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New Design Kit Opens Door to Next Generation of Chips
Posted on August 30, 2021 | Filed Under: Research
The kit is being made freely available to encourage growth and innovation in the field.
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Student researchers from across U.S. get back in the field through REUs
Posted on August 23, 2021 | Filed Under: Undergrad Students
During the summer, 17 engineering students participated in REUs hosted by ASSIST and FREEDM at NC State.
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Daniele Recipient of Chancellor’s Innovation Fund Award
Posted on August 5, 2021 | Filed Under: Research
Michael Daniele awarded support from the Chancellor’s Innovation Fund for his research developing a microfluidic device that mimic’s the blood-brain barrier—critical in determining new drug viability.
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Polash Recipient of International Thermoelectric Society Award
Posted on August 2, 2021 | Filed Under: Awards
Mobarak Polash, an ECE doctoral candidate receives the ITS Graduate Student Award for his ongoing work with thermoelectric materials.
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Bhattacharya Receives Best Paper Award at IEEE ECCE-Asia 2021
Posted on July 12, 2021 | Filed Under: Research
Congratulations to two recent Ph.D. graduates and Dr. Subhashish Bhattacharya who recently received the Best Paper Award at ECCE Asia 2021 for their work on 10 kV SiC MOSFETs.
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Biochemical Sensor Researcher Makes Tech Review’s List of Top Young Innovators
Posted on June 30, 2021 | Filed Under: Faculty
Congratulations to Amay Bandodkar, an assistant professor of ECE who’s been named one of MIT Technology Review’s “Innovators Under 35” for his work on developing wearable biochemical sensors.
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New Twist on DNA Data Storage Lets Users Preview Stored Files
Posted on June 10, 2021 | Filed Under: Research
Researchers in NC State ECE have turned a longstanding challenge in DNA data storage into a useful tool.
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Nguyen Recognized with University’s 2021 Award for Excellence
Posted on June 5, 2021 | Filed Under: Awards
Congratulations to Dzung Nguyen who’s won the University Award of Excellence and was recognized along with two other outstanding ECE staff members at the College level as well.
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Researchers Fine-Tune Control Over AI Image Generation
Posted on June 2, 2021 | Filed Under: Research
ECE researchers fine-tune control over AI image generation with a new approach that allows AI to move or alter elements in an image while keeping them identifiably the same.
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NC State Ranks #9 Globally Again for Electrical Engineering
Posted on May 28, 2021 | Filed Under: Programs
For the fourth year in a row, NC State ranks in the top 10 globally for electrical engineering— #9 in the 2021 ShanghaiRankings
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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