Category: News
Franzon new ECE Director of Graduate Programs
May 19, 2016The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is pleased to announce that Dr. Paul Franzon has assumed the position of Director of Graduate Programs in ECE effective May 15.
Garcia one of 31 NC State students to score NSF Fellowships
May 18, 2016In a hallmark success for NC State, a record-breaking 31 students received Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation this year. Of those, an impressive ten engineering students, including Kristen Garcia, a graduate student in Electical Engineering, were honored as Fellows.
Three Park Scholars for the Class of 2020 select ECE
May 11, 2016North Carolina State University’s Park Scholarships program has named 40 students to its Class of 2020, with three of them selecting to study in ECE.
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.
New Tech Uses Hardware, Software to Train Dogs More Efficiently
May 2, 2016North Carolina State University researchers in ECE and Computer Science have developed and used a customized suite of technologies that allows a computer to train a dog autonomously, with the computer effectively responding to the dog based on the dog’s body language.
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.
Spellings Wowed By NC State & ASSIST Visit
April 21, 2016New UNC President Margaret Spellings took one last glance at the activity tracker on her wrist as she headed back to Holladay Hall-more than 10,000 steps on an illuminating tour of the largest campus in the university system.
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.
Lobaton Receives NSF CAREER Award
April 4, 2016Dr. Edgar Lobaton, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University, has received a Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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.
Recreating the Web of Blood Vessels That Keep Human Tissue Alive
March 21, 2016Michael Daniele from NC State’s Electrical & Computer Engineering and Frances Ligler from Biomedical Engineering at NC State and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are both being recognized for creating technology to make the customized blood vessels necessary to support tissue generation.