Category: News
Electrical Engineering ranks as Top 10 highest-paid college major
October 11, 2013Your parents wanted you to be a doctor or a lawyer — well, you can add engineer to that list now as well.
Engineering Online ranked top online program for veterans, active duty military by U.S. News & World Report
October 7, 2013Engineering Online at North Carolina State University has been named the nation’s top online graduate engineering program for veterans and active duty military personnel by U.S. News & World Report.
Researchers Work to Squeeze More Data from Bandwidth in Mobile Devices
October 7, 2013A team of researchers is working on technology that would allow mobile devices to send and receive more data using the same limited amount of bandwidth.
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.