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Oralkan Elected Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Journal
Posted on March 16, 2021 | Filed Under: Faculty
Congratulations to professor Ömer Oralkan, elected inaugural editor-in-chief of the brand new IEEE Open Journal of Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control
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Reduced Heat Leakage Improves Wearable Health Device
Posted on March 9, 2021 | Filed Under: Research
NC State engineers continue to improve flexible wearable devices powered by body heat.
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Meet the Team Representing NC State at the ACC InVenture Prize Competition – UV Scope
Posted on March 8, 2021 | Filed Under: Undergrad Students
Meet the team of computer engineers and biomedical engineers representing NC State at the ACC’s InVenture Prize competition—and you can participate to help them with the $5000 People’s Choice award.
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Mantis Shrimp Inspires New Breed of Light Sensors
Posted on March 3, 2021 | Filed Under: Research
Mantis Shrimp inspire a new breed of light sensors that are small enough to fit on a smartphone, but capable of hyperspectral and polarimetric imaging.
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NC State ECE Alumnus Leads Development of the First Rapid At-Home Test-Kit for COVID-19
Posted on February 4, 2021 | Filed Under: Alumni
Frankie Myers (BS EE & CPE 2006), director of engineering at Lucira Health led the design and development of the first at-home rapid COVID-19 test-kit — check out his insights into their innovative process!
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Heath and Kish Named Innovator and Entrepreneur of the Year Award Winners
Posted on February 3, 2021 | Filed Under: Awards
Congratulations to ECE’s Robert Heath who won the Innovator of the Year Award and Fred Kish won the Entrepreneur of the Year Award, as part of NC State’s 30th annual Celebration of Innovation.
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Textile Sensor Patch, Made with Conductive Yarns, Could Detect Pressure Points for Amputees
Posted on February 1, 2021 | Filed Under: Research
NC State researchers from Textiles, BME, and ECE sewed a soft, flexible sensor system to help map pressure points on an amputee’s prosthesis.
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Guvenc and Kudenov named University Faculty Scholars
Posted on January 29, 2021 | Filed Under: Faculty
Congratulations to Ismail Guvenc and Michael Kudenov on being named University Faculty Scholars this year, recognizing their outstanding achievements in research and teaching.
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NC State Ranks in Top 10 for Online Master’s Engineering Programs
Posted on January 26, 2021 | Filed Under: Programs
NC State’s Online Master’s program and online Electrical Engineering programs rank in the top 10 among public institutions in the 2021 US News & World Report Rankings.
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Remembering Arne Nilsson
Posted on December 14, 2020 | Filed Under: Faculty
We fondly remember Arne Nilsson, professor emeritus of ECE and pivotal computer networking researcher who sadly passed away on December 8, 2020.
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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