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Park Scholarships Announces Class of 2025
Posted on May 25, 2021 | Filed Under: Undergrad Students
Congratulations to the newest class of prestigious Park Scholars, including incoming freshman Madeline Smith from NCSSM, majoring in electrical engineering.
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Franzon Selected for Qualcomm Faculty Award
Posted on May 21, 2021 | Filed Under: Faculty
Dr. Paul Franzon has been awarded a 2021 Qualcomm Faculty Awards for research that is inspirational to graduate students and serves to spark new approaches in key technology areas.
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Jon Wierer to Join ECE Faculty
Posted on May 21, 2021 | Filed Under: Faculty
ECE is proud to announce the addition of a new member of our faculty to bolster the stellar research and teaching going on in the department—welcome to the Pack!
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Virtual ECE Design Day
Posted on May 18, 2021 | Filed Under: Undergrad Students
Find out which students were able to overcome the challenges of a virtual setting while completing their senior design projects.
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Paying it forward
Posted on May 17, 2021 | Filed Under: Alumni
Ryan Unger, ECE ’20, received support from the Student Emergency Fund after losing his home and job in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This year, he was able to give $2,500 to help students facing similar struggles.
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Smaller Chips Open Door to New RFID Applications
Posted on May 17, 2021 | Filed Under: Research
Researchers have made what is believed to be the smallest state-of-the-art RFID chip.
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Finding Community through Shared Experiences
Posted on May 14, 2021 | Filed Under: Undergrad Students
One of our newest alums—Keerthana Prasad—shares the challenges, opportunities, and community she found as a student in ECE as she reflects on her past and future path as she pursues a career with Caterpillar Inc in Illinois.
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A Letter to the Graduates: Stepping Boldly Into a Better Future
Posted on May 14, 2021 | Filed Under: Undergrad Students
Meet Grace Maddocks, one of ECE’s newest graduates and Ph.D. students as she looks towards the future and the great responsibilities of the newest class of engineers.
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Britanya Wright Selected as Student Speaker for University Commencement
Posted on May 12, 2021 | Filed Under: Undergrad Students
ECE student, Ambassador, and Goodnight Scholar Britanya Wright chosen as one of the two student speakers for the Spring 2021 University Commencement.
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Nine ECE Students Among Latest Goodnight Scholars Cohort
Posted on May 11, 2021 | Filed Under: Undergrad Students
The Goodnight Scholars Program at NC State revealed the 75 recipients from 34 NC counties selected for its new traditional and transfer cohorts—with nine of those excelling students choosing to major in ECE.
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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