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Local Company with ECE Roots Donates Innovative Face Masks for Commencement
Posted on May 10, 2021 | Filed Under: Alumni
For spring commencement, a local entrepreneur from NC State ECE is donating thousands of masks using material created at NC State.
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Tang, Zhou, and Ricketts are Recipients of ECE Faculty Awards
Posted on May 7, 2021 | Filed Under: Faculty
ECE is proud to announce that Wenyuan Tang, Huiyang Zhou, and David Ricketts are the 2021 recipients of the Departmental Faculty Awards — the Bennet Faculty Fellow Award and the William F. Lane Outstanding Teaching Award.
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Model Could Create Hurricane Forecasts up to 18 Months in Advance
Posted on May 3, 2021 | Filed Under: Research
A new model from ECE and MEAS incorporates machine learning and could enable longer-range hurricane forecasts–up to 18 months in advance.
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Recent Kolbas gift supports ECE students academically and socially
Posted on April 29, 2021 | Filed Under: News
A posthumous gift from longtime professor and department head Robert Kolbas continues his legacy of supporting students in and out of the classroom.
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Bouma-Sims Recipient of Engineering Senior Award for the Humanities
Posted on April 26, 2021 | Filed Under: Undergrad Students
Congratulations to ECE’s Elijah Bouma-Sims on being awarded the College of Engineering’s 2021 Outstanding Senior Award for the Humanities!
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Engineering undergrads take first place in 2021 ACC InVenture Prize competition
Posted on April 22, 2021 | Filed Under: Undergrad Students
Congrats to the UV Scope team of NC State engineering undergraduates who are developing a hand-held UV spectrometer won first place in the ACC InVenture Prize Competition.
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Entering New Depths with AquaPack Robotics
Posted on April 14, 2021 | Filed Under: Campus Life
The Underwater Robotics Club at NC State allows engineering students to test their knowledge and explore new skills beyond the classroom.
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Mussel Sensors Pave the Way for New Environmental Monitoring Tools
Posted on April 7, 2021 | Filed Under: Research
ECE and Epidemiology coming together to create a network of mussel cyborgs to serve as environmental sentinels.
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A personal statement from Dean Martin-Vega for the College of Engineering community
Posted on March 19, 2021 | Filed Under: Campus Life
Dean Louis Martin-Vega released a personal statement in the wake of increased incidents of discrimination against Asians, Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders.
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Introducing NC State’s Newest Outstanding Researchers
Posted on March 16, 2021 | Filed Under: Awards
Congratulations to Cranos Williams, recipient of the 2021 Outstanding Research Award for his interdisciplinary research and teaching.
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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