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FAMILY TIES NC State’s Minority Engineering Programs continue to grow 22

COLLEGE MAKES BIG INVESTMENT | 16 § CENTER BRINGS TECHNOLOGY TO TEACHING | 28 PUTTING PLANS IN MOTION FALL/WINTER 2016 Since its establishment in 1887, the campus of what is The plan is for the entire College to eventually move now called North Carolina State University has been to Centennial Campus, save for the nuclear reactor in contents in a constant state of change and growth, with ideas Burlington Labs. That’s staying put. for expansion and improvement always in the heads FEATURES of university leaders and on the pages of planning On page 20 and 21, you can learn about the fate of documents. Today is no exception. the buildings that long lined ‘Engineering Row’ (now 14 IN OUR LABS Explore the spaces where our engineering faculty members work, starting with an anechoic chamber. 16 FORWARD MOTION The College plans to invest $250 million in infrastructure and faculty hiring over the next five years. 22 FAMILY TIES 14 The College’s Minority Engineering Programs continue to grow. 26 NSF ERC UPDATES The College’s two National Science Foundation Engineering Research Centers are reinventing the power grid and developing wearable health monitoring systems. 28 BEYOND THE CLASSROOM The Center for Educational Informatics is changing the way we learn. 22

DEAN Dr. Louis A. Martin-Vega OFFICE OF THE DEAN College of Engineering ADVISORY BOARD Campus Box 7901, NC State University Dr. John Gilligan, Executive Associate Dean of Engineering Raleigh, NC 27695-7901 Brian Campbell, Assistant Dean for Development and College 919.515.2311 Relations, Executive Director of the NC State Engineering Foundation, www.engr.ncsu.edu Inc. Using a model on display in Riddick Engineering Stinson Drive) and how they will be used as the College NC STATE ENGINEERING FOUNDATION, INC. Laboratories in 1949, Colonel John William Harrelson completes its move to Centennial. What’s next for the Robin E. Manning (EE ’78), President, Board of Directors, NC State Campus Box 7901, NC State University Engineering Foundation, Inc. (far left), then-chancellor of North Carolina State building where you took engineering classes? Raleigh, NC 27695-7901 919.515.7458 College, shares future plans for the campus. Lora F. Bremer, Executive Director of Major Gifts and Campaign Planning, NC State Engineering Foundation, Inc. www.engr.ncsu.edu/foundation You’ll learn that Riddick, where this photo was taken EDITOR Jennifer Cox CHANGE OF ADDRESS? Visit www.engr.ncsu.edu/alumni-friends or A close perusal of the display shows that it leaves out and the home at various times of chemical, materials, SR. ASSOCIATE EDITOR Brent Lancaster send address corrections to [email protected]; or a lot of the sprawling NC State campus that today’s industrial and mechanical engineering, is now occupied call 919.515.7458, toll free: 866.316.4057. ASSISTANT EDITOR Darsee Heath students are familiar with, including Centennial Campus. by the Department of Physics and the Department of MAGAZINE DESIGN DIRECTOR Candice Wallace NC State University is an equal opportunity and affirmative action Animal Science. employer and is dedicated to equality of opportunity within its ASSISTANT GRAPHIC DESIGNER Dylan Bryant community. Accordingly, NC State University does not practice or The College of Engineering is in the middle of a move CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Dylan Bryant, Nicholas Chavis, Abigail condone discrimination, in any form, against students, employees, or from North Campus to Centennial Campus that has been Also, find out what will replace Harrelson Hall, the Keller, Mick Kulikowski, Kathi McBlief, Matt Shipman applicants on the grounds of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, or disability. NC State University a university priority for two decades. Six of the College’s recently demolished circular wonder named after the IMAGES Chris Adamczyk; American Society for Engineering commits itself to positive action to secure equal opportunity regardless nine primary departments have made the move and the man showing off a bigger, better NC State in this photo. Education; Bandit Flight Team; Nora Berg; Larry Bowman; Dr. Ashley of those characteristics. Brown; Mark and Dawn Carter; Julie Williams Dixon; Center for Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Harrelson, a mechanical engineering graduate, was the Educational Informatics; Cirrus Logic; Barbara Furmanski; iStock; Marc © 2016. This document was produced by the NC State Engineering Engineering and the Edward P. Fitts Department of first alumnus of NC State to serve as its chancellor. ■ Hall; Rebecca Kirkland; Brent Lancaster; Allen McCall; Blake Miller; Foundation, Inc. and Engineering Communications. No state funds were Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University used; 60,000 copies of this document were printed at a cost of $26,239 Industrial and Systems Engineering will be next, when Libraries; Macy Thomas; Brooke Wages on recycled paper. the new Engineering Oval building is completed.

NC STATE ENGINEERING | 1 QUESTIONS FOR JONATHAN ADDISON Martin-Vega begins term as ASEE president Jonathan Addison completed his NC State career in the spring with Atlantic Coast Conference championships in the outdoor and indoor FROM T HE Engineering long jump, indoor high jump and outdoor men’s 4x100 meter relay, Dean Dr. Louis along with earning a degree in industrial engineering and starting a A. Martin-Vega job with Eaton. assumed the Q A presidency of Which drew you to &NC State first, athletics or engineering? the American Engineering. My main priorities for selecting a school were engineering, track Society for and a large university. I initially wanted to venture out of the state of NC, maybe DEANEach year, the beginning of the fall semester brings a flood of Engineering to Georgia Tech because of their engineering program, but I attended the students to campus, all celebrating some milestone in life — the Education NC State engineering open house and it swayed me. Also because NC State first year away from home, matriculation into a chosen discipline, (ASEE) at the society’s annual recruited me for track and other engineering schools did not. o r the final semester or two before graduation. This fall marks a conference on June 29. special milestone. Our entering first year students are the much “ASEE’s role in shaping the How did you settle on industrial engineering as a major? anticipated “Engineers of 2020.” engineering education landscape has A family friend of mine while I was in high school gave me some insight on the In 2004, the National Academy of Engineering published The never been more important,” he said. LOUIS A. MARTIN-VEGA different types of engineering and why she chose industrial engineering back Engineer of 2020: Visions of Engineering in the New Century. “In order to solve the Grand Challenges in college. So I looked into industrial engineering a lot while I was researching This publication made the case for institutions to anticipate and adapt to the dramatic changes of this century we are going to need schools and I noticed the many different fields and industries in which industrial that would come to the practice of engineering in order to enhance productivity and improve a talented and diverse engineering engineering could be used and it drew me in. the quality of life around the world. This publication greatly influenced engineering education workforce, and with its many resources across the nation and informed many of the choices made within our College. ASEE helps its members do their What does it take to balance a challenging course load with competing Our response was to look at how our College could give our students not only an education jobs better. I’m honored to serve as in college athletics at a high level? that gives them an edge in the global marketplace but also makes them valuable contributors president.” I have been an athlete for as long as I can remember so I have had to balance to the solution of our many societal challenges. We found ways to encourage cross-disciplinary He follows Joseph Rencis, dean of school and sport my entire academic career. I believe it takes dedication to both study, global experiences and exploration of entrepreneurial opportunities. At the center of our the School of Engineering at Tennessee school and sport as well as time management. It was very difficult at times but vision was the integration of research and education, providing research opportunities not just Tech University, as president. The patience and belief in your abilities helps. to graduate students but to our undergraduates as well. incoming president-elect is Bevlee As a result, a 2010 Wall Street Journal survey of top recruiters placed our college 15th Watford, associate dean for academic What was your favorite engineering course? in the nation for producing graduates who were well prepared for industry. Companies like affairs at the College of Engineering at Probably my product production and design class. I got to create a product from IBM, Cisco and NetApp hired more NC State engineering and computer science graduates Virginia Tech. Martin-Vega will serve the brainstorm stages to the actual machining and got to really see my work than from any other engineering college in the country, and our graduates continue to lead one year as president, and one year as result in a useful project and it gave me a feeling of fulfillment. Second would in the creation of new start-up companies. This steady flow of highly educated and skilled immediate past president. be solid works graphic design for the same reasons. graduates from our College fuels economic growth in North Carolina and across our nation. Martin-Vega came to NC State in Also, consistent with our vision, our undergraduates are now playing vital roles in our nationally 2006 after spending five years as dean What does NC State Athletics do to support athletes’ academic pursuits? recognized Engineering Research Centers addressing global challenges in sustainability, health, of engineering at the University of We have a very robust academic support center with tutors available. They security and other areas. South Florida. He has also held several also put on different workshops for resume building, interview help and host a We heard the call in 2004, implemented strategic changes, and now as the “Engineers of prestigious positions at National Science student-athlete career fair every year. 2020” move through the next four years, we continue to find ways to enhance their experience Foundation (NSF), including acting and prepare them for the Grand Challenges of the 21st century and beyond. head of its Engineering Directorate and You’ve received a 2016 ACC Postgraduate Scholarship to continue your In this issue, we have provided an overview of the “things to come” for the College — the director of NSF’s Division of Design, studies. What will that entail? investments we are making to continue to enhance the education we provide our students, Manufacture and Industrial Innovation. After my rotational program with Eaton, I will likely find a place where I can the research we conduct to improve lives and the economy, and the outreach we conduct to Additionally, he has served as chairman pursue an MBA or master’s in sports administration. The scholarship gives ensure that the “Engineer of 2030” and beyond will be prepared for the exciting world he or of the Department of Industrial and $5,000 toward an accredited graduate program that I choose to pursue. she will encounter after graduation. Manufacturing Systems Engineering As always, I hope you enjoy this issue of NC State Engineering, and I thank you for your at Lehigh University and Lockheed Tell us about your career goals. support of our College. Professor in the College of Engineering I would like to end up in administration of some sort. Hopefully, I can find my at Florida Institute of Technology. way back into sports and get involved with sports administration. I love sports Sincerely, ASEE is a nonprofit organization and having the ability to work with them day in and day out would be a dream committed to furthering education come true. ■ in engineering and engineering Louis A. Martin-Vega, Ph.D. technology. ■ Dean

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NC State joins with UNC Pembroke in dual engineering degree program

NC STATE and the University of North made the partnership official during a existing relationships between UNC Carolina at Pembroke have established signing ceremony on July 12. system campuses to improve higher a joint undergraduate degree program Under the program, which launched in education opportunities for North that will allow students to spend August, students will spend three years Carolina students,” Woodson said. three years at UNC Pembroke and at UNC Pembroke and two at NC State The College has similar dual-degree two years at NC State and graduate and graduate with a bachelor’s degree partnership programs with Elon with bachelor’s degrees from both in physics from UNC Pembroke and a University, Fayetteville State University, institutions. bachelor’s degree in either electrical or North Carolina Central University and NC State Chancellor Dr. Randy mechanical engineering from NC State. Meredith College. ■ Woodson and UNC Pembroke “This partnership is yet another Chancellor Dr. Robin Gary Cummings step in the continued growth upon the

