Category: News
Football Hears Barrier-Breaking ECE Athlete
January 21, 2016The first African-American student-athlete in Atlantic Coast Conference history and the first black student to earn an undergraduate degree (EE 1960) from NC State told the current Wolfpack players about some of the difficulties he and the other three black students that enrolled at the school in 1956 had during the earliest days of desegregation.
ecoPRT: ECE Alum’s New Vision for Moving People
January 21, 2016ECE alumnus Marshall Brain says he took away three things from his computer engineering graduate education at NC State: his love for teaching, his ability to write books (he’s written more than two dozen) and his gift for becoming an “accidental entrepreneur.”
Self-Powered Vision
January 15, 2016The NC State-led consortium of academic institutions and private companies has worked to revolutionize health monitoring by giving sensors a whole new power source: the patient’s own body.
Sensus Reach Scholarship Established for NC State University’s College of Engineering
January 14, 2016Rising upperclassmen attending North Carolina State University’s (NC State) College of Engineering have a new avenue for financial assistance through the recently-established Sensus ReachSM Scholarship.
Student Project Evolves Into New Tool for the Biotech Industry
December 11, 2015Scott Vu, an ECE undergraduate alumnus, created RiboScan, a web-based tool based on the model he started developing as an undergraduate. A patent was submitted on Vu’s technology before he completed his Ph.D., and he has already incorporated his company, RiboWiz.
ECE Alumna Recognized as Leader in STEM Education by IEEE
December 11, 2015In January 2016, Dr. Laura Bottomley will be recognized for the value of this work by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world’s largest professional association for the advancement of technology.
Baliga Celebrated by the IEEE Electron Devices Society
December 9, 2015Distinguished University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been recognized as a “Celebrated Member” by the IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS).
Floyd Awarded William F. Lane Teaching Award
November 24, 2015Dr. Brian A. Floyd, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University, has been awarded the William F. Lane Outstanding Teacher Award.
ECE Kicks Off Alumni Hall of Fame
November 24, 2015ECE has inaugurated a new tradition with the 2015 induction of 34 exceptional alumni into its Alumni Hall of Fame
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Baliga to be Inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
November 17, 2015B. Jayant Baliga, Distinguished University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University, will be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
ECE Students Score High in Global Online Coding Competition
November 12, 2015Team TnTWizard from left to right: Duncan Page, Thomas Barnette, and Trey Woodlief. ECE students were top performers in a global online programming contest called IEEEXtreme. The leading NC State team, named TnTWizard (for Thomas Barnette, Alan “Trey” …
ECE Researchers Advance the Technique of Making Holograms
November 11, 2015Top Row: Three images of the NC State logo as viewed through a geometric phase hologram, in this case a lens, where each corresponds to one of the three possible wavefronts. Bottom Row: Illustrations, simulation, and microscope picture showing the liqu …