Category: Grad Students
New Techniques Make RFID Tags 25 Percent Smaller
May 9, 2016Engineering researchers led by Dr. Paul Franzon, have developed a suite of techniques that allow them to create passive radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags that are 25 percent smaller and less expensive.
ECE Student one of 5 NC State Fulbright Scholars
April 28, 2016Five NC State students, including Alex Starnes from Electrical and Computer Engineering will head off around the globe as winners of prestigious Fulbright grants for the 2016-17 academic year.
Model Makes Designing New Antennas Orders of Magnitude Faster
April 20, 2016Researchers in North Carolina State University’s Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering have developed a model that allows antenna designers to identify efficient configurations for antenna designs in minutes, rather than days.
Garcia one of 31 NC State students to score NSF Fellowships
April 8, 201631 students received Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation this year. An impressive ten engineering students, including Kristen Garcia, a graduate student in Electrical Engineering, were honored as Fellows.
ECE Graduate Research Symposium 2016
March 31, 2016The ECE Graduate Student Association at NC State organized the annual research symposium on March 21st, 2016. Around 25 ECE graduate students from different specializations presented their research.
ECE Student Shares Krispy Kreme Challenge Experience
March 1, 2016Graduate School Webmaster Darren White organized a #GradPack team of students to collect video and share their graduate student experience during the race.
ECE Ph.D. Candidate Is A Winner In 3 Minute Thesis Competition
October 30, 2015Tahmid Latif’s winning research uses roach-bots Tahmid Latif, under the advisement of Dr. Alper Bozkurt, placed second in The Graduate School’s inaugural 3 Minute Thesis competition, a test of both his engineering and communication skills. Tahmid’s Ph …
ECE Researchers Investigate Social Networks in Award-Winning Paper
August 5, 2015The award-winning paper by Xu and Eun entitled, “Modeling Time-Sensitive Information Diffusion in Online Social Networks” focused on the complex issue of how to predict how many users will forward or comment on information posted in online social networks.
ECE Students Invent Solution for Sleep Apnea
August 3, 2015Rita Brugarolas and Jose Manuel Valero-Sarmiento, ASSIST Ph.D. students in Electrical Engineering and research assistants in Dr. Alper Bozkurt’s iBionics Laboratory at North Carolina State University, conceived a novel idea: an auto-titrating oral appliance for at home use.