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Extreme Fast Charger development continues at FREEDM
Posted on July 29, 2022 | Filed Under: Research
The US Department of Energy funds a team led by NC State to develop electric vehicle chargers with ratings over 350 kilowatts, also known as Extreme Fast Chargers.
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Alumni FRCE Engineers Recognized with 2022 Etter Award
Posted on July 27, 2022 | Filed Under: News
North Carolina State University State Electrical and Computer Engineering alumnus, Josh Guthrie and teammates won the 2022 Etter Award.
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New authentication system uses unclonable, microscopic features to detect counterfeits with smartphone
Posted on July 20, 2022 | Filed Under: Faculty
ECE assistant professor, Chau-Wai Wong, creates a new authentication system that gets down to the microscopic level to detect counterfeits using a smartphone.
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AI Researchers Tackle Longstanding ‘Data Heterogeneity’ Problem for Federated Learning
Posted on July 15, 2022 | Filed Under: AI/ML and News
NC State ECE researchers have developed a new approach to federated learning that allows them to develop accurate artificial intelligence (AI) models more quickly and accurately.
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Fred Kish Receives IEEE Photonics Society Quantum Electronics Award
Posted on July 14, 2022 | Filed Under: Awards and Quantum
Congratulations to Fred Kish for receiving the IEEE Photonics Society Quantum Electronics Award which is given to honor an individual for outstanding technical contributions to quantum electronics, either in fundamentals or applications, or …
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Find Out Why: New NC-VVIRAL Lab
Posted on July 13, 2022 | Filed Under: Research
A new Viral Vector research lab is coming to NC State. The lab collaboratively works with Electrical and Computer Engineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering.
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Here a sensor, there a sensor…
Posted on July 13, 2022 | Filed Under: Faculty
Meet some ECE faculty members who are putting sensors to use in new ways.
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Misra Named to DARPA Microsystems Exploratory Council
Posted on July 12, 2022 | Filed Under: Faculty
Congratulations to Veena Misra for being named to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA Microsystems Exploratory Council (MEC) for a three-year term beginning this summer!
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ECE Department Welcomes Four New Faculty Members
Posted on July 7, 2022 | Filed Under: News
Join us in welcoming the four new NC State ECE faculty members!
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Engineering Entrepreneurship
Posted on July 6, 2022 | Filed Under: Alumni
Get to know Freshspire, an electrical and computer engineering alumni startup.
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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