Category: News
High Powered Punch
September 30, 2013With $20 million in funding from the National Science Foundation and $30 million in industry support, the effort has sparked the growth of dozens of clean energy businesses in the Triangle, making the region the epicenter of smart grid development.
Tuck Receives Research Award from NSF
September 25, 2013Dr. James Tuck, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been awarded $384,143 by the National Science Foundation for research on CSR: Small: A Practical Data Dependence Profiler for Program Characterization and Optimization.
ECE Faculty Receive Funding for Projects from Chancellor’s Innovation Fund
September 25, 2013NC State continues its commitment to moving research results to the marketplace with six projects funded by the 2013 Chancellor’s Innovation Fund.
Researchers super stack solar panels, increase efficiency
September 18, 2013Researchers at N.C. State have developed a new way for improving overall efficiency of solar panels that will reduce the cost of solar energy production.
Electric car can charge four times faster than previous models
September 16, 2013Electric vehicles can now be charged faster than an iPhone-reducing what previously took four hours down to less than one hour.
Bozkurt Receives Research Award from NSF for Cyber-Physical Systems
September 12, 2013Alper Bozkurt along with his collaborators (David Roberts from Computer Science and Barbara Sherman from College of Veterinary Medicine), have been awarded $999,103 by the National Science Foundation Cyber-Physical Systems (NSF-CPS) Program for their research on “CPS: Synergy: Integrated Sensing and Control Algorithms for Computer-Assisted Training”.
New Connection between Stacked Solar Cells Can Handle Energy of 70,000 Suns
September 9, 2013North Carolina State University researchers have come up with a new technique for improving the connections between stacked solar cells, which should improve the overall efficiency of solar energy devices and reduce the cost of solar energy production.
Shanghai Ranking Boosts Engineering
September 9, 2013NC State improved in the field of “engineering/technology and computer sciences” on a prestigious international scorecard of universities, jumping two spots from last year to rank No. 27 in the world for 2013.
US Ignite recognizes RENCI and NC State for innovative app for monitoring power grids
September 9, 2013Researchers at RENCI and North Carolina State University took home an award at the recent US Ignite Application Summit for demonstrating a prototype next-generation Internet application that monitors large power systems over a wide-area, high-performance communication network.
Oralkan Receives DARPA Young Faculty Award
September 4, 2013Dr. Omer Oralkan, has received the prestigious Young Faculty Award (YFA) of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for his project titled “An Ultrasound-Based Noninvasive Neural Interface to the Retina.”
Chakrabortty Receives NSF Funding for Cyber-Physical Systems
August 27, 2013Dr. Aranya Chakrabortty has received a $400,000 research award from the National Science Foundation to develop distributed estimation and control algorithms for cyber-physical systems with a particular focus on large power systems.
NC State Partners With National Security Agency on Big-Data Lab
August 27, 2013[ubermenu config_id=”main” menu=”84″] NEWSROOM NC State Partners With National Security Agency on Big-Data Lab North Carolina State University Chancellor Randy Woodson today announced a new partnership with the National Security Agency (NSA) to create …