Today we welcome the Class of 2028! It’s a time to make new friends, meet Dean Jim Pfaendtner (Jim Pfaendtner) and meet an alumnus, Gil West. Welcome to #NCStateEngr!

See you on Hillsborough tomorrow! Learn more about Packapalooza at packapalooza.ncsu.edu

Today's forecast: ☀️ Sunny 🌡️ High of 83, low of 56 😌 100% chance you'll find us at #Packapalooza™️, our annual back-to-school block party and street festival on Hillsborough Street from 2-10 p.m.

What's your favorite memory from the weekend?

Congratulations to undergraduate student Emily Boldor! She won second place for photography in this year’s Envisioning Research contest for her photo “Seismic design structure.”

Only 7 days until POP Back! 🥳

Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Abhirup Basu! He won first place in microscopy in this year’s Envisioning Research contest for “Corrosion’s supernova: unveiling destructive power in coatings.”

Congratulations to master’s student Victoria Himelstein! She won second place in microscopy in this year’s Envisioning Research contest for “In my own world: dendrite nucleation visible on the outside of a Mo-Si-B powder particle.”

Happy POP Back! The party’s on until 8 p.m.

Still thinking about yesterday ☀️ We love kicking off the semester with POP Back!

Congratulations to master’s student Mohammad Javad Zarei! He won an honorable mention in microscopy in this year’s Envisioning Research contest for “Achaemenid columns.”

Looks like somebody read the alumni magazine. 👀 Check it out at go.ncsu.edu/pbm6ly1

Tonight we celebrate a monumental year of research. In the 2023-24 year, we submitted 1,084 proposals valued at $1,169,240,323, a 12% increase in the number of proposals and a 108% increase in the value of the proposals over 2022-23. #NCStateEngr

The Engineering Career Fair starts next week, but starting tomorrow, ambassadors Chip and Connor take over our Instagram stories to answers questions and share tips to help you get ready for it! instagram.com/reel/C_x6WQlPw…

Will it peanut butter ax? 🪵 Earlier this year, alumni Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal visited NC State CCEE and NC State Industrial and Systems Engineering on a mission: to chop down a tree with a peanut butter ax. See the video on Rhett and Link’s Wonderhole on YouTube.

Tomorrow is Wellness Day. Classes are canceled for the day and students are encouraged to focus on their physical, mental and social well being. See the full schedule: go.ncsu.edu/wellness-day

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Amanda Lietz! She received a Department of Energy Office of Science Early Career Research Program award to develop a new computational method for low temperature plasmas modeling that relies on machine learning. go.ncsu.edu/mkzxzbp