EcoPRT will bridge the gap between NC State’s two campuses

TWO FACULTY MEMBERS in the of the Engineering Entrepreneurs With the help of a $300,000 grant College are creating a new transportation Program, and Dr. Seth Hollar, teaching from the North Carolina Department of system that would link Centennial assistant professor in the Department of Transportation, Hollar, Brain and a group Campus with the University’s main Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, of engineering students have begun work campus. have been working on the project since on building five cars. Currently, a second The EcoPRT (ecological personal rapid 2013. prototype, the first car for the grant, is transit) is an ultra-light and low-cost The pair has proposed an EcoPRT being built. The frame for this new model transit system featuring autonomous system to run from James B. Hunt Jr. was designed by students and then two-person cars that would drive on Library on Centennial Campus to D.H. Hill fabricated by an outside company. a guideway railing system. NC State Library on North Campus. The fabrication of the outer shell, engineers Marshall Brain, director “We’re going to completely creating the mold and making multiple revolutionize transportation on NC copies for multiple vehicles will also be State’s campus,” Brain said of the outsourced to two companies located in project’s impact on campus travel. “If the Carolinas. we can get this built, and get the two Currently, the second prototype is a libraries connected together – it just shiny metal frame, measuring 31 inches makes the two campuses feel like wide and 7 feet long. Changes from the one.” first prototype to the second include the The first prototype has been run on aluminum frame, overall reduction of a test track run behind Engineering vehicle weight, the addition of custom Building III on Centennial Campus. made air conditioning, brakes, and “This track will help to provide a suspension that were not initially part proving ground for burning in vehicles of the first vehicle design. Hollar jokes before they would be tested out in the that a cup holder may be part of the new wild. It’s an exciting step,” said Hollar. design as well. ■

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NC State’s NanoDays grows into a national effort

started an annual events were held at more than 250 LASER SCANNING CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY IMAGES OF CLOTS CONSTRUCTED FROM ADULT event called science museums, research centers and FIBRINOGEN (A), NEONATAL FIBRINOGEN (B), OR A MIXTURE OF THE TWO (C). SCALE BAR= 20 μm. NanoDays, universities nationwide, from Puerto Rico recognizing that to Hawaii. the need to Kayla Telford was a NanoDays Study sheds new light on post-operative bleeding provide education volunteer as an undergraduate at NC on the world State. Now she is in her fourth year A NEW STUDY finds significant in the UNC/NC State Joint Department surprised to find that fibrinogen from DR. GAIL JONES became hooked on of nanotechnology goes beyond just as a teacher at Apex High School and differences between the blood clot of Biomedical Engineering. adults did not integrate well with nanotechnology as a professor at UNC graduate students. The technology, and is co-coach of the school’s Science structure in adults and newborns, “The current standard of care is to the fibrinogen in neonates. In other Chapel Hill 15 years ago. the impact it is having on many aspects Olympiad team. helping researchers better understand give neonatal patients blood products words, the fibrinogen from adults and Her colleagues there developed a of human life, is too important. “After that experience of doing fun the challenges in addressing post- – such as a protein called fibrinogen newborns wouldn’t stick to each other nanomanipulator that controlled an “In the lifetime of the people coming science demonstrations and seeing the operative bleeding in neonatal patients. – derived from adult blood,” Brown and form a clot. atomic force microscope that uses a to NanoDays these products are going to children’s reactions at NanoDays, I knew The researchers also found that the says. “But neonatal blood and adult To test this hypothesis, the needle-like probe and allowed for tactile revolutionize their world, and I think it’s for sure that I wanted to teach science,” current standard of care for treating blood aren’t the same; many of the researchers took samples of neonate feedback. This exciting tool could be important for them to know about the Telford said. post-operative bleeding may pose components involved in clotting in fibrinogen and adult fibrinogen and operated remotely, allowing middle and excitement, know about the opportunity The 2016 NC State event was held in an increased risk of thrombosis in newborns have differing levels of compared how they formed clots. high school students to feel objects like and to begin to think about the potential Engineering Building III on Centennial newborns compared to adults, which activity, or effectiveness, compared to They looked at clots formed solely of a cold virus at the nanoscale from their risks and ethical implications of these Campus. Middle school and high school researchers hadn’t suspected. The the same components in adults. Our adult fibrinogen, clots formed solely of classrooms. highly advanced technologies that students from across North Carolina study was performed by researchers goal was to better understand how neonate fibrinogen and clots formed of That sparked an interest in nano that literally are engineering the world atom attended. at NC State, UNC Chapel Hill, Emory clotting in neonates differs from that in mixed adult and neonate fibrinogen. Jones carried with her to NC State. She by atom.” The event was supported by University, Children’s Healthcare of adults, so that we can move closer to The researchers found that neonate arrived in Raleigh and joined the NC As the event, started 12 years ago, PowerAmerica, the Eastman Chemical Atlanta and the Georgia Institute of developing more effective treatment fibrinogen formed less dense, more State Nanotechnology Initiative led by Dr. grew more popular, the Nanoscale Company, the Research Triangle Technology. strategies for these infants.” fragile clots than adult fibrinogen. And Gregory Parsons of the Department of Informal Science Education Network Nanotechnology Network and the “We knew that neonates – infants The researchers’ hypothesis was that they found that a mixture of adult and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering caught on to the idea and turned it Research Triangle Materials Research less than one month old – are more fibrinogen – the main blood-clotting neonate fibrinogen formed clots that as it was getting started. Jones, Alumni into a nationwide festival. Jones was a Science and Engineering Center. Several likely than adults to suffer from severe protein – from neonates would form were also fragile and less dense – even Graduate Distinguished Professor of member of the organization’s advisory College of Engineering faculty members bleeding after heart surgery, which clots that are different from those if there was relatively little neonate STEM Education, led the educational board and helped to get this national took part, running demonstrations and poses a variety of health risks,” says formed by adult fibrinogen, and they fibrinogen in the mixture.■ component of the Nano Initiative. She effort off the ground. In 2016, NanoDays leading tours of their laboratories. ■ Dr. Ashley Brown, assistant professor were correct. However, they were

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TELESCOPES CREATED in the Precision Engineering Consortium (PEC) will help NASA scientists gain a better understanding of star formation. Star formation is the process by which dense regions within molecular clouds in interstellar space, referred to as stellar nurseries, collapse to form stars. The region of interest is stars that are 2,500 light years away from the earth – meaning the light reaching the telescope left the star 2,500 years ago. The PEC, part of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and multiple stars in stellar nurseries The PEC has assisted with design

HUSSAIN, LEFT, AND BENKARAACHE (MAE), is assisting NASA’s Goddard that are usually enshrouded by dust, modifications to the telescope structure Space Flight Center with its Balloon which hides them at visible light and is in the process of building the Engineering startup aims to bring accurate pricing to the Experimental Twin Telescope for wavelengths. Spectral measurements optics for the pair of telescopes. Dow Infrared Interferometer (BETTII). of the long-wavelength infrared signal managed the project and, along with trucking industry BETTII is a binocular telescope that may uncover proto-planetary disks and Furst, came up with the design for the will be launched in a balloon to 26 the temperature and composition of the mounting structures and the light-weight MOAAD BENKARAACHE AND must rely on customers to provide Valley startup incubator that has helped miles above the earth’s surface. At dust that formed them. mirrors, while Garrard programmed the TAYYAB HUSSAIN have set out to the measurements by which pricing is Dropbox, Airbnb and other companies its heart is a prototype optical system PEC Director Dr. Thomas A. Dow, machine tool-path and developed the solve a problem in the commercial determined. get their start. that uses interference between the Duncan Distinguished University control software. The PEC is creating two trucking industry, just not the problem While some larger companies can Benkaraache and Hussain spent eight beams of infrared light captured by Professor in Mechanical Engineering; identical telescopes. Each has a 21-inch they originally thought they would. afford laser-scanner technologies, weeks over the summer receiving help each telescope to measure the position Kenneth P. Garrard, PEC senior research primary mirror, an eight-inch flat turning As seniors and members of the smaller ones have employees use from a YC counselor and $20,000 in the and spectrum of a star. The fine scholar; and Dr. Stephen J. Furst, mirror and a pair of smaller mirrors to College’s Engineering Entrepreneurs tape measures, a difficult task when form of a convertible security for seed resolution of this binocular telescope adjunct assistant professor in MAE, are turn and shape the light beams and Program (EEP), they wanted to find a assessing a pallet of items that is funding. At the end of the eight weeks, can distinguish between single stars working on this NASA-funded project. deliver them to the interferometer. ■ fix for underutilized trailer capacity. But irregularly shaped. Whether intentionally they had a chance to pitch to investors after talking with trucking companies, or not, customers often provide during a Virtual Demo Day. they learned that technology used to inaccurate measurements, and trucking The partners adjusted their model track how much space is occupied and companies don’t have the time or again during the YC experience and how much has been filled is already resources to double-check everything. turned their attention to smaller parcel being utilized. Trakex’s idea combines sensors and shipments. E-commerce is one of the But they kept talking to potential software that measure a pallet of goods fastest growing markets in the world, customers, asking what problem needed as it moves from the point at which a and the most expensive aspect of it to be solved rather than telling those customer drops the pallet off to a truck, is shipping cost. Billions of dollars are customers what problem their EEP providing the shipping company with wasted because of bad dimensional project would solve for them. measurements that lead to accurate measurement and inefficient packing. “You’ll realize that your idea might not pricing. The company has done $20,000 be exactly what they want, but if you Benkaraache and Hussain, spring 2016 in sales and has reached a deal with keep talking to enough people, you’ll graduates with degrees in industrial German logistics company DHL, catch a pattern,” Hussain said. and chemical engineering, respectively, Hussain said. The pair learned that as the trucking won first place in the New Venture Trakex now plans to attack a $22 industry has shifted from pricing based Challenge at Lulu eGames, the annual billion parcel shipping market that on weight to a pricing plan that also entrepreneurship startup competition. includes potential customers like takes the dimensions of items to be They followed it up with a fellowship Amazon, Walmart, Nike and other major shipped into account, the industry often from Y Combinator (YC), the Silicon distributors. ■

