partnerships

Sep 9, 2022

Rapid Shape selects Centennial Campus for North American headquarters

Rapid Shape, a German company that develops and manufactures high-end 3D printing systems, has opened its North American headquarters on NC State’s Centennial Campus. Proximity to student and faculty talent, research and state-of-the-art equipment are cited as key reasons for choosing the new location. The company is partnering with NC State’s Center for Additive Manufacturing and Logistics… 

Sep 8, 2022

Industry Partners event will highlight College’s significant impact on the state

Dean Louis A. Martin-Vega and the College of Engineering will hold an Industry Partners Lunch and Panel with North Carolina business and governmental leaders to highlight the College’s ongoing contributions to the state and its plans for expansion. 

Mar 22, 2022

NC State expands exchanges with Saudi Arabia

What started as a research collaboration between two computer science scholars nearly 10 years ago is now the foundation for a series of research and academic exchanges between NC State University and King Abdulaziz University (KAU) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Professor George Rouskas, director of graduate programs for NC State’s Department of Computer Science, has already co-authored 14 publications with Dean Iyad Katib, who heads KAU’s Faculty of Computer and Information Technology. 

Apr 18, 2018

Pentair partnership: Solving complex challenges

Ten years ago, Pentair was looking to expand its autonomous underwater robot technology to the swimming pool market. The relationship quickly expanded to other areas of the company and across university disciplines. The company opened an innovation center on Centennial Campus in 2011 to further engagement, and the partnership with NC State continues to grow. 

Sep 29, 2016

NC State leads NSF program to train future leaders at nexus of big data and materials science

North Carolina State University and North Carolina Central University are launching a National Science Foundation-funded program to recruit and train researchers in new ways of applying advanced statistical tools to physical science data. 

Dec 8, 2014

Bolstering our food banks

Over the past decade, the number of people at risk of going hungry in North Carolina has soared to more than one in six. Distributing tens of millions of pounds of food to those in need is a staggeringly complex problem — one that researchers at NC State are determined to help solve. 

Nov 24, 2014

First-year class boasts highest percentage of female engineers

NC State’s 2014 first-year engineering class includes the highest percentage of female students in university history — nearly 25 percent — which is an increase from 18 percent five years ago and 14 percent 10 years ago. 

Nov 10, 2014

Cancer-killing nanodaisies

NC State researchers have developed a potential new weapon in the fight against cancer: a daisy-shaped drug carrier that’s many thousands of times smaller than the period at the end of this sentence.