Category: News
Powering up
October 30, 2014The Future Renewable Electric Energy Delivery and Management – FREEDM – Systems Center had a lot of new technology to show off to National Science Foundation (NSF) officials during the center’s sixth site visit this spring.
Soarin’ Over the State Fair
October 30, 2014Three times a day at the fair, members of the champion NC State Aerial Robotics Club demonstrate the vast money-saving potential and worthiness of the small unmanned aerial vehicles, which can provide farmers with invaluable information about how to improve their crops for just a few pennies.
Researchers Take Big-Data Approach to Estimate Range of Electric Vehicles
October 30, 2014Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed new software that estimates how much farther electric vehicles can drive before needing to recharge.
Floyd Receives STTR Funding from Physical Devices LLC
October 28, 2014Dr. Brian Floyd, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been awarded $258,000 by Physical Devices LLC for research on STTR Phase II: Fully-Integrated Tunable Filters Employing Synthetic Linear Interference Delay.
Taking an elephant by the collar
October 27, 2014The US Army Research Office in Durham, NC, was working with Adventures with Elephants near Bela Bela in South Africa when they contacted the College of Engineering in hopes of finding a way to limit elephant rampages and damage caused by elephants wandering into populated areas, saving human and elephant lives in the process.
Franzon Explores Ways to Reduce Cost of RFID Chips
October 24, 2014Dr. Paul Franzon, professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been awarded $445,713 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for research on AC Powered Digital Circuits, specifically exploring ways to reduce the cost of RFID chips by eliminating most of the circuitry needed for managing the recovered power on the chip.
Krim selected as Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer
October 22, 2014Dr. Hamid Krim has been selected as a 2015 Distinguished Lecturer by the IEEE Signal Processing Society. The Society’s Distinguished Lecturer Program provides means for chapters to have access to individuals who are well known educators and authors in the fields of signal processing, to lecture at Chapter meetings.
Dai Seeks Solution to National Wireless Security Needs
October 8, 2014Dr. Huaiyu Dai and Dr. Peng Ning have been awarded $479,993 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for research on “Intelligent and Cross-Layer Attack and Defense in Spectrum Sharing” to address this need.
VitalFlo Wins $150,000 First Prize in CIMIT Competition
September 29, 2014NC State’s “VitalFlo” project led by ECE alumnus (BS EE 2010) — and current ECE graduate assistant — James Dieffenderfer has won the first prize of $150,000 from the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT)’s Student Technology Prize in Primary Healthcare competition.
Polarization Imaging Reveals New Views of Hunt Library
September 18, 2014As part of the polarimetry class taught by Michael Escuti and Michael Kudenov at NC State, students were instructed to build a simple polarimeter using an off-the-shelf digital camera and a polarizing filter.
Smart America Challenge “the Internet of Things”
September 18, 2014Imagine vehicles that can make their own way through a battlefield to pick up the wounded, health information that follows patients from home to hospital to doctor’s office, and disaster response systems that help coordinate humans, robots and dogs. Th …
Researchers Roll Out Free Software to Advance Computer Chip Design
September 18, 2014Engineering researchers have developed new software, called FreePDK15, to facilitate chip design – and are making it freely available in order to foster new research focused on pushing the frontiers of computer technology.