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A FACILITY LIKE NO OTHER On-campus nuclear reactor has always been an innovator

SENIOR DESIGN | 18 ∙ HURRICANE FLORENCE | 30 Monteith served as SPRING / SUMMER 2019 dean of engineering from 1978 to 1989 and contents then as chancellor from 1989 until his retirement FEATURES in 1998. McKinney left his position as dean of 16 IN OUR LABS the School of Design Explore the spaces where our engineering faculty members work. In this issue, in 1988 to serve as a visit the subsonic and supersonic wind tunnels in the Department of Mechanical special assistant to and Aerospace Engineering. the chancellor leading development of 18 BETTER BY DESIGN Centennial. Senior design continues to be an important part of engineering undergraduate education and provides benefits both to students and sponsoring companies. Cavin was head of the Department of 16 24 CHARGING UP Electrical and Computer Research within the College is breaking down barriers to wider adoption of Engineering and served electric vehicles. as dean of engineering from 1994 to 1996. 26 A FACILITY LIKE NO OTHER Whitten is a former dean NC State’s on-campus nuclear reactor was the first of its kind and it continues to of the College of Physical be one of the most innovative and most used teaching reactors in the world. and Mathematical Sciences and now a 30 AFTER THE STORM professor emeritus Engineering faculty members and students conducted research after Hurricane in the Department of Florence hit North Carolina to help ensure a stronger response to the next storm. Chemistry. 24

Today, the thousand- DEAN Dr. Louis A. Martin-Vega OFFICE OF THE DEAN acre campus is home to College of Engineering ADVISORY BOARD A NEW KIND OF CAMPUS 76 industry, government and nonprofit partners and 75 Campus Box 7901, NC State University Dr. John Gilligan, Executive Associate Dean of Engineering Raleigh, NC 27695-7901 university centers, institutes and departments. Suzanne S. Gordon (BSCSC / MA ‘75, MSST ‘80), President, Board 919.515.2311 1991 was an important year for Centennial Campus. of Directors, NC State Engineering Foundation, Inc. www.engr.ncsu.edu The College will continue its move to Centennial with the Lora F. Bremer, Interim Executive Director, NC State Engineering NC STATE ENGINEERING FOUNDATION, INC. North Carolina Gov. James B. Hunt Jr. established opening of Fitts-Woolard Hall, the newest engineering Foundation, Inc. Campus Box 7901, NC State University Centennial on Dec. 19, 1984, by allocating 355 acres from building on the campus, in summer 2020. Fitts-Woolard EDITOR Brent Lancaster Raleigh, NC 27695-7901 919.515.7458 SR. ASSOCIATE EDITOR Darsee Heath the Dorothea Dix Hospital property. The new campus Hall will be the new home of the Department of Civil, www.engr.ncsu.edu/alumni-and-giving/ncsef was named in honor of NC State’s centennial in 1987. Construction, and Environmental Engineering; the ASSISTANT EDITOR Danielle Herman CHANGE OF ADDRESS? MAGAZINE DESIGN DIRECTOR Candice Wallace Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Send address corrections to [email protected] By 1991, more land had been added to the campus and Engineering; and the dean’s administration. With ASSISTANT GRAPHIC DESIGNER Jacob Fremderman or call 919.515.7458, toll free: 866.316.4057. a master plan developed. That year, Research Building its opening, eight of the College’s nine academic CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Lea Hart, Kathi McBlief, Tim Peeler, Matt Shipman. NC State University is an equal opportunity and affirmative action I, the first building on campus, was completed and the departments will call Centennial home. employer and is dedicated to equality of opportunity within its IMAGES Anagh Bhaumik; Mark Collins; Michael Daniele; Casey community. Accordingly, NC State University does not practice or College of Textiles opened its new home there. ABB Dietrich; Charles Hall; Marc Hall; iStock; Rebecca Kirkland; Robert condone discrimination, in any form, against students, employees, became Centennial’s first corporate tenant that same Fitts-Woolard Hall represents a new paradigm for NC Lasson; Edgar Lobaton; Jack McDonald; Emily Mihalko; Mary or applicants on the grounds of race, color, national origin, religion, Beth Russo; NASA; NC State Entrepreneurship Initiative; Elizabeth year. State, using a public-private partnership to fund the sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, or disability. NC Sciaudone; Shutterstock; Skanska USA; Special Collections Research State University commits itself to positive action to secure equal construction of an academic building. Center, North Carolina State University Libraries; Anna and Brad opportunity regardless of those characteristics. Sullivan; Trey Warren; Waterkeeper Alliance, Inc.; Smedes York. In this photo taken that year, from left, Dr. Jerry L. © 2019. This document was produced by the NC State Engineering Whitten, Claude E. McKinney, Dr. Ralph K. Cavin III and Learn more about what’s happening on Centennial Foundation, Inc. and Engineering Communications. No state funds Chancellor Dr. Larry K. Monteith look over a model of Campus in our Q&A on page 2 and about how you can were used; 65,000 copies of this document were printed at a cost of $40,453 on recycled paper. early buildings on the campus. support construction of Fitts-Woolard Hall on page 32.

2 | www.engr.ncsu.edu NC STATE ENGINEERING | 1 QUESTIONS FOR DENNIS KEKAS Alumna Dennis Kekas is NC State’s associate vice chancellor of blasts off partnerships and economic development, where he oversees FROM T HE for the ISS industry and government partnerships, including those on Centennial Campus. As the College continues its move to Engineering Centennial, we asked him about what makes it a great campus. graduate Christina Q A Hammock Koch What makes Centennial& unique among research campuses in the United States? launched from On Centennial Campus, leaders in industry and government work side by side with university researchers the Baikonur and students to solve some of society’s biggest challenges. Centennial is a true live-work-play-learn DEANWelcome to the spring 2019 issue of NC State Engineering Cosmodrome community, offering a mix of corporate and university buildings, housing and dining, and outdoor magazine. While our engineering departments still provide the in southern amenities, such as a championship golf course, walking and biking trails, a hotel and conference underlying framework of our College, increasingly, the practice Kazakhstan on March 14, bound for the center, and a public lake. of engineering and engineering education is driven as much or International Space Station. more by cross-cutting societal challenges and the solutions they Koch, who holds bachelor’s degrees What are some recent successes for the campus that you’d like to highlight? need, as it is by traditional engineering disciplines. This reality has in physics and electrical engineering Last spring, NC State was named the first university IBM Quantum Computing Hub in North made interdisciplinary work a focus of engineering education and and a master’s degree in electrical

America, joining a global network of top Fortune 500 companies, national research labs and LOUIS A. MARTIN-VEGA research at NC State. engineering, is expected to spend six leading universities to advance quantum computing. NC State, in partnership with IBM, In this issue we highlight examples of interdisciplinary months in orbit. It will be the culmination established a membership-based hub, enabling access to IBM’s commercial quantum endeavors which have contributed to our increased prominence among Colleges of Engineering of nearly six years of training since she computing devices, including the most advanced and scalable universal systems available. nationwide. This includes faculty in our UNC/NC State Joint Biomedical Engineering Department was selected as one of NASA’s eight Quantum computing has the potential to solve problems currently intractable with who are working with colleagues and graduate students in biomolecular science and veterinary astronauts in the Class of 2013. classical computing. Another example came last year when leading apparel company VF medicine to develop a new system that could save the lives of heart attack victims. As a child, Koch dreamed of becoming Corporation announced a long-term, strategic partnership with NC State and opened an You’ll also learn about research targeted on fighting antibiotic-resistant pathogens that are an astronaut. At NC State, she received innovation center on Centennial to collaborate with our researchers and students. causing a significant threat to public health. This research team includes a faculty member with encouragement from faculty mentors in joint appointments in the Departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Chemical and both physics and electrical engineering What impact will eventually having the entire College of Engineering located on Biomolecular Engineering working with faculty in biological sciences and chemistry. and did summer undergraduate research Centennial Campus have? At the College level you can also see it in research centers we lead that are addressing large in an astrophysics lab. While NC State is one of the top producers of engineers and computer scientists in the areas of societal need, such as the NSF ASSIST Engineering Research Center creating wearable “As I grew up in Jacksonville, North U.S., demand has never been higher, and that is only expected to continue. By unifying personal health monitoring devices, and our two Department of Energy centers focused on nuclear Carolina, there weren’t necessarily a lot the College on Centennial, NC State will continue to produce a future-ready workforce nonproliferation and creating the next generation of light water nuclear reactors. of engineers that I saw on a daily basis,” and create jobs by developing new technologies, launching new companies and bringing At the University level the Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program has brought more than 75 she said in an interview before the cutting-edge products to market. new faculty members to NC State to work across academic disciplines in clusters that focus on launch. “Somehow, though, I got it into important research areas. Engineering faculty members are leading clusters in carbon electronics; my head that I wanted to be an engineer. What types of companies have a presence on Centennial Campus? global water, sanitation and hygiene; and sustainable energy systems policy. So I hope I can be an example to people Centennial is home to more than 70 companies, government agencies and nonprofits, This interdisciplinary and collaborative spirit is what also makes Fitts-Woolard Hall so special. who might not have someone to look at ranging from early-stage startups to large enterprises listed on Forbes’ Global 1000. Our newest engineering building on Centennial Campus will bring together the Department of Civil, as a mentor that it doesn’t matter where For example, global technology company LexisNexis started with 150 employees on Construction, and Environmental Engineering and the Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems you come from or what examples there campus in 2014 and has more than 700 today. Much of their growth is a result of hiring Engineering. This will allow their faculty and students to more easily collaborate with each other might be around you, you can achieve our graduates. Also, Eastman Chemical Company has invested more than $16 million in and other engineering departments, the College of Textiles and the 76 industry, government and whatever you’re passionate about.” ■ its partnership with NC State, with a significant ROI. Their partnership is heavily focused nonprofit partners located on Centennial Campus. In this issue you will learn more about what a on sponsored research — they’ve worked with NC State on 86 research projects in 11 remarkable building this will be as well as our request that you continue to support our fundraising departments across the University. efforts to complete this transformative facility without placing a financial burden on your College of Engineering. “...it doesn’t matter where you What are the next steps in the campus’ growth? We trust that our efforts make you prouder every day to be an alumni or friend of NC State’s come from or what examples Fitts-Woolard Hall, which broke ground last year, will provide critical infrastructure for the College of Engineering. Thank you for your support and we encourage you to stay in contact with us. there might be around you, you College, and help attract more businesses and industries to North Carolina. Starting construction can achieve whatever you’re this year, the Plant Sciences Initiative Building brings together the state’s agriculture community Sincerely, passionate about.” and biotech industry to support our farmers in feeding a growing global population. By CHRISTINA HAMMOCK KOCH developing new methods to increase yields, enhance sustainability and extend growing seasons, it will have a significant impact on global food production. The next mixed-use Louis A. Martin-Vega, Ph.D. development will be multi-phase, with lab, office, retail, residential and innovation space. ■ Dean

