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Posted on March 25, 2019 | Filed Under: Alumni
Investing in NC State ECE is one of the most essential ways to get involved. Support your Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering on Day of Giving 2019!
Brain Power
Posted on March 14, 2019 | Filed Under: News
Ziad Ali aspires to combine electrical engineering and neuroscience to treat disorders such as epilepsy and Parkinson’s. The NC State senior heads to California in the fall to pursue a Ph.D. at Stanford thanks to a Knight-Hennessy Scholarsh …
Blasting Off Into History
Posted on March 7, 2019 | Filed Under: Alumni and News
NC State ECE alumna will live and work on the International Space Station for six months, taking with her mementos from NC State.
Department mourns loss of Dr. Robert Trew, former ECE department head
Posted on March 6, 2019 | Filed Under: Faculty
We mourn the loss of Dr. Robert Trew, Alton and Mildred Lancaster Distinguished Professor (Emeritus) and former head of ECE, who sadly passed away on Feb. 24. A celebration of his life will be held Mar. 30.
Alumnus named ambassador to Botswana
Posted on March 5, 2019 | Filed Under: Alumni and News
Craig Cloud (BS EE ’86) is the new United States Ambassador to Botswana, continuing a journey from tinkering with appliances to representing the country abroad.
Chakrabortty Named a University Faculty Scholar
Posted on March 4, 2019 | Filed Under: Faculty
Congratulations to Dr. Aranya Chakrabortty, an ECE associate professor who was named as a 2018-19 University Faculty Scholar.
Alumna Astronaut Prepares to Launch to the ISS
Posted on February 20, 2019 | Filed Under: Alumni and News
NASA astronaut, and NC State ECE alumna, Christina Hammock Koch is set to launch on a Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft to ISS from Baikonur Cosmodome in Kazakstan at 3:14pm EST on March 14, 2019.
Escuti named Senior Member of National Academy of Inventors
Posted on February 16, 2019 | Filed Under: Faculty
Dr. Michael Escuti has been elected as a a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors for producing technologies that have brought real impact on society.
Daniele receives NSF CAREER Award
Posted on February 15, 2019 | Filed Under: Faculty
Dr. Michael Daniele receives the prestigious CAREER Award from the NSF, recognizing his groundbreaking work with biosensor platforms
Artificial Intelligence Can Identify Microscopic Marine Organisms
Posted on February 6, 2019 | Filed Under: News
How AI advances can help us understand prehistoric oceans.
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
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
NC State innovation on display at CES 2024 in Las Vegas
Posted on January 11, 2024
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
‘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
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