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Veena Misra Named as MC Dean Distinguished University Professor
Posted on September 29, 2022 | Filed Under: Faculty
Congratulations to Veena Misra for earning the second honorific professorship title MC Dean Distinguished University Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering!
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Bandodkar and Oralkan Receive IEEE Sensors Council Technical Achievement Award
Posted on September 16, 2022 | Filed Under: Awards
Two of our faculty members, Ömer Oralkan and Amay Bandodkar, have been awarded the Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Sensors Council!
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Ericsson and National Science Foundation’s AERPAW collaborate on 5G drone research to support smart agriculture
Posted on September 14, 2022 | Filed Under: News
Ericsson and AERPAW, funded by the National Science Foundation and a consortium of industry partners, have announced a collaboration on advancing the use of 5G for drone operations in support of smart agriculture.
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Chancellor’s Innovation Fund Awards Support to ECE Projects
Posted on September 9, 2022 | Filed Under: News
This year’s Chancellor’s Innovation Fund supports two ECE projects that include researching a better way to make EKGs wireless and faster COVID-19 antibody tests.
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Researchers Demonstrate New, More Energy-Efficient Devices Using Gallium Nitride
Posted on September 8, 2022 | Filed Under: News
Engineering researchers have created new high-power electronic devices that are more energy efficient than previous technologies.
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College of Engineering Dean Louis Martin-Vega To Step Down and Return to the Faculty
Posted on August 23, 2022 | Filed Under: News
College of Engineering Dean Louis Martin-Vega will be stepping down from his position at the end of the 2022-23 academic year.
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NC State and Purdue ECE researchers receive funding for semiconductor center proposal
Posted on August 19, 2022 | Filed Under: Quantum and Research
A proposed research center based at NC State and Purdue would help integrate new materials into the electronic industry, meeting a critical need in the United States for advanced, domestically produced semiconductor devices.
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NC State and Spin Announce Micromobility Partnership
Posted on August 17, 2022 | Filed Under: Campus Life
Spin and NC State have announced a new partnership to advance micromobility innovation across campus.
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SolarPack Makes History
Posted on August 1, 2022 | Filed Under: Campus Life and News
NC State’s solar vehicle team, comprised of different engineering disciplines, completes the fastest lap in FSGP history. Hear more about their victory from ECE students on the team.
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Next Level: Engineering North Carolina’s Future
Posted on July 30, 2022 | Filed Under: Campus Life
Engineering expansion will bolster the state’s workforce and help the College grow.
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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