Seminars
ECE hosts a regularly scheduled seminar series, the Interdisciplinary Distinguished Seminar Series, with preeminent and leading researchers in the US and the world, to help promote North Carolina as a center of innovation and knowledge and to ensure safeguarding its place of leading research.
ABB and ECE are proud to host the ABB Distinguished Lecture Series in Power Engineering. Each semester, a nationally prominent expert will lecture on a topic related to recent developments in power technology and the smart grid. Distinguished speakers drawn from ABB, academia and the power industry will address the most timely and challenging topics of the power engineering and smart grid industries. Everyone is invited to attend, from undergraduates on up to faculty and friends of the department.
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Photonic Integrated Circuits for Optical Communications
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Fred A. Kish, Jr.
Senior Vice President, Infinera Corporation on April 29, 2016.
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Advance Power Electronic Converters for Renewable Energy Systems
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Prasad N. Enjeti
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Engineering, Texas A&M University on April 8, 2016.
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Tablets…Smart Phones…Social Media – Connectivity and the Impact on Power System
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Arshad Mansoor
Senior Vice President, Research and Development, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) on November 8, 2013.
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Future DC Grid Technology for more Decentralized Power Production and Renewable Power Supplies
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Dr. Rik W. De Doncker
Director of the E.ON Energy Research Center (E.ON ERC), Aachen University of Technology, Aachen, Germany on September 14, 2012.
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Medium-Voltage Power Converters and their Applications
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Hirofumi Akagi
Professor, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology on May 25, 2012.
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Sustainable Energy Engineering
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Mehrdad Ehsani
Director, Sustainable Energy & Vehicle Engineering Program, Texas A&M University on March 16, 2012.
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Multiple Uses of Correlation Filters for Biometrics
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Vijay Kumar
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Carnegie Mellon University on November 4, 2011.
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Robust Topological Features For Deformation Invariant Image Matching
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Dr. Edgar Lobaton
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University on October 14, 2011.
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Generating Smart Grid Solutions
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Gary Rackliffe
Vice President, Smart Grids North America, ABB Inc. on September 23, 2011.
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Bio-Inspired Cognition and Networks
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Ali Sayed
Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of California Los Angeles on September 23, 2011.
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Fast, Automatic, Photo-realistic, 3D Modeling of Building Interiors
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Avideh Zakhor
Professor, EECS, University of California, Berkley on September 2, 2011.
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Algebraic Statistics
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Seth Sullivant
Associate Professor, Mathematics, NC State University on August 26, 2011.