4. Quick Facts
Fall 2006 Freshman Class
– Total New Freshmen 1,397
– Avg. SAT 1233
– HS GPA 4.24
Enrollments Fall 2006
– Undergraduate 5,625
– Graduate 1,840
– More than 50 percent are in top 10 percent of their
high school graduating class
5. Quick Facts
Degrees (2005-06)
Undergraduate 1,040
Graduate 556
Among U.S. public colleges of engineering
whose highest degree is a doctorate:
— 15th best undergraduate engineering
degree program
Among all U.S. engineering colleges:
— 3rd in total degrees awarded
— 2nd in BS degrees awarded
— 11th in MS degrees awarded
— 22nd in PhD degrees awarded
6. 6th in BS degrees
awarded to African-
American students
5th in BS degrees
awarded to women
students
Quick Facts
7. Quick Facts
• Among all U.S. engineering colleges
— 14th in industry-sponsored research
— 17th in total research expenditures
($95 M)
• 20th among public research colleges of
engineering, US News & World Report
• 19 US patent applications and
1 foreign application filed,
62 invention disclosures, and
1 copyright disclosure in 2005-06
8. Quick Facts
930 faculty and staff, including
247 tenured and tenure-track
faculty members
11 faculty are members of the
National Academy of Engineering
77 Presidential and NSF
recognitions for achievement,
including 52 NSF Career awards
9. Industrial Extension Service (IES)
director Terri Helmlinger Ratcliff is
the first woman to serve as president
of the National Society of
Professional Engineers.
Quick Facts — Outreach
IES is the first industrial extension
service established in the nation (1955).
Over the past five years, companies
assisted by IES reported $500 million in
direct economic impact from IES’
services; in 2005-06, IES helped retain
or create 1,237 jobs across the state.
10. Research Breakthroughs
— Industrial Engineering’s Electron Beam
Melting Machine is First and Only in US.
— NC State Students Grind Pork Skins into
Biomedical Gold — a senior design
project would transform waste into
valuable biomedical material and increase
manufacturing jobs.
— Chemical Engineers Construct Tiny,
Floating ‘Eyeballs’ on Microchip —
devices can act like tiny factories for
materials with potential for a wide variety
of uses.
11. Research Achievements
• Using three full-scale bridge
sections, Civil Engineers in the
Constructed Facilities Lab (CFL)
are testing new materials that will
make bridges stronger and safer
as well as reduce costs and
duration of repairs.
• The state-of-the-art CFL is one of
only four public labs in the US
accredited to perform code
compliance testing for the
International Code Council.
12. Research Achievements
At the Forefront of Nuclear Engineering
NC State has one of the top nuclear
engineering programs in the world
(ranked 8th by USN&WR).
The department is part of the $4.8B
Idaho National Laboratory
consortium, making NC State part
of the nation’s premier initiative for
nuclear energy research,
development, and education.
13. Research Achievements
— The new North Carolina
Biomanufacturing Training and
Education Center (BTEC) will allow
students to gain experience through
on-site and distance education.
— BTEC will not only prepare students
for jobs in biomedical and
pharmaceutical industries but also
attract those industries to our state.
Helping Prepare North Carolinians for the Future
14. Research Achievements
NC State Leading the Way in Biomedical Engineering
— NC State’s joint Department of Biomedical
Engineering with UNC-CH is an indicator
of our rapidly expanding biomedical
emphasis.
— Mechanical Engineering researchers have
designed devices that reduce trauma
during heart surgery.
— Today, 6 people who had lost their sight
can now see, thanks to groundbreaking
work by NC State’s Electrical Engineering
researchers who developed the prototype
microchip for the artificial retina.
15. Innovations in Research and Academics
—The Department of Civil,
Construction, and Environmental
Engineering opened a new
laboratory dedicated to
environmental engineering
research in March 2006.
— Electrical and Computer Engineer
Maysam Ghovanloo has developed
a better device for people with
Parkinson’s Disease.
— Motorsports is used in new
curriculum to help teach math and
physics to K-12 students.
16. Achievements in Academics
— For the 2005 honors convocation,
71/166 (44 percent) of our minority
Engineering freshmen achieved a
GPA of 3.0 or higher.
— Nine of the 25 campus-wide
students with a perfect 4.0 were in
Engineering.
— Shelly Strickland (biomedical and
biological engineering ’04) is First
Native American Park Scholar at
NC State.
Engineering Minority Students Demonstrate
Academic Excellence
17. Achievements in Academics
New Distance Education Initiatives
— Graduate degree programs in computer engineering, electrical
engineering, and materials science and engineering under development
— BSE program with a concentration in mechanical and aerospace
engineering offered in Havelock in partnership with Craven Community
College, NAVAIR, and the Navy Depot
— Undergraduate courses delivered to the Gateway Technology Center in
Rocky Mount as a part of the pre-engineering transfer programs offered
at Nash Community College, Edgecombe Community College, Halifax
Community College, and Wilson Technical Community College
— A new Certificate Program in Patent Examination developed in
partnership with the US Patent and Trademark Office
18. Achievements in Academics
Improving Education Across the State
— NC State students and
faculty work with middle
and high school teachers
through workshops and
summer programs.
