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October 19, 2020

MAE alum designs hardware for future human space travel

For NC State alumnus AJ Rackl, a normal day at work often includes highly specific technical work on hardware that will go into space. But he says it’s the soft skills — how to lead a project, work in a group and network with people — that have helped him the most since graduating college.

CBE student third sibling to graduate with chemical engineering degree

When Matthew Burroughs graduated from NC State earlier this month, he became the third sibling in his family to graduate from NC State’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, the third to receive the department’s Senior Award for Scholarly Achievement and the third to start a Ph.D. program in chemical engineering.

Solar farm in Monroe, N.C., built by Strata Solar

FREEDM researchers receive funding for work on grid resilience tools

Researchers in the FREEDM Systems Center led by NC State have received a $3.1 million research award from the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) to advance solar energy’s role in strengthening the resilience of the U.S. electricity grid.

Image credit: SilverBlu3. Shared under a Creative Commons license.

Framework improves ‘continual learning’ for artificial intelligence

Engineering researchers have developed a new framework for deep neural networks that allows artificial intelligence (AI) systems to better learn new tasks while “forgetting” less of what it has learned regarding previous tasks.

Survey: Alumni thriving in work, life

In a systemwide survey by Gallup, alumni of North Carolina’s public universities say they highly value their undergraduate education.

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