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FUNDING WILL HELP UNDERREPRESENTED STUDENTS PURSUE STEM DEGREES

INAUGURAL DAY OF GIVING A SUCCESS FOR THE COLLEGE NC STATE IS THE RECIPIENT of said Dr. Joel Ducoste, director of student health insurance waiver for the funding from the National Science college graduate student recruitment first two years; continued funding at unit Foundation (NSF) to support the Louis and advancement and professor in the level for up to three additional years for ON MARCH 27, NC State University of gifts received. The Department of received the most gifts at a designated Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Department of Civil, Construction, and qualified Ph.D. candidates; personalized hosted its inaugural Day of Giving — Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering hour. The College also won the First (LSAMP) Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) Environmental Engineering. “As the mentoring; up to $4,000 in travel a 24-hour fundraising campaign to (MAE) took home the top prize with 428 Gift Challenge when an ISE student Fellowship program. name implies, it bridges undergrads funding for professional conferences; maximize support for the University gifts, followed by the Edward P. Fitts was the first to make her gift at 12 a.m., Funding from this award helps to Ph.D. and helps with the career links to research and professional — and the College of Engineering’s Department of Industrial and Systems as well as the Out-of-State Challenge, support graduate students from development process and answering opportunities; enriched academic alumni, students and friends rose to the Engineering (ISE) with 289 gifts and the receiving the most gifts from outside domestic underrepresented minority services and support; a summer challenge and did the extraordinary. Department of Civil, Construction, and North Carolina. backgrounds who are pursuing graduate orientation program; and academic and The College raised $1,972,851 from Environmental Engineering (CCEE) with The College’s faculty and staff took studies in science, technology, “This is a wonderful research enhancement. 1,564 gifts, and it received more gifts 172 gifts. part in the spirit of the day, celebrating engineering and mathematics (STEM) opportunity for NC State to Ducoste, who has been leading than any other college or program and Additionally, the NC State and encouraging gifts of all sizes. MAE, programs at the University. do its part in broadening recruiting efforts for the program since raised the second-most dollars overall. Engineering Foundation Board of ISE and CCEE all hosted well-attended NC State is one of seven University participation and making fall 2018, feels the recruitment process These gifts support innovative Directors awarded $11,000 in prize Day of Giving events that evening to of North Carolina System schools that has gone well and is looking forward to research, scholarships, study abroad money after Day of Giving based continue the fun. are part of the North Carolina LSAMP the College more inclusive working with the incoming students. and other educational programs for on a percentage of participation by The highest single gift of the day program, joining Fayetteville State to all people.” “This is a wonderful opportunity for student engineers and the College’s department alumni. was a $1 million gift, and the farthest University, North Carolina A&T State NC State to do its part in broadening DR. JOEL DUCOSTE state-of-the-art facilities. Throughout the day, the College gift came from Singapore. Of the 1,564 University, North Carolina Central participation and making the College “I want to thank each and every competed in the Red Division gifts, almost two-thirds — 994 gifts — University, UNC Chapel Hill, UNC more inclusive to all people,” he said. one of you who helped us with our Leaderboard against five other colleges were from College alumni. Charlotte, UNC Pembroke and Winston- students’ unknown questions on what “Programs like this are the first step first annual Day of Giving,” Dean and programs. NC State’s engineering In a video posted after the event, Salem State University. they should be engaged with while on in creating an environment in which Louis Martin-Vega said. “This was a community kept the momentum going Chancellor Randy Woodson thanked “This bridging program allows the road to being a scholar and expert in everyone feels welcome and helps wonderful day for all of us.” by using the #GivingPack hashtag on those who made gifts, saying he was students who are interested in STEM their chosen field.” contribute to the greater good. The Within the College, the nine social media and helping the College proud of what donors helped NC State to not only work toward a doctoral Starting in fall 2019, the LSAMP BD power and ideas coming from this aids academic departments competed win several giving challenges, including accomplish. The University in total raised degree, but also to receive the tools to Fellowship will support 12 students in shaping the future innovators of the to win a share of $15,000 from both of the Most Gifts Challenges, more than $13.5 million from more than be successful not only academically, but with a stipend of $32,000 annually for world and transforming the impossible Martin-Vega based on the number a competition to see which college 10,000 gifts on Day of Giving. ■ also in their profession and beyond,” the first two years; tuition, fees and to more of what’s possible.” ■

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WASHINGTON DC INTERNSHIP ARTIFICIAL PROGRAM INTELLIGENCE INTRODUCES CAN IDENTIFY STUDENTS TO MICROSCOPIC POLITICS MARINE ORGANISMS MANY ENGINEERING STUDENTS never consider a future career in politics or public policy, even though their expertise can often be critical. A new seven-week Washington D.C. internship “At this point, the AI correctly identifies program piloted by Dean Louis Martin- TYLER CONRAD ABBY KINLAW the forams about 80 percent of the Vega and John English, engineering time, which is better than most trained dean at the University of Arkansas, aims humans,” said Dr. Edgar Lobaton, an to change that. associate professor of electrical and During the internship, students gain computer engineering and co-author of a valuable experience while helping with paper on the work. research on policy proposals related “But this is only the proof of concept.

to engineering and working on typical CLAIRE DECROIX JANSEN QUARANDILLO We expect the system to improve over congressional intern tasks, such as time, because machine learning means giving Capitol tours or organizing mail. have been prevalent in Earth’s oceans for the program will get more accurate and Their engineering knowledge gives them Infrastructure Committee chaired by “I think it’s very key for engineers “At this point, the AI more than 100 million years. more consistent with every iteration. We a unique perspective on issues facing Pennsylvania Rep. Bill Shuster. to be more directly engaged in politics correctly identifies the Forams are protists, neither plant also plan to expand the AI’s purview, so the country, while they also get to learn All four students shared that they were if we want to increase awareness and forams about 80 percent of nor animal. When they die, they leave that it can identify at least 35 species of about how the policymaking process excited to live in D.C. for a summer and understanding of — and action on — behind their tiny shells, most less than forams, rather than the current six.” works. to get a chance to see how Congress the complex and increasingly difficult the time, which is better a millimeter wide. These shells give The current system works by placing Last year, NC State sent four students operates. problems facing us in the future,” Kinlaw than most trained humans.” scientists insights into the characteristics a foram under a microscope capable of to D.C. for the first summer of the Conrad said he felt well prepared to said. of the oceans as they were when taking photographs. An LED ring shines DR. EDGAR LOBATON internship program. Students receive assist with policy and campaign research, The internship program also helped the forams were alive. For example, light onto the foram from 16 directions a $3,000 stipend, free room and board thanks to the research he does in his NC the students build up their networks different types of foram species thrive in — one at a time — while taking an and transportation to D.C. and back at State classes. and improve their communication RESEARCHERS HAVE DEVELOPED different kinds of ocean environments, image of the foram with each change in the end of the program. “It’s important for engineers to skills. Students were able to attend an artificial intelligence (AI) program and chemical measurements can tell light. These 16 images are combined to In 2018, Tyler Conrad, a junior be engaged in politics because new congressional hearings and meetings that can automatically provide species- scientists about everything from the provide as much geometric information industrial engineering major, and innovative technology brings with it and, outside their working hours, level identification of microscopic ocean’s chemistry to its temperature as possible about the foram’s shape. The Claire DeCroix, a sophomore chemical new challenges,” he said. “There will they went to lectures and toured D.C. marine organisms. The next step is to when the shell was being formed. AI then uses this information to identify engineering major, interned in need to be certain laws surrounding that landmarks. incorporate the AI into a robotic system However, evaluating those foram the foram’s species. North Carolina Rep. David Rouzer’s technology in order for it to be effectively “It showed a different side of that will help advance our understanding shells and fossils is both tedious Dr. Ritayan Mitra, a former postdoctoral office. Abby Kinlaw, a sophomore introduced to the public.” engineering,” DeCroix said. “We get kind of the world’s oceans, both now and in and time consuming. That’s why an researcher at NC State, is lead author of environmental engineering major, and Kinlaw also drew parallels between the of wrapped up in our technical world and our prehistoric past. interdisciplinary team of researchers, the paper. Co-authors include Qian Ge Jansen Quarandillo, a sophomore research she did during her internship and classes, and it was really nice to be in a Specifically, the AI program has proven with expertise ranging from robotics and Boxuan Zhong, Ph.D. students at NC construction engineering major, interned the problem-solving mindset she uses in different kind of atmosphere and to share capable of identifying six species of to paleoceanography, is working to State, and Bhargav Kanakiya, a former with the House Transportation and her engineering classes. our knowledge.” ■ foraminifera, or forams — organisms that automate the process. master’s student at NC State. ■

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STUDENTS LEARN ABOUT GRAND CHALLENGES IN E102 BIOSENSOR ALLOWS REAL- FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERING academic affairs, created the course, first-year students interested in civil STUDENTS are getting a better idea which has been offered for four years. engineering, took a spring 2019 E102 TIME OXYGEN of what kind of impact they can make The curriculum was updated in summer section taught by Parish. Both said they with their degrees — and a more 2017 to make the spring-only course were interested in learning about the MONITORING FOR thorough understanding of the College mandatory starting in 2018, and as an Grand Challenges and how they can of Engineering’s degree programs — interdisciplinary course, 25 percent of personally have an impact on them. “ORGANS ON A through a newly required course, E102: the spots are available to students not Beard also said she was glad to be Engineering in the 21st Century. majoring in engineering. getting a more detailed understanding of CHIP” E102 not only builds on what “The course takes the big picture the different degree programs. students learned in E101, Introduction of engineering and brings it down to “I haven’t (joined a department) yet, to Engineering, but also introduces the smaller perspectives. In E101, they all so it’s always nice to hear about the A NEW BIOSENSOR allows 14 Grand Challenges for Engineering do the same design process. But in this other departments just in case I change researchers to track oxygen levels in and goes into more depth on the class, they learn what each department my mind,” she said. real time in “organ-on-a-chip” systems, College’s 18 degree programs and 12 and type of engineering does, and how In the first class of the semester, making it possible to ensure that departments. In 2008, the National it fits in with the Grand Challenges,” Parish explained to the students that such systems more closely mimic the Academy of Engineering announced Parish said. the class will help them be certain of functions of real organs. This is essential the Grand Challenges, which focus on The students start off the course by their selected degree path, as it’s more if organs on a chip are to achieve their the problems that need to be solved to watching a series of videos overviewing difficult to change it when they start potential in applications such as drug and perpetuate life into the next century. the Grand Challenges. Then, each week, taking specific courses related to their toxicity testing. These Grand Challenges include students watch videos of NC State degree. The organ-on-a-chip concept has advancing personalized learning, faculty members explaining a Grand Parish said that because of the garnered significant attention from developing better medicines, improving Challenge and how it relates to their class, some students end up changing researchers for about a decade. The urban infrastructure and providing department. In the next session, they their majors, while others are more idea is to create small-scale, biological access to clean water. meet to discuss and ask questions. enthusiastic about what they’ve chosen structures that mimic a specific organ Dr. David Parish, assistant dean of Haley Beard and Andrew Healy, both to pursue. ■ function, such as transferring oxygen from the air into the bloodstream in the same way that a lung does. The goal is to use these organs on a chip to expedite high-throughput testing to assess toxicity or to evaluate the the UNC / NC State Joint Department of function — so if you want to know how effectiveness of new drugs. Biomedical Engineering (BME). an organ is going to behave normally, But while organ-on-a-chip research “What we really need are tools that you need to maintain “normal” oxygen has made significant advances in recent provide a means to collect data in real levels in your organ on a chip when years, one obstacle to the use of these time without affecting the system’s conducting experiments. structures is the lack of tools designed operation,” Daniele said. “That would “What this means in practical terms is to actually retrieve data from the system. enable us to collect and analyze data that we need a way to monitor oxygen “For the most part, the only existing continuously and offer richer insights levels not only in the organ on a chip’s ways of collecting data on what’s into what’s going on. Our new biosensor immediate environment, but in the organ happening in an organ on a chip are to does exactly that, at least for oxygen on a chip’s tissue itself,” Daniele said. conduct a bioassay, histology, or use levels.” First author on the paper is Kristina some other technique that involves Oxygen levels vary widely across the Rivera, a Ph.D. student in BME. The destroying the tissue,” said Dr. Michael body. For example, in a healthy adult, paper was co-authored by Ashlyn Daniele, corresponding author of a paper lung tissue has an oxygen concentration Young and Patrick Erb, Ph.D. students on the new biosensor and an assistant of about 15 percent, while the inner in BME; Vladimir Pozdin, a postdoctoral professor in the Department of Electrical lining of the intestine is around zero researcher in ECE; and Scott Magness, and Computer Engineering (ECE) and in percent. Oxygen directly affects tissue an associate professor in BME. ■

