The Engineers' Extra
The Raleigh Engineers Club (REC) has been in existence since 1926. The club seeks to promote the Engineering field through monthly technical meetings and support of those pursuing a future in the Engineering discipline. We award an annual scholarship to a Raleigh area graduating high school senior to enter the school of engineering at NC State. Our members have a diverse background of engineering disciplines and represent several companies and government agencies located in the Raleigh area.
The Raleigh Engineers Club
Join the Raleigh Engineers Club!
Annual membership is only $35. Our goal is to provide interesting and technically-oriented programs to its members, offer licensed members an opportunity for continuing education credits, and award a semester of tuition to a deserving, graduating Raleigh area high school senior choosing engineering as a career at NC State. Membership is available to anyone working in support of the engineering profession. You do not have to be an engineer. Download an application here and email the completed application to secretary@raleighengineersclub.org. We'll get you on the mailing list right away!
The Raleigh Engineers Club has monthly lunch meetings that cover engineering topics of interest to all types of engineers and people interested in engineering activities regardless of discipline. The Raleigh Engineers Club is a NC Board of Registration for Engineers Certified provider of professional development hours (PDH credits) for licensed engineers. Eleven meetings are held annually with one set aside for scholarship awards and updates on successes of engineering graduates from NCSU. So ten professional development hours are provided each year. Note that you do not need to be a licensed engineer or a graduate engineer to be a member! View our Constitution and Bylaws !
George Sharpe, PE
2025 Club President
PROGRAM
June 16, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Emerging Technologies & Microgrids with Duke Energy's Emerging Technology Office
with
Ashley Coleman
Technology Development Manager
And
Matt Jacobson, PE
Technology Development Manager
Emerging Technology Office (ETO)
Duke Energy
Announcements
- Scholarship Donations - Each year we offer one scholarship for one semester of NCSU tuition paid to one Wake County high school graduate who is entering their Freshman year at NCSU and have been accepted into the College of Engineering. The success of our scholarship depends on your donations. If you would like to donate, you can do so through our Eventbrite or on any meeting event or anytime on our 2025 Raleigh Engineers Club Membership Dues Event.
- 2025 Membership Dues - You can pay for your 2025 dues on line today. The promo code for free webinars is included in your confirmation email of your paid dues. Click on this link to pay now if you are not already registering for this webinar.
- The Raleigh Engineers Club is continuing to offer free webinars to their members. The non-member webinar fee is $10 + taxes and fees.
Ashley Coleman is a graduate of North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University with a BS in Architectural Engineering and a MS in Civil Engineering with a focus on energy efficiency. Ashley is an employee of over 14 years at Duke Energy. She has engineering experience in Fossil and Hydro plant operations and maintenance, Fuel Flexibility and Efficiency testing, and project engineering. Earlier on, as a Technology Development Manager in Emerging Technology Office (ETO), Ashley focused on non-lithium energy storage, hydrogen, and distributed customer solutions, as well as conducts monitoring of future clean technologies that will impact Duke Energy 5 - 15 years out. She also manages Duke Energy's Intellectual Property Committee and external relationships with research consultants, universities, clean tech venture capitals and accelerator partnerships. Currently, Ashley manages the Customer Tech team within the ETO focused on behind-the-meter technologies to include electrification of transportation, managed charging, optimization of distributed energy resources and functionality testing of products and services to support customer program initiatives.
Matt Jacobson is currently a Technology Development Manager in the Emerging Technology Office at Mt Holly, NC focusing on microgrids and long duration energy storage. He has worked for Duke Energy over the course of 8 ½ years, beginning his career in the Transmission Relay Construction and Maintenance department as a Lead Engineer, followed by the Transmission Relay Operational Compliance group's Lead Compliance Analyst. Prior to that, he had worked for SEL Engineering Services for 9 years as a Relay Protection and Automation Engineer. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in the state of North Carolina. Matt has earned a Master of Business Administration degree from Queen's University of Charlotte. He graduated from the University of Minnesota Duluth with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
2025 REC Scholarship Award
The Raleigh Engineers Club is proud to announce its choice for the 2025 annual scholarship. After much consideration, the recipient is Mackensie Book (Wakefield HS)! This was another very competitive group of applicants with nearly perfect applications. The award totals over $4,000, covering tuition and the college of engineering fee to pursue an engineering degree at NCSU. Mackensie plans on a Dual Major, pursuing Chemical Engineering and Paper Science.
Please join us on July 21st for the award presentation, learn more about Mackensie's many impressive accomplishments, and see D.R. Ingram's (NCSU - Career Development Center) presentation on NCSU's College of Engineering.
We look forward to seeing you then and congratulations to Mackensie and her family!
Join us as we learn more about Duke Energy's Emerging Technology Office and the Mt Holly microgrids. Ashley Coleman, Manager of Technology Development, will provide an overview of the Emerging Technology Office. Matt Jacobson, Technology Development Manager, will explain what microgrids are and the research being done at the Mt Holly lab.