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sensitive material for biomedical use FACULTY MEMBERS in the College Biomolecular Engineering, will serve as bandgap semiconductor-based power will help lead the Southeast hub for a director. electronics. AN INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAM of a semiconductor material. Specifically, new Smart Manufacturing Innovation SMII will be backed by $800 million The institute will work in the areas researchers at NC State has developed the GaOOH is dispersed in the biological Institute (SMII) that aims to spur in federal and non-federal resources of advanced sensors and controls, a composite material that emits light gel in the form of crystals that are technological innovation to improve the and will include nearly 200 partners data analytics, advanced predictive and heat when exposed to specific 200-300 nanometers in diameter efficiency of advanced manufacturing in from industry, federal research modeling and simulation software, and wavelengths of radiation and that can be and approximately one micron — or the United States. labs, academia and state and local application toolkits that can dramatically customized to have specific mechanical micrometer — in length. The new institute will be led by government across 30 states. reduce energy expenses in advanced characteristics. The composite holds “When the composite is exposed to the Smart Manufacturing Leadership SMII is the ninth announced manufacturing. promise for use in biomedical imaging, wavelengths of radiation that would be Coalition, based in Los Angeles, hub in the National Network for The NC State-led hub will include a drug delivery and therapeutic treatments. used in clinical settings, the GaOOH Calif., in partnership with the U.S. Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI). NC technical focus on the energy-intensive “The radiosensitivity is what makes responds by heating up and emitting Department of Energy. NC State will be State is the lead institution for one of pulp and paper industries, carbon the material useful for biomedical light,” Berg says. the home of one of five regional hubs. those hubs, Power America, which is fiber, primary metals, chemicals, applications, and the ability to tune the “This response to radiation makes it Dr. Phillip Westmoreland, professor advancing the research, design and pharmaceuticals and other industries. ■ mechanical properties makes it less attractive for use in some therapeutic The mechanical properties of the in the Department of Chemical and manufacturing in the area of wide likely to be rejected by the surrounding applications,” says Albena Ivanisevic, composite can be tuned by adjusting the tissue in the body,” says Nora Berg, a corresponding author of the paper concentration of GaOOH; adjusting the Ph.D. candidate in the Department of and a professor of materials science amount of GaOOH changes the structure Materials Science and Engineering and and engineering. “The radiosensitive of the gel, which affects the gel’s lead author of a paper describing the response can help generate reactive stiffness. The mechanical properties work. oxygen species – like peroxide – that can were investigated in collaboration The material is a composite of a be used to kill cells. So, this material may with Dr. Saad Khan’s research group biological gel made of proteins and have value for targeting localized cancer in the Department of Chemical and gallium oxyhydroxide (GaOOH), which is sites.” Biomolecular Engineering. ■

NC State engineers will help further civilian nuclear energy in Vietnam

TRAINING FROM FACULTY members and radiological in the Department of Nuclear Engineering materials, among is part of an agreement on civil nuclear other areas. clean energy cooperation signed by One of those leaders in the United States and Vietnam. training and In 2014, the two countries signed education initiatives,

an agreement under Section 123 of according to a White DRS. HAWARI, LEFT, AND THANH the Atomic Act that opened the door House statement, to nuclear trade and cooperation. An will “complement Vietnamese university on May 26 with Drs. Ayman Hawari administrative arrangement signed in nuclear curriculum programs with the and Nam Dinh, professors of nuclear May 2016 under the auspices of that Department of Energy supported remote engineering. Hawari is also director of NC 2014 agreement established their reactor training from North Carolina State State’s Nuclear Reactor Program. intention to cooperate further in training University.” The three discussed possible and education, building of institutional Dr. Tran Chi Thanh, president of the interactions that would include both connections, strengthening of export Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute, toured online and in-person training and visits to controls and securing and tracking nuclear NC State’s PULSTAR nuclear reactor and lectures in Vietnam by Hawari. ■

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Seven faculty Narayanaswamy wins Air Force Young Investigator members earn NSF Research Program award CAREER awards Dr. Venkateswaran Narayanaswamy, jet engines of super sonic aircraft. The Seven young faculty members in the assistant professor of mechanical and results of this project will contribute College have been chosen to receive aerospace engineering, received a Young to bringing down the operating speed Faculty Early Career Development Investigator Research Program award of the scramjet that would facilitate (CAREER) awards from the National from the Air Force Office of Scientific better vehicle integration and unravel

Science Foundation (NSF). FROM LEFT, DRS. SRIKANTH PATALA, ALPER BOZKURT, EDGAR LOBATON, HSIAO-YING Research (AFOSR). the physics of inlet unstart phenomenon SHADOW HUANG, BRINA MONTOYA, CHIH-HAO CHANG, AND BRENDAN O’CONNOR The NSF CAREER award is one The goal of his project, “Investigation by elucidating the flow interactions that of the most prestigious awards in “Three-Dimensional Nanolithography professor of civil engineering, for her of Shock Boundary Layer Interactions initiate and sustain unstart. support of junior faculty members with Inexpensive Hardware.” research proposal, “Stabilization of to Unravel the Physics of Unstart in The educational component of the who exemplify the role of teacher- Dr. Hsiao-Ying Shadow Huang, Mining and Energy Related Byproducts Axisymmetric Inlets,” is to develop project will engage with different scholars through outstanding research, assistant professor of mechanical and Using Bio-Mediated Soil Improvement.” autonomous hypersonic platforms, organizations within NC State to provide excellent education and the integration aerospace engineering, for her research Dr. Brendan O’Connor, assistant which can have a game-changing a research experience to undergraduate of education and research within proposal, “Restoring Function in Chronic professor of mechanical and aerospace impact on high-speed commercial students, especially from traditionally the context of the mission of their Venous Insufficiency: Unraveling the engineering, for his research proposal, travel, defense technology and underserved communities, and organizations. The recipients are: Structural Mechanics of Venous Valve “Mechanical Behavior of Flexible commercial space access, and make collaborate with K-12 outreach activities Dr. Alper Bozkurt, assistant Tissues.” Electronic Films.” a profound difference in world trade to bring middle and high school DR. VENKATESWARAN NARAYANASWAMY professor of electrical and computer Dr. Edgar Lobaton, assistant Dr. Srikanth Patala, assistant and commerce. “Unstart” is a sudden students to campus during the summer engineering, for his research proposal, professor of electrical and computer professor of materials science and compressor stall that can occur in the to learn about current research. ■ “Bio-electro-photonic Microsystem engineering, for his research proposal, engineering, for his research proposal, Interfaces for Small Animals.” “Data Representation and Modeling for “Mapping the Genome of Metallic Dr. Chih-Hao Chang, assistant Unleashing the Potential of Multi-Modal Grain Boundaries — Structure, Dickey receives ASEE research award professor of mechanical and aerospace Wearable Sensing Systems.” Thermodynamics and Kinetics.”■ engineering, for his research proposal, Dr. Brina Montoya, assistant Dr. Michael Dickey, a professor in materials including polymers, liquid the Department of Chemical and metals and gels. His work is focused on Allbritton receives national award in chemical instrumentation Biomolecular Engineering, was awarded the study of materials with remarkable the American Society for Engineering properties in order to enable new Dr. Nancy Allbritton, Kenan Dr. Michelle Kovarik, an assistant Education’s (ASEE) Curtis W. McGraw applications, such as energy harvesting Distinguished Professor and chair of professor of chemistry at Trinity College, Research Award for 2016. devices, sensors, soft and stretchable the UNC/NC State Joint Department organized a symposium in Allbritton’s The Curtis W. McGraw Research electronics and self-folding sheets, of Biomedical Engineering, received honor during the ACS meeting. Kovarik, Award was established in 1957 in a simple, inexpensive and scalable the 2016 American Chemical Society who worked with Allbritton as a post- to recognize outstanding early manner. (ACS) Division of Analytical Chemistry doctoral scholar, and four other speakers achievements by young engineering He has coauthored more than 70 Award in Instrumentation at the 252nd were part of the program. Kovarik said college research workers and to publications and has previously received ACS National Meeting and Exposition in that each session focused on how the encourage the continuance of such a National Science Foundation CAREER August. innovation of new technology is being productivity. The annual award is Award (2010), the Sigma Xi Faculty The award recognizes advances in used to probe the biology of single cells, sponsored by the Engineering Research Award (2011) and the Outstanding the field of chemical instrumentation an area where Allbritton is a clear leader, Council (ERC) with the assistance of Teacher Award – Member of the including conceptualization and and that her talk, “Microfluidic Chemical the McGraw-Hill Book Company. The Academy of Outstanding Teachers development of unique instrumentation, Cytometry and Peptide Substrate award includes an honorarium and a at NC State University (2012). He DR. MICHAEL DICKEY stimulation of other researchers to Reporters: Expanding Applications and certificate, as well as travel costs to was honored as a University Faculty use chemical instrumentation, and Access,” examined how technology attend the ERC Annual Conference, Scholar (2013) and received the ASEE authorship of research papers or books developed in Allbritton’s lab is being where the award is presented. Southeastern Section New Faculty DR. NANCY ALLBRITTON that have had an impact in the use of applied and used by researchers who Dickey’s research areas include Research Award (2013). ■ chemical instrumentation. aren’t specialists. ■ new ways to actuate and pattern soft

12 | www.engr.ncsu.edu NC STATE ENGINEERING | 13 FEATURES FEATURES IN OUR LABS THE MAE DEPARTMENT partners Silverberg, professor and director of THESE ARE THE SPACES THAT ENABLE with private industry to develop undergraduate programs in MAE. GROUNDBREAKING RESEARCH small class autonomous aerial Testing the acoustic and vehicles for military use. electromagnetic signature of these These vehicles, commonly vehicles in the anechoic chamber referred to as drones, have a informs work on reducing both so tremendous electromagnetic and that they are harder to hear and pick acoustic signature, said Dr. Larry up on radar. SOUND AND VIBRATION LAB ■

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING (MAE)

THIS ANECHOIC CHAMBER mimics interference from affecting the an infinite space by absorbing measurements being taken inside. acoustic and electromagnetic waves, A mechanism on the door providing a perfect environment to ensures that you can’t accidentally DR. YUN JING, an assistant test those waves without reflectivity lock yourself inside, since no one professor in MAE, specializes affecting the measurements being would be able to hear you yell and in acoustics and is an adjunct taken. your cell phone wouldn’t be able to professor in the UNC/NC State The walls of the chamber, located make a call. Joint Department of Biomedical in an annex building behind The noise level in the chamber Engineering. Engineering Building III on NC is in the range of 15 to 18 decibels He has used the chamber for State’s Centennial Campus, are (the average conversation is 50 to several research projects, most lined with foam wedges backed 60 decibels), so quiet that it takes a recently to study the manipulation by fiberglass. The wedges line the little getting used to. of acoustic waves from a chamber from floor to ceiling, with “It’s a little bit of a sensory speaker as they pass through a a metal grate over the floor to allow deprivation experience,” said Dr. passive array made of 3D printed walking. A wire cage that covers the Richard Keltie, professor in MAE. metamaterials. Manipulation of panels makes the chamber a Faraday For that reason, Keltie does not the waves using this material can cage, which blocks outside electric recommend closing the chamber generate different holographic fields and prevents radio frequency door and turning out the lights. images on the imaging plane without the need for complex and expensive circuitry and active phased arrays. Jing, who MAE SPENT $250,000 to construct how to make them quieter. came to NC State in 2011 after IN THIS PHOTO, MAE the facility on Centennial Campus Recent clients for the new a postdoctoral fellowship at the GRADUATE STUDENT THOMAS after utilizing a similar chamber anechoic chamber have included Harvard Medical School, said POWERS, RIGHT, WORKS WITH WOODUS (ROCKY) beginning in the 1960s in Broughton a company developing low- he would not have been able MINTZ IN THE CHAMBER ON Hall on North Campus. noise refrigeration systems for to accept a teaching position at A MULTIROTOR HEXACOPTER THAT MINTZ BUILT. MINTZ IS Keltie used that chamber to medical applications and wine an engineering school that did THE OWNER OF SANDHILLS test underwater acoustic sensors chillers. The company needed a not have access to an anechoic ROBOTICS IN FAYETTEVILLE, NC. IN PARTNERSHIP WITH for the U.S. Navy. The College of low-noise environment to test the chamber. TFM & ASSOCIATES, INC. Textiles tested looms and other acoustic pattern coming from the SANDHILLS ROBOTICS WORKS WITH THE MAE DEPARTMENT heavy machinery in that chamber to equipment, and MAE offers the ON DRONE RESEARCH. determine why they are so noisy and only one in the area.

