Category: News
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 …
Using Lasers to Print in Four Dimensions
October 23, 2015Michael Escuti received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study and make novel hologram technologies. He created a tool that did much more. The technology he developed offers a new way to manipulate light, with applications from studying alien worlds to making cellphones more energy efficient.
Developing Economical Controllers for Next-Generation Power Systems
October 20, 2015Dr. Aranya Chakrabortty and Dr. Alexandra Duel-Hallen (Sasha) have been awarded $600,000 from the Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS) of the US National Science Foundation to develop an advanced design architecture that will enable integration of high-speed communication networks with wide-area control of large power systems using Synchronized Phasor Measurements (or “Synchrophasors”).
Meet an ECE Alum Who Gives Back
October 15, 2015Brandi Weaver Ask Brandi Weaver for a favorite memory from her student days at NC State and you will get more than one thing. A lot more. Weaver, a 2003 graduate of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was involved in the College’s Mi …
From Galileo to Steer
October 15, 2015The advent of the Information Age has made it much easier to track one’s family history, turning days spent poring over dusty vital records into a few hours online. The same can be said of tracing one’s academic history. The Mathematics Genealogy Proje …
Filling the Wearables Gap
October 13, 2015Researchers at the Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST) – a National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Center (ERC) led by NC State – are working to pull these wearables into the future through dramatic reduction in power consumption and novel sensor and low-power computing technologies.
FREEDM Center Has Energizing Seventh Year
October 12, 2015FREEDM, a National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Center (ERC) headquartered on Centennial Campus, received positive feedback from NSF during a spring site visit and learned that the center will be fully funded through year 10.
New Performance Cloning Techniques to Boost Chip Memory Design
October 1, 2015ECE researchers have developed software using two new techniques to help computer chip designers improve memory systems.
Modeling Tool IDs Genes That Control Stress Response in Plants
September 29, 2015An interdisciplinary team of researchers from North Carolina State University and University of California, Davis has developed a modeling algorithm that is able to identify genes associated with specific biological functions in plants. The modeling to …
High Performance and Low Cost: FREEDM-Pair Switches for Power Devices
September 22, 2015Dr. Alex HuangAlex Huang, Progress Energy Distinguished Professor and founding director of the FREEDM Systems Center, and Xiaoqing Song, an electrical engineering graduate student, developed the so-called FREEDM-Pair, which combines the workmanlike advantages of the IGBT device with the high performance of silicon carbide wide bandgap devices.
Chakrabortty Receives NSF Grant to Help Modernize Power System Communications
September 15, 2015Dr. Aranya Chakrabortty the recipients for an NSF award for the development of an advanced design architecture that will enable integration of high-speed communication networks with wide-area control of large power systems using Synchronized Phasor Measurements (or “Synchrophasors”).
Huang Receives Award for Research to Improve Circuit Breakers
September 11, 2015Progress Energy Distinguished Professor Alex Huang has been awarded $1,326,903 by the ABB, Inc for research of Silicon Carbide (SiC) based Solid State Circuit Breakers (SSCB).