@JimPfaendtner

Dean of Engineering, Faculty, Mental health advocate, @JPhysChem senior editor, PS5 enthusiast, fantasy/sci-fi.

 Raleigh, NC
prg.engr.ncsu.edu/
Joined May 2011
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This is your perennial reminder that maybe, just maybe, we don't need 282 million permutations for evaluating a pool of ~300 PhD applicants.
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Today we welcome the Class of 2028! It’s a time to make new friends, meet Dean Jim Pfaendtner (@JimPfaendtner) and meet an alumnus, Gil West. Welcome to #NCStateEngr!
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It’s all fun and games until you have to deal with 100TB of tape archive at your old institution. All of my sponsored research DMPs call for archiving data from pubs for 5 years and I no longer have grant money to pay for data earlier than 2019. Should I:
16%Follow the DMP and rm it
31%Ask my dept head to pay
53%See responses
135 votes • Final results
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You know you found a good watering hole when they hold the first round of trivia for you 🥲
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Dean 101: The realization that I can respond to most requests and problems with, "that sounds really hard, but love will find a way" is 🔥🔥🔥
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Congrats, Veena!
NC State ECE@ncstateece10 May 2024
Veena Misra has been named the permanent head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at NC State University. Misra, who was selected after a nationally competitive search, has served as interim department head since July 1, succeeding Dan Stancil.
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Outstanding cap to my SoCal visit last week!
NC State College of Engineering@NCStateEngr26 Apr 2024
Dean Jim Pfaendtner’s recent visit to Barbie’s Dream House was sublime. 🩷 Thanks to alumni Paul Chen and Audrey Watanabe for the tour of the Handler Team Center and showing off some of the magic of toy making!
Jim Pfaendtner stands at the front door of a life size Barbie's Dream House.

ALT Jim Pfaendtner stands at the front door of a life size Barbie's Dream House.

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Let’s gooooooooooo. Congrats to the women’s and men’s 🏀 teams! Twin final 4️⃣
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Let's go Pack!
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Half-life of 3 hrs. Let’s go Elite 8s!
Jim Pfaendtner@JimPfaendtner29 Mar 2024
So excited for our Sweet 16s. Go pack!
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So excited for our Sweet 16s. Go pack!
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washingtonpost.com/technolog…

Silicon Valley is pricing academics out of AI research

A growing chorus of academics say the sky-high cost of working with AI models is boxing researchers out of the field, compromising independent study of the technology.

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For wellness day, staff at @NCStateEngr organized a fun set of events for our students including a marathon 3 hour "gaming with the dean" event. It was super fun to connect with students over shared interests and hear a bit about how things are going. youtube.com/watch?v=8pOPDT7z…

The College of Engineering Presents Dean Jim Pfaendtner - Gaming with...

Dean Jim Pfaendtner challenges engineering students in the Esports ...

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Our IT streamed the event and, in retrospect, I don't know if we need 3 hours of me getting obliterated in Mario Kart and Super Smash Brothers. But here we are 😂😂😂.
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I had the opportunity to speak to the group, remind them of how important it is that we work together to end the stigma of mental illness and encourage them for taking care of themselves during a busy part of the semester.
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Registration is now OPEN for FOMMS 2024 - THE conference this summer (28 July - 1 Aug) for molecular modeling and simulation! Come join us at Snowbird. fomms.cache.org

FOMMS 2027

FOMMS 2027 will be held 11 - 16 July 2027, at The Cliff Lodge at Snowbird, Utah.

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Jason Franz @FranzBiomech received 2 grants to continue research in wearable sensing and machine learning for knee osteoarthritis rehabilitation. Along with partner @BPietrosimone in @UNCEXSS , they received awards from the @NCBiotech & @innovateunc Visit: go.unc.edu/At53R
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We used this terrible event for a case study in senior design in 2007 to help students think through process safety and design. IIRC there was a very high quality report that students were able to use to try and reverse engineer sequence of events.
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@CoryMSimon5 Feb 2024
at a BP oil refinery in 2005, an improperly-operating isomerization unit released a cloud of flammable vapor that subsequently exploded*. 15 workers killed, 180 injured, $200 million in damage. the US Chemical Safety Board made this high-quality video detailing the incident. thanks @checlams1 for showing me this. will show this video to my process dynamics class tomorrow, since we're modeling the liquid level in a tank (pertinent to this incident). * my reaction, expressed non-scientifically: what a sh*t show! youtube.com/watch?v=goSEyGNf…
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Am I the only one who always asks ChatGPT, "please" with requests?
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Students! Are you interested in improving your data visualization skills? Through the libraries, you can take free classes all spring. See all of the different topics and register at go.ncsu.edu/datavizworkshops
A graphic with a blue, white and black gradient background. The top left corner has a NC State University Libraries logo. The text reads, "Data and Visualization Spring Workshop Series. Enroll now. go.ncsu.edu/datavizworkshops Get started with Python, R, GID and other data topics!"

ALT A graphic with a blue, white and black gradient background. The top left corner has a NC State University Libraries logo. The text reads, "Data and Visualization Spring Workshop Series. Enroll now. go.ncsu.edu/datavizworkshops Get started with Python, R, GID and other data topics!"

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