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million in infrastructure and faculty

hiring over the next five years IT’S BEEN A GREAT DECADE for the to Centennial Campus and hire 100 new College of Engineering. faculty members to do groundbreaking, Over the last 10 years, the College has interdisciplinary research. seen tremendous growth in enrollment, The new home of the College’s research funding, fundraising and faculty Departments of Civil, Construction, hiring. and Environmental Engineering (CCEE); Research expenditures have nearly the Edward P. Fitts Department of doubled over the last decade, while Industrial and Systems Engineering research awards have more than (ISE); and the dean’s administration, doubled. Engineering Oval will encourage The number of female faculty collaboration across disciplines in the members has tripled while the number areas of biomanufacturing, environmental of faculty members from minority groups engineering, additive manufacturing, has doubled. transportation systems and more. The number of master’s students in It will also bring the University one the College has more than doubled while step closer to having a united College of the number of Ph.D. students has grown Engineering on Centennial Campus. It’s a by 50 percent. vision decades in the making and a move In the last five years alone, the amount that will solidify NC State’s position as of new annual gifts to the NC State one of the top research-intensive public Engineering Foundation has more than universities in the nation. doubled. “Our College of Engineering is The College is one of only two in the a powerhouse when it comes to nation to lead two National Science research, outreach, economic impact Foundation Engineering Research and, of course, education,” said NC Centers at once and is a leader in major State Chancellor Dr. Randy Woodson. research centers sponsored by the “These investments are a vital part of Department of Energy and National making our University and College even Security Agency. stronger. The strength of Engineering is But this is no time to stop. The best a major driver for NC State’s brand and never rest. reputation.” Over the next five years, the College will invest $250 million in infrastructure NO ONE IS STANDING STILL and faculty hiring, moving closer to what Dr. Louis Martin-Vega, dean Across the country, states are of engineering, has identified as its recognizing the true value of their overarching goal: to become and be schools of engineering. These schools perceived as the leading public college of turn students into graduates who can engineering in the nation and one of the improve their communities while earning premier colleges of engineering in the good salaries. Their outreach programs Forward world. expose grade school students to science, The College will build a new cutting technology, engineering and mathematic edge facility – the Engineering Oval (STEM) concepts and help make local building or EB Oval – to continue its move industries more efficient. MOTION

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The research that comes from DR. PAUL ZIA and has a presence in several uses. Before moving to Centennial, the engineering laboratories has a others. Six of the College’s nine Department of Computer Science was tremendous economic impact on their main academic departments spread out over eight different buildings. communities. have made the move, but ISE, “We were very disjointed,” said Dr. So engineering schools like Purdue recruit the absolute best candidates is a CCEE and the Department of Nuclear Mladen Vouk, head of the department. University, Texas A&M University top priority. Engineering (NE) are still waiting. “People would work in clusters but and the University of Florida have Moving ISE to Centennial Campus CCEE’s Mann Hall was built in 1964, didn’t really know anyone else. That was announced major investments in recent will be a big advantage, said Dr. Paul ISE’s Daniels Hall in 1926 and NE’s not very helpful. The collaboration was years. Cohen, department head in ISE. Burlington Laboratories in 1953. These reduced.” Along with serving their own “We compete against the very top ISE departments are doing groundbreaking Along with having better facilities, states and communities, the nation’s programs in the country, and this move work, but are dealing with facilities that moving to Centennial will offer ISE engineering schools have been tasked is critical to help us recruit the right are outdated. The size and shape of and CCEE increased chances for with two high-profile challenges. people.” the laboratories don’t work. Students interdisciplinary collaboration amongst The President’s Council on Jobs and taking classes in Engineering Building departments. Cohen now describes Competitiveness has called on U.S. ROOM TO GROW III on Centennial Campus have electric Daniels as a square with four wings; colleges and universities to increase sockets by their desks to power their faculty members in those four wings the number of annual engineering As dean of engineering in the late laptop computers, while students in don’t have a chance to interact graduates by 10,000. The National 1970s, Dr. Larry Monteith identified a Mann Hall don’t. effectively with each other. Academy of Engineering has identified need for more research space for the “We have emerging programs in Being on Centennial and sharing lab 14 Grand Challenges for mankind to College. He tasked a committee made additive manufacturing and smart space has led to increased collaboration help guide engineering education and up of Drs. Paul Zia, Nino Masnari and manufacturing, and the building simply between the Departments of Computer research in the 21st century. Carl Zorowski, department heads in the cannot handle them right now,” Cohen Science and Electrical and Computer With one of the largest and most three largest academic departments in said. “The infrastructure is not there.” Engineering and a joint networking reputable engineering schools in the the College, with finding the space. Dr. Morton Barlaz, department head in degree program, Vouk said. nation, NC State will be called upon to It was no easy task. The site of the CCEE, had to relocate graduate students The passage of the Connect NC bond play a major role in helping reach both former Riddick Stadium was about the in order to make laboratory space package by North Carolina voters in of these goals. only vacant land they could identify on for a new faculty member. Barlaz’s March provided $75 million for EB Oval. Continuing the College’s upward which to build. department has lab space in three The NC State Engineering Foundation trajectory while also continuing to In 1983, Gov. Jim Hunt announced different buildings and students based has raised more than $21 million of the play a significant role in addressing plans to give part of the Dorothea Dix in five. $60 million in private donations needed these important challenges will require Hospital property south of Western “I think right now some of our to complete the cost of construction. investments in people and facilities. The Boulevard to the University. Zia, students might feel a little like orphans “The move of Engineering to College has an outstanding faculty and, Distinguished University Professor because so much of engineering is on Centennial Campus has been a priority on Centennial Campus, facilities that Emeritus in CCEE, recalls being Centennial,” Barlaz said. on this campus for almost 20 years,” are second to none among engineering invited to the state capitol for the If the department needs more Martin-Vega said. “The Engineering schools in the United States. announcement. electricity to power servers or laboratory Oval building is a major step toward As the College prepares to hire “Once the land was available, we said equipment, it has to pay to increase completing the College’s move to 100 new faculty members over that engineering research will have to go capacity. If it wants to start a new Centennial and part of an important the next five years for positions in to Centennial Campus,” Zia said. research center, it will have to rent investment that will help NC State academic departments, centers and Since then, the College has built four space. Those hits to the department’s Engineering and the University reach its interdisciplinary clusters, continuing to engineering buildings on Centennial bottom line take funds away from other full potential.” ■

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FROM HUMBLE BEGINNINGS in Holladay Hall, engineering at NC State grew to occupy several buildings on the university’s North Campus. As the College of Engineering continues its eventual complete move to Centennial Campus, many of these spaces will take on a new life. Alumni can see what the buildings where they took engineering classes are ROOMTOGROW used for today and what future plans might be in store.

HARRELSON HALL 1911 BUILDING BUILT: 1961 WITHERS HALL PAST: Computer science BUILT: 1909 PRESENT: The University BURLINGTON BUILT: 1939 PAST: Engineering mechanics, demolished Harrelson this PAST: Computer science industrial engineering WINSTON HALL summer. NUCLEAR PRESENT: Moise Khayrallah PRESENT: Interdisciplinary studies, Department of FUTURE: The Harrelson foot D.H. Hill ENGINEERING LABS Center for Lebanese Diaspora BUILT: 1910 Social Work, Department of print will be part of a planned Studies, Department of Foreign PAST: Civil, chemical and (rectangular) interdisciplinary Sociology and Anthropology BUILT: 1953 Languages & Literatures, electrical engineering science teaching building. Library PAST: Nuclear engineering Department of History, PRESENT: Department of PRESENT: Department of Department of Philosophy & Communication Nuclear Engineering, Nuclear Religious Studies Reactor Program, Precision Instrument Machine Shop

DABNEY HALL

BUILT: 1969 Winston PAST: Computer science Hall PRESENT: Department of Harrelson Hall PAGE HALL Chemistry Burlington FUTURE: After Chemistry BUILT: 1922 moves out, Dabney will be an Nuclear Withers PAST: Mechanical and interdisciplinary life sciences Engineering materials engineering building. Hall Labs PRESENT: College of Dabney Hall 1911 Court of Engineering administration, NC Building State Engineering Foundation, North Carolina Inc. FUTURE: College of Humanities and Social Sciences Page Hall

Daniels Bureau Hall Leazar BUREAU OF MINES of Mines Hall BUILT: 1945 PAST: Nuclear engineering, LEAZAR HALL computer science PRESENT: Department of BUILT: 1912 PAST: Computer science Statistics Free Broughton FUTURE: College of Sciences Mann PRESENT: Art and Design administration Hall First Year Experience, Design Expression Hall Research and Extension, DANIELS HALL TunnelBROUGHTON HALL College of Design Materials Lab BUILT: 1926 BUILT: 1951 Riddick PAST: Electrical, civil and PAST: Mechanical engineering Hall industrial engineering, PRESENT: College of Sciences computer science administration, Athletics PRESENT: Edward P. Fitts Department, Feed the Pack MANN HALL RIDDICK HALL Department of Industrial and Food Pantry, ROTC Systems Engineering (ISE), FUTURE: After a renovation BUILT: 1964 Office of International Services, and expansion project, BUILT: 1951 PAST: Civil engineering Integrated Manufacturing Broughton will be the new PAST: Chemical, industrial, PRESENT: Department Systems Engineering Institute home for the Department of materials and mechanical of Civil, Construction, and FUTURE: After ISE moves to Chemistry. engineering Environmental Engineering Centennial, the College will FUTURE: Mann will be used PRESENT: Department of keep a presence in Daniels as classroom space and will Physics, Department of Animal for the first-year engineering be home to another academic Science program. department.