— NC State student interns
bring math and science to
life for middle schoolers.
— The Engineering Entrepreneurs’ Program helps students
move ideas to the marketplace, creating new startup
companies that boost our economy.
— “Engineering on the Road” outreach service reaches
thousands of students statewide.
19. K-12 Advancements
NC State a Leader in Women in Engineering Programs
— Laura Bottomley directs the
Women in Engineering and
Outreach Programs, which
secured two major grants —
$2M from NSF and $500,000
from GE Foundation.
— Girls on Track hosts a math
and science summer camp
for middle school girls.
— Summer programs expanded
to include elementary school
students
— NC State Gets WISE with the Women in Science and Engineering
(WISE) Living and Learning program.
20. Featured Faculty
Faculty Garner Top Awards
National Academy of Engineering
— 2 more faculty, Carol Hall and Joe
DeSimone, are elected to NAE in 2005
— Annie Anton and Christine Grant are
selected to participate in the 2006 Frontiers
of Engineering Symposium by the National
Academy of Engineering
National Science Foundation Awards
— PAESMEM: Christine Grant, Winser
Alexander, COE Academic Affairs
— PECASE: Jason Haugh, Veena Misra
— Director’s Distinguished Teaching Scholars
Award: David Ollis
— NSF Career Awards: 52
— NSF Special Creativity Award: Jan Genzer
21. Student Achievements
NC State Students Take First Place
in World Competition — Twice !
Students and advisors
from the Senior Design
Center in Computer
Science garnered first-
place wins in the IEEE
Computer Society
International Design
Competition World
(CSIDC) twice, in 2005 and
2006, breaking all records.
22. Student Achievements
Students Help NASA Roll with Tumbleweed on Mars
— The tumbling
tumbleweed, a symbol
of the stark prairie
solitude of the American
West, may one day roll
across the red wastes of
Mars on a wandering
high-tech search for
water and life.
— NC State students just
may be the ones to get
things rolling.
23. Student Achievements
NC State hosts its most
successful Engineering Career
Fair in spring 2006 — the event
attracted 180 companies, and
2,060 students attended.
The event proved so popular, a
fall 2006 Engineering Career
Fair was added to the calendar.
Engineering Graduates Highly Recruited
24. Outreach Achievements
Assisting the Military
— At Cherry Point, our researchers work with the Navy to help
the Vertical Lift Center extend equipment service life.
— Industrial Extension Service helped Marines streamline their
maintenance facility on the base.
— Engineering Online program allows military stationed
around the world to take graduate courses in engineering
and computer science.
— ME alumnus Thomas Metz (MS’80)
led US Army in Iraq.
— NE alumnus Raymond Odierno
(MS ’86) led the capture of Saddam
Husssein.
25. Alumni Involvement
Alumnus Fitts Makes $10 Million Gift to Endow
Industrial and Systems Engineering
— The commitment is the largest gift ever
received by the College of Engineering from
an individual donor and the largest
endowed gift to academics in NC State’s
history.
— Fitts hopes to increase awareness of the
strengths of the internationally recognized
program in industrial and systems
engineering at NC State University.
— Distinguished Alumnus Edward P. Fitts (IE ’61)
donated $10 million to endow the Edward P. Fitts
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering,
September 2005.
26. Achieve! The Campaign for NC State
September 2005 the University kicked off its
historic $1 billion fundraising campaign —
Achieve! The Campaign for NC State.
The College of Engineering has raised $197.5
million toward its goal of $225 million.
27. Engineering on the Move
College of Engineering Relocates to Centennial Campus
28. — Engineering Building I (EBI) is the new home of the Department of
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and the Department of
Materials Science and Engineering. The building was completed in
2004, and the dedication ceremony was held April 22, 2005.
Engineering on the Move
College of Engineering Relocates to Centennial Campus
29. — Engineering Building II,
the new home of the
Department of
Computer Science and
the Department of
Electrical and Computer
Engineering, opened in
fall 2005.
Engineering on the Move
College of Engineering Relocates to Centennial Campus
— At the dedication ceremony held April 28, 2006, Progress
Energy announced a $1.2 million gift to the College of
Engineering. In recognition of the gift, two conference rooms, a
terrace, and the bridge that connects the two wings of EBII bear
Progress Energy’s name.
31. Engineering on the Move
College of Engineering Relocates to Centennial Campus
— Engineering Building III, the
future home of the
departments of Mechanical
and Aerospace Engineering
and Biomedical Engineering,
received $8.7M in planning
money in summer 2005 from
the State Legislature, and
$61 million in funding for
construction has been
officially approved.
— Engineering Building IV will house the Edward P. Fitts
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the
Office of the Dean.
