Category: Research
ECE Ph.D. Candidate Is A Winner In 3 Minute Thesis Competition
October 30, 2015Tahmid Latif’s winning research uses roach-bots Tahmid Latif, under the advisement of Dr. Alper Bozkurt, placed second in The Graduate School’s inaugural 3 Minute Thesis competition, a test of both his engineering and communication skills. Tahmid’s Ph …
Using Lasers to Print in Four Dimensions
October 23, 2015Michael Escuti received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study and make novel hologram technologies. He created a tool that did much more. The technology he developed offers a new way to manipulate light, with applications from studying alien worlds to making cellphones more energy efficient.
Developing Economical Controllers for Next-Generation Power Systems
October 20, 2015Dr. Aranya Chakrabortty and Dr. Alexandra Duel-Hallen (Sasha) have been awarded $600,000 from the Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS) of the US National Science Foundation to develop an advanced design architecture that will enable integration of high-speed communication networks with wide-area control of large power systems using Synchronized Phasor Measurements (or “Synchrophasors”).
Filling the Wearables Gap
October 13, 2015Researchers at the Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST) – a National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Center (ERC) led by NC State – are working to pull these wearables into the future through dramatic reduction in power consumption and novel sensor and low-power computing technologies.
FREEDM Center Has Energizing Seventh Year
October 12, 2015FREEDM, a National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Center (ERC) headquartered on Centennial Campus, received positive feedback from NSF during a spring site visit and learned that the center will be fully funded through year 10.
New Performance Cloning Techniques to Boost Chip Memory Design
October 1, 2015ECE researchers have developed software using two new techniques to help computer chip designers improve memory systems.
Chakrabortty Receives NSF Grant to Help Modernize Power System Communications
September 15, 2015Dr. Aranya Chakrabortty the recipients for an NSF award for the development of an advanced design architecture that will enable integration of high-speed communication networks with wide-area control of large power systems using Synchronized Phasor Measurements (or “Synchrophasors”).
ECE Honored with Two Innovation Awards
September 9, 2015North Carolina State University researchers make meaningful advances in science, medicine and engineering that could have a significant impact on everything from human health to the business of brewing beer.
Algorithm Interprets Breathing Difficulties to Aid in Medical Care
August 24, 2015Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed an efficient algorithm that can interpret the wheezing of patients with breathing difficulties to give medical providers information about what’s happening in the lungs.
ECE Professor Helps to Clean Up Space of Debris
August 11, 2015ECE Professor Hamid Krim has been awarded over a million dollars by the United States Missile Defense Agency for research on the problem of space debris detection. According to Professor Krim, “Space is a precious commodity…”As Krim describes, “Spac …
NCSU ECE Undergraduate Team Wins Best Energy Efficiency Award at IEEE Competition
August 5, 2015In July of 2015, a team of four NCSU ECE undergraduate students participated for the first time in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Future Energy Competition (IFEC) and won the best Energy Efficiency award at the final competition at the University of Sheffield, UK.
ECE Researchers Investigate Social Networks in Award-Winning Paper
August 5, 2015The award-winning paper by Xu and Eun entitled, “Modeling Time-Sensitive Information Diffusion in Online Social Networks” focused on the complex issue of how to predict how many users will forward or comment on information posted in online social networks.