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MinorityTIES Engineering Programs continue to grow

BROOKE WAGES

THREE YEARS out of mechanical The program works to increase the students who just want to check in and engineering classes at NC State, Brooke College’s recruitment of students from talk about how they are doing. Wages is giving back to the program that underrepresented minority groups, help “If you ask students, they really meant so much to her during her time on in retention of those students once talk about the community that they campus. they arrive on campus and aid in their establish by participating in STP and After three student internships with personal, academic and professional MEP in general,” said Entzminger, who Marathon Petroleum, Wages was chosen growth both before and after graduation. is associate director of both MEP and to participate in British Petroleum’s For more than two decades, MEP has the College’s Women in Engineering competency-based rotational program for offered tutoring, mentoring and a bridge program. “It’s something that we think promising young professionals, gaining program called STP (Summer Transition about a lot.” valuable engineering experience in a Program) that gives incoming minority As Wages puts it, “MEP is family.” variety of positions. She is completing students a head start on freshman year her last rotation in Houston, Texas, as an academics while introducing them to a SUMMER AND BEYOND area maintenance engineer. network of NC State students. This year, Wages made a donation Now, through new programs and While many newly minted high school of $15,000 to the College’s Minority partnerships, MEP is offering more help graduates might use the summer before Engineering Programs (MEP). for students beyond freshman year and is freshman year to relax by the pool, “The experience and opportunities tapping into new ways to recruit minority students who participate in STP are that were afforded to me by MEP are students into the College. asked to spend six weeks on campus priceless,” she said. “I can never give Everything MEP does starts with a taking math and chemistry classes. enough to repay what the program support network that helps students They also get a chance to begin has done for me, when it comes to my handle being away from home and in an networking during industry visits and personal, academic and professional environment where they don’t see many participate in sessions on important growth.” classmates who look like them. topics like diet and nutrition and keeping MEP is a resource for African- MEP director Angelitha Daniel and a budget. Plus, there’s time to hang out American, Native-American and staff members Kesha Entzminger, with a new group of friends and get Hispanic students who want to become Kimberly Pender and Dr. Javon Adams accustomed to the freedom of college engineers or computer scientists. receive constant visits from MEP life.

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students to campus to learn more about NC State and will be expanding into Raleigh with MEP’s help. “About 10 percent of the African- American males in the College are as a result of our connection with YBM,” Daniel said.

ALWAYS THERE

The need for the kind of support that the program offers became especially clear when two MEP students took their own lives during the 2015-16 school year. The MEP staff took action, putting together a midyear motivational wellness retreat. With sponsorship funds from Praxair, Inc., they took students to Winterplace Ski Resort in West Virginia for a weekend to regroup before mid- term exams and snow ski, a first for many of the students. As soon as they arrived, students participated in a Skype session with a university counselor to talk about stress, knowing when it’s not normal and knowing when to reach out for help. “Getting to learn the campus before participating. The Minority Summer later served as an MEP mentor herself. accepted a position after graduation comes to the number of undergraduate On a Tuesday during the semester, everyone arrived in the fall was a nice Research Program, which was piloted in “I figured if she could play varsity and now works in Houston, Texas, as a degrees in engineering awarded to Daniel bought boxes of Krispy Kreme advantage to have,” Dr. Tylisha Brown summer 2015, pairs incoming minority basketball and get a computer science project manager. minority students. doughnuts and simply asked students to said. “It was definitely a good decision.” freshmen with faculty members, and degree, then I could definitely do it,” “Because of the program, I was Funding for scholarships would stop by the MEP offices in Page Hall to Brown participated in STP in 1994 and participants showcase their research said Braswell, who works for Apple, able to network with a lot of corporate be key to taking the top spot, Daniel check in. earned a B.S. in chemical engineering in a summer undergraduate research Inc. and started a Charlotte nonprofit recruiters who were looking for people said. Georgia Tech is the leader in the “Students came in, just for us to see from NC State and a Ph.D. in the same symposium. The hope is that they will called INTech that hosts software coding like me,” he said. category, and benefits from the state’s their faces and let them know that we field from Michigan State. This summer, continue to work on research throughout camps for middle-school age girls. HOPE Scholarship Program that funds are thinking of them.” she was back in the MEP fold, teaching a their time on campus and consider Just as important are the networking BY THE NUMBERS the education of Georgia residents When Daniel isn’t on campus working refresher chemistry course to this year’s attending graduate school. opportunities offered by MEP. Starting at Georgia colleges and universities. with current MEP students, you might group of STP students. After STP, MEP students can take with that first summer in STP, MEP Each year, minority students make Providing more scholarship dollars to find her off campus continuing to By the end of the summer, STP advantage of professional development students receive instruction in up about 10 percent of the College’s talented minority students interested in support alumni who have graduated from students have completed a college- courses and tutoring resources and professional development and are undergraduate enrollment. When it the College is the key to increasing the the program. She receives invitations to level math course, along with that can be paired with an older mentor via provided with opportunities to meet comes to graduate school, that number numbers, Daniel said. concerts, weddings, baby showers and chemistry course and exposure to E 115, the START (STudent Advancement and with industry leaders and apply for falls to about six percent. MEP has started new outreach efforts other big life events for students she has a computer course required for first-year Retention Teams) Mentor Program. internships. That’s why Daniel would like to see with the NC School of Science and Math mentored. students in the College. Khalia Braswell, a 2013 computer Andrew Pita, who earned electrical the College establish a program similar and a Charlotte nonprofit called the YBM “When I was at my highest and Making research opportunities science alumna who went on to earn a engineering bachelor’s and master’s to MEP that focuses on recruiting and (Young Black Men) Leadership Alliance lowest Ms. Angie was there,” Wages available for undergraduates is a master’s degree from UNC Charlotte, degrees in 2008 and 2010, remembers supporting minority graduate students. that are paying off. said. “(She) found me tutors freshman College focus, and MEP has started a was paired with a mentor who played on mock interviews in front of his MEP NC State is second in the nation YBM, a college preparation and and sophomore year, and the MEP office new summer program to ensure more the Wolfpack women’s basketball team classmates. He did student internships among schools that are not Historically leadership development program for always made themselves available. They minority engineering students are and served as an inspiration. Braswell with IBM and ExxonMobil, where he Black Colleges and Universities when it young African-American men, brings are awesome.”■

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SOMETHING DOWN TO BUILD THE HOME ON STRETCH

ASSIST makes progress with FREEDM Systems Center testbed, other technologies moves closer to a vision realized

YEAR FOUR SAW BREAKTHROUGHS those testbeds, which also have value enough prototypes to conduct large IN YEAR EIGHT, the Future system that can’t change overnight,” state transformer (SST) that allows and new directions in research for the beyond the ASSIST platform. Sensors scale clinical trials and, eventually, Renewable Electric Energy Delivery said center Director Dr. Iqbal Husain. bi-directional electricity flow and is more Nanosystems Engineering Research being developed by ASSIST and the to find a partner to manufacture the and Management (FREEDM) Systems NSF established FREEDM in 2008 efficient than traditional transformers, a Center for Advanced Self-Powered technology that allows them to talk to system and get it into the hands of Center led by NC State moved closer with a charge to develop technology more efficient fault isolation device (FID), Systems of Integrated Sensors and each other, for example, have broader physicians and patients. to the vision that led to the center’s that will seamlessly integrate distributed and the algorithms that will allow the Technologies (ASSIST). uses for the Internet of things in which Once the platforms are perfected, establishment. renewable energy sources and storage devices to work together. While the SST The National Science Foundation everyday objects can be networked the ways in which they can be used to That vision is a more efficient grid that into the electric grid infrastructure. and FID play a major role in the FREEDM Engineering Research Center led together to function at a higher level. measure human health can grow. The allows bidirectional electricity flow and As the way we harness energy system, they are also useful to improve by NC State and headquartered on To make these platforms work, center is moving into sweat research, renewable energy sources to integrate changes from centralized fossil- a traditional power grid. FREEDM Centennial Campus is building hassle- ASSIST researchers are extracting more for example, and using nanocellulose to seamlessly with the existing power grid. fuel-based generation to renewable researchers hope to demonstrate new free wearable devices “that are doing power from the human body, creating extract sweat from the skin and test for In early June, FREEDM completed its generation produced by decentralized versions of both by the end of year nine. not just something that’s cool, but sensors and antennas that run on ultra- glucose and lactates without causing annual review with the National Science solar or wind installations, so too must The center is also conducting a something that’s really important,” said low power and resilient and functional the wearer any discomfort. A next step Foundation (NSF) and a site visit with the grid that distributes that energy. In cost/benefit analysis to evaluate the Dr. Veena Misra, ASSIST’s director. materials that make actually wearing would be removing interstitial fluid from NSF officials on the campus of partner the FREEDM system, electricity will business case for utilities implementing “The big vision that we have is to build an ASSIST device a comfortable just under the skin in a non-invasive institution Florida State University. be generated close to the loads and the FREEDM system as well as for technologies that make a difference in experience. way. With two years to go on NSF’s managed with a distributed control consumers who will be able to actively your wellness.” The Health and Environmental Tracker What’s next? What if these 10-year funding commitment, the center system that is responsive to price participate in the energy market. After ASSIST research will take wearables testbed consists of a wristband, a patch technologies can be implanted under is drawing closer to a field-deployed signals, customer preferences, and successful field demonstrations planned from gadgets that count your steps that adheres to an asthma patient’s a patient’s skin so she doesn’t have to FREEDM system, one of its goals by the situational considerations. over the next two years, it will be up to and help you find your way home chest and a nonwearable spirometer wear anything? ASSIST is embarking end of the initial NSF funding. With the addition of the Nanosystems industry to take up the new technology after a run to integrated, self-powered that takes breathing measurements. on a research project jointly with But it won’t stop there. The center Engineering Research Center for and implement it. health monitoring systems that The system measures environmental biotechnology company Profusa and is working toward long-term financial Advanced Self-Powered Systems of “As the center transitions past NSF provide detailed information on what factors — including volatile organic funded by the Defense Advanced sustainability with a combination of Integrated Sensors and Technologies program funding, we will continue is happening in a patient’s body and compounds and ozone in the air as well Research Projects Agency on an private funding, research grants and (ASSIST) in 2012, NC State is one of our core research activities in power take readings from the surrounding as ambient humidity and temperature implantable sensor. dues from industry partners. A $1.5 only two schools currently leading two electronics and power systems,” environment. — along with the wearer’s motion and “We are trying to build new million gift from the Duke Energy NSF engineering research centers and Husain said. “However, our faculty ASSIST is making important heart rate and the amount of oxygen in directions for ASSIST that rely on the Foundation last year was a big start one of only two schools to ever be and industry partners will have state- progress on one of its two testbeds the blood. strength of ASSIST but also help us get toward building a sustaining endowment awarded the lead role in three. of-the-art technologies for power grid (platforms into which different tools ASSIST researchers described their into spaces where our technology can for the center. Work in the last year advanced the modernization that are further along for measuring health can be built) progress in a paper published in the be really useful, such as implantables,” “The FREEDM concept is a longer- development of three key elements the path for deployment as we work and on the technologies that enable spring. The next steps are producing Misra said. ■ term vision addressing a very large of the FREEDM system: a solid together to realize the FREEDM vision.”■

