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Yaoyao Jia Wins IEEE Best Paper Award
Posted on October 30, 2019 | Filed Under: Awards and Faculty
Congratulations to Yaoyao Jia, winner of Best Paper award from IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems for her work on mm-sized wireless implantable opto-electro stimulation devices.
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Welcoming 2019 Inductees to Alumni Hall of Fame
Posted on October 29, 2019 | Filed Under: Alumni
At an induction ceremony on October 25, 2019, 9 members of the fifth class of inductees were honored and joined the ranks of the 86 members of the ECE Alumni Hall of Fame, out of over 16,000 alumni.
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Young alumna endows scholarship in honor of father
Posted on October 28, 2019 | Filed Under: Alumni
Dr. Joy Johnson didn’t grow up dreaming about becoming an engineer. But she did grow up with a father who taught her to give back. Now she’s honoring him and propelling the next generation forward.
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New Framework Makes AI Systems More Transparent Without Sacrificing Performance
Posted on October 22, 2019 | Filed Under: Research
Researchers led by Tianfu Wu are proposing a framework that would allow users to understand the rationale behind AI decisions.
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Gupta Recipient of 2019 Lane Outstanding Teaching Award
Posted on October 17, 2019 | Filed Under: Faculty
We are pleased to announce the recipient of the 2019 William F. Lane Outstanding Teaching Award—Dr. Rachana Gupta. The Lane Award recognizes excellence in teaching or educational leadership in the department.
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Kish named director of NC State Nanofabrication Facility
Posted on October 16, 2019 | Filed Under: Faculty
Introducing one of our newest faculty members, Fred Kish, an IEEE Fellow with over 125 patents to his name, and is now the new Director of the NC State Nanofabrication Facility
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Leveraging Strengths to Improve Asthma Care
Posted on October 10, 2019 | Filed Under: News
Associate Professor Edgar Lobaton is working with UNC researchers on an NSF-funded project to improve wearable health-monitoring devices so that they may one day be able to help asthma patients manage their symptoms better.
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Centennial Campus, Activate!
Posted on September 27, 2019 | Filed Under: Campus Life
A slew of events and activities is putting NC State’s research park on the map in a new way — as a destination for fun.
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Dixit Named as Standing Committee Chair for ACM-W
Posted on September 25, 2019 | Filed Under: Faculty
Congratulations to Arati Dixit, a teaching associate professor in ECE who has been named to the leadership team of the Association for Computing Machinery’s Council on Women in Computing (ACM-W).
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NSF Announces Raleigh and Cary as Testbed Sites for Advanced Wireless
Posted on September 18, 2019 | Filed Under: Research and Smart
NC State ECE will lead an NSF-funded project to enhance mobile wireless networks, including the use of drones.
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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