{"id":131,"date":"2021-08-25T15:14:34","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T19:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jmarx.wordpress.ncsu.edu\/?page_id=131"},"modified":"2021-09-22T11:07:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T15:07:18","slug":"pec-research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jmarx.wordpress.ncsu.edu\/?page_id=131","title":{"rendered":"Precision Engineering Consortium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Precision Engineering Consortium (PEC) is a multidisciplinary research activity\u00a0that began in 1982 with faculty from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mae.ncsu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering<\/a> and now includes 4\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pec.ncsu.edu\/people\/faculty\/\">faculty <\/a>and 2 full-time staff\u00a0from Mechanical Engineering and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ise.ncsu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Industrial Engineering<\/a>. The Consortium, housed in an 11,000 square foot facility on <a href=\"http:\/\/centennial.ncsu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Centennial Campus<\/a>, and an average annual expenditure rate of $500,000. NC State is located in the heart of the <a href=\"https:\/\/multisite.eos.ncsu.edu\/www-pec-ncsu-edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2015\/03\/triangle1.gif\">Research Triangle<\/a> area of North Carolina. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pec.ncsu.edu\/research\/\">research<\/a> program emphasizes metrology (sensors and measurement systems), innovative precision fabrication processes (machining, grinding, polishing), and real-time process control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Precision Engineering Consortium (PEC) is a multidisciplinary research activity\u00a0that began in 1982 with faculty from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8220,"featured_media":0,"parent":32,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-131","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jmarx.wordpress.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jmarx.wordpress.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jmarx.wordpress.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jmarx.wordpress.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jmarx.wordpress.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jmarx.wordpress.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"https:\/\/jmarx.wordpress.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/131\/revisions\/192"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jmarx.wordpress.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jmarx.wordpress.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}