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BEYOND THE CLASSROOM A TEACHER THAT SCALES “We’re one of the very few Lester cites what he calls “an places in the country, in enormous body of evidence” showing DRS. JAMES LESTER, LEFT, AND ERIC WIEBE the world actually, that that the best educational outcomes investigates advanced come from one-on-one interaction learning technologies and between a human tutor and a human The Center for Educational Informatics is changing the way we learn learner. is housed in a college of “That’s a marvelous thing, engineering.” but unfortunately it’s completely ADVANCES IN DRIVERLESS CARS, stories about computers recognition that this is a critical endeavor.” unscaleable.” DR. JAMES LESTER learning to best mankind in games of skill and the prospect Housed in Engineering Building III on NC State’s Centennial But software is, and education is an of a computer posing as a human handling your next online Campus, CEI conducts research on advanced learning area in which AI technologies can have customer service experience have brought fresh recognition to technologies such as educational games or intelligent tutoring a significant societal impact by creating the field of artificial intelligence (AI). systems and works to develop and disseminate them. The experiences that are effective and An important acknowledgement of the work done by center has a focus on STEM education for K-12 students and engaging. Students supplementing their researchers who are using AI in the field of education came undergraduates, and on computer science education, but it learning with AI systems learn more in the National Academy of Engineering’s list of Grand is broadening its scope to include other types of learning and deeply, exhibit greater learning gains Challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. That list even the field of healthcare. and can transfer what they learn to new recognizes the need to advance personalized learning. Led by faculty members from the Department of Computer problems. Because of time and money constraints that mean a Science who specialize in AI, the multidisciplinary center The research that underpins these single instructor has traditionally taught a group of students, includes research scientists, game developers and digital systems touches on the language that education often takes a one-size-fits-all approach. But artists. humans use when they teach one students learn in different ways, and thanks to technology, Most research on education technology is conducted in another, the role that narrative naturally teaching can be customized to fit their individual strengths in colleges of education by teams of curriculum instruction plays in learning and how a virtual human ways never before dreamed possible. specialists, instructional design specialists, science education tutor should interact with a learner. “People in my field have been working on this problem specialists and educational psychologists, Lester said. Much of that research starts with since 1970,” said Dr. James Lester, Distinguished Professor “We’re one of the very few places in the country, in educational data mining — finding out as of Computer Science and director of the Center for the world actually, that investigates advanced learning much as possible about how students Educational Informatics (CEI). “It was gratifying to get official technologies and is housed in a college of engineering.” learn, whether in a traditional classroom,

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the CEI don’t think so. They see these technologies as a way to help solve the fact that there are too many students who need individual attention and not enough experienced human teachers to go around — that problem of scale that Lester mentions. Chi sees educational technology as a helpful supplement for learners who are behind in class or are ahead and want to learn even more. Some students, she said, just like to learn on their own. In addition to building data-driven systems, Barnes works to ensure that there are new teachers learning to teach up. That wasn’t the case; they kept concepts. At the opposite end of the Chi is involved in a collaborative project computer science – and as they and trying, spinning their wheels without spectrum, one of the center’s projects is with a colleague in the Edward P. Fitts their students learn about computation, a way to get past the roadblock. building a similar program for cadets at Department of Industrial and Systems they will be more comfortable using By using software, which includes the United States Military Academy. Engineering that mines data from educational technologies as they will a trace of what other students have “It’s a lot more high-stress, it’s a little emergency room visits in hopes of become creators.

DR. TIFFANY BARNES DR. COLLIN LYNCH DR. MIN CHI done with the same problems in the more real-world,” Lester said. “But the predicting which patients will develop Lester describes a scenario in which past, Barnes and her colleagues build technologies can support the learning sepsis. students work individually with a digital maps of how students have solved experiences for the cadets and the No matter the student targeted, or the customized learning system, then attend as part of an online course or by working they are making the ‘good choices’ these open-ended problems in the past students in a middle school science subject matter covered, the system must a class with a strong teacher equipped on their own with educational technology. during the process.” and give hints when a student working classroom. Many of the same problems model a learner’s knowledge, plans, with a dashboard that shows what the In some cases, it means intensive Dr. Collin Lynch, an assistant professor alone gets stuck. She likens it to using and solutions are useful.” goals and beliefs and intervene at the students have accomplished on their study of how a student is reacting with of computer science, is studying how Google’s popular Maps tool. Lynch has worked on intelligent right time with customized hints, advice own. measures of posture, body temperature students in massive open online courses “You’re on a journey and not only does systems that teach physics and is and feedback to maximize learning. One of the center’s research and heart rate and lots of video. and blended courses use online tools. Google Maps have the map, knowing now building a system that helps projects in partnership with Concord That data informs how the technologies What conclusions about outcomes can where you start and where you go, it students improve their written and oral HELP FOR EDUCATORS Consortium, a nonprofit educational CEI develops come together. In order be drawn by how often students log also knows where everyone else has argumentation skills by using software technology laboratory in Massachusetts, to build robust systems that proactively into the system and how long they stay gone and how other people made that that breaks out hypotheses, claims and A sharp teacher can tell when her is examining how to provide these customize the learning environment, this there? Can that information be used in journey,” Barnes said. “It can tell you citations in a diagram structure that is students are confused, frustrated or customizable learning tools to students data must go beyond what students learn a system that would let the instructor where to turn next, and that’s exactly the easier to grasp than a linear form. bored, when she needs to double back while also supporting teachers in the to include how they learn it. know when a student hasn’t logged into kind of hint we generate.” The center also sees a growing on the course material to get everyone classroom. “Educational informatics can make the system for a while or would give opportunity in healthcare, where on the same page or plow ahead. “Technologies are fabulous,” Lester this happen,” said Dr. Min Chi, assistant students reminders? FROM MIDDLE SCHOOL TO WEST intelligent systems can be used to It’s harder for a machine to do that. said. “They are changing people’s lives. professor of computer science. “Using When Dr. Tiffany Barnes, an associate POINT educate patients. A National Science Part of the center’s research looks at Kids 10 years from now are going to the traditional paper-based tests to professor of computer science, studied Foundation-supported project with affect — teaching machines to recognize learn very differently than they learn assess student knowledge has many how her students reacted when CEI has developed game-based Benioff Children’s Hospital in San and understand students’ reactions and now. But the question is how can you drawbacks; through educational data confronted with homework assignments learning environments for middle Francisco is building an interactive make adjustments. leverage the capabilities of the teacher mining we can look at how students are they didn’t understand, she assumed grade students that teach science and narrative experience that will teach So will technology one day replace that are well beyond anything that a interacting with the system and whether that the students would simply give literacy and introduce computer science adolescents about the risks of alcohol. human teachers? Faculty members in piece of technology can do now.”■

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“A lot of great things are coming out of “Having the College of Engineering NC State.” completely on Centennial Campus is “It’s time to get civil engineering over extremely important,” he said. “I think it’s there,” her husband added. essential.” READY TO HELP?

LARRY BOWMAN FRANK CULBERSON Cornerstone Society Early donors of $50,000 or “It was a blur,” Larry Bowman said of If there is a way for an alumnus to his time at NC State. support the College of Engineering, Frank more to the Oval project will Bowman completed a degree in Culberson has probably done it. be part of the Cornerstone industrial engineering in less than Culberson earned a bachelor’s degree Society, a select group of three years. After that final exam, he in chemical engineering in 1960. After donors who will: remembers feeling more than just relief. working with the Shell Oil Company/ He knew he had learned marketable skills Shell Chemical Company and the ▪▪ Receive named in that relatively short stay on campus Pace Company, he joined and later led recognition on a and was excited about the opportunities Rimkus Consulting Group, Inc. He is donor wall inside the ahead. He felt prepared. now a director and chairman of Rimkus, Engineering Oval “I felt that I had built a good a forensic consulting company that JAN AND ANDY AMMONS LARRY BOWMAN FRANK CULBERSON building atrium foundation.” performs engineering and business After graduation, Bowman returned assessments concerning accidents, ▪▪ Be invited to a special to his native Hickory, NC to begin a injuries and structural and mechanical groundbreaking 30-year career in the telecommunications failures. ceremony on Centennial TEAM EFFORT business. After working for two A 2002 Distinguished Engineering Campus when companies in the area, he and a partner Alumnus, Culberson is a past president of construction is set to Join alumni and friends who are supporting the Engineering acquired a satellite technology company the NC State Engineering Foundation and begin and later sold it to General Dynamics. served four years as director of the NC Oval project It was work that took him to some State Achieve! campaign. ▪▪ Receive an invitation interesting places as the company Culberson and his wife established the to other VIP events and marketed its commercial satellite S. Frank and Doris Culberson Academic receive special insider PASSAGE OF THE CONNECT NC ANDY AND JAN AMMONS start a new project near Wake Forest. technology in areas that didn’t have it, Enhancement Fund and have endowed information about the BONDS by North Carolina voters in Today, Heritage is a sprawling residential including China, India, Indonesia and two professorships in the Department of project March meant $75 million to help make As student sweethearts at NC State, and commercial development with 4,500 the Eastern Bloc countries after the Iron Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. the College’s Engineering Oval project a Andy and Jan Ammons have fond housing units on 2,600 acres. Curtain fell. Always looking to stay involved with Make your mark reality. memories of meeting in Metcalf Hall As their development work has begun He reconnected with NC State in the College and University, Culberson has Naming rights are available The funding goes a long way. But it and racing from the top of Harrelson Hall to wind down, the couple created the late 1980s and has served on the agreed to serve as campaign volunteer for classrooms, atriums and won’t cover the entire cost of the $154 down that circling walkway. a family foundation to give back by advisory board for the Edward P. Fitts chairman for the College for an upcoming laboratory spaces in the million building. That’s where alumni and Jan Ammons studied business supporting projects in line with their Department of Industrial and Systems University wide fundraising campaign that Engineering Oval and are a friends of the College come in. management and economics, and Andy values. The Jandy Ammons Foundation Engineering (ISE), the University’s Board will include support for the Oval building. great way to leave a legacy The College plans to raise $60 Ammons received a civil engineering supports capital projects that speak to of Visitors and the board for the NC State He recalls a Foundation board visit to in the College’s new premier million in private funds to help build degree with a construction concentration. their passions: parks, trails, the arts and Engineering Foundation. He is also an ISE CCEE in Mann Hall. The board members facility. the new home of the Edward P. Fitts Andy Ammons’ father was an NC State volunteerism for her and conservation for Distinguished Alumnus. recognized that upgrading the facilities Department of Industrial and Systems agricultural engineering graduate and a him. “The College of Engineering has in Mann, built in 1964, is an important Contact Lora Bremer, Engineering (ISE), the Department of Raleigh developer. After working with They say the Oval project checks boxes continued to develop, to rise and be priority. executive director of Civil, Construction, and Environmental a couple of big construction companies for both, and acknowledges their passion recognized,” he said. “It’s been fun to be Culberson sees great value in uniting Engineering (CCEE) and the dean’s in Florida, the son returned to North for NC State. a part of that.” the College on Centennial Campus, major gifts and campaign administration. Carolina to work with his father on two The couple likes the progress the That ISE home department will benefit making first-class facilities available to all planning, at 919.513.0983 or Meet four alumni who recognize how big development projects in Wilmington University is making on Centennial from the move to Centennial Campus. of its students and faculty members. [email protected] important the Oval project is for the and Nags Head. Campus. Bowman knows the Oval project “There are a lot of advantages to having future of the College and have pledged The Ammonses returned to the “Seeing just what is happening is represents a major step forward as the everything together,” Culberson said. “I their financial support. Triangle to raise their three children and pretty impressive,” Jan Ammons said. College aims to reach its full potential. think this is critical for NC State.”■

