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Faculty Highlights

Fall/Winter 2018

NC State brick yard

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. 
Donation box of food

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. 
Dr. Afsaneh Rabiei examines composite metal foam in her lab.

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). 
Dr. Nino Masnari

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. 
Dr. Jerome Lavelle, associate dean of academic affairs in the College, and senior Kristen Manchette

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. 
red bell tower

Sep 28, 2018

Light it red

The Memorial Belltower, completed in 1937 as a monument to honor NC State alumni killed in World War I, serves as a campus landmark and rallying point for the University community to celebrate NC State’s successes. 

Sep 28, 2018

Faculty Highlights

Read faculty highlights from the online edition of the Fall/Winter 2018 NC State Engineering magazine.