NDSU research featured in Wired
Studentís undergraduate research work acts as focus
NDSU’s groundbreaking research gained more national attention as Wired magazine recently featured an article about NDSU’s Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering.
The article also featured electrical engineering senior Jeremy Lee’s work in assisting researchers with the development of radio frequency identification technology.
“ Currently I am working on an RFID for one of the defense contracts,” Lee said of his research.
RFID technology has the potential to help track things like goods and cattle. This technology is only one of many projects in progress across North Dakota that is attracting national attention.
Such projects also require help and assistance, and there are opportunities for undergraduates to get involved.
Lee said he has been working as an undergraduate research assistant and has been helping researchers with several projects.
Dozens of students like Lee are working as research assistants on projects in the Research and Technology Park and other projects across campus. They can be responsible for a variety of tasks in a wide range of projects.
Carol Renner, communications coordinator for the Research, Creative Activities and Technology Transfer, said that there are anywhere from 50 to 60 undergraduates currently assisting with projects in the Research and Technology Park.
The projects at Research and Technology Park also have the potential to generate local jobs for such students after they get their degree.
Alien Technologies is going to build a plant that would turn Fargo into one of the largest RFID plants in the world. That would create a “slew of jobs for people like Jeremy Lee,” according to the Wired article.
The article can be found on Wired’s Web site at www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.02/posts.html?pg=4.