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Fibrin-rich parts of the body; the targeting reduces APPROACH PAVES WAY FOR NEW GENERATION OF thrombus the risk of unintended harms.” Heart attacks occur when a thrombus ANTIMICROBIAL MATERIALS — or clot — blocks a blood vessel in the heart. In order to treat heart attacks, doctors often perform surgery to introduce a catheter to the blood vessel, allowing them to physically break up or Ischemic FSNs bind to tPA is released Y-27632 is released remove the thrombus. But not all patients myocardium fibrin at infarct from FSNs to from FSNs to inhibit have quick access to surgical care. dissolve fibrin fibrosis More damage can occur even after the blockage has been removed. That’s Fibrin-Specific because the return of fresh blood to tissues that had been blocked off Nanogel (FSN) can cause damage of its own, called reperfusion injury. To address these problems, researchers have developed a solution that relies on porous nanogel spheres, about 250 nanometers in diameter, which target a thrombus and deliver a cocktail of two drugs: tPA and Y-27632. A thrombus can be made of various RESEARCHERS IN THE COLLEGE use the energy from visible light to substances, such as platelets or arterial have successfully incorporated convert oxygen in the air into biocidal “This is the tip of the plaques, but they all contain a substance “photosensitizers” into a range of ‘singlet’ oxygen, which effectively iceberg.” 100 nm called fibrin. So, to target blockages, polymers, giving those materials the punches holes in viruses and bacteria,” each nanogel is coated with proteins that ability to render bacteria and viruses said Dr. Richard Spontak, Distinguished DR. RICHARD SPONTAK bind specifically to fibrin. In other words, inactive using only ambient oxygen Professor in the Department of Chemical NEW SYSTEM ALLOWS RAPID when the nanogels reach a thrombus, and visible-wavelength light. The new and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE) and they stick. approach opens the door to a range of co-corresponding author of the paper. “This paper focuses on one class RESPONSE TO HEART ATTACKS The tPA and Y-27632 are layered inside new products aimed at reducing the “There is no resistance to this mode of of polymers, but it is a fundamental the nanosphere, with the tPA forming transmission of drug-resistant pathogens. action. proof of concept that demonstrates a shell that surrounds the Y-27632. As “The transmission of antibiotic- “However, the bulk of previous the ability to put these photosensitizers RESEARCHERS IN THE UNC / NC response to heart attacks without a result, the tPA leaks out first at the resistant pathogens, including so-called work in this area has been done using into a range of robust ‘soft’ materials STATE Joint Department of Biomedical surgical intervention. In laboratory and thrombus site, allowing it to do its job ‘superbugs,’ poses a significant threat substrates — such as cellulose — that without sacrificing functionality,” said Engineering (BME) have developed a animal testing, the system proved to — which is to break down fibrin and to public health, with millions of medical are not practical for daily use in places Spontak, who is also a professor in drug-delivery system that allows rapid be effective at dissolving clots, limiting dissolve the clot. cases occurring each year in the United like hospitals. Our work here moves well the Department of Materials Science long-term scarring to heart tissue and As the tPA is released, the Y-27632 States alone,” said Dr. Reza Ghiladi, beyond that.” and Engineering. “This is the tip of the preserving more of the heart’s normal escapes the nanogel. While the tPA associate professor of chemistry at The new approach involves iceberg.” “Our approach would function. targets the clot itself, the Y-27632 NC State and co-corresponding author incorporating photosensitizers In lab testing, the researchers found allow health-care providers “Our approach would allow health- aims to limit the damage caused by of a paper on the research. “Many of into hydrophobic, semi-crystalline that a photosensitizer-embedded to begin treating heart care providers to begin treating heart reperfusion injury. these infections are caused by surface- elastomers, which are waterproof polymer inactivated at least 99.89 attacks before a patient reaches a Co-lead authors are Emily Mihalko, a transmitted pathogens. and mechanically resilient — while percent of five bacterial strains — and attacks before a patient surgical suite, hopefully improving patient Ph.D. student in BME, and Ke Huang, a “Our goal with this work was also allowing oxygen to access the 99.95 percent of two viruses — when reaches a surgical suite, outcomes,” said Dr. Ashley Brown, Ph.D. student in the College of Veterinary to develop materials that are self- photosensitizers. What’s more, the exposed to light for 60 minutes. hopefully improving patient corresponding author of a paper on the Medicine. The paper was co-authored by sterilizing, nontoxic and resilient enough distribution of photosensitizers in the First author of the paper is Bharadwaja outcomes.” work and an assistant professor in BME. Dr. Ke Cheng, a professor of biomolecular for practical use. And we’ve been material means that it will retain its Peddinti, a Ph.D. student in CBE. The “And because we are able to target the sciences at NC State and a professor in successful.” antimicrobial properties even if the paper was co-authored by Dr. Frank DR. ASHLEY BROWN blockage, we are able to use powerful BME, and by Dr. Erin Sproul, a former “A lot of work has been done to surface of the material is scratched or Scholle, associate professor of biological drugs that may pose threats to other postdoctoral researcher in BME. ■ develop photosensitizer molecules that worn away. sciences at NC State. ■

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NEW METHOD TURNS CARBON FIBERS AND NANOTUBES INTO DIAMOND FIBERS

“Without undercooling, you cannot have significant consequences, because researchers found that the process convert carbon RESEARCH LOOKS coal ash contains contaminants such as works with coal ash — the bacteria into diamond mercury and arsenic. create biocement using coal ash, and the this way,” TO BACTERIA TO “Our goal with this work was to see coal ash slurry becomes stiffer. In other said Narayan, whether we could use bacteria to create words, the coal ash mixture is much less a member of HELP PREVENT a biocement matrix in coal ash ponds, runny. the National making the coal ash stiffer and easier “This will certainly make it easier to Academy of COAL ASH SPILLS to contain,” said Dr. Brina Montoya, an contain, and less likely to contribute to Engineering. assistant professor in the Department of pond failures that discharge coal ash into NEW RESEARCH from the structures using hot-filament chemical When heated, carbon normally goes Civil, Construction, and Environmental surface waters,” Montoya said. Department of Materials Science and vapor deposition and plasma-enhanced from a solid state to a gas. Using a SPILLS OF COAL ASH from Engineering (CCEE), and co-author of But the researchers are hoping that Engineering (MSE) has demonstrated chemical vapor deposition techniques. substrate restricts heat flow from the containment ponds have caused two papers on the work. the bacterial biocement will also have a a technique that converts carbon fibers These larger diamond structures could laser pulse enough that the carbon does environmental damage to several Specifically, the researchers wanted to second benefit. and nanotubes into diamond fibers at find uses as tool coatings for oil and gas not change phases. waterways across the Southeast. make use of bacterial species that feed Because most coal ash ponds are ambient temperature and pressure in air exploration as well as deep-sea drilling, The laser, similar to those used for Now, engineers from NC State have on urea and, in the presence of calcium, simply unlined holes in the ground, using a pulsed laser method. and for diamond jewelry. Lasik eye surgery, is used for only 100 developed a technique that uses bacteria produce a stiff substance that binds contaminants in the coal ash can leach The conversion method involves Previous methods used to convert nanoseconds and heats the carbon to to produce “biocement” in the ponds, to surrounding solids. The resulting into groundwater, raising environmental melting the carbon using nanosecond non-diamond carbon to diamond a temperature of 4,000 Kelvin, about making the coal ash easier to store and byproduct is called biocement. and public health concerns. The laser pulses and then quenching, or have involved using extreme heat and 3,727 degrees Celsius. limiting the risk of spills. “The idea is to introduce these researchers are hoping that the rapidly cooling, the material. pressure at great expense with a limited NC State has filed for a patent Coal ash is produced by coal-fired bacteria — which are normally found in biocement can also trap potentially toxic These diamond fibers could find uses yield. Melting the carbon with laser licensing the technology. power plants and is often stored in soil — into coal ash ponds, along with metals in the coal ash, though that work in nanoscale devices with functions pulses and then undercooling it with a The paper was coauthored by Anagh ponds. If the walls of these ponds urea and calcium,” Montoya said. “The is ongoing. ranging from quantum computing, substrate made of sapphire, glass or a Bhaumik, a research assistant in the fail, they can spill coal ash into nearby resulting biocement wouldn’t make the Both papers were co-authored by sensing and communication to diamond plastic polymer are the two keys to the Narayan lab; Dr. Ritesh Sachan, a former surface waters — as happened in the coal ash completely solid, but it would Dr. Shahin Safavizadeh, a former Ph.D. brushes and field-emission displays. discovery, said Dr. Jagdish Narayan, researcher in the Narayan lab; Ariful wake of Hurricane Florence in 2018, be a lot more viscous than the existing student in CCEE, and Dr. Mohammed A. The method can also be used to create John C. Fan Distinguished Chair Haque and Siddharth Gupta, graduate in Virginia’s Dan River in 2014 and in coal ash slurry.” Gabr, a Distinguished Professor in the diamond-seeded carbon fibers that Professor in MSE and corresponding students in the lab; and Dr. Punam Pant, Tennessee in 2008. These spills can In laboratory experiments, the department. ■ can be used to grow larger diamond author of a paper describing the work. a research scientist in the Narayan lab. ■

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Four faculty members earn NSF CAREER awards Kim receives RJ Reynolds Award

Dr. Youngsoo “Richard” Kim, Jimmy D. on asphalt materials, Kim’s research excellent education and the integration Clark Distinguished University Professor has helped change industry standards of education and research within in the Department of Civil, Construction, for asphalt materials specifications, and the context of the mission of their and Environmental Engineering (CCEE), he developed widely used predictive organizations. was named the thirty-fourth recipient tests and models to show how asphalt The recipients, who will each receive of the RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company pavements and materials will perform $500,000 in funding over five years, are: Award for Excellence in Teaching, under varying traffic and climatic Dr. Ashley Brown, assistant Research and Extension. conditions. Kim’s work has influenced professor in the UNC / NC State Joint The annual award was established in asphalt materials research worldwide Department of Biomedical Engineering 1981 to honor a College of Engineering and has been instrumental in developing DR. YOUNGSOO “RICHARD” KIM (BME), for her project, “Dynamic faculty member who has demonstrated safer, longer-lasting asphalt materials and DR. ASHLEY BROWN DR. MATTHEW BRYANT microgels that mimic platelet behavior to superiority in several areas of activity that structures. and Technology, which is similar to promote healing.” relate to NC State’s three-fold mission of Kim is a Fellow of the American The National Academies of Sciences, Dr. Matthew Bryant, assistant teaching, research and extension. Society of Civil Engineers and a Fellow Engineering and Medicine in the United professor in the Department of One of the world’s leading scholars of the Korean Academy of Science States. ■ Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, for his project, “Muscle-Inspired Hsiao receives AAAS Marion Milligan Mason Award Load-Adaptive Actuation for Compliant Robotics.” Dr. Lilian Hsiao, assistant professor women researchers in the chemical Dr. Xiaogang Hu, assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and sciences. The 2019 awardees have made in BME, for his project, “Robust Biomolecular Engineering, has received extraordinary contributions through their Decoding of Neural Command for Real the 2019 Marion Milligan Mason Award research programs and demonstrate a Time Human Machine Interactions.” for Women in the Chemical Sciences. commitment to move their fields forward. DR. XIAOGANG HU DR. MICHAEL DANIELE Dr. Michael Daniele, assistant Hsiao is one of only five winners of Hsiao’s research interests are in the professor in the Department of Electrical the 2019 award, given by the American areas of soft materials and complex Four young faculty members in the The NSF CAREER award is one and Computer Engineering and in Association for the Advancement of fluids — specifically on the use of shaped College have been chosen to receive of the most prestigious awards in BME, for his project, “Reconfigurable Science (AAAS). colloids and functionalized polymer Faculty Early Career Development support of junior faculty members Microfluidic-Microbalance Sensors to First awarded in 2015 and funded surfaces. She specializes in using (CAREER) awards from the National who exemplify the role of teacher- Monitor and Optimize the Performance by the Marion Milligan Mason Fund, microscopy and rheology to identify

Science Foundation. scholars through outstanding research, of Microphysiological Models.” ■ DR. LILIAN HSIAO the award is designed to kick start the frameworks used to engineer the the research efforts of early-career mechanical properties of soft surfaces. ■ Augustyn named Sloan Research Fellow Escuti named Senior Member of National Academy of Inventors Dr. Veronica Augustyn, an assistant computational and evolutionary professor of materials science and molecular biology, neuroscience, ocean Dr. Michael Escuti, professor in the Escuti is a leading photonics and engineering, has been awarded a 2019 sciences and physics — the two-year Department of Electrical and Computer electro-optic materials expert pioneering Sloan Research Fellowship in Chemistry. Sloan Research Fellowships are given to Engineering, has been elected to the the development of polarization- Augustyn’s research focuses on the U.S. and Canadian researchers whose inaugural class of Senior Members of the independent devices and transformational electrochemistry of materials. This achievements mark them as among the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). diffractive optics. He currently directs research has important implications very best scientific minds working today. The inaugural class is comprised of applied and fundamental research for regarding how energy is converted and Fellows receive $70,000 for research- 66 accomplished academic inventors applications including ultra-efficient / stored in devices such as batteries, related expenses from the foundation. representing 37 research universities and portable liquid crystal displays, opto- electrochemical capacitors and fuel cells. Augustyn is the fifth NC State faculty governmental and non-profit research fluidics, ultra-efficient beam steering Open to scholars in eight scientific and member to receive the prestigious institutes worldwide. They are named for high energy applications and laser technical fields — chemistry, computer award and the second from the College DR. VERONICA AUGUSTYN inventors on over 1,100 issued U.S. communications, IR / MIR polarimetry

science, economics, mathematics, of Engineering. ■ patents. imaging and novel diffractive lenses. ■ DR. MICHAEL ESCUTI

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SUBSONIC AND SUPERSONIC WIND TUNNELS DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING

