New technology being developed by North Carolina-based CREE and North Carolina State University will eventually allow utilities to convert high-voltage power in a 100-pound box, rather than an 10,000 pound sub-station, says Rajeev Ram, program director at the Advanced...
B. Jayant Baliga’s most important invention – a kind of switch for efficiently controlling the flow of electrical power – is obscure but nearly everywhere, and without it life would be really, really different. The device, called an insulated gate...
How some businesses in our state are going green. And NCSU researcher Jay Baliga has won the National Medal of Technology
N.C. State University has received one of its largest corporate grants to finance a private research project for Silicon Valley computing giant Intel. Intel’s $1.5 million contract with N.C. State pays for 13 professors, researchers and graduate students —...
Jay Baliga, a North Carolina State University professor who invented a semiconductor chip that has transformed society, seemed born for engineering greatness. He was honored with the National Medical of Technology and Innovation in October after a humble upbringing in...
Imagine grabbing a remote control and steering your very own moth around the room. It sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but it’s close to becoming reality. An engineer at North Carolina State University found a way to implant electronics into insects and...
N.C. State’s forays into power engineering received a kick-start with the addition of a three-part partnership with international electrical engineering giant Siemens. Becoming a full industry member with the University’s FREEDM Systems Center and a major...
We hunted in colleges throughout the region to find influential educators admired by their students and colleagues, whose classrooms serve as forums for social change, whose homes become their classrooms, and, in some cases, whose assignments become homes.
Electrical engineers created models that can track how power systems respond to outages. Researchers can use the results to understand and predict the behavior of the power grid in similar future situations; already in use along the west coast of the United States,...
A research team at North Carolina State University has proposed a way of measuring the impact of wireless denial-of-service attacks on Wi-Fi networks. It’s a step toward building focused counter-measures that can make such attacks costly to pull off.
U.S. researchers say they can measure how seriously differing types of attacks would disrupt a Wi-Fi Relevant Products/Services network Relevant Products/Services — a step toward improved security Relevant Products/Services technologies.
The next time you’re mainlining caffeine at the local coffee shop only to be disrupted by the Wi-Fi connection’s glacial speed, take a look around. It may be your neighbor – not your computer – that’s slowing you down. Researchers at N.C....
Three Indian American academics are among the 12 recipients of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation and the National Medal of Science, the White House announced Sept. 27. North Carolina State University Prof. Jayant Baliga, father of the Insulated Gate...
B. Jayant Baliga, an engineering professor at North Carolina State University and a pioneer in the development of power semiconductors, was one of five inventors named last week by U.S. President Barack Obama to be a recipient of the 2010 National Medal of Technology...
Multi-core processors promise a big performance boost for servers, PCs and even smartphones, but much work remains to get the most out of these new chips. North Carolina State University researchers are among those seeking to maximize what multi-core processors have...
If you live in the Triangle, you may know that Forbes magazine named tech-savvy Raleigh as America’s “most wired” city. Did you know we’re also a hot spot for the “smart grid”? Smart grid is the idea of turning the electric power...
Consumers know all too well the inconvenience, expense and discomfort of a power failure in the aftermath of a severe thunderstorm, or the disturbances that result from brownouts during an extended heat wave. In our energy-hungry society, it can be unnerving even when...
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new technique for using multi-core chips more efficiently, significantly enhancing a computer’s ability to build computer models of biological systems. The technique improved the efficiency of...
It takes up enough space to cover a billiards table, but next year it will fit inside a backpack. The electronic contraption, only in its first generation, was named this year by experts at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as one of the 10 most important...
Huang is Director of the FREEDM systems center–which stands for Future Renewable Electric Energy Delivery and Management. It’s a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center involving four universities. They’re developing the FREEDM...
