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MSE alum Gleb Yushin interviewed by Forbes magazine

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Mar 5, 2025

Spring 2025 Carla Savage Award Winners Announced

Named after department icon and professor emeritus Carla Savage, the Carla Savage Awards are an intra-departmental initiative that recognizes outstanding achievement within the department. 
Sabila and Abdullah in Hunt Library

Feb 24, 2025

MSE Couple Celebrates Successful Doctoral Defenses Together

In a special moment for MSE, graduate student couple Abdullah Al Shafe and Sabila Pinky announce their successful doctoral defenses together. 
Yi Chen

Feb 7, 2025

Grad Student Profile: Yi Chen

Yi Chen, a Ph.D. student in the College of Engineering, is currently researching battery-less RF energy harvesting sensor platforms and hopes to overcome the form factor and reliability issues posed by batteries in wearable devices. 

Aug 17, 2023

MSE doctoral candidate appreciates the value of collaboration at international research workshop

Sustainable energy has always been a topic of interest for NC State Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) doctoral candidate, Ishita Kamboj. Her research at MSE… 
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Jun 15, 2023

Doctoral candidate Saeed reflects on immersive faculty experience

NC State MSE doctoral candidate, Saeed Saeed, recently completed a weeklong faculty training program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The highly prestigious WiscProf: Future Faculty… 
Rahul Chakraborty

Apr 28, 2023

Rahul Chakraborty finds community at NC State by embracing opportunities

When Rahul Chakraborty defended his thesis in February, more than 100 of his friends came to celebrate over a potluck dinner. He’s expecting to see just as many friends when he returns to Raleigh for NC State University’s commencement ceremony on May 6. 
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Mar 3, 2023

Three selected as MAE Doctoral Students of the Year

Three students have been named as the Inaugural Outstanding Doctoral Students of the Year at NC State’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. 
Timothy Holder

Dec 21, 2022

Timothy Holder finds a field that pulls together many — but not all — of his interests

Timothy Holder has always felt pulled toward varying interests — medicine, wearable devices, racquetball, exploring new places and philosophy, to name a few. 
Gleb Yushin

Dec 20, 2022

MSE alum Gleb Yushin interviewed by Forbes magazine

Growing up in the USSR and Russia, Gleb Yushin only applied to one university in the United States: NC State University.