College of Textiles on NC State's Centennial Campus To Open Textile Management Science LaboratoryNC State's College of Textiles is opening a state-of-the-art Textile Management Science Laboratory that will provide students and faculty with a global connectivity to learn and conduct research in a business environment.
By: Centennial Campus at NC State University The College of Textiles is located on Centennial Campus, NC State's research park and technology campus. The objective of the new lab is to be the authority on textile market competitiveness for industry, government and academia. The lab will also reinforce the College of Textiles' outreach and collaboration with the textile industry. The Textile Management Science Laboratory will offer computer software, databases and business tools and will advance knowledge in areas of the textile industry such as consumer awareness, trend analysis, branding, marketing, merchandising, retail, technology road-mapping, forecasting and supply chain management. The lab will be officially dedicated on September 30. About Centennial Campus and NC State University Centennial Campus (http://www.centennial.ncsu.edu) is an internationally recognized 1,314-acre research park and technology campus owned and operated by North Carolina University. Home to more than 60 corporate, government and non-profit partners, such as Red Hat, ABB, and the USDA, collaborative research projects vary from nanofibers and secure open systems technology to serious gaming and biomedical engineering. Four university college programs also have a significant presence on campus – College of Engineering, College of Veterinary Medicine, College of Textiles and the College of Education. NC State is one of the top research universities in the country, with expenditures in research approaching more than $325 million annually. The university ranks third among all public universities (without medical schools) in industry-sponsored research expenditures. (http://www.ncsu.edu) End
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