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![François Birgand (center), NC State associate professor of biological and agricultural engineering, won an Internationalization Seed Grant from the university.](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/birgand.jpg)
Birgand’s stream restoration research gets boost from NC State Seed Grant
![Graphic: Fibrin Specific Nanogel (FSN)](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Brown-heart-attack-HEADER.jpg)
New system allows rapid response to heart attacks, limits cardiac damage
![The two-dimensional shapes shown at the top of the image fold themselves into the three-dimensional structures shown on the bottom.](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Yong-Zhu-Origami-HEADER-1500-gray-bkgrd.jpg)
New technique uses templates to guide self-folding 3-D structures
![image of i-phone](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Krim-incompatible-data-HEADER.jpg)
Model fuses social media, remote sensing data with goal of identifying nuclear threats
![nc state gateway](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/nc-state-gateway.jpg)
Industrial engineering alumna named associate dean of the College of Design
![Afsaneh Rabiei is pictured here with the device she developed that can capture scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images in real time at temperatures up to 1,000 degrees Celsius while applying stresses as high as two gigapascal.](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Rabiei-heat-microscopy-HEADER-1500.jpg)
New microscopy works at extreme heat, sheds light on alloys for nuclear reactors
![Carrie Sanford](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Carrie-Sanford.jpg)
BAE student selected for ACC Fellowship Program
![The first layer focuses the incoming sound waves onto a second layer placed behind it, which then sends the sound waves back to their source. The device works by stacking SPI (left) on top of SPII (right).](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/RetroV2-SPI-SPII.jpg)
New tech improves ability to reflect sound back to its source
![](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Tracy-Gold-Fold-HEADER-1500.jpg)