Duke Energy is partnering with NC State to further their renewable energy efforts. The utility awarded the university with a $1.5 million grant to focus on renewable energy research, which will help fund the Future Renewable Electric Energy Distribution and Management...
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new way to control cockroaches, outfitting them with tiny microphones and trackers for potential future use in disaster zones.
NC State researchers are using nanotechnology to create energy harvesting and storage devices for ultra-low power sensors. Tom Snyder, Advanced Self-powered Systems of Integrated Sensors Technologies, featured.
NC State electrical engineering students are using RFID tags to improve the already cash-strapped North Carolina dairy industry with technology. Dan Poole, animal science, and students Anthony Laws, Bryan Campbell and William Carr, electrical engineering,...
A student team from NC State has designed a collar to help control wild elephants that threaten human property and life in Africa and Asia.
NC State researchers have developed a new edge termination technique for 4H polytype silicon carbide (4H-SiC) high-voltage devices. Edge terminations are designed to avoid field crowding effects that cause premature breakdown. Woongje Sung et al, FREEDM Center,...
Using electrochemistry, NC State researchers have created a reconfigurable, voltage-controlled liquid metal antenna that may play a huge role in future mobile devices and the coming Internet of Things. Jacob Adams et al., engineering, featured.
NC State researchers have created a liquid metal antenna that can be tuned to listen to various frequencies by applying electrical voltage. Michael Dickey, Jacob Adams et al., engineering, featured.
NC State researchers have discovered how to control the liquid metal inside antennas, without using an external pump for moving the metal to different bandwidth lengths. Michael Dickey and Jacob Adams, engineering, featured.
NC State engineers have designed a liquid metal antenna that may soon reform the look of the mobile device world. Michael Dickey, chemical & biomolecular engineering, featured.
Yet dogs are an integral part of our everyday lives, and that creates a growing need for them to interact with technology. “Dogs are already used in search and rescue, in medicine, as service animals, to help autistic kids and …
NC State researcher developing novel ways to disperse light using liquid crystal optics, for use in technologies ranging from nanotechnology to telecom to lasers to plain old projectors. Michael Escuti, electrical & computer engineering, featured.
For a short amount of time every evening, one of the arches in Amsterdam’s Central train station glows in the dark. The technology was designed by the company ImagineOptix and an NC State researcher to help scientists produce images of “exoplanets”...
Eleven student members of an applied engineering team from NC State University (NCSU) made the trek out to Las Vegas for the third year to exhibit their energy-storing sensors alongside 350 other teams in CES’s University Innovations marketplace.
Researchers have harnessed nature’s most enduring survivor, the cockroach. By outfitting the insects with remote controls and audio sensors, scientists can use the bugs to explore disaster sites and find survivors.
The power grid is based on technology from the early 20th century, says Iqbal Husain, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at North Carolina State University. “That needs to change.” Husain is director of the FREEDM Systems Center, a...
We’re trying to create a new electric grid infrastructure that we call the energy Internet, says Alex Huang, an NC State researcher and co-inventor of a newly patented soft-switch single-stage AC-DC converter. “We’re looking at the whole distribution...
Multidisciplinary team of researchers are using nanotechnology to develop small, wearable sensors that monitor a person’s immediate environment, as well as the wearer’s vital signs. Veena Misra, electrical & computer engineering, featured.
At the ASSIST Center on North Carolina State University’s Centennial Campus, students are working on research to convert energy in the body into fitness trackers and other measures of overall health. Veena Misra, electrical & computer engineering,...
Colleges and universities are known for being open and robust places that allow students a sense of connection from every part of campus. Aranya Chakaborrty, engineering, featured.
