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Professional Engineers of North Carolina (PENC) is a professional association of over 1800 individuals including Professional Engineers, engineering interns, engineering graduates, and engineering students in nine local chapters and five university engineering programs. PENC is a state society of the National Society of Professional Engineers. Members represent all technical disciplines and all practice areas including construction, education, industry, government, and private practice.


 

 


Engineering News

Designer Isotopes Push the Frontier of Science

Photo of Bradley Sherrill, distinguished professor at Michigan State University.

Designer labels have a lot of cachet, a principle that's equally true in fashion and physics.

The future of nuclear physics is in designer isotopes--th...

Ancient Beachcombers May Have Travelled Slowly

Photo of the Chilean coastline.

New evidence, more questions. That's the thumbnail of the first new data reported in 10 years from Monte Verde, the earliest known human settlement in the Americas.

Evidence from the archaeological site ...

Platypus Genome Decoded

A platypus shown in three ways with a snake, a bird and a gorilla shown to match its attributes.

The curious discovery of the duck-billed, egg-laying, otter-footed, beaver-tailed, venomous platypus in Australia in 1798 convinced British scient...

Top Science and Math Teachers Receive Presidential Award

Photo of teacher Diane Schnellhammer working with students on a math project.

Excellent teaching in math and science can make a crucial difference to students' mastery of these subjects, and to decisions about future study and careers. Teachers ...

Astronomers Discover New Type of Pulsating White Dwarf Star

Image showing light output for pulsating carbon white dwarf star.

University of Texas at Austin astronomers Michael H. Montgomery and Kurtis A. Williams, along with graduate student Steven DeGennaro, have predicted and confirmed the existenc...

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The Professional Engineer

Check out the feature article of the Winter 2008 issue of PENC's Magazine, The Professional Engineer!

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