TESTS LOOK AT HOW AIR FLOWS around an aircraft and how components hold up under high wind speeds. So, an experiment might use a scaled-down model of a jet fighter or just a section of wing from a real plane. Will a wing made of a new material flutter under flight conditions? Will components produced by additive manufacturing hold up as well as those made using traditional techniques? Using load sensors, a faculty member can determine how and where force impacts a material. IT’S A SOUND that may be familiar Airflow can be measured with to students attending class in high-speed cameras using particle Engineering Building III (EB III) on NC image velocimetry, in which particles State’s Centennial Campus — a roar released into the flow pass through that’s reminiscent of a commercial jet a laser sheet. A similar technique preparing for takeoff. THE SUBSONIC TUNNEL utilizes a existing facilities. Transonic tunnels, uses smoke released into airflow. In reality, it is the sound of the four-foot by 3.5-foot testing area. which reach wind speeds of Mach 1 Sometimes airplane models and Department of Mechanical and Because of the high pressure used or a little more, would be useful for components are painted with a Aerospace Engineering’s (MAE) that test the durability of structures in the supersonic tunnel, the testing research on commercial aircraft. fluorescent dye, and data can be supersonic wind tunnel, located in such as buildings or bridges. area is a mere six inches tall and 1.5 Both facilities stay busy, said gleaned by the way in which the dye an annex building on the back side While the subsonic tunnel only feet wide. Dr. Shreyas Narsipur, a teaching is blown away. of EB III. The building is also home to reaches wind speeds of 90 mph, the The subsonic tunnel is used to test assistant professor who manages Though much relevant data can be a closed-loop subsonic wind tunnel supersonic tunnel can hit anywhere UAVs, cars and some smaller aircraft, both facilities for the department. arrived at computationally, Narsipur operated by the department. from Mach 1.5 to Mach 4.5. The and the supersonic tunnel is ideal for Along with faculty members and said, wind tunnel experiments are still The two wind tunnels are used supersonic tunnel uses blasts of fighter jets and the next generation graduate students, the tunnels are needed because those methods are to simulate flight conditions so that compressed air that only last about of supersonic commercial aircraft to used by sophomore, junior and not able to model flow dynamics with research data can be gathered on six seconds. The subsonic tunnel, replace the Concorde. senior undergraduate aerospace complete accuracy. everything from unmanned aerial which came to NC State by way of Dr. Srinath Ekkad, professor and engineering students as part of the “Computations need experimental vehicles (UAVs) to military jets. The NASA in the 1950s, is powered by head of MAE, hopes to install a three Experimental Aerodynamics data to validate against,” he said. slower subsonic tunnel can also be a propeller from a World War II-era transonic tunnel for the department labs all are required to take as part of “That process is always going to be used to simulate storm conditions aircraft. to fill in the gap between the two their coursework. there.” ■

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ON DECEMBER 7, 2018, seniors in course length — one semester or two According to Nelson, ECE 484 the Edward P. Fitts Department of — and program size. Most, but not all, ends with the product requirements Industrial and Systems Engineering are sponsored projects. fleshed out and a prototype made. (ISE) and the Department of Electrical Bobby Compton is the director of Seniors in ECE 485 continue the and Computer Engineering (ECE) ECE’s Senior Design course. ECE’s project but focus on budgeting, held their end-of-semester senior design program is one of the largest project management, marketing and design exhibitions at the McKimmon senior design programs in the College. project presentation. Students in Conference and Training Center on NC “We have 200 students in any one both courses make end-of-semester State’s campus. semester involved in senior design presentations on Senior Design Day. In each department’s exhibition across four class sections,” he said. Dr. Kanton T. Reynolds (IE ’95), room, rows of tables displayed Compton and Dr. Rachana Gupta, teaching associate professor and intriguing project posters and teaching associate professor and director of ISE’s undergraduate prototypes of designs intended to associate director of ECE Senior programs, runs ISE’s senior design solve real-world problems, such as a Design, teach the two senior design program. The department’s simulation model to help mitigate high capstone courses, ECE 484 and 485. Engineering Design Day is the result wait times for patients at the Durham Each course is one semester long, but of work completed in capstone VA Prime Clinic and an in-flight system students begin their design project in courses ISE 498 and ISE 521. ISE 498 to alert helicopter pilots to damaged ECE 484 and complete it in ECE 485. is one semester long. Reynolds and blades. “The students go from the lecturer Jason Low typically co-teach This was their day – the day ISE and prototype in the first course to full- ISE 498, depending on how many ECE seniors got to demonstrate their scale implementation in the second,” students are part of the course. This engineering design chops. said Stacy Nelson, an ECE lecturer spring, associate professor Dr. Rohan All engineering departments at NC who provides instructional support Shirwaiker was added. Also in the State have capstone design courses and is responsible for the logistics of spring, health systems capstone for their seniors with variations among ECE Design Day. course ISE 521 is held, which is taught by Dr. Julie Ivy. Students spend a year on the ISE 521 projects.

BENEFITS TO STUDENTS

Reynolds knows that senior design provides significant benefits to students. BETTER “It allows the students to take the knowledge they’ve accumulated over their academic career at NC State and punctuate it with a course that encapsulates all of the opportunities by that they may have to display that knowledge,” he said. Reynolds adds that the students get to work in a team on a long-standing Design project and deliver it to a customer while demonstrating they are worthy Senior design benefits both of working for that company. Early on, Reynolds makes sure that students and sponsors the students have the skills needed to meet the sponsors’ needs. Students are assigned to project

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“What sets our students apart is our in-depth program, and when you talk to external people that have been involved with the program, they will tell you how pleased they are with the students’ knowledge and approach to problem- solving.”

TRUDI BROWN

teams as soon as the second day of projects,” Compton said. resources the company may not have. quick to “jump in, assess the project class. ECE Senior Design has a number For example, Toshiba makes point- from a process standpoint and then Kurtis Konrad, who graduated in of repeat sponsors including the of-sale systems and was looking to make recommendations on a pretty December with degrees in industrial Army Research Office, Duke Energy, understand the shopping and buying complex operation.” She was pleased engineering and economics, was NAVAIR, Pentair and Schneider patterns of “twenty-somethings.” with their final recommendations. teamed with Trevor Bryant, Adam Electric. Toshiba used an ISE senior project Altec Industries, Inc., is a trucking Dorr and Stephanie Stugg. They Trudi Brown, ECE director of team to design an optimal self- equipment company in Creedmoor, worked for HSM Solutions, a furniture external relations, said that sponsors checkout for a shopper in the team’s NC. According to Scott Cunningham, manufacturing company in Hickory, like to work with the senior design age demographic. plant manager, the company recently NC, developing an inventory tracking teams. “What sets our students apart Among its many repeat sponsors, purchased a second facility next door. and performance management is our in-depth program, and when ISE has a group of strong company Altec wanted to move all fiberglass system. you talk to external people that have and industry supporters of senior operations to the new building. Konrad said that senior design been involved with the program, they design including IBM, Tyndall, Senior design team members Rollin projects provide an excellent will tell you how pleased they are Caterpillar and Altec. Jenkins, Spain Niemer and Mikayla experience for students as they with the students’ knowledge and Juli Trexler (ISE ‘97) is global Slomski came up with two ways of prepare to join the work force: approach to problem-solving.” executive and director of IBM transporting parts between the two “(Senior design) allows you to ISE recruits many of its sponsors Support as a Service Business facilities, detailing the pros and cons work on a team and gives you the through cold calls and the Line. She serves on ISE’s advisory of each. Cunningham said that the guarantee of working on a specific Engineering Career Fair. When board, has served as an Engineering company plans to move forward project. You follow an entire project Reynolds recruits company sponsors, Design Day judge and has sponsored with one of the concepts and that If you are interested in sponsoring an from start to some sort of finishing he’ll tell them, “It’s try before you several senior design projects, the manufacturing team enjoyed the engineering senior design team, go to point, so you get to see all of the buy ... You’re getting a group of three including one last semester. Team experience. “It helped us. I hope it steps involved,” he said. to five students working for you members Rodrigo Cabrera, Shadia helped them to see some real-world go.ncsu.edu/engineering-senior-design. exclusively for an entire semester and Garrison, Matt Hutmacher and challenges out there and apply what You will find a list of key contacts in the BENEFITS TO SPONSORS you get to take them for a test drive. Rachel Nagley collaborated on a they learned in school ... I felt that it departments. You get to see them work with your global project with all regions to was a win for us, it was a win for the Both programs rely on various staff, each other and with external create recommendations to reduce students.” means of recruiting sponsors. partners.” IBM’s parts delivery timeliness (PDT) There’s a consensus among faculty “We actively meet and engage He further points out that senior reporting time and increase global members, students and sponsors: with companies and research centers design teams provide dedicated consistency. Senior design projects make throughout the year to harvest resources to work on a problem, Trexler found the team to be very everyone a winner. ■

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“To be able to come back to your So, NC State felt like a good fit, alma mater and participate in its and once on campus she gravitated growth building facilities that are toward structural engineering. going to be here for 50 to 100 years Russo has worked with Clark is pretty exciting,” Smith said. “And Nexsen since 2008 when she then to be able to be involved in the started as an intern her senior year. building that’s going to be home 07NC STATE FACILITIES to your degree program, I’m even Trey Warren DIVISION MEMBERS more fortunate.” Trey Warren’s father and Mark Collins Mary Beth Russo grandfather are both NC State engineers. He followed in their Mark Collins, project executive ALUMNI A 2009 CCEE graduate, Mary footsteps, graduating with a for construction manager at risk Beth Russo still sees familiar faces bachelor’s degree in construction Skanska, has built his career PARTICIPATION among the department’s faculty engineering and management in overseeing high profile and members as she works on their 2011. Today, the family company complex higher education projects new building. — Warco Construction Co. — is a at NC State, Duke University and As the project manager on Fitts- subcontractor on the Fitts-Woolard UNC Chapel Hill. Woolard Hall for designer Clark Hall project tasked with applying A Raleigh native and NC State Nexsen, Russo has invested a lot fireproofing material to the steel 1988 civil engineering construction of time talking to faculty members structure. option graduate, Collins is a lifelong Wolfpack fan. The NC State 15SUBCONTRACTORS AND about what they need to make the “NC State construction VENDOR MANAGERS new building the perfect home for engineering is pretty close to tradition is ingrained in his family, their work. home,” he said. as his wife graduated with a degree Cameron Smith “I spent the bulk of my college As a student, he was an in electrical engineering, and his years in Mann Hall and am excited Engineering Ambassador and son is a recent College of Natural After finishing a bachelor’s degree to be involved in creating the new involved in the Engineers Council. Resources graduate. in civil engineering, construction space for the next generation of During the summer, Warren Collins has been an integral option in 1996, Cameron Smith civil engineers,” the Raleigh native returned home to work in the field part of the growth on Centennial spent time in Cuba, Pennsylvania said. and help out in the office at Warco. Campus, leading the construction and Iraq’s Al Anbar Province with Russo excelled in math in high Those hours in Mann Hall of Engineering Building III and the the Navy Civil Engineers Corps. school and alongside her father, taught him problem-solving skills award-winning James B. Hunt, Jr. In 2007, he made his way back an NC State alumnus, was steadily that have translated well to his Library and currently overseeing to NC State’s campus to join the exposed to construction through professional life. the new Fitts-Woolard Hall project. Facilities Division. her early years. Charlotte-based Warco was “I am proud to have had the The Wrightsville Beach, NC, started by Warren’s grandfather, opportunity to lead these amazing native has helped guide more than father and uncle. The company projects, and it is especially a decade’s worth of major projects offers a range of services, from meaningful to build at my alma that have changed the face of thermal and moisture protection mater creating spaces for campus, including renovations and preconstruction consulting generations to come.” ■ HOMEGROWN for Reynolds Coliseum and Talley to acoustical remediation and Engineering alumni are playing a major role in Fitts-Woolard Hall Student Union and the construction manufacturer representation. of the James B. Hunt, Jr. Library. 19DESIGN TEAM MEMBERS Now he is guiding work on Fitts- ALONG WITH MORE THAN 300 ALUMNI DONORS Woolard Hall. helping to fund construction, Fitts-Woolard Hall is benefiting from the expertise of several NC State engineering alumni working on the project. The newest engineering building on Centennial Campus is scheduled to open in summer 2020 and will be the new home of the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering (CCEE); the Edward

LEFT TO RIGHT: Cameron Smith, Senior Director, Capital Project Management, NC State Facilities P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Division; Mary Beth Russo, Project Manager, Clark Nexsen; Trey Warren, Estimator, Warco Construction, Engineering; and the dean’s administrative offices. Inc.; Mark Collins, Project Executive, Skanska USA Building.

