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Alper Bozkurt Receives Chancellor Innovation Fund

Posted on September 1, 2023 | Filed Under: Awards

Alper Bozkurt’s wearable “EKG” for dogs research has been selected to receive the Chancellor’s Innovation Fund for the third year.

The Beauty of Research

Posted on August 30, 2023 | Filed Under: Grad Students

The winners of the 2023 Envisioning Research contest showcase the scope of research being done at NC State.

ECE Researches win Outstanding Paper Award from ICML

Posted on August 18, 2023 | Filed Under: Awards

ECE researchers have been selected as one of the six winners of the ICML 2023 Outstanding Paper Awards.

ECE Department Welcomes New Faculty

Posted on August 17, 2023 | Filed Under: Faculty and News

The ECE Department has hired 4 new faculty members for the 2023-2024 academic year.

Wearable Connector Technology Advances at Wilson College of Textiles Could Assist Doctors, Soldiers in Combat

Posted on August 14, 2023 | Filed Under: News

Read the original article here. What comes to mind when you think about “wearable technology?” In 2023, likely a lot, at a time when smartwatches and rings measure heart rates, track exercise and even receive text messages. Your mind might …

Alper Bozkurt Receives NSF Rules of Life Funding for Mussels Research

Posted on August 8, 2023 | Filed Under: Faculty and Research

The U.S. National Science Foundation has announced funding for Alper Bozkurt’s mussels research under the Using the Rules of Life to Address Societal Challenges program.

Advising a Tech Giant

Posted on August 2, 2023 | Filed Under: Alumni

Wilson White ’03 brings his computer engineering background and a law degree to work as a vice president at Google.

Faculty and Ph.D. Student win DesignCon Best Paper Award

Posted on August 1, 2023 | Filed Under: Faculty and Grad Students and News

Dr. Paul Franzon and recent computer engineering Ph.D. graduate, Priyank Kashyap, won the DesignCon 2023 Best Paper Award for their “Data-Driven PAM4 SerDes Modeling with Generative Adversarial Network” paper.

Two ECE students win 2022-23 Graduate Program Awards

Posted on July 22, 2023 | Filed Under: Grad Students and News

The College of Engineering recognized two ECE students in the 2022-23 Graduate Program Awards. Ashwini Ganesh won COE Doctoral Scholar of the Year in Citizenship and Service, and Mihir Khara won COE Master Scholar of the Year in Scholarly A …

ECE Students win Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship

Posted on July 20, 2023 | Filed Under: Grad Students and News

Fin Amin, Tse-Han Pan, Joseph Carlson and Nitish Deshpande, all ECE Ph.D. students, were selected as winners in the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship North America 2023!

Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks Announces $238M CHIPS and Science Act Award

Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks announced the award today of $238 million in “Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) and Science Act” funding for the establishment of eight Microelectronics Commons (Commons) regional innovation hubs. This includes the Commercial Leap Ahead for Wide Bandgap Semiconductors (CLAWS) Hub, led by NC State University with a $39.4-million award for FY23.

Posted on September 20, 2023

Predicting wound healing with a wound-integrated miniaturized sensor

Scientists develop a sensor that predicts wound healing rate with more than 70% accuracy.

Posted on August 1, 2023

NC study discovers chemical in common sweetener damages DNA, can cause cancer

A new study, co-authored by Troy Nagle discovered that a chemical found in Splenda damages DNA.

Posted on May 31, 2023

NC astronaut Christina Koch will be part of NASA Artemis II moon mission

Christina Koch, who grew up in Jacksonville, North Carolina, and graduated from N.C. State University, will be part of the first crew of astronauts to travel around the moon in more than 50 years, NASA announced Monday.

Posted on April 3, 2023

What is being done to prevent power grid attacks?

At the FREEDM Systems Research Center, some of the state’s brightest minds are leading the way to improve how we power our lives.

Posted on February 23, 2023

White House science advisor visits NC State to see student innovation

On Friday, President Joe Biden’s top adviser on science and technology visited North Carolina State University to see firsthand how students are creating cleaner and more efficient energy systems.

Posted on February 10, 2023