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NC State EPICS in IEEE Senior Design Teams
Posted on May 25, 2023 | Filed Under: Undergrad Students
North Carolina State University (NC State) has three community-focused projects funded through EPICS in IEEE. EPICS in IEEE is thrilled to be partnering with the ECE Senior Design team to support these projects. Recently EPICS and IEEE and …
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Facilitating Sensor Communication Through AD2 Using an Expansion Board
Posted on May 23, 2023 | Filed Under: Undergrad Students
A senior design project that students worked on for this past year involved equipping extra features onto an Analog Devices 2, tailored to its typical Senior Design lab applications.
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Embedded Machine Learning Club Competes in F1Tenth Races
Posted on May 19, 2023 | Filed Under: AI/ML and Grad Students and Undergrad Students
The Embedded Machine Learning Club won second place in the 2023 F1Tenth Autonomous Vehicle Race down in San Antonio
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Alper Bozkurt Receives 2023 Outstanding Global Engagement Award
Posted on May 9, 2023 | Filed Under: Awards
Alper Bozkurt receives the 2023 Outstanding Global Engagement Award from NC State Global.
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Iqbal Husain wins the 2022 Outstanding Engagement Award
Posted on April 28, 2023 | Filed Under: Faculty
Iqbal Husain has received the 2022 Outstanding Engagement Award from the Univerity Office Outreach & Engagement!
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Rahul Chakraborty finds community at NC State by embracing opportunities
Posted on April 28, 2023 | Filed Under: News
Chakraborty, electrical engineering ‘23, made lasting friendships during his Ph.D. program
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NC middle and high schoolers demonstrate the future of ASSISTive technology
Posted on April 26, 2023 | Filed Under: Events
High school and middle school students from across the state showcased their innovative wearable health monitoring devices at NC State’s annual Wearable Device Challenge, demonstrating impressive creativity and technical skill in the compet …
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Sam Marcom and Dario Muller win VenturePack Challenge Annual Flagship Startup Competition
Posted on April 18, 2023 | Filed Under: Grad Students
Two of our ECE students, Sam Marcom and Dario Muller, have won first place in the annual eGames competition, for their start-up CN-Seamless, a device for precise field steel fabrication.
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Researchers Help AI Express Uncertainty to Improve Health Monitoring Tech
Posted on April 17, 2023 | Filed Under: AI/ML and Research
The new approach is used in a tool that improves the ability of electronic devices to detect when a human patient is coughing.
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NC State Names New Dean of College of Engineering
Posted on April 13, 2023 | Filed Under: Campus Life
Jim Pfaendtner has been named the Louis Martin-Vega Dean of the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University following a nationwide search.
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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