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Huang said the data will be available as also require a smaller footprint, meaning materials available today are refined and they can be offered in more places, he said. improved, meaning her ideas can be “It’s cheaper to install and run, Research within executed in the future. because it’s more efficient,” Lukic said. the College is advancing electric A SMALLER, MORE EFFICIENT IMPROVING VEHICLE RANGE CHARGER vehicle technology Meanwhile, the work of Husain and Working together, the researchers at Yu shows promise in improving electric the FREEDM Center have developed a vehicle efficiency and range. medium voltage fast charger (MVFC) In electric vehicles, a battery serves LAST YEAR, the International Energy development of a smaller, faster charger, The FREEDM team conducts its own made smaller and hold more charge, that, in comparison to existing electric as the power source and operates at Agency (IEA) forecast the number of faculty members are working to ensure research and partners in research, with but they may not be as safe. Huang’s vehicle chargers, is cheaper to install, a certain voltage — usually around electric vehicles in operation around the wider adoption of electric vehicles will be several projects expected to improve research examines how to maintain and cheaper to operate, modular and 400 volts. From the battery, a power world would grow to 125 million by the possible in the future. the materials and functionality of electric improve the safety of a lithium battery, scalable, Srdic said. It is 10 times electronics inverter is used to convey year 2030 — a monumental leap when “The electric vehicle has been in vehicles. Dr. Srdjan Srdic was also a while at the same time increasing smaller than existing systems and energy to the motor while the vehicle is you consider that the IEA also reported development for many, many years, member of the team until recently as an storage capacity in a smaller battery. wastes 60 percent less power during in operation, Husain said. just over three million electric vehicles on but from the performance and cost assistant research professor and was “Battery A may give us 100 miles, the charging process. Where silicon is traditionally the the road in 2017. point of view, we do have significant part of the research efforts. while battery B gives us only 30 miles, While this current version of the material used in these inverters, To get there, however, will require room to improve,” said Dr. Wensong Their research is complemented by the but battery A may cause a fire because MVFC charges at the same speed researchers at NC State explored the use some improvements in technology. Yu, associate research professor. “The work of Dr. Hsiao-Ying Shadow Huang, it heats up too fast,” Huang said. “We as existing charging stations, the of silicon carbide instead and found that Size, weight and efficiency are all projects we do here can make a big associate professor in the Department of need to find the balance — a battery that researchers are in the process of it resulted in lower energy losses and major considerations in today’s electric impact for the industry.” Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering will not cause a fire but also will not take developing a next-generation MVFC better efficiency — 99 percent efficiency vehicle market. For example, a larger Yu, along with Dr. Iqbal Husain, and an associate director of the up too much space in the vehicle.” that will be capable of charging more to be exact, Husain said. What’s more, battery holds more charge but also ABB Distinguished Professor, and Dr. Analytical Instrumentation Facility, who She uses computational mechanics vehicles and charging them more this result was also achieved in a much takes up more space and weighs more. Srdjan Lukic, associate professor, are is working on the efficiency and safety of to couple different factors together, or quickly. smaller footprint and with less weight. Meanwhile, the charging infrastructure all faculty members in the Department the lithium ion battery. to single out factors, with the goal of The long-term benefits to electric Measuring the efficiency and the power has to be established to support the of Electrical and Computer Engineering. finding an optimal combination. Yet, vehicle owners and charging station density of this and other components influx of electric vehicles. At the same In addition, they are part of the Future SAFER, HIGHER-CAPACITY Huang acknowledges there is still a gap operators are numerous, Lukic in an electric vehicle is similar to gas time, systems and materials must remain Renewable Electric Energy Distribution BATTERIES between the computational mechanics said. Faster charging means more mileage in a traditional vehicle. affordable if electric vehicles are to be and Management (FREEDM) Systems and the materials that are available. opportunity to take the electric vehicle “Ultimately, this translates to how widely adopted. Center led by the College, which is Right now, “range anxiety” is a fear “My job here is to predict what would on long road trips. Currently, a battery many more miles it can go on a given That’s where faculty members in building a more intelligent power grid among electric vehicle operators. Most be the best combination,” she said. can take six to seven hours to charge, battery charge,” Husain said. “One the College of Engineering come in. that can incorporate renewable energy electric vehicles on the road today can “However, it probably couldn’t be and drivers sometimes can’t wait problem with the electric vehicle is From research involving the materials sources and has a focus on electric travel fewer than 250 miles before they achieved at this time — there are that long if they’re on their way to a that customers have range anxiety, so within lithium ion batteries, which are vehicles as well. There, Husain serves need to charge. limitations in the available materials.” destination, Lukic said. There will be anything that can be done to improve used to power electric vehicles, to the as director and Lukic as deputy director. Electric vehicle batteries could be By doing the research now, however, cost savings, and charging stations will that is our goal.” ■

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A FACILIT Y LIKE NO OTHER

NC State’s on-campus nuclear reactor has always had an innovative streak

IN THE CENTER OF NC STATE’S the sort of spirit we have here,” said Dr. CAMPUS, the university-operated Ayman Hawari, distinguished professor 1-megawatt PULSTAR reactor facility of nuclear engineering and director of the — the only reactor of its type still in NRP. “Researchers either can’t do some operation — powers one of the most of the things that we do here elsewhere, exceptional nuclear facilities in the world, or can do it just as well here.” where researchers conduct experiments Since Hawari started at NC State in to explore questions about the 2002, the PULSTAR reactor has shifted constituents of matter and the creation from a staging ground that ran only a of the universe. few hours a week to a renowned facility Over the last 15 years, the Nuclear that often runs for months at a time. Reactor Program (NRP) has added Major universities are regularly using the state-of-the-art instruments to its reactor for research. NC State pioneered reactor, including two facilities that are the internet reactor lab, which allows the only ones of their kind in the United students at universities around the world States — an intense positron beam that to learn, using a remote cyber-secure makes it possible to observe the energy connection to the PULSTAR, how to created when positrons (i.e., antimatter operate nuclear reactors. electrons) and electrons annihilate, and Just as NC State is leading the an ultra-cold neutron source that can way now — ahead of other leading generate rare species of neutrons and engineering universities, and with even slow them down to answer questions more advanced capabilities than those about major physics models. available at reactors affiliated with major “It’s a very unique facility in that it is research centers — it was also the first used standalone on its own, and that is to have an on-campus nuclear reactor.

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FIRST OF ITS KIND Since the completion of the first positron beam and an ultra-cold neutron While students are operating the information helped them understand The reactor’s history and pioneering reactor, NC State has been home to source. Additional beamport facilities controls and ensuring everything is the relation between exposure to spirit — the inspiration to do something In 1949, Dr. Clifford K. Beck came to four others. After R-1 was shut down are under development, and may be running smoothly, scientists and officials arsenic and its accumulation in the body. unprecedented, to take what was North Carolina State College, as it was in 1955 due to corrosion and leaks, used in parallel with the reactor’s from across the country — and globe More recently, NAA has been used to regarded as a secretive and destructive called then, with an unprecedented idea nuclear engineers initialized criticality of multiple in-pool irradiation facilities. — are using the PULSTAR for medical, study bioavailability of arsenic present technology and develop an open, — an on-campus nuclear reactor, open to R-2 in 1957. That core was removed in Using this equipment, scientists conduct military and environmental research. in soil. Their data made it possible to educational facility that enables research students, professionals and the public. 1958 to the Bureau of Mines Building, groundbreaking research in a world-class The Environmental Protection Agency, develop and validate an assay that to better humankind — underlies the At the time, nuclear engineering was where it became known as R-4 and was nuclear facility, which also happens to National Cancer Institute, and U.S. and measures bioavailability, which helps progress NC State’s NRP continues to a secretive field, especially in the wake operational from 1959-61. R-3 operated sometimes be run by undergraduate British navies, as well as university guide cleanups of Superfund sites make. of the atomic bombing during World from 1960-73, when it was shut down students. researchers, run different experiments contaminated with arsenic. “History probably helped in the War II. But university officials approved after the PULSTAR nuclear reactor was Students may become licensed simultaneously. “The growth and development at NC culture of accepting a nuclear reactor on the reactor in 1950 and established the completed in 1972. operators after completing two Dr. David Thomas, a research State have been remarkable,” he said. campus,” Hawari said. first nuclear engineering curriculum. In “Who would think that someone semesters of hands-on training at the toxicologist at the National Health The NRP has plans to keep growing If he were to develop a nuclear reactor 1953, the Raleigh Research Reactor would have this imagination to envision PULSTAR and passing a two-day test and Environmental Effects Research its nuclear capabilities in order to meet facility now, Hawari said he probably — designated and licensed as R-1 by an educational nuclear reactor on a administered by the Nuclear Regulatory Laboratory in Research Triangle Park, research needs. It is in the process of couldn’t do it the way it was done in the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission — university campus?” Hawari said. “The Commission. Scott Lassell, nuclear first used NC State’s reactor in 1972, the increasing the PULSTAR reactor’s power 1949, putting it in the middle of a college opened as the first reactor to be used origin story makes me want to do more, services manager, said a great deal of year he graduated from Duke University, from 1 megawatt to 2 megawatts. campus. But its location makes it unique for peacetime training and research, and and to rise up to those expectations.” effort goes into training the students, for a project on mercury release caused Additionally, researchers continue to look and integral to the university and to in 1954, NC State awarded the first two but their support is necessary. by coal burning. to the future, examining and developing North Carolina. Ph.D.s in nuclear engineering. SURPASSING EXPECTATIONS “For the past two years, there were He returned to the reactor in the advanced nuclear fuel concepts for “We turned it into a facility that is UNC System President Gordon Gray long stretches of months at a time 2000s for research on the quantitation the next generation of nuclear power relevant in the portfolio of science (1950-55) called the nuclear reactor a Today, NC State’s NRP is on a playing where we were running for three shifts, of toxins in biological and environmental reactors, measuring and generating and engineering right now, and “milestone in preparing to use atoms field of its own. The reactor’s core so the students were instrumental,” samples. EPA researchers initially used fundamental nuclear data to support especially high-tech engineering for education and free enterprise,” after currently powers four research facilities Lassell said. “Not only do they get the neutron activation analysis (NAA) to studies of neutron interactions in matter, because engineering is moving toward it became operational in September located in the reactor beamports: a license qualification, they get valuable measure arsenic in toenail samples and developing capabilities and methods nanoscale and microscale engineering,” 1953. “Its story is a major item in the neutron imaging facility, a neutron operations and research experience, from a U.S. population that used of radioisotope production for medical Hawari said. “We’re aiming to develop development of atoms for peace.” powder diffraction facility, an intense too.” drinking water containing arsenic. This and industrial applications. capabilities that are useful and unique.” ■

R-1 UNDER CONSTRUCTION IN 1952. A FACILITY LIKE NO OTHER

“Who would think that someone would have this imagination to envision an educational nuclear reactor on a university campus?”

DR. AYMAN HAWARI

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Rapid Response Research (RAPID) grant. partnership with the state Department Faculty In the fall, Mayorga and her collaborators of Transportation (DOT) to study erosion from New York and Alabama, along along N.C. 12, which often experiences members with a group of undergraduate students, overwash. visited Brunswick County to see an Students looked at variations in find research affected community and conduct sediment size and compared how interviews. Students have continued the dunes fared during Florence with opportunities interviews over the phone, video chat previously collected data. They studied and in person. Mayorga said it’s been an how sediment size distributions are in hurricane’s important experience for students, who changing due to beach nourishment — are seeing the ways they can make an when sand is dredged and added to an wake immediate impact as an engineer. area to combat erosion. Areas recently “By going to volunteer, we met the nourished had coarser grain sizes than people who are affected,” she said. “All natural areas, and the constructed of the volunteer beaches and dunes also held up better coordinators we compared to areas that had not been talked to saw value nourished recently. Members of the in our research research team also operated drones to and realized it was evaluate the topographic surface and important to look at.” conduct geospatial analysis. AFTER THE STORM Another ISE The research report from the professor, Dr. expedition will help improve storm surge When Hurricane Julie Ivy, received forecasting by providing better data on Florence hit a RAPID grant coastal morphology changes. MODELING FLORENCE’S STORM predictions in real time — partly to make to evaluate the North Carolina in SURGE decisions about evacuation, where to challenges faced by ASSESSING INFRASTRUCTURE September 2018, it deploy resources after, safe places to put the Food Bank of STABILITY Dr. Casey Dietrich, an assistant emergency vehicles and water supplies,” Central and Eastern devastated parts professor in the Department of Civil, he said. efforts. But these good intentions can North Carolina during Florence. Ivy and Dr. Brina Montoya, CCEE assistant of the state and Construction, and Environmental The state emergency managers are sometimes cause problems, as local and her team will look at how the food bank professor, headed to affected inland areas Engineering (CCEE), leads the Coastal able to use the flooding predictions to get national organizations try to manage large prepared for, responded to and recovered in the Neuse and Cape Fear river basins caused record and Computational Hydraulics Team immediate estimates on damages, which quantities of volunteers. from Florence and the disruptions it to assess damage to dams, bridges and flooding. Since and develops computational models helps communities that are figuring out Dr. Maria Mayorga, a professor of caused to its networks. other structures. that predict storm surge and coastal how much recovery will cost. personalized medicine in the Edward Montoya, who was part of an NSF- then, some College flooding. Using the model ADCIRC, After Hurricane Matthew in 2016, P. Fitts Department of Industrial and EVALUATING THE DUNES funded Geotechnical Extreme Events of Engineering the team makes predictions about how Dietrich and his colleagues improved the Systems Engineering (ISE), is conducting Reconnaissance (GEER) team, brought high sea waters will rise, which areas models’ ability to forecast encroaching research on these “spontaneous While the northeastern part of North four graduate students with her. Through faculty members will be flooded and for how long. These water along shorelines. Post-Florence, volunteers” to figure out how to more Carolina’s coast was not as heavily Sept. 24-27, they surveyed how wind, have been working predictions are made for the entire Dietrich said the research focus is to effectively and efficiently organize an affected as other parts of the state, rain and flooding caused changes to coastline, and then his team visualizes speed up the model and allow for more influx of people wanting to help after a Florence’s effects on dunes still provided soil and engineered structures — and on research that the flooding at the scales of individual permutations to see what might happen catastrophe. In addition to other data valuable research on coastal erosion. Dr. looked at how those changes could have will help improve buildings and coastal infrastructure. if a storm slows down or shifts direction. collection efforts, Mayorga and her Beth Sciaudone, CCEE research assistant negatively affected infrastructure and During Florence, Dietrich’s team and students developed a set of questions professor, led a group of graduate public safety. how we prepare for collaborators acted as liaisons for state A BETTER WAY TO MANAGE for volunteers and volunteer coordinators students and research faculty members In the GEER report, researchers found storms and handle emergency managers to aid their decision VOLUNTEERS to gain a better sense of why people in collecting 39 field samples and 43 that because of the changes North making. volunteer, how they are currently profile surveys in Dare County to help Carolina DOT made after Hurricane the aftermath. “The models are just one data point After a natural disaster like Hurricane managed and how success is defined. make predictions about coastal erosion Matthew in 2016, many bridge pilings among many, but they’re helpful in Florence, people come in droves to Mayorga’s research is being funded and prepare for the next storm. NC performed better during Florence than understanding hazards and used to make help with ongoing post-disaster relief by a National Science Foundation (NSF) State has conducted ongoing research in they did in previous storms. ■

