Category: News
Dr. Salah Bedair Awarded Holladay Medal
April 16, 2015Five professors received the Alexander Quarles Holladay Medal for Excellence, including Salah M. Bedair, professor of electrical and computer engineering.
Duke Energy Grant to Fund Renewable Energy, Diversity Efforts at NC State
April 9, 2015Duke Energy CEO, President and Vice Chairman Lynn Good announced today a $2.5 million grant to North Carolina State University to support research in renewable energy and efforts to attract and retain underrepresented groups in the university’s College of Engineering.
ECE Students Awarded GOMACTech Best Paper
March 30, 2015Eric Whitmire, Tahmid Latif and their research advisor Dr. Alper Bozkurt have been awarded the Best Student Poster Paper Award for their paper titled “Cyber-physical Network of Terrestrial Insect Biobots,” and presented at the 39th Annual GOMACTech Conference, Charleston, SC on March 31-April 3, 2014.
Dr. Solihin Listed in the HPCA Hall of Fame
March 24, 2015Dr. Yan Solihin, professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NC State University, has been listed in the “HPCA Hall of Fame” which recognizes authors who have published six or more papers in HPCA over its 20 years of existence.
The Internet of Energy
March 16, 2015With funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and additional industry support, the Engineering Research Center has sparked the growth of dozens of clean energy businesses in Raleigh’s Research Triangle, making the region an epicenter of smart grid development.
ASSIST Welcomes Jason Strohmaier as Chief Systems Engineer
March 16, 2015The NSF Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST) welcomes Jason Strohmaier, a Maryland native, as the newly appointed Chief Systems Engineer.
Franzon Investigates Scalability of Hardware Accelerators for Cortical Processors
March 2, 2015Dr. Paul Franzon, distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been awarded $705,602 by the US Air Force (USAF) to research new architectures for implementing cognitive algorithms.
Dr. Franzon Named Distinguished Professor
February 19, 2015We are pleased to announce that effective February 1, 2015, Dr. Paul Franzon has been named Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
ASSIST Faculty and Students Engage With Children’s Museum
February 13, 2015This fall, ASSIST faculty and graduate students opened their labs and shared their work with local middle school students and their families.
Escuti Innovation Lights Amsterdam’s Rainbow Station
February 11, 2015The “Rainbow Station” project by artist Daan Roosegaarde was made possible by technology adapted specifically for the project through collaboration with NC State researcher Dr. Michael Escuti and ImagineOptix Corporation, the company he founded to pioneer patterned liquid crystal optic technologies.
Lubkeman and Rotenberg Elevated to IEEE Fellow
February 3, 2015Dr. Lubkeman receives this honor for contributions to power system distribution systems and Dr. Rotenberg for his contributions to the microarchitecture of high-performance and reliable microprocessors.
Earl Energy Finds Talent at FREEDM Center and NC State
February 3, 2015In addition to recently hiring two former FREEDM Center students, Anirud Mulukutla and Vinay Baliga, industry member Earl Energy had three NC State engineering students work as interns this past summer.