RALEIGH – For the Dean of NC State University’s College of Engineering, state support for higher education is both a tradition and an ongoing obligation. “For many, many years, this state was probably the prime example of what it meant to support higher education,” Dean Louis Martin-Vega says in the accompanying video. Martin-Vega came to… READ MORE

RALEIGH – When it comes to competing for some of the nation’s best engineering professors, Louis Martin-Vega uses a sports analogy. “We’re there in a major league division – not with the highest payroll,” Martin-Vega, Dean of NC State University’s College of Engineering, says in the accompanying video. The College of Engineering has been successful… READ MORE

RALEIGH – No one says North Carolina has too many engineers. “From my perspective, the demand has never been greater,” Dean Louis Martin-Vega of NC State University’s College of Engineering says in the accompanying video. Martin-Vega describes how 400 companies now come to the College’s Career Fair twice a year – some of them represented… READ MORE

RALEIGH – If James Bond had asthma, he’d have one of these. At one of two National Science Foundation Engineering Research Centers at NC State University, engineers create wearable devices that harness body heat or motion to power themselves and monitor health conditions such as asthma or diabetes. Chancellor Randy Woodson – an asthmatic himself… READ MORE

RALEIGH – The modern textile industry is much more than T-shirts:  It’s fireproof tents.  Stents for human arteries.  Wound-healing fabric with “scaffolding” for new skin. “In North Carolina, we’re all familiar with the state’s strong tradition in textiles,” NC State Chancellor Randy Woodson says in the accompanying video.  “… I think people would be surprised… READ MORE