{"id":5,"date":"2016-06-14T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1409.mae.ncsu.edu\/jiang\/home\/"},"modified":"2024-12-13T12:19:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T17:19:26","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mae.ncsu.edu\/jiang\/","title":{"rendered":"Micro\/Nano Engineering Lab (MNEL)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-159 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/mae.ncsu.edu\/jiang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/06\/lab.jpg\" alt=\"lab\" width=\"104\" height=\"76\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Micro\/Nano-Engineering Lab (MNEL)<\/strong> is led by <a href=\"https:\/\/mae.ncsu.edu\/people\/xjiang5\">Professor Xiaoning Jiang<\/a> to perform\u00a0research on smart materials, smart structures, micro\/nanofabrications, micro\/nano-devices, and their applications in biomedical, mechanical, and aerospace engineering. Current research directions at MNEL include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mae.ncsu.edu\/jiang\/research\/\">Ultrasound in medicine and biology<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mae.ncsu.edu\/jiang\/research\/\">Smart micro\/nano-devices<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mae.ncsu.edu\/jiang\/research\/\">Ultrasound NDE<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Through the innovations in the above areas, MNEL aims at contributing to the advancement of biomedical diagnosis and therapy and structural health monitoring.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<section class=\"callOut\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-sm-6\">\n\t\t<section id=\"recent-posts-3\" class=\"widget widget_recent_entries amr_widget\">\n\t\t<h2 class=\"widget-title\">News &#038; Announcements<\/h2>\n\t\t<ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/mae.ncsu.edu\/jiang\/news\/2026\/planning-workshop-for-nsf-iucrc-cmusic-successfully-held-in-raleigh\/\">Planning Workshop for NSF IUCRC cMUSIC Successfully Held in Raleigh<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/mae.ncsu.edu\/jiang\/news\/2025\/november-2025-mengyue-chen-defended-his-ph-d-dissertation-on-november-21-2025\/\">November 2025: Mengyue Chen defended his Ph.D. dissertation on November 21, 2025.<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/mae.ncsu.edu\/jiang\/news\/2025\/october-2025-nicholas-garcia-defended-his-ph-d-dissertation-on-october-08-2025\/\">October 2025: Nicholas Garcia defended his Ph.D. dissertation on October 08, 2025.<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/mae.ncsu.edu\/jiang\/news\/2025\/august-2025-ben-passed-his-phd-prelim-oral-exam-on-8-29\/\">August 2025: Ben passed his PhD prelim oral exam on 8\/29.<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/mae.ncsu.edu\/jiang\/news\/2025\/august-2025-ben-kreager-awarded-the-prestigious-mcdonald-kleinstreuer-fellowship\/\">August 2025: Ben Kreager awarded the prestigious McDonald Kleinstreuer Fellowship!<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\n\t\t<\/section> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/mae.ncsu.edu\/jiang\/news\/\">More <strong>News<\/strong>\u00a0-&gt;<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mae.ncsu.edu\/jiang\/news\/past-news\/\">News before 2016 is in the\u00a0<strong>News Archive<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"callOut gray-lighter-bg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-565\" src=\"https:\/\/mae.ncsu.edu\/jiang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/04\/40MHzTransducer-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"167\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-574\" src=\"https:\/\/mae.ncsu.edu\/jiang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/04\/Array-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"183\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-575\" src=\"https:\/\/mae.ncsu.edu\/jiang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/04\/Array-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"177\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-568\" src=\"https:\/\/mae.ncsu.edu\/jiang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/04\/Flexoelectricity-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"168\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-573\" src=\"https:\/\/mae.ncsu.edu\/jiang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/04\/Prostate-2-600x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"461\" height=\"142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mae.ncsu.edu\/jiang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/04\/Prostate-2-600x185.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mae.ncsu.edu\/jiang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/04\/Prostate-2-768x237.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mae.ncsu.edu\/jiang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/04\/Prostate-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/mae.ncsu.edu\/jiang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/04\/Prostate-2-992x306.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Micro\/Nano-Engineering Lab (MNEL) is led by Professor Xiaoning Jiang to perform\u00a0research on smart materials, smart structures, micro\/nanofabrications, micro\/nano-devices, and their applications in biomedical, mechanical,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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