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Brian Floyd Receives Innovator of the Year Award
Posted on October 16, 2023 | Filed Under: Awards
Brian Floyd was recognized with the Innovator of the Year award for his trailblazing work in the areas of radio frequency (RF) and millimeter-wave (mmWave) integrated circuits.
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Announcing the 2023 ECE Alumni and Community Awards
Posted on October 13, 2023 | Filed Under: Awards
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NC State University is proud to announce the 2023 inductees to the ECE Alumni Hall of Fame. Additionally, the recipients of two awards launched last year—the Outstanding Early Career …
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NC State to Lead Regional Semiconductor Innovation Hub
Posted on October 4, 2023 | Filed Under: News
NC State will use its engineering prowess to help shape domestic production of wide bandgap semiconductors.
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New Method Helps AI Navigate 3D Space Using 2D Images
Posted on September 28, 2023 | Filed Under: AI/ML and Research
Photos are two-dimensional (2D), but autonomous vehicles and other technologies have to navigate the three-dimensional (3D) world. Researchers have developed a new method to help artificial intelligence (AI) extract 3D information from 2D i …
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Alper Bozkurt Receives Chancellor Innovation Fund
Posted on September 1, 2023 | Filed Under: Awards
Alper Bozkurt’s wearable “EKG” for dogs research has been selected to receive the Chancellor’s Innovation Fund for the third year.
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The Beauty of Research
Posted on August 30, 2023 | Filed Under: Grad Students
The winners of the 2023 Envisioning Research contest showcase the scope of research being done at NC State.
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ECE Researchers win Outstanding Paper Award from ICML
Posted on August 18, 2023 | Filed Under: Awards
ECE researchers have been selected as one of the six winners of the ICML 2023 Outstanding Paper Awards.
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ECE Department Welcomes New Faculty
Posted on August 17, 2023 | Filed Under: Faculty and News
The ECE Department has hired 4 new faculty members for the 2023-2024 academic year.
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Wearable Connector Technology Advances at Wilson College of Textiles Could Assist Doctors, Soldiers in Combat
Posted on August 14, 2023 | Filed Under: News
Read the original article here. What comes to mind when you think about “wearable technology?” In 2023, likely a lot, at a time when smartwatches and rings measure heart rates, track exercise and even receive text messages. Your mind might …
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Alper Bozkurt Receives NSF Rules of Life Funding for Mussels Research
Posted on August 8, 2023 | Filed Under: Faculty and Research
The U.S. National Science Foundation has announced funding for Alper Bozkurt’s mussels research under the Using the Rules of Life to Address Societal Challenges program.
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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