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CROWN JEWEL Learn how you can support Fitts-Woolard Hall by contacting Lora Bremer with the NC State Engineering Foundation at [email protected] or 919.513.0983. Fitts-Woolard Hall will give Centennial Campus another iconic structure

SINCE IT OPENED IN 2013, the James Hall. It will be a unique structure on this engineering graduates Edward P. Fitts B. Hunt, Jr. Library has stood out on campus.” and Edgar S. Woolard, the College in CCEE and ISE. This “engineering laboratories that were not originally framework. Meanwhile, the NC State NC State’s Centennial Campus for The future home of the Department stands at $48 million of its $60 million on display” concept will celebrate the designed for that purpose. Engineering Foundation is hosting a series its modern look, sustainability and of Civil, Construction, and Environmental goal. accomplishments and aspirations of the “We’re building Fitts-Woolard Hall of information sessions on campus and integration of technology. Engineering (CCEE); the Edward P. Reaching that fundraising goal is vital College and the two departments. so that the faculty members in those in cities around North Carolina. Hard-hat Soon, it will be joined by another Fitts Department of Industrial and to help the College reach its full potential CCEE’s asphalt, structural testing, two departments will have exactly the tours of the building site will begin this fall. iconic structure. Systems Engineering (ISE); and the as the top public college of engineering materials and hydraulics labs and ISE’s spaces they need for those labs to be With $12 million in commitments Fitts-Woolard Hall, the newest dean’s administrative offices, is another in the country and one of the world’s advanced manufacturing and brain successful,” said Cameron Smith, senior needed to help finance construction, engineering building on Centennial, important step toward unification of the preeminent colleges of engineering. computer interface labs will be located director of the University’s Capital Project the College needs many more of its will open its doors in summer 2020. College of Engineering on Centennial. on the first two floors in open, airy Management Department. graduates in all disciplines to step up This landmark facility, which will stand It also represents a first-of-its-kind ENGINEERING ON DISPLAY spaces with floor-to-ceiling glass walls and support the effort. Reaching its next to Hunt Library just south of the infrastructure project for NC State, using that will allow passersby to take in the LEAVING A LEGACY fundraising goal will help the College three existing engineering buildings a public-private partnership to fund the Sitting at the southwest corner of work going on inside. avoid having to assume debt payments on Centennial, will put some of the construction of an academic building. a grassy oval ringed by Engineering Outside, stormwater runoff and Alumni who have benefitted from their that would take away from scholarships College’s most impactful research on The $154 million project received $75 Buildings I, II and III, Fitts-Woolard Hall building condensate will be filtered education in the College of Engineering and programs that benefit students and display and become a flow-through point million from the voters of North Carolina will serve as a connection for students through a series of step pools that will at NC State have a chance to pass that faculty members. for campus foot traffic. With its own through a 2016 bond referendum. The and faculty and staff members walking eventually lead to nearby Lake Raleigh. opportunity to future students and leave “Fitts-Woolard Hall embodies the unique design and large footprint, Fitts- NC Legislature provided $2 million, and to and from the Oval, especially on rainy Clark Nexsen designed a structure a mark on this important building through strengths of the College of Engineering Woolard Hall will stand as an impressive the University is providing $17 million, days. with open frame systems that will allow a number of naming opportunities. and is a crucial step in the achievement complement to the library. with the College pledging to fund the So, designer Clark Nexsen built in lab and teaching spaces to be adjusted The College, along with Clark Nexsen of our goals and full potential,” said Dr. “It will catch your eye and keep it,” remaining $60 million from private broad passageways and monumental based on faculty members’ needs over and construction manager Skanska, Louis Martin-Vega, dean of the College. said Doug Morton, NC State’s associate commitments. staircases to handle the crowds. While the coming decades. Mann and Daniels celebrated progress on Fitts-Woolard “Alumni who support this effort will truly vice chancellor for facilities. “You will Thanks to generous commitments they are passing through, visitors will Halls, the current homes of CCEE and Hall in December with a topping-off be making an investment that will benefit be looking not only at the library next from more than 300 alumni donors and have a chance to take in the work going ISE, respectively, are both more than ceremony that marked the placement of the University and the state of North door, you’ll be looking at Fitts-Woolard a $25 million naming gift from industrial on in some of the most impactful labs 50 years old and are using spaces for the highest steel beam in the building’s Carolina for generations to come.” ■

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He went on to serve as a lieutenant community, McDonald was a founding tremendously in achieving this goal.” in the United States Army Corps of member of the CCEE Advisory Board. The Sullivans are the co-founders, With hopes of new Engineers — where he received an Army “We have a number of NC State grads former co-owners and presidents innovation, alumni and Commendation Medal in 1966 for his working for us and it seemed natural to of Thomas-Bain Leather, Inc., a service in South Korea. After his time help NC State develop curriculum for manufacturer of upholstered and leather friends of the College in service, he returned to academia and future engineers,” McDonald said. furniture in Conover, NC. earned his MBA from UNC Chapel Hill in The two business partners recently Brad credits his degree from NC State share why they support 1968, then joined his father’s company. came together and made a gift to support in helping him learn the discipline he York was highly involved in civic Fitts-Woolard Hall. would need when he and Anna started Fitts-Woolard Hall groups and public service in Raleigh. McDonald said that during his time their manufacturing business. But, he He served on the city council and was on the advisory board, he would meet also credits NC State for so much more. elected mayor of Raleigh and served the board in Mann Hall on main campus “One of my favorite memories at State from 1979-83. and note the impact that using an aging was when classes would change and the Currently, he serves as chairman of building was having on faculty members plaza between Riddick Hall and Mann both McDonald York Building Company and students. Hall would be crowded with students. and York Properties. “To be a leader in civil engineering, this In that crowd I noticed a very pretty girl, IT’S BEEN ALMOST A YEAR since the University Thinking back on his time as an NC new building is needed,” he shared. “My who later became my wife of 35 years

BRAD, LEFT, AND ANNA SULLIVAN. broke ground on the new Fitts-Woolard Hall on State student, York finds his NC State hope is that this new first-class building and counting,” he said. Centennial Campus. This new building — which degree and the time he spent in the will help attract even more innovative For the Sullivans, giving to the Fitts- will house the Department of Civil, Construction, College invaluable. faculty members that will educate the Woolard Hall effort felt right. “I’m a civil and Environmental Engineering (CCEE); the “My degree helped me with learning civil engineers of tomorrow.” grad, and my husband was industrial, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering; very tight scheduling. During my time “As a company and culture, we want to and that the two were combined in the and the dean’s administrative offices — is integral playing basketball and being active with be part of moving forward — so naturally building, it was a no-brainer,” shared to helping the College come together on one the fraternity, while being a full-time we’re pleased to be part of the efforts to Anna. campus and in helping meet the demand for student, it taught me how to use my time help create this new building,” York said. The duo had attended an event in engineers and computer scientists. Meet three wisely and to be disciplined,” he shared. “It wasn’t a difficult decision — anything Newton, NC, where Dean Louis Martin- alumni and a friend of the College who have “I learned confidence — confidence with we can do for NC State is a labor of love.” Vega was speaking about the College supported the project and are helping to facilitate numbers and math and applying it all in and the current needs. “Hearing what innovation in research and education. business.” BRAD AND ANNA SULLIVAN the dean had to say, how can you say Jack McDonald attended Merrimack no to him?” laughed Anna. “Dean Louis’ College in North Andover, Mass., Husband and wife Brad and Anna excitement is contagious.” where he earned a bachelor’s degree Sullivan each chose NC State for Brad and Anna have each named SMEDES YORK AND JACK in civil engineering in 1965. Shortly different reasons. something in their respective MCDONALD after graduation, he went on to serve For Anna, who earned her bachelor’s departments in the new building. He as a lieutenant in the US Army Corps of degree in civil engineering in 1983, named the Brad Sullivan Study Lounge in With a family legacy to follow, Smedes Engineers, where he was awarded the her abilities in math led her to pick ISE, and Anna named the Anna Callanan JACK MCDONALD, LEFT, AND SMEDES YORK. York knew attending NC State was the Army Commendation Medal in 1968. engineering. Watching David Thompson Sullivan Lab, which will be home to the best choice for him, especially because He became a registered Professional and the NC State men’s basketball team Structural Behavior Measurements Lab “My hope is that he wanted to work in the construction Engineer in 1977. as a young girl was also a factor. in CCEE. this new first- business. McDonald and York came together in With an interest in furniture “We didn’t want to do Mr. and class building will “My grandfather attended and was 1993 to form McDonald York by merging manufacturing and NC State having Mrs. — we felt it was important to help attract even part of the class of 1903 — leaving to Coleman and Wood, a general contractor a great furniture manufacturing and have something in each of our home more innovative create a construction company — and company, with York Construction management program, Brad, who departments,” shared Anna. faculty members my dad graduated in 1933 with a degree Company. In 2003, they bought the graduated in 1982 with a bachelor’s The impact to be felt by the new that will educate in civil engineering,” shared York, who company outright. McDonald currently degree in furniture manufacturing and building, according to the Sullivans, will the civil engineers played on the NC State basketball team holds the title of co-owner and executive engineering, felt drawn to the University show that the College is growing and of tomorrow.” under Everett Case and graduated with chairman of McDonald York Building and to the College. “I knew that I wanted that with support it will bring the best a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering Company. a career in furniture manufacturing and and brightest to the University and to the JACK MCDONALD in 1963. With an interest in engineering and the the degree from State would help me state. ■

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Gordon, Lehrer, Weinberg and West receive DEA awards

business development. He authored 15 original patents and saw Cryovac global sales grow from about $100 million to almost $3 billion with operations in more than 20 countries and several RD&E College homecoming draws engineering alumni to campus facilities. He is a previous member of the At the College of Engineering’s annual which provides project finance for clean dumpsters. Kelley graduated in 2018 Society of Plastics Engineers, the homecoming program Nov. 2, alumni technology infrastructure. Garwood, with a mechanical engineering degree.

