique allows printing of flexible, stretchable silver nanowire circuits

Silver nanowires have drawn significant interest in recent years for use in many applications, ranging from prosthetic devices to wearable health sensors, due to their flexibility, stretchability and conductive properties. While proof-of-concept experiments have been promising, there have been significant challenges to printing highly integrated circuits using silver nanowires. 

Sep 28, 2018

Common bricks can be used to detect past presence of uranium, plutonium

Nuclear engineering researchers have demonstrated a technique that can determine whether bricks — the common building material that is omnipresent on the NC State campus — have ever been near a radiological source and identify the specific type of source, such as high enriched uranium or plutonium. 

Sep 28, 2018

Research improves food bank effectiveness, equity

Researchers in industrial and systems engineering have developed new computer models to improve the ability of food banks to feed as many people as possible, as equitably as possible, while reducing food waste. 

Sep 28, 2018

Lightweight metal foam blocks blastwave, debris from high-explosive rounds

New research from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) and the U.S. Army’s Aviation Applied Technology Directorate shows that stainless steel composite metal foam (CMF) can block blast pressure and fragmentation at 5,000 feet per second from high explosive incendiary (HEI) rounds that detonate only 18 inches away. 

Sep 28, 2018

Department heads named in Materials Science, Computer Science

The College has named new department heads in the Department of Computer Science (CSC) and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE). 

Sep 28, 2018

Masnari led College’s growth in size, prestige

Dr. Nino A. Masnari, distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering and dean emeritus of the College of Engineering, passed away on May 19, 2018. 

Sep 28, 2018

Program places students in internships across rural North Carolina

Kristen Manchette is a senior from Charlotte, NC, studying materials science and engineering. This summer, though, she learned the ins and outs of storm water best management practices when she participated in Rural Works!, an NC State internship program.