North Carolina State University, College of Engineering, Industry Expansion Solutions Records 1937-2014

Founded in 1955, Industry Expansion Solutions (previously the Industrial Extension Service) provides the business community with engineering research and new developments to improve quality, productivity, and environment in industry. The service also provides continuing education for engineers, scientists, and industrial managers. IES helps North Carolina business grow and prosper through solutions that include Lean Enterprise, ISO 9000, ISO/TS 16949, Six Sigma, Energy & Facilities, HAZWOPER, ISO 14001, Safety and Health, Project Management, and the Minerals Research Laboratory.

The name Industry Expansion Solutions was adopted in 2015.

Collection contains primarily publications, promotional materials, historical, memoranda, and limited correspondence pertaining to extension activities, courses offered, Instructional Television Fixed Service (ITFS), Videobased Engineering Education (VBEE), extension education, and the Productivity Research and Engineering Program (PREP). It also includes photographs and slides.

Arranged alphabetically by topic and unit, with the exception of recent unprocessed additions at the end of the collection, which are arranged in the order received.

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[Identification of item], North Carolina State University, College of Engineering, Industry Expansion Solutions Records, UA 105.045, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC

Transferred from the Industrial Extension Service

Processed by: Special Collections staff; machine-readable finding aid created by: Steven Mandeville-Gamble; Finding aid updated by Todd Kosmerick, 2008 February; Cate Putirskis, 2010 November; digital materials processed by Todd Kosmerick, 2016 June; digital materials processed by Jessica Rayman, 2016 June.