Category: Smart
NC State Students Launch Company To Modernize Dumpsters
January 23, 2018Two NC State ECE students part of team that wants to create a smarter dumpster that improves the efficiency of waste collection. These students are founders of Trashr, a sensor technology that optimizes waste collection efforts to save time and money while also improving sustainability.
New Techniques Boost Performance of Non-Volatile Memory Systems
October 17, 2017Researchers have developed new software and hardware designs that should limit programming errors and improve system performance in devices that use non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies.
Streaming On A Wireless Power Connection: Integrated High-Speed Data and Wireless Power Transfer
September 18, 2017New system can simultaneously deliver watts of power and transmit data at rates high enough to stream video over the same wireless connection.
EcoPRT will bridge the gap between NC State’s two campuses
September 30, 2016Two faculty members from the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering are creating a new transportation system that would link Centennial Campus with the University’s main campus