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First-generation ECE graduate returns success
Posted on November 2, 2021 | Filed Under: Alumni
Growing up in a blue-collar family in eastern North Carolina, Maurice Partin thinks his parents knew the only way he’d get to college was with a scholarship. And now he’s helping first-gen college students follow in his path.
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ASSIST Center looks to a self-sufficient future
Posted on November 2, 2021 | Filed Under: News
Nine years in, the Center for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST) has continued to lead the way in developing flexible, self-powering and wearable devices that will help both physicians and patients …
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New Synthesis Process Paves Way for More Efficient Lasers, LEDs
Posted on October 27, 2021 | Filed Under: Quantum and Research
A new process uses existing techniques to make more efficient LEDs and lasers.
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Welcoming 2021 Inductees to Alumni Hall of Fame
Posted on October 22, 2021 | Filed Under: Alumni
At an induction ceremony on October 22, 2021, 9 members of the sixth class of inductees were honored and joined the ranks of the 95 members of the ECE Alumni Hall of Fame, out of over 16,000 alumni.
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ECE Welcomes Qing Gu as a New Associate Professor
Posted on October 15, 2021 | Filed Under: Faculty
ECE welcomes Qing Gu as a joint appointment with Physics and member of the Chancellor’s Carbon Electronics Cluster
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Professor Yannis Viniotis Receives Inaugural Snowflake Faculty Fellowship
Posted on October 14, 2021 | Filed Under: Faculty
Dr. Yannis Viniotis has been awarded the 2021 Snowflake Faculty Fellowship supporting research and education in key cloud computing technologies
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NC State Faculty Members Awarded Funded Research for Secure Virtualization
Posted on September 20, 2021 | Filed Under: Research
The Office of Naval Research has granted Amro Awad and Aydin Aysu—both assistant professors of electrical and computer engineering at NC State—research funding to discover more secure virtualization techniques in hardware accelerators.
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Chau-Wai Wong granted U.S. patent for Method to Detect Counterfeiting
Posted on September 20, 2021 | Filed Under: Research
Chau-Wai Wong was granted an award from University of Maryland and a U.S. patent for an innovative approach to detecting counterfeiting at a microscopic level.
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Researchers Develop Toolkit to Test Apple Security, Find Vulnerability
Posted on September 13, 2021 | Filed Under: Research and Smart
New toolkit allows users to test the hardware security of Apple devices and finds iTimed vulnerability
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NC State Collaborates on New $25M NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Robust Quantum Simulation
Posted on September 2, 2021 | Filed Under: Quantum and Research
The Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Robust Quantum Simulation includes faculty from NC State ECE, and will significantly add to the vibrant quantum research ecosystem established along the East Coast.
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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