Senior Design Directors

Amanda Mills

(Ph.D., NC State University, Mechanical Engineering) is an assistant professor in the Wilson College of Textiles at NC State University. Her focus is on developing innovative methods for electronics integration into textiles. She creates full system demonstration platforms to examine the impact of the textile on the device and vice versa. For example, this has included system level electronic designs and knit structure designs for human energy harvesting and physiological sensing.

Philip Bradford

(interim co-director) (Ph.D., NC State University, Materials Science and Engineering) is a full professor in the Department of Textile Engineering, Chemistry and Science at NC State University. Through our Summer Textile Exploration Program, he discovered the field of textiles and received both his bachelor’s and master’s in textile engineering at the Wilson College of Textiles. His research group focuses on the synthesis and production of ultra-high aspect ratio carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and explores their wide range of applications such as composites, sensors, electrodes and filtration.