FROM LEFT, DEAN LOUIS MARTIN-VEGA, PETER LEHRER, ALAN WEINBERG, SUZANNE GORDON AND GIL WEST. Department of Chemical Engineering’s got a unique — if unscheduled — view who is the former president and CEO of He talked about Atomo, his spatial Advisory Board at Clemson University, of the ongoing construction of Fitts- GE Water & Process Technologies, has intelligence startup. and the Department of Chemical and Woolard Hall, which is expected to be visited places all over the world working Senior civil engineering students The College of Engineering bestowed In 1979, Lehrer co-founded Lehrer Biomolecular Engineering’s Alumni completed in 2020. on sustainable solutions to improve HANNAH QUEEN and HARRISON the Distinguished Engineering Alumnus McGovern, Inc., a construction Advisory Board at NC State. He has Alumni are invited each year during clean water access, create alternative DEAN, president and conference chair award on SUZANNE GORDON, management firm that consistently served on various community boards the University’s homecoming weekend energy solutions and convert waste to of NC State’s student chapter of the PETER LEHRER, GIL WEST and ALAN ranked as one of the top construction including the Warehouse Theater, the for a keynote presentation and updates useable products. American Society of Civil Engineers, WEINBERG at a banquet on Oct. 31. companies in the country. After the International Chamber Music Series and on the College’s current successes “Applied engineering, to me, is the then gave an update on ASCE’s success Gordon earned her bachelor’s degree firm merged into Bovis, Ltd. (London), the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and projects. Due to weather, the BBQ most amazing thing that I’ve come at the 2018 Carolinas Conference, where in computer science and mathematics in 1988, he became vice chairman of (OLLI) at Furman University. luncheon was moved indoors to Duke across the last 15 years,” he said. “If the team took home third place overall. in 1975 and master’s degree in statistics Bovis, Ltd., and chief executive officer West earned his bachelor’s degree in Energy Hall in Hunt Library, which you say, ‘I want to figure out how to Dean Louis Martin-Vega closed the from NC State in 1980. During her more of all U.S.-based subsidiaries. Previous mechanical engineering from NC State in overlooks the construction site. fix this problem, and there are going to program, starting with a remembrance than 30 years at SAS Institute, she held projects include the 1996 Atlanta 1984. Additionally, he received a Master Todd Delk, a Benjamin Franklin be 100 applications, and we want to of Dr. Nino Masnari, dean emeritus of a variety of key leadership roles, rising to Olympic Games, Euro Disneyland, of Business Administration degree from Scholar who graduated in 1999 with minimize the cost, and after we finish it, the College. Masnari was dean from vice president of information technology, Canary Wharf, and restoration of the National University in San Diego. As degrees in civil engineering and we don’t want to do new engineering,’ 1996 to 2006, and passed away in May and eventually chief information officer, Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. senior executive vice president and chief multidisciplinary studies, said he that rocks my world.” 2018. Martin-Vega credited Masnari for at the world’s largest privately held Currently, he is the chief executive operating officer for Delta Air Lines, he attended the College’s homecoming to Following Garwood’s presentation, stabilizing the College and helping to software company. officer of Lehrer Cumming, a division leads the team responsible for safe, become more involved with NC State. three student entrepreneurs — move it forward to where it is today. She is the current president of the within Cumming Corporation focused reliable operations across the globe, He was excited to see the new building CHANDRA MANIVANNAN, NICK “The reality is, it doesn’t matter what NC State Engineering Foundation Board on client markets in Boston; New York including more than 70,000 employees and changes to Centennial Campus. SISCHO and RYAN KELLEY — talked we may have accomplished in any of Directors and is the first woman to City; Washington, D.C.; and Miami. In in areas that include Airport Customer “While I love Mann Hall, it’s good about their startups and shared how NC area — we basically are standing on the hold that position. She was a member 1996, he founded Lehrer, LLC to provide Service, Cargo, Corporate Safety, Fleet to see some new technologies and for State supported them through grants shoulders of those who came before of the NC State Board of Trustees from construction consulting services to Strategy & Technical Procurement and everybody to join forces over here on and entrepreneurship classes. us,” Martin-Vega said. 1999 to 2009 and has served on the owners, developers and institutions Flight Operations. Centennial,” Delk said. Manivannan, a junior majoring Martin-Vega also noted improvements Alumni Association Board of Directors engaged in major capital projects. He serves as a key alumni volunteer Following the luncheon, JEFF in computer science and applied in the College’s rankings — in the last and on the College of Management Weinberg earned his bachelor’s in the Atlanta area and is an annual GARWOOD, founder and CEO of mathematics, developed Math Mundo, 10 years it has passed Duke University, Advisory Board. She is a Distinguished degree in chemical engineering from contributor both to the Dean’s Circle and Liberation Capital, kicked off the a multilingual math education program. Ohio State, Virginia Tech, Penn State Alumna of the College of Physical and NC State in 1963. After a 36-year career Fitts-Woolard Hall. West is also assisting presentations. Garwood graduated Sischo, a senior environmental and University of Florida and went Mathematical Sciences. at Cryovac, he retired as global vice the University in forming a “C-Suite in 1984 with a degree in chemical engineering student, is the CEO of from 34th in U.S. News & World Report Lehrer earned his bachelor’s degree in president of technology with 29 years in Advisory Group” consisting of the engineering. In 2010, he founded the Trashr and is part of a team that created rankings of graduate engineering civil engineering from NC State in 1963. RD&E and seven years in marketing and College’s top alumni. ■ Charlotte-based global equity firm, a sensor that collects fill-level data in programs to 24th. ■

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If you have already made your 2018-19 gift to the College of Engineering, please accept our sincere thanks. If you have questions or would THERE WAS A TIME not too long ago spoke of how his experiences at NC State the prevalent forces of segregation. like to learn more about your giving options, contact Angela Martin at 919.513.1714 or [email protected]. when IRWIN HOLMES, JR. would not helped set him up for a successful career. Throughout his career, Holmes wasn’t have been allowed to attend classes at “I may have contributed something to allowed to compete in South Carolina, NC State. NC State, but NC State has contributed which had an unwritten rule barring ENGINEERING ONLINE In fall 2018, the University named a a whole lot to me and made my life very interracial athletic competition. Kenfield building for him. special,” Holmes said. arranged for all matches against When Holmes graduated with Holmes, who also earned a master’s Clemson and the University of South ENGINEER YOUR FUTURE WITH a bachelor’s degree in electrical degree in electrical engineering from Carolina to be played in North Carolina. 16 ONLINE GRADUATE DEGREES engineering in 1960, he was the Drexel University, worked for several When the team stopped for a meal at first African American to receive companies before working for IBM for a diner outside Chapel Hill after a match AVAILABLE FROM NC STATE’S an undergraduate degree from the 19 years until his retirement. As a senior against UNC, the owner told Kenfield COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING University. He also broke barriers as the manager of computer development at that he wouldn’t serve Holmes. The first African American to compete as an IBM, he received two patents and was a coach and the entire team got up and athlete, win a varsity letter and co-captain key member of the task force that led to walked out. a varsity team in the Atlantic Coast the development of the IBM PC product Holmes said much of what he Conference as a member of NC State line. achieved in his career came from a class men’s tennis team. He has also been an entrepreneur who he took his senior year that detailed how In September 2018, the NC State developed a shopping center in Durham, to build a computer. When he graduated, Board of Trustees approved changing the NC, started a gourmet restaurant, and Stevenson recommended him for his name of University College Commons to founded a staffing company with his first job, with RCA in Camden, New Holmes Hall. wife, Meredythe. Jersey. Holmes and his family attended a At the building dedication, he Over the years, Holmes worked with dedication ceremony for the renaming referenced mentors at NC State, including many accomplished engineers and held on Nov. 1, 2018, during Red and varsity tennis coach John Kenfield, Jr. supervised quite a few. He said his NC White Week. Joined by NC State and electrical engineering professor State education served him well. Chancellor Randy Woodson, Director William D. Stevenson, Jr. “Let me tell you something, there’s of Athletics Debbie Yow and Dean of Kenfield and Holmes’ teammates no better engineer than at NC State,” he Engineering Louis Martin-Vega, Holmes welcomed him and stood united against said. ■

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Ph.D. graduate balances research, minority mentorship — and wins game show

Phillips earned her bachelor’s and “There was master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from Florida A&M a sense of University. She said part of the reason accomplishment she decided to pursue a Ph.D. was but also a because of the low number of women sense of ‘We and members of underrepresented minority groups who have advanced need to do graduate degrees in engineering. Phillips more,’... so that is the first African-American woman when students to graduate with a Ph.D. in mechanical arrive, they feel engineering from NC State. DR. DOUGLAS REEVES THOMAS GRIFFIN DR. JOSEPH P. ARCHIE, JR. “There was a sense of welcome.” accomplishment but also a sense of ‘We need to do more,’” Phillips said. MAKITA PHILLIPS Graduate fellowships help attract top students “We have to do a better job of recruiting and making sure the environments When students are deciding on which project before you get there, you have bright students to our graduate program DR. MAKITA PHILLIPS are inclusive for everyone who we do school to attend for a master’s degree or the luxury of sampling, surveying what at NC State,” he said. recruit, so that when students arrive, Ph.D., the type of funding they receive research projects are of interest to you,’” DR. JOSEPH P. ARCHIE JR. endowed Four years out of her Ph.D. program at Phillips, whose Ph.D. in the they feel welcome.” is often a key part of their decision. Reeves said. the Patrick H. McDonald Jr. and NC State, DR. MAKITA PHILLIPS is Department of Mechanical and While at NC State, Phillips founded Graduate fellowships, which provide the Several engineering alumni have Clement Kleinstreuer Fellowship, also forging her own, unique path toward Aerospace Engineering focused the Minority Engineering Graduate flexibility to focus on research without given back to the College by endowing for graduate students, in 2000. Archie making impactful, accessible change. on thermal management, has also Student Association (MEGSA) to provide being tied to other responsibilities, are fellowships, helping NC State compete earned a B.S. in 1960 and an M.S. in Phillips works for a startup that is researched how to improve the efficiency a way for minority graduate students to among the best ways to attract top for top engineering students who 1962, both in mechanical engineering, as setting the new standard for thermal of solar cells, how heat can be converted get to know each other and talk about students conduct innovative research that well as a Ph.D. in engineering mechanics materials in electronics packaging while to energy using magnetic materials and issues that affect their community, as DR. DOUGLAS REEVES, the benefits the University and state. in 1968 and an M.D. from UNC-Chapel continuing on the route to becoming a how to store thermal energy for later use. well as provide peer mentoring for first- College’s associate dean of graduate and NC State alumnus THOMAS Hill that same year. tenure-track professor. She’s also taking In her time at NC State, Phillips learned generation graduate and undergraduate international programs and a professor GRIFFIN, who graduated with a B.S. in Archie named the scholarship after his her mechanical engineering knowledge how to focus her career and the different students. of computer science, said that financial civil engineering in 1966 and earned a two mentors. McDonald helped make outside of her career by actively pathways available to her through her “I felt very supported by (MEP support for graduate students is critical master’s degree in 1971 and is now the it possible for him to attend medical mentoring minority engineers — and interactions with professors and with Director Angelitha L. Daniel) and by my as they focus on their research and vice president of Forensic Engineering, school and work on a Ph.D. at NC State more recently, to win $15,661 toward advisors and fellow students in the advisor, Dr. Justin Schwartz,” she said. classes. Inc., endowed the Thomas Griffin at the same time. Kleinstreuer was her student loans on the game show Minority Engineering Programs (MEP). “It went great, and I’m glad it’s still The benefit of a fellowship is that Graduate Award in 2015. Archie’s partner in starting a graduate Paid Off with Michael Torpey. “I knew I wanted to go the tenure- going.” students have more time to figure out Griffin said he was initially inspired education program in biofluids at NC Phillips, who is from Clinton, Md., track route, but I also had different On the game show, which is filmed what kind of research they want to to fund a higher education scholarship State, which graduated several Ph.D. is currently an American Society for opportunities to not only be a post-doc in Atlanta and airs on TruTV, contestants be doing or which professors they are for NC State students when he thought and M.S. students. Engineering Education/National Science conducting research, but also look at answer questions to win money that will interested in working with, rather than back to a student he grew up with, “The benefits of educating Foundation Small Business Innovation ‘How do you build a company? How do help pay off their student loans. Phillips being financially supported through a who was the smartest boy in his high outstanding engineering graduate school Research Postdoctoral Fellow at Carbice you take the things we engineer and made it to the final round and had one teaching assistant or research assistant school class but unable to attend college candidates are compounding,” he said. Corporation, an Atlanta-based startup make them commercially available?’” minute to answer as many questions position, which requires them to devote because of a lack of financial resources. “Successful graduates reflect positively that has introduced Carbice Carbon, an Phillips said. “At NC State, I learned about mechanical engineering as she time to that position and to that area of When he learned of the need to support on their university programs, tend to innovative aligned nanostructure multi- a lot about being observant to your could. She answered five correctly, study. graduate programs, he decided to give support them in turn and enhance the functional composite that is used today surroundings and then making your winning money to pay for 30 percent of “It’s helpful for recruiting students there. overall engineering school quality and in the world’s most important electronic pathway fit for you and going after those her loans, in addition to what she had — you can say to a student, ‘You’re “It’s important to have those excellence.” ■ products. different things you’re interested in.” already won on the show. ■ not locked in to a specific research resources available to bring in super