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Powerhouse, teaching innovation, and BLAKE MILLER dynamic. If you were to ask Dr. Nancy Allbritton to describe what attracted her For Blake Miller, attending NC State to working at NC State and UNC Chapel was an easy choice. ALLEN MCCALL Hill as the chair of the two schools’ joint “Both my grandfather and father biomedical engineering department, attended NC State so I grew up Thinking back to his time spent at those are just some of the words she bleeding red and howling,” said Miller, NC State, Allen McCall recalls the would use. who earned his undergraduate degree life lessons he learned while living on Allbritton is a Kenan Distinguished in 2009 from the Department of campus and the bonds he formed with Professor at UNC Chapel Hill, having Electrical and Computer Engineering. fellow engineering students. been recruited to the Department “I knew in high school that I wanted to “Through the years we learned of Chemistry in 2007; holds a joint pursue engineering, and with the great how to handle the vigorous academic appointment with the UNC School buzz going around about Centennial challenges of the engineering school

DR. NANCY ALLBRITTON of Medicine in the Department of Campus, I knew NC State was where I while at the same time enjoying the Pharmacology; and was named head wanted to be.” social opportunities NC State offered of the UNC/NC State Joint Department Nine days after graduating, Miller us,” said McCall, a 1974 graduate of of Biomedical Engineering (BME) in fall began work at Progress Energy the Department of Mechanical and 2009. She is the first woman department in Raleigh, where he held various Aerospace Engineering. “My years at head in the College’s history. engineering roles within the company, NC State were some of the best years MEET THE She has received widespread acclaim including moves to Wilmington and of my life.” for her research on cell signaling Wade, NC. Miller was working with Upon graduating, McCall worked for networks and microfabricated systems delivery operations in Wade when Duke five years in several states for Helena for cellular analysis and has more than Energy bought Progress Energy, so Chemical Company in agricultural DEAN’S 150 publications to her credit. Her he was relocated to Charlotte working chemical sales. Upon returning home research program has received more toward a leadership position. In April, to Laurinburg, NC, he began his career than $55 million in grant funding from he was promoted to construction with Canal Wood Corporation, now CIRCLE the National Institutes of Health over and maintenance supervisor and now known as Canal Wood, LLC, as an the past 22 years. She is the scientific resides in Mount Airy, NC. entry-level forester, holding various founder of four companies based on Thinking back on his time at NC supervisory roles over the years. Today, her lab’s work, and she holds 13 issued State, Miller laughs and says that some McCall is Canal’s president. BLAKE MILLER patents with five more pending. of it was a blur. “We are proud to say that Canal As chair of the BME department, “I met some of my lifelong friends, is one of the largest privately owned Allbritton knows firsthand how funding faced new challenges, was in situations fiber supply organizations serving the for college departments is essential in that make you more independent – nation’s largest forestry companies helping enrich both students and faculty during that time and struggle, it made in seven Southeastern states,” said ASK ANY OF THE NUMEROUS DONORS to the College members. me a success.” McCall. “(I) am honored to work with why they give, and their reasons might vary from helping “To have money that can be used According to Miller, learning the the finest men and women in our support future students to attracting the best and brightest to support student activities that state balance between life and engineering industry.” faculty members and everything in between. As the College money wouldn’t be able to support, is one of the greatest things NC State With a successful career, McCall continues to grow and captivate young students from around to be able to do things that couldn’t afforded him. “NC State gave me more feels the disciplines he learned in the world, the members of the Dean’s Circle are helping to otherwise be done, it’s important.” than an education, it helped shape me engineering have helped mold his ensure that the College maintains a competitive edge and Allbritton and her husband, Dr. into the person I am today.” approaches to problem solving and creates an outstanding educational experience for students and Christopher Sims, a rheumatologist in He has donated toward the College’s feels it is time to give back to the faculty members. The Dean’s Circle is a comprehensive society the Triangle, donated toward the BME Leadership Fund and hopes that it will place that was most informative and for all unrestricted gifts of $1,000 or more to the College and its department fund. help others in achieving success and memorable for him. departments. Meet three Dean’s Circle donors, and learn why “I think donating is the only way striking that balance. “I left Raleigh with not only a strong they give. to build a university. I’ve had such a “I want new students to have great academic education but also a sense ALLEN MCCALL great time at NC State, and I think it’s opportunities, and this is my way of of belonging to something bigger than important to give back.” investing in their futures.” myself — the Wolfpack nation.”■

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Gift pays tribute to a family of NC State alumni “My service has prepared me for greater the Federal Aviation Administration and Carter’s mother, Mary Gammon Carter, a challenges. Would you give me an the Department of Defense and employs tough textile worker who left a legacy of opportunity?” 38 people, including several NC State hard work and strong family values. the NC State Engineering State football game in the engineering Easter did. engineers. Mark Carter credits his mother, who Foundation learned that she dean’s suite. Mark Carter completed his electrical The Carters decided to endow a instilled discipline, a little stubbornness had left the College additional Alice Bennett’s husband, Roy R. engineering degree and worked for scholarship that would support an and the ability to work hard, for his career funds through her estate plans. Bennett, was a 1934 graduate who three companies before starting his own undergraduate engineering student success. Bennett was proud of her served as a cooperative extension agent electrical contracting company in Raleigh. who is also a veteran, preferably one “The military gave me the confidence, family’s connection to NC before joining the University’s Agronomy Wells Global installs backup power interested in electrical engineering. and NC State gave me an opportunity to State, her daughter Barbara Department, providing the leadership for systems for federal agencies, including They named the scholarship after Mark prove myself,” he said. ■ Furmanski said. Bennett was the tobacco extension program. also motivated to follow up on Alice Bennett’s father, James Claudius plans to support the College Barber, was a 1904 NC State mechanical Cirrus Logic continues to invest in the College and in that her son had made but was engineering graduate. not able to follow through with. “We are extremely grateful for Mrs. electrical engineering Her son R. Ray Bennett Jr. Bennett’s generous gift,” said Dr. earned a bachelor’s degree Dan Stancil, ECE department head. in electrical engineering in “Recruiting and retaining top faculty WHEN DR. JASON RHODE was “We can hire people out of

ALICE BENNETT 1966 and spent his career as members is critical to the continued applying to graduate programs in there with a master’s degree, an electrical engineer with success of the department, and the electrical engineering, he was accepted and they can really hit the ground ALICE BENNETT’s father, husband and MeadWestvaco. Before his death in early years following a new hire are by several schools. But one stood out. running,” Rhode said. son were NC State graduates. Before her 2012, he had begun work with the particularly important for getting “NC State really went out of their Cirrus Logic is continuing death earlier this year, she made a gift to Foundation on a planned gift to the a faculty member’s career off to a way to make sure I knew that they to invest in ECE by creating a the College that would make all three of College. good start. Mrs. Bennett’s gift will wanted me to come there,” said Rhode, Distinguished Professorship those alumni proud. Ben Hughes retired as director of the significantly enhance our ability to who earned master’s and Ph.D. degrees and Term Professorship with a Bennett endowed a faculty fellowship Foundation in 2011 and now serves the recruit and support the success of in electrical engineering in Raleigh. total gift of $708,106. Utilizing for the Department of Electrical and organization as a special development new faculty members. The success Rhode is now president and CEO of the Distinguished Professors Computer Engineering (ECE) at the end advisor. Hughes had worked with of these outstanding faculty members Cirrus Logic, a premier supplier of high Endowment Trust Fund, which of 2015. She passed away on March 29 Ray Bennett on that planned gift and will, in turn, enhance the education and performance, low-power integrated was established in 1985 by at the age of 99 in Salisbury, NC. later connected with his mother, Alice experience of our students.” ■ circuits for audio and voice signal the North Carolina General After her death, representatives of Bennett, and invited her to attend an NC processing applications based in Austin, Assembly, the goal is to receive Texas. the state match of $334,000 He says NC State, and the College of to then establish a $1,000,000 Alumnus endows scholarship for veterans Engineering, continue to stand out. distinguished professorship. His company has built a strong The company also created relationship with the College and the Cirrus Logic Michael L. THERE ARE MANY different Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point in particularly the Department of Electrical Hackworth Design Fellowship paths to success. Just ask Havelock, NC, as electronic technicians. and Computer Engineering (ECE). Program in 2013, which provides MARK CARTER. They returned home after four years of Rhode has returned to campus to an award of $80,000 over The youngest of seven honorable service. Dawn enrolled at UNC talk to ECE undergraduates about the two years and an internship children from Alamance County, Greensboro to study interior architecture value of earning a graduate degree and opportunity to ECE students NC, he married Dawn, his and history, and Mark paid a visit to Dr. spoke to engineering and computer interested in mixed signal circuit high school sweetheart. Once William Easter, a professor in electrical science freshmen at the 2015 College design. In 2015, Cirrus Logic married, they both joined the engineering at NC State, to ask for his of Engineering Welcome. Cirrus Logic made a $100,000 commitment Marines, heeding her father’s help. recruits heavily from ECE, for both for discretionary support to advice to learn a skill in the The Marine Corps had changed him; he interns and full-time employees. provide the department with military. The couple trained at was more focused and mature. Not only The department’s master’s the resources needed to have the 29 Palms Marine Corps had he learned a lot about electronics but degree track in circuit design applies optimal flexibility and respond base in California and spent a great deal about himself as well. particularly well to Cirrus’ work to opportunities and challenges DAWN AND MARK CARTER most of their enlisted time at “I’m a veteran,” he told Easter. processes. quickly. ■ JASON RHODE

