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Yuseung Kim finds his American dream at NC State
Posted on December 15, 2022 | Filed Under: Grad Students
Kim, M.S. computer engineering ’22, moves to California to start his new position with NVIDIA after graduation.
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Congratulations to Dr. Husain for the 2022 IAS Outstanding Achievement Award
Posted on December 12, 2022 | Filed Under: Awards
Iqbal Husain was presented with the IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS) Outstanding Achievement Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions in the application of electricity to industry.
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Fossil-Sorting Robots Will Help Researchers Study Oceans, Climate
Posted on December 12, 2022 | Filed Under: Research
New tech from Edgar Lobaton’s lab automates a tedious process that plays a key role in ocean and climate research.
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ECE Faculty Receive IEEE Vehicular Technology Society 2022 Best Vehicular Electronics Paper Award
Posted on November 22, 2022 | Filed Under: Awards
Nuria González-Prelcic and Robert Heath, won the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society 2022 Best Vehicular Electronics Paper Award! The award recognizes the best paper relating to Vehicular Electronics published in the IEEE Transactions on Vehi …
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Richard Hodson Receives Campus Safety Award
Posted on November 5, 2022 | Filed Under: News
Richard Hodson, ECE Senior Web Developer, has been selected to receive a Campus Safety Award from NC State’s Environmental Health and Safety Department and Eastman Chemical Company.
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Integrating Robotics, Materials Science to Capture Solar Energy
Posted on November 3, 2022 | Filed Under: News
An NC State professor is leading the development of more effective solar panels cells so that this renewable energy source can replace dwindling fossil fuels. At the same time, this work is establishing more accessible ways to do research i …
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Wolfspeed Ahead: An NC State Spinoff Powers the Future
Posted on October 24, 2022 | Filed Under: News and Research
The company that pioneered LED lighting now looks to improve the efficiency and performance of electric vehicles and other high-power applications. Meet the people building the world’s largest silicon carbide manufacturing facility in Chath …
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Announcing the 2022 ECE Alumni and Community Awards
Posted on October 21, 2022 | Filed Under: Alumni
At an induction ceremony on October 21, 2022, 5 members of the seventh class of inductees were honored and joined the ranks of the ECE Alumni Hall of Fame, out of over 17,000 alumni, and were joined by two new awards.
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Floyd Named Alton and Mildred Lancaster Professor
Posted on October 18, 2022 | Filed Under: News
Brian Floyd has received the honorific professorship title Alton and Mildred Lancaster Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
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ECE Researchers Help Develop Public Charging Infrastructure for Wheelchairs
Posted on October 17, 2022 | Filed Under: Research
ECE researchers are helping to develop accessible public charging infrastructure for electric wheelchair users. Two years in the making, and the product is now ready for public use.
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Christina Koch is headed to the moon, exactly like she dreamed she would
In 2025, she will be one of four astronauts who will head to the moon as a part of Artemis II. The North Carolina State University graduate stopped by the WUNC studio during a recent visit back to the Tar Heel State.
Posted on May 9, 2024
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Injectable Microchip Tracks Animal Health
Around the world, many pets and working animals are microchipped. It’s a simple process: A tiny transponder with an identification number is enclosed in a rice-grain-sized cylinder and injected under the skin, so that if an animal is lost it can be identified. This new devices does more, including tracking and reporting heart rate, breathing, movement, and temperature sensing in a 4-mm-wide package.
Posted on March 12, 2024
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NC State innovation on display at CES 2024 in Las Vegas
Posted on January 11, 2024
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Stress Monitors for Plants Can Spot Dehydration
In a forthcoming paper to be published in IEEE Transactions on AgriFood Electronics(TAFE), James Reynolds, a postdoctoral research scholar at NC State’s iBionicS Lab and first author of the paper, and fellow researchers at North Carolina State University explored how plant tissue’s impeding of electrical current can be monitored to identify plants under stress with relative immediacy—less than an hour, in some cases.
Posted on December 11, 2023
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‘We’re hitting new limits.’ NC quantum computing bullish on a coveted breakthrough
Superconductors, the other prominent approach to quantum computing, are the focus of North Carolina State University and its partner corporation, IBM. Nicknamed “chandeliers,” IBM’s machines are gold-plated, multi-level apparatuses with a progression of wires and tubes funneling down to single silicon processor chips. While Duke has ion-trap computers in the Triangle, NC State researchers remotely access the chandeliers, which are housed at the IBM facility in Yorktown Heights, New York. “Each technology kind of has its strength,” said Daniel Stancil, executive director of the IBM Quantum Hub at NC State. “I think there have been some significant developments in the hardware in the past year.”
Posted on December 4, 2023
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Energy Harvesting for Wearable Technology Steps Up
Wearable devices, like nearly every other piece of tech, need energy. Fortunately, though, at wearables’ modest power budgets, energy is effectively everywhere. It’s in the sun’s rays and radio waves, the skin’s sweat and body heat, a person’s motion and their footfalls. And today, technology is maturing to the point that meaningful amounts of these energy giveaways can be harvested to liberate wearables from ever needing a battery. Which seems plenty attractive to a range of companies and researchers.
Posted on November 1, 2023