Category: News
Research Paves Way for Cyborg Moth ‘Biobots’
September 18, 2014North Carolina State University researchers have developed methods for electronically manipulating the flight muscles of moths and for monitoring the electrical signals moths use to control those muscles.
Kudenov receives Young Investigator Awards from both Air Force & Navy
September 18, 2014Dr. Michael Kudenov, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University, has been awarded a Young Investigator Program award from both the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) and the US Navy Office of Naval Research (ONR).
Crossing the Goal Line: New Tech Tracks Football in 3-D Space
June 30, 2014Researchers from North Carolina State University and Carnegie Mellon University, in collaboration with Disney Research, have developed a system that can track a football in three-dimensional space using low-frequency magnetic fields.
A Makers’ Place
June 30, 2014MakerFaire, the nationwide network of do-it-yourself showcases, is a celebration of all things made. And NC State is the university where ideas become reality. The two come together this weekend at Maker Faire North Carolina, which will bring 10,000 thinkers and doers to the North Carolina State Fairgrounds.
Lab Allows ‘Hands-On’ Testing of Antennas from Thousands of Miles Away
June 30, 2014Researchers at NC State have created a remotely-controlled testing facility that allows students, professors and private companies from around the world to test prototype antennas for wireless devices.
Raising Dots, Opening Doors
June 30, 2014An NC State materials science and engineering alumnus, Yang recovered from an accident that led to permanent blindness, is now set on using microelectromechanical systems, or MEMS, to create an electroactive polymer system for tactile, full-page and refreshable displays—-starting the conversation on Polymer Braille.
Distributed Computing As Defense against Cyberattacks on Power Grids
June 30, 2014As apart of a team of researchers from around the U.S. , a NC State and UNC group within the Smart Energy CPS team is pursuing the idea of creating a distributed computing system that would disseminate monitoring and control functions across multiple virtual machines in a cloud computing network that overlays the grid.
ECE Announces Senior Award Winners
May 8, 2014The ECE department would like to congratulate this year’s winners of the ECE Senior Awards: Jeffrey Allgeyer, Kyle Barth, and Paula McDonald.
Dogs, Technology and the Future of Disaster Response
May 6, 2014NC State researchers, Alper Bozkurt and David Roberts, are focused on the use cyber-physical systems to share information and coordinate emergency and disaster response and recovery in the Smart Emergency Response System (SERS) project. Specifically, once aspect of the equation: dogs.
ECE Student Wins Graduate Student Research Symposium
May 1, 2014ECE Ph.D. student Tahmid Latif won first place in the Engineering division at the 2014 NC State Graduate Student Research Symposium for his poster “Terrestrial Insect Biobots for Search and Rescue after Natural Disasters.”
ECE Staffer Wins 2014 College of Engineering Award for Excellence
April 30, 2014The College of Engineering at North Carolina State University gave three outstanding staff members Awards for Excellence including Richard Hodson from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
New Technique Makes LEDs Brighter, More Resilient
April 30, 2014Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new processing technique that makes light emitting diodes (LEDs) brighter and more resilient by coating the semiconductor material gallium nitride (GaN) with a layer of phosphorus-derived acid.