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Three NCSU grads snag distinguished engineering alumni awards

Barbara H. Mulkey of Mulkey Engineers & Consultants was one of three N.C. State University graduates recently named Distinguished Engineering Alumnus of the Year by the university's alumni association. The others were Bill Angelo and Charles Manning.

Angelo spent much of his 40-year career as a chemical engineer with S.E. Massengill, a pharmaceutical company in Bristol, Tenn.

Manning is founder of Accident Reconstruction Analysis, an engineering consulting firm that performs failure analysis and accident reconstruction.

Mulkey received her bachelor's and master's degrees in civil engineering from N.C. State. She started Mulkey Engineers & Consultants in 1993. The civil engineering firm now has offices in Raleigh, Cary and Charlotte; Columbia, S.C.; Roswell, Ga.; and Jacksonville, Fla.

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