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ECE graduate students cut path forward with innovative invention
Posted on February 3, 2023 | Filed Under: Grad Students and News
Electrical and computer engineering graduate students, Sam Marcom and Dario Muller, and their mechanical engineering teammate, Josh Cooper, are laying the groundwork for the future of the manufacturing industry. Their new innovative inventi …
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ECE GSA Research Symposium 2023 Finalists
Posted on January 20, 2023 | Filed Under: News
The 2023 ECE Graduate Research Symposium was hosted by the ECE Graduate Student Association on January 20.
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ECE Students Win Best Poster Award from CAEML
Posted on January 13, 2023 | Filed Under: News
Priyank Kashyup and Yuejiang Wen each won the Best Poster Award at CAEML’s Fall 2022 Semiannual Meeting.
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Timothy Holder finds a field that pulls together many — but not all — of his interests
Posted on January 11, 2023 | Filed Under: Grad Students
Timothy Holder has always felt pulled toward varying interests — medicine, wearable devices, racquetball, exploring new places and philosophy, to name a few.
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ECE Alum, Shree Nayar, awarded Okawa Prize for contributions to digital photography
Posted on January 5, 2023 | Filed Under: Alumni
ECE Alum, Shree Nayar, has changed the way visual information is captured and used by both machines and humans. He is honored with 2022 Okawa Prize.
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ECE Professor and Alumna Receive IEEE-USA Award
Posted on January 3, 2023 | Filed Under: Alumni and Awards and Faculty
Leda Lunardi, ECE Professor, and Alice Parker, ECE alumna, have received the IEEE-USA Award for Distinguished Literary Contributions Furthering Public Understanding and the Advancement of the Engineering Profession.
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From the Lab to the Farm
Posted on December 30, 2022 | Filed Under: Research
The Benchbot research project is a collaborative effort between the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences at NC State which is working to automate plant phenotyping.
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The Future of 6G in North Carolina
Posted on December 29, 2022 | Filed Under: Research
6GNC at NC State utilizes research teams to cover an incredible number of areas and technologies that will play a key role in 6G.
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Faculty Making a Lasting Impact
Posted on December 27, 2022 | Filed Under: Faculty and News
The students of Dr. Winser Alexander have created the WEA Endowment Committee to honor Alexander’s legacy during his time at NC State.
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ECE alumnus honored for supercomputing innovations
Posted on December 21, 2022 | Filed Under: Alumni
Jim Fischer, ECE alumnus, was a key player in several groundbreaking initiatives during his 40-year career at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Learn more about his work.
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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