36 | www.engr.ncsu.edu NC STATE ENGINEERING | 37 FOUNDATIONS “As long as I am physically GIFT IN A WILL OR TRUST Always an engineer and mentally able, I can Create your personal legacy by including continue to contribute PLANNED the NC State Engineering Foundation, Inc. in Twenty years after retirement, Dr. Paul Zia is still an your will or trust. to the education of grad important part of CCEE students here and at the same time collaborate with GIVING CHARITABLE GIFT ANNUITY DR. PAUL ZIA was set to retire from the National Park Service presented younger faculty members Provide fixed income for yourself or a loved ENGINEERING FOUNDATION the Department of Civil, Construction, him the Citizen’s Award for Exceptional to help them become one. and Environmental Engineering (CCEE) Service for his work on the relocation of established career wise” Have you included the NC State Engineering when he received some good news. Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. DR. PAUL ZIA Foundation in your will, trust or other estate A research proposal Zia had worked The department established the plans? It’s a great way to make sure the CHARITABLE REMAINDER TRUST on would be funded. Zia was committed annual Paul Zia Distinguished Lecture to opportunity that meant so much to you is there Create life income for you and your spouse. to seeing it through, and a new faculty bring the engineers behind some of the for future generations. member in the department would world’s most important civil engineering collaborate. Zia retired, but decided to projects to campus. Past lectures have keep working on the project. had audiences of as many as 600. If you have already included the NC State RETIREMENT PLAN BENEFICIARY That was in 1996. Zia was a new department head Engineering Foundation in your estate plans Name the Foundation to receive part or all of Over the next 20 years, that research and Dr. Larry Monteith a new dean of please let us know. your IRA, 401(K) or 403(B). project has led to others. It’s allowed engineering when Zia proposed a new Zia, who turned 90 in May, a chance to lab for large-scale structural testing Call Lora Bremer at 919.513.0983 to discuss any of these charitable options or visit www.engr.ncsu.edu/foundation for more information. continue work as a researcher and keep that would offer the kind of space and his mind sharp. By collaborating with capability that the labs in the basement other faculty members, Zia says, with of Mann Hall did not. That facility, the the characteristic warm smile known by Constructed Facilities Laboratory (CFL) anyone who has met him, he can focus on Centennial Campus, was completed on technical matters and doesn’t have in 1996 just when Zia began that first to deal with much paperwork. post-retirement project. ENGINEERING “As long as I am physically and When Zia comes to campus, the mentally able, I can continue to CFL is where you will find him. It’s also contribute to the education of grad where students and faculty members ONLINE students here and at the same time threw a surprise 90th birthday party for collaborate with younger faculty him. ENGINEER YOUR FUTURE members to help them become His ongoing involvement with his WITH 16 ONLINE GRADUATE established career wise,” Zia said. department has included annual DEGREES AVAILABLE A National Academy of Engineering financial support. He and his wife, Dora, member, Zia is a preeminent researcher have also made gifts for continuing FROM NC STATE’S and teacher in the areas of reinforced support to CCEE in their estate plans. COLLEGE OF and prestressed concrete structures, Zia had planned to continue work in ENGINEERING concrete materials and construction. He his field during retirement, taking on came to NC State in 1961 and served consulting work and staying involved as department head in CCEE from 1979 with the professional societies. to 1989. “When I retired I intended to remain Zia is an honorary member of both active because I didn’t want to be American Concrete Institute (ACI) and sitting in a rocker and withering away,” American Society of Civil Engineers he said. (ASCE); a Fellow, Titan, and Medal of Fortunately for the faculty members Honor recipient of Precast/Prestressed and students in CCEE, staying active Concrete Institute (PCI) and served as has Zia remaining a vital part of the engineeringonline.ncsu.edu president of ACI in 1989-1990. In 1999, department. ■

38 | www.engr.ncsu.edu NC STATE ENGINEERING | 39 FOUNDATIONS NC STATE ENGINEERING FOUNDATION, INC. Foundation Year in Review FROM THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS GIFTS AND NEW COMMITMENTS BY GIFT SOURCE, GIFTS AND NEW COMMITMENTS BY GIFT USE, Robin E. (Rob) Manning, President, EE ‘78 FISCAL YEAR 2015-16 FISCAL YEAR 2015-16 Ashley S. Barnes, IE ‘95 OUTBACK Suzanne Beckstoffer CE ‘82 Ashok Bhatnagar, NE ‘79 Robert (Bob) Brooks, EO ‘69 Alumni 60% Calvin H. Carter Jr., MSE ’77, ’80, ‘83 TO THE Corporations 16% Endowments 23% W. “H” Clark Jr., IE ‘56 Frank S. Culberson, CHE ‘60 Foundations 14% Current Operations 74% Casey M. Dean, EE ‘67 Facilities 3% WOLFPACK Ralph G. Edwards Jr., IE ‘61 Friends/Faculty/Staff 8% John Freeman, MSE ‘57 Other organizations 2% Suzanne S. Gordon, CSC ’75, MA ’75, ST ‘80 Carlos D. Gutierrez, CHE ‘60 Len Habas, EE ‘66 Rashida Hodge ISE ’02, ‘03 Jacob T. Hooks, MSE ‘78 Lee T. Mazzocchi, CE ‘90 FUELED BY STRONG and early support unleashing our full, interdisciplinary DR. PAUL FRANZON LEARNED TO gravitated toward that experimental end drip paraffin oil into the engine exhaust to Samuel (Sam) McCachern CE ‘85 Thomas R. McPherson Jr., EE ’76 for the Engineering Oval building project, potential. In spite of the large number of FLY as a student in his university glider of aviation.” create smoke. In recent years they have Mark A. Norcross, FMM ‘76 the NC State Engineering Foundation scholarships, the majority of our need- club, chasing kangaroos up and down the Franzon became involved in the local added colored smoke to the flight. Thomas D. Pearson, FMM ‘65 V. Nelson Peeler Jr., EE ‘88 had another record setting fundraising based student population will not receive ridges of the Outback in south Australia. RV community after receiving his power About half of the team members are Carl S. Stutts Jr., CHE ‘68 Alvin Sumter, ISE ‘87 year with giving totals to the College at sufficient financial support and will be Today, you can catch a glimpse of him license in North Carolina in 1993. After former Air Force fighter pilots, some of Pamela Townsend, CE ’84, ‘87 Gregory N. Washington, ME ’89, ’91, ‘94 $30,468,121. Fiscal year 2016 ended on faced with choices that include increasing in the sky above Carter-Finley Stadium being accredited for formation flying, whom have been commercial jet pilots. Charles T. Wilson Jr., CE ‘65 June 30, 2016. their debt load. Finally, it’s hard to have before the Wolfpack football team takes he met a couple of local Yak pilots who That includes Andy Stanaski, who earned Robert R. Womack, MAE ‘59 Jim Yocum, ME ‘84 The Campaign for Engineering Oval a truly great College of Engineering the field. needed more pilots to practice with a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from NC Deborah B. Young, CE ‘77 launched this past year with leadership without a great faculty. The ability to in order to receive their State after flying F-15s in the Air Force. FOUNDATION STAFF gifts recorded at $15,275,000 (the goal is provide our faculty private funds is often formation license. Franzon, who is head of the graduate Brian E. Campbell Assistant Dean for Development and College Relations $60 million). Endowment gifts were off the difference maker, particularly in the The Bandit Flight Team was program in ECE, enjoys the additional Executive Director of the NC State Engineering Foundation Inc. slightly this year at $7,094,856 (compared discovery process. born, and NC State football challenge of flying in formation. And being Lora F. Bremer to $9.2 million in fiscal year 2015). On behalf of the students, faculty was its first customer. part of a team makes flying – usually a Executive Director of Major Gifts and Campaign Planning Endowments to the College generally fall and staff at the College of Engineering, The Bandit formation solitary endeavor – into a group activity. Angela Stallings into one of two categories: scholarships the Foundation expresses its sincere passes over the packed “It’s hard, but it’s a lot of fun,” he said. Assistant Director of Development and Alumni Engagement or professorships. There are now 292 appreciation to all who continue to give stadium at the end of the “It’s a really different type of flying.”■ Ben H. Hughes permanently endowed scholarships in the so generously. pre-game National Anthem Special Development Advisor College and 44 permanently endowed The NC State Engineering Foundation, and makes another pass as Kyle Gray Director of Development, professorships. Inc., established in 1944, is the fundraising the home team charges onto UNC/NC State Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering In spite of our success this year, the arm of the College of Engineering. For the field.

Lindsay Smith needs of the College remain great and more information on the Foundation, While formation flying is Director of Development clearly articulated. Private funds will have including financial statements, audits Franzon, Distinguished Professor of difficult, flying in formation and arriving Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering to make up a substantial portion of the and tax identification number, please Electrical and Computer Engineering at a certain spot at a certain time is even Ketura Parker cost of Engineering Oval. This project visit: https://foundationsaccounting. (ECE) and an instrument-rated commercial tougher, Franzon said. Director of Development Electrical and Computer Engineering/Materials gets us closer to our goal of unifying ofa.ncsu.edu/foundations/nc-state- pilot, is a member of the Bandit Flight As a flight lead, Franzon must Science and Engineering the College on Centennial Campus and engineering-foundation-inc/ ■ Team, a precision formation team that coordinate with a spotter on the ground Michael Walsh Director of Development you might see passing over NASCAR who will relay when the marching band’s Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering/Industrial races, sporting events, parades and conductor climbs atop his perch to lead and Systems Engineering BRIAN E. CAMPBELL Shawnda Hill Assistant Dean for Development and College Relations LINDSAY SMITH festivals across North Carolina. The team the Anthem performance. If the team is Executive Director of the NC State Engineering Foundation Inc. Director of Development Business Officer [email protected] | 919.515.9956 Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental is scheduled to appear at all seven of NC headed toward the stadium and things on Carissa Burroughs Engineering Event and Alumni Relations Coordinator LORA F. BREMER [email protected] | 919.515.7738 State’s home football games this fall. the field are running behind, they must Executive Director of Major Gifts and Campaign Planning Karen Welton [email protected] | 919.513.0983 MICHAEL WALSH Franzon pilots a Van’s RV-8, one of a delay, doing S-turns in the skies above Business Services Coordinator Director of Development ANGELA STALLINGS Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering line of kit-built experimental aircraft. The west Raleigh. It helps when a game is Erica Fuller Assistant Director of Development and Alumni Engagement and Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Administrative Support Associate [email protected] | 919.513.1714 Engineering Bandit pilots fly RVs or Yaks, a line of televised; that means things will run on [email protected] | 919.515.7237 DEPARTMENT REPRESENTATIVE BEN H. HUGHES Russian flight trainer aircraft. schedule. Special Development Advisor KENNETH M. TATE Kenneth M. Tate [email protected] | 919.515.9974 Department of Computer Science On the day Franzon passed his check “The standard National Anthem is only Department of Computer Science [email protected] | 919.513.4292 KYLE GRAY ride for a private pilot’s license, he caught one minute, 15 seconds,” he said. “So it’s Russ O’Dell Director of Development RUSS O’DELL Department of Chemical and UNC/NC State Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering a glimpse of an RV at the airport. a narrow window. You have to be at the Biomolecular Engineering [email protected] | 919.923.4908 [email protected] | 919.513.2071 “I said that’s what a plane should look right place a minute and fifteen out.” KETURA PARKER Director of Development like,” he recalled. “Since then, I have As the planes fly over the stadium, they Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering [email protected] | 919.513.1338 40 | www.engr.ncsu.edu NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION U.S. POSTAGE PAID NC State University RALEIGH, NC PERMIT NO. 2353 College of Engineering Campus Box 7901 Raleigh, NC 27695-7901

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COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING HOMECOMING CELEBRATION REDANDWHITEWEEK

Visit go.ncsu.edu/homecoming to find out more. OCTOBER 28, 2016 ▪▪ Hear from Dean Louis Martin-Vega and other distinguished faculty members about the College’s impact. NC State Centennial Campus ▪▪ Join fellow alumni for a BBQ lunch on the Engineering Oval.