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#ThrowbackThursday ECE Alum Cracks the Mars Rover Code

Posted on July 1, 2023 | Filed Under: Alumni

Over two years ago, NC State ECE Alum cracks the hidden code NASA planted on Mar’s Rover robot.

Charles Hall Voted Chair Elect of Staff Senate

Posted on June 8, 2023 | Filed Under: News

Charles Hall, ECE Digital Communications Manager, has been voted the Chair Elect of the North Carolina State University Staff Senate

Dr. Edgar Lobaton Receives the 2023 William F. Lane Outstanding Teaching Award

Posted on June 6, 2023 | Filed Under: News

Edgar Lobaton, associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has received the 2023 William F. Lane Outstanding Teaching Award

Dr. Amro Awad Receives the 2022-23 R. Ray Bennett Faculty Fellow Award

Posted on June 6, 2023 | Filed Under: Awards

Amro Awad, ECE Assistant Professor, is the recipient of the 2022-23 R. Ray Bennett Faculty Fellow Award.

New Method Improves Efficiency of ‘Vision Transformer’ AI Systems

Posted on June 2, 2023 | Filed Under: AI/ML and Research

The work also improves the vision transformer AI’s ability to identify, classify and segment objects in images.

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 …

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.

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

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.

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!

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

North Carolina’s innovation is on display internationally, including work coming out of the ASSIST Center featured at the Consumer Electronics Show 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

Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks Announces $238M CHIPS and Science Act Award

Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks announced the award today of $238 million in “Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) and Science Act” funding for the establishment of eight Microelectronics Commons (Commons) regional innovation hubs. This includes the Commercial Leap Ahead for Wide Bandgap Semiconductors (CLAWS) Hub, led by NC State University with a $39.4-million award for FY23.

Posted on September 20, 2023