Research OverviewSaundra Yates-EvansDirector of Research

ServicesDivision of Research &Economic Development

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The Vision…“Uncompromising

Excellence”• To be the premier interdisciplinary

university in America that builds on its comparative advantages in engineering, agriculture, technology, and business; a strong civil rights legacy and status as an 1890 land-grant institution.

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North Carolina A&T offers:

• 89 Bachelor’s degree programs

• 43 Master’s degree programs

• 5 PhD Programs– Industrial Engineering– Electrical Engineering– Mechanical Engineering– Energy & Environmental Studies– Leadership Studies

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University Statistics

• 89% full-time, 11% part-time• 53% female, 47% male• 92% black, 6% white, 2% others• 82% NC residents, 18% out-of-state• Over half of our Master’s and PhD students

are US African American students.

Enrollment increased from 7,500 in 1999 to over 11,000 in 2005.

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Facts: FY06 Enrollment

College of Engineering College of Arts & Sciences

1,707 Students 3,011 Students1,442 Undergraduates 2,817 Undergraduates265 Graduate Students 194 Graduate Students

School of Agriculture School of Education721 Students 970 Students662 Undergraduates 511 Undergraduates59 Graduate Students 459 Graduate

Students

School of Technology School of Nursing1,018 Students 459 Undergraduates 923 Undergraduates 95 Graduate Students School of Business

1,620 Students 1,586 Undergraduates

34 Graduate Students

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Facts• NC A&T is the highest producer of African-Americans with

B.S., Master’s & Ph.D. degrees in Engineering among HBCUs

• PhD Program in Industrial Engineering is the only one of its kind at an HBCU

• Master’s in Computational Science & Engineering began Spring 2005 – the only program of its kind at an HBCU

• The School of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences is the largest agriculture school at an HBCU in the country.

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• One of only three HBCUs in the nation with the Carnegie classification “High Research Activity”

• One of only 2 Universities in the UNC system with the “High Research Activity” classification

• North Carolina A&T ranked third in terms of research funding in the UNC System- only behind UNC-Chapel Hill and North Carolina State for fiscal years 2005 and 2006.

NC A&T Research

Information Sciences & Technology

Advanced Materials &

Nanotechnology

Leadership & Community Development

Public Health

Biotechnology & Bio Sciences

Energy & Environment

Logistics & TransportationSystems

Computational Science &Engineering

Division of Research &

Economic Development

Research Clusters

Public HealthA. Leads: Dr. James Gooch (IPH), Dr. Mohamed Ahmedna (Ag) & Ms. Schenita Randolph

(Nursing)B. Colleges of Arts & Sciences, Engineering; Schools of Agriculture, Technology, Nursing,

EducationC. Academic Tie: Institute of Public HealthBiotechnology & Bio SciencesA. Leads: Dr. Guochen Yang (Ag) & Dr. Mary Smith (A&S)B. Schools of Agriculture, Technology; Colleges of Engineering, Arts & SciencesC. Academic Tie: Proposed Biotechnology Graduate Program Advanced Materials & NanotechnologyA. Leads: Dr. Jag Sankar (Eng) & Dr. Solomon Bilign (A&S)B. Colleges of Arts & Sciences, Engineering; Schools of Agriculture, TechnologyC. Academic Tie: Ph.D. Program in Mechanical EngineeringComputational Science & EngineeringA. Leads: Dr. Guoqing Tang (A&S) & Dr. Aijt Kelkar (Eng)B. Colleges of Arts & Sciences, Engineering; Schools of Agriculture, TechnologyC. Academic Tie: Graduate Program in CSELeadership & Community DevelopmentA. Lead: Dr. Robert Pyle (Tech); TBD (Bus); TBD (Edu)B. All Colleges and SchoolsC. Academic Tie: Ph.D. Program in LeadershipInformation Sciences & TechnologyA. Leads: Dr. Numan Dogan (Eng) & Dr. DeWayne Brown (Tech)B. Colleges of Engineering, Arts & Sciences; Schools of Business, TechnologyC. Academic Tie: Ph.D. Program in Electrical EngineeringLogistics & Transportation SystemsA. Leads: Dr. Paul Stanfield (Eng) & Dr. Michael Simmons (Bus)B. Schools of Business, Technology; Colleges of Arts & Sciences, EngineeringC. Academic Tie: Ph.D. Program in Industrial EngineeringEnergy & EnvironmentA. Leads: Dr. Abolghasem Shabazi (Ag) & Dr. Shamsuddin Ilias (Eng)B. Schools of Agriculture, Business; Colleges of Arts & Sciences, EngineeringC. Academic Tie: Ph.D. Program in Energy & Environment

NC A&T Research

Facilitating Research Clusters:

• Identifying Opportunities

• Birds of the Same Feather Meetings

• Professional Development – Developing Interdisciplinary Proposals

• Summer Research Fellows

• Research Day & Researcher Awards

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NC A&T Research

• Total program funding increased from $17.7 million in 1998 to $38.6 million in FY 2005-2006

• Currently managing portfolio of 288 active projects valued at about $110 million

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NSF Awards

• NSF supports about $22.7 million of A&T’s sponsored projects:

– Recruitment & Retention 47.4%– Research 36.9%– Infrastructure 10.9%– Educational Improvement 4.8%

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NSF Awards• 46% of NSF supported projects are

multidisciplinary and/or collaborative• BPC-A: Collaborative Education & Research in

Computing Disciplines• NSF-Europe Materials Collaboration• U.S.A.-Ethiopia IRES in Earth, Atmospheric &

Space Sciences• NSF CREST – Advanced Materials & Smart

Structures• NSF RISE – Biologically Inspired Systems:

Modeling, Synthesis, and Simulation

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NSF Awards - AGEP

• AGEP Collaborative Research Training – North Carolina Alliance to Create Opportunity Through Education

• Alliance partners – UNCCH, NCSU, NCA&T

• Formal network of NSF-HRD supported underrepresented minority initiative projects in NC

• Goal – Integrate NSF URM programs across the education spectrum to form student pathways to the PhD degree and the professoriate in STEM fields

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Economic Development

• NC Research Campus • $1 billion biotechnology research center involving

industry/NC higher education institutions focused on human nutrition and plant-based foods science

• A&T’s Research Focus: Post-harvest technologies (about $9.7 million over 5 years)

• Millennium Campus– Partnership with UNCG for research, training and

development with the potential for technology transfer and patents, the creation of revenue-generating companies and services to local and state agencies.

Economic Development: Small Business

Partnered with Triad Semiconductor to co-develop and test a prototype for Acoustic-Emissions Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) Network.

Technology encompasses two NC A&T patents

SHM technology enables the detection of structural damage, determines severity, and pinpoints the damage location in aircraft and aerospace structures, pipelines, and bridges in real-time.

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NC A&T is a dynamic, growing university that excels in producing quality graduates and high caliber research. Our vision, our leadership, our facilities, our talented faculty and good quality students set us

apart from others.