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MAE Professors Awarded Funding for Nuclear Innovation Research

NC State’s College of Engineering is leading the charge in nuclear innovation.  The college earned more awards than any other institution in the latest funding announcement from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy University Program (DOE-NEUP). 

Guy Burke: A Legacy 30 Years in the Making

Gerald Burke speaks fondly of his late brother, Guy, whose sporadic journey through NC State inspired an estate gift to support scholarships for students in...
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Dariush Heiranian Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award

Heiranian's five year award will provide funding for his project, "Atomistic-Scale Investigation of How Chemical and Physical Heterogeneities Govern Ion-Selective Transport in Metal-Organic Framework Membranes."
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Six COE faculty members recognized as University Faculty Scholars

Almost a third of the 2025-26 cohort of NC State’s University Faculty Scholars are faculty members in the College of Engineering. This recognition honors faculty members for their academic achievements and contributions to NC State and beyond through their teaching, scholarship and service.
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Braun, Hu Named Goodnight Early Career Innovators

Congratulations to NC State MAE Assistant Professors James Braun and Jingjie Hu on being named 2025-26 Goodnight Early Career Innovators! The program recognizes and rewards...