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“Make it Meaningful” | The Miller Family Faculty Award

Lane and Louise Miller, the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the NC State College of Engineering are proud to announce the creation of a new award, aimed at supporting and elevating mid-career MAE faculty.

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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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...
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Grad Student Profile: Sumedh Beknalkar

Sumedh Beknalkar, a Ph.D. candidate in the mechanical and aerospace engineering department at NC State’s College of Engineering, is also the president and co-founder of SLA Robotics.