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AN ENDURING FOUNDATION Foundation undergoes leadership change

GRIFFIN LAMB is the College’s new enhancement and growth of department assistant dean for development and alumni recognition events and many college relations and executive director related efforts.” the best faculty members Centennial Campus and the first building of the NC State Engineering Foundation. Lamb joins the College from available. And the first order project at NC State using a public-private She succeeds Brian Campbell, who left East Carolina University, where she of business was to attract a funding model. the College in November for a similar served as associate vice chancellor new dean. Today, a staff of 12 is led by a position at Virginia Commonwealth for development in the Division of DR. J. HAROLD LAMPE 36-member board of directors. University. University Advancement. Her higher came to NC State in 1945 Foundation President Suzanne S. LORA BREMER, executive director education experience also includes and would serve 17 years, Gordon is the first woman to head the of major gifts and campaign planning positions at Harvard University and the longest term of any board. NCSEF hired Griffin Lamb as its for the Foundation served as interim Davidson College. GRIFFIN LAMB NC State engineering new executive director this spring (see director of the Foundation during Lamb holds a B.A. in English from dean. During his tenure, story on page 43). a national search for Campbell’s Davidson College and a Ed.M. from the Lampe would expand In recent decades, the Foundation permanent successor. Graduate School of Education at Harvard the engineering curricula, has expanded the number and diversity “Brian arrived at NC State in October University. create the Department of of its board members, implemented a 2011 and in these seven plus years has During Campbell’s time at NC State, Nuclear Engineering and more robust strategic planning process provided great vision and leadership for the College saw its endowment and the Industrial Extension and significantly increased outreach to our development efforts,” said Dr. Louis the number of endowed professorships Service and oversee the younger alumni. Martin-Vega, dean of the College. “His both double. He led the College’s construction of three new The NCSEF board has also been accomplishments include significant fundraising efforts for Fitts-Woolard DEAN J. HAROLD LAMPE engineering buildings on increasingly directly involved in enhancement of alumni engagement Hall, the newest engineering building on LORA BREMER campus. identifying, meeting with and cultivating both regionally and nationally, major NC State’s Centennial Campus and the Engineering By the late 1970s, Foundation alumni and asking them to give back increases in alumni participation at first public-private building project in the endowment funds totaled just under to the College both with their time and NC State Homecoming activities, and University’s history. ■ Foundation marks $1 million. Areas that those monies personal resources. 75th anniversary supported had expanded to include Having an independent fundraising undergraduate merit scholarships and organization supporting the College graduate fellowships and support for helps provide vital private monies Two join Engineering Foundation staff The North Carolina Engineering the College’s Minority and Women’s beyond what state appropriations make Foundation was founded in fall 1944 programs. possible. Attracting the best students CHRIS PRICE joined the Foundation in SARA SELTZER joined the Foundation by a group of 49 business leaders and faculty members with the help of January 2019 as director of development in January 2019 as director of interested in promoting engineering A BROADER REACH NCSEF funds can make the difference working with alumni in Washington development for the Department in North Carolina and, by extension, between a good college of engineering D.C., Virginia, Maryland, South Carolina of Computer Science and the growing the state’s economy. Today, the Engineering Foundation has and a preeminent one. and the Research Triangle region of Department of Materials Science and The organization, renamed the NC built endowment funds available to the Tom McPherson, a Foundation board North Carolina. Price will also act as Engineering. As director, Seltzer will

State Engineering Foundation, Inc. College of more than $143 million. That member and past president, likens liaison for the Department of Electrical build connections with alumni and lead CHRIS PRICE (NCSEF) in 1999, has continued that endowment helps support scholarships, it to a basketball game. Just a few and Computer Engineering. He came fundraising and engagement efforts. tradition ever since. The Foundation fellowships, professorships, academic plays, a break here or there, can make to NC State in 2015 as a director Before coming to the Foundation, marks its diamond anniversary in 2019. programs, faculty research and other the difference. Especially in a closely of development for the University Seltzer was assistant director of North Carolina Gov. J. Melville initiatives that are not typically supported matched contest. Advancement team. Previously, he development for NC State’s Division Broughton served as the Foundation’s through state appropriations. “We can make the difference worked as a development director and of Academic and Student Affairs. first president. Early on, the group Over the last five years, the between having a win with a potential adjunct professor at West Virginia State Seltzer received a Bachelor of Business pledged that its funds would not Foundation has brought in an average of student or faculty member and not University. Price received his bachelor’s Administration degree from Stetson go toward equipment or building $21.6 million per year in new funding. having a win,” McPherson said. degree in public policy and his Master University in Florida and a Master of construction, only to supplement state The NCSEF staff has also led Learn more about the Foundation at of Business Administration from the Arts Administration from the Savannah salary funds so that what was then fundraising to support Fitts-Woolard www.engr.ncsu.edu/alumni-and- University of Charleston in Charleston, College of Art and Design. ■ the School of Engineering could attract Hall, the newest engineering building on giving/ncsef. ■ West Virginia. SARA SELTZER

42 | www.engr.ncsu.edu NC STATE ENGINEERING | 43 FOUNDATIONS Link finished a semester later in comedy and the creative things 2001 with a degree in industrial as problems — problems with ENGINEERING engineering. Both worked in solutions. It’s different kinds of their respective fields for a few solutions, but it’s a similar process,” A LU M N I , years before deciding to pursue Rhett said when asked how their YOUTUBE entertainment full time. They engineering degrees influence started their YouTube channel in their work. “So I don’t think we’ve STARS 2006, after realizing that people changed very much in the way that RETURN TO were downloading videos from we approach things. Still doing it in their website, posting the videos a very technical way, even though CAMPUS on YouTube and getting more views it’s something very creative.” than they did on their website. During their hour-long Q&A Now, their channels have a session with students, Rhett and combined 23 million subscribers, Link answered questions submitted and their videos have more than by students while Dr. Jerome Ways to give to the NC State Engineering Foundation 6 billion views. They film a daily Lavelle, associate dean for academic WHEN RHETT MCLAUGHLIN talk show called Good Mythical affairs in the College, moderated. ANNUAL GIVING: Annual gifts to are either for scholarships or opportunities.” Opportunities AND LINK NEAL — better Morning, created the entertainment The two were also inducted into the College are generally for an endowed faculty positions. include Fitts-Woolard Hall and other known as comedy duo Rhett & company Mythical, host the podcast the NC State chapter of the Order unrestricted purpose. Gifts of more PLANNED GIVING: Planned gifts engineering buildings on Centennial Link — were teenagers, they made Ear Biscuits and published Rhett and of the Engineer, an organization than $1,000 qualify for membership can be as simple as a bequest Campus. a blood oath that they were going Link’s Book of Mythicality: A Field created “to foster a spirit of pride in the Dean’s Circle. Annual gifts (including us in your estate plans). IN-KIND GIFTS: These are gifts of to create things together. But what Guide to Curiosity, Creativity, and and responsibility in the engineering from alumni are measured as Other options include trust vehicles goods or services to the College at a they didn’t know at the time is that Tomfoolery. profession.” Members of the order “participation rate” and directly affect and annuities, which have the discount or no cost. they’d first be attending the College “We approach what we do, even are given rings to wear on the pinky national rankings. potential to provide an income SPECIAL GIFTS: These gifts are of Engineering at NC State together, if it’s creative, we approach the finger of their working hand. ■ ENDOWMENT: An endowment is a stream and significant tax benefits. directed to unique projects, centers or earning degrees that helped fund held in perpetuity that benefits a CAPITAL GIFTS: These gifts initiatives as directed and approved them in unexpected ways in their specific purpose. Most endowments go toward “bricks and mortar” by the dean of engineering. ■ entertainment careers. held by the Engineering Foundation projects. Donors are given “naming Rhett and Link ended up at NC State, they said, because they were doing well in math and science NC STATE ENGINEERING FOUNDATION, INC. during their senior year of high

BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOUNDATION STAFF school, so people suggested that

Suzanne Gordon, President, CSC ’75, MA ’75, ST ‘80 Lora Bremer Chris Price they study engineering — and Bruce Baldwin, MAE ‘92 Interim Executive Director Director of Development Rhett’s dad said he wouldn’t pay Ashley Barnes, IE ‘95 Major gift contact for the College of Engineering Major gift contact for the Department of Electrical and Suzanne Beckstoffer, CE ‘82 and the Fitts-Woolard Hall project Computer Engineering for film school and thought his son Ashok Bhatnagar, NE ‘79 [email protected] | 919.513.0983 [email protected] | 919.513.2332 Robert (Bob) Brooks, EO ‘69 should pursue a more practical Linda Butler, NE ‘86 Ben Hughes Sara Seltzer Calvin Carter, Jr., MSE ’77, ’80, ‘83 Senior Development Advisor Director of Development degree. W. H. Clark, Jr., IE ‘56 [email protected] | 919.515.9974 Major gift contact for the Department of Computer Science Mike Creed, CE ‘73, ‘84 and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering The duo returned to NC State on Casey Dean, EE ‘67 Nora Brodsky [email protected] | 919.515.3973 Heather Denny, CE ‘95 Business Services Coordinator Oct. 13 to speak to a full auditorium David Dove, AE ‘69 [email protected] | 919.513.1778 Lindsay Smith Ralph Edwards, IE ‘61 in the James B. Hunt, Jr. Library Director of Development John Freeman, MSE ‘57 Carissa S. Burroughs Major gift contact for the Department of Civil, Construction, Len Habas, EE ’66 on Centennial Campus, talking Lead Event and Alumni Relations Coordinator and Environmental Engineering Rashida Hodge, ISE ’02, ‘03 [email protected] | 919.515.9975 Jake Hooks, MSE ‘78 [email protected] | 919.515.7738 about their non-traditional path into Seneca Jacobs, CE ‘99 Erica Fuller Rob Loftis, EE ‘02 Michael Walsh entertainment and their advice for Helene Lollis, CHE ‘87 Assistant Director of Development and Alumni Engagement Senior Director of Development Samuel (Sam) McCachern, CE ‘85 Contact for Young Alumni and Annual Giving Major gift contact for the Edward P. Fitts Department of students. [email protected] | 919.515.9958 Tom McPherson, Jr., EE ‘76 Industrial and Systems Engineering and the Department of “Engineering is something Mark Norcross, FMM ‘65 Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Chi Nguyen, AE ‘92 Shawnda Hill [email protected] | 919.515.7237 worth investing in,” Link said in an V. Nelson Peeler, Jr., EE ‘88 Business Officer Scott Stabler, MAE ‘82 [email protected] | 919.513.7557 interview before the event, thinking Carl Stutts, Jr., CHE ‘68 DEPARTMENT REPRESENTATIVES Alvin Sumter, ISE ‘87 Hannah Kunkel back to what Rhett’s dad said. Pam Townsend, CE ’84, ‘87 Administrative Support Associate Kenneth M. Tate Hannibal (Hans) Warren, Jr., CE ‘84 [email protected] | 919.515.7458 Department of Computer Science “Turns out, in a weird way, he was Greg Washington, ME ’89, ’91, ‘94 [email protected] | 919.513.4292 David Whitley, EE ‘92 Angela S. Martin right,” Rhett responded. Robert (Bob) Womack, MAE ‘59 Associate Director of Annual Giving and Prospect Development Russ O’Dell Mark Wyatt, CSC ‘80 Contact for the Dean’s Circle and Annual Giving Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Rhett graduated with a degree Deborah B. Young, CE ‘77 [email protected] | 919.513.1714 [email protected] | 919.513.2071 in civil engineering in 2000, and 44 | www.engr.ncsu.edu NC STATE ENGINEERING | 45 NC State University College of Engineering Campus Box 7901 Raleigh, NC 27695-7901

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Donors who support the College’s Fitts-Woolard Hall project receive recognition and exclusive benefits as part of their important gift. Along with recognition in this iconic new engineering building, members will receive regular insider updates on the construction and will be invited to exclusive events, including hard hat tours of the space and the building dedication.

CORNERSTONE SOCIETY For gifts beginning at $100,000 Your name will be permanently associated with the space of your choosing, and your gift will be recognized in a central location in Fitts-Woolard Hall along with a special recognition biography and photo.

DEAN’S OVAL CLUB For gifts of $50,000 to $99,999 You will receive permanent recognition with a donor profile in a central location in Fitts-Woolard Hall.

DEAN’S YOUNG ALUMNI OVAL CLUB For gifts of $25,000 over five years by young alumni up to 15 years after graduation You will receive permanent recognition with a donor profile in a central location in Fitts-Woolard Hall.

To learn more about how you can support Fitts-Woolard Hall and about membership in these groups, contact Lora Bremer with the NC State Engineering Foundation at 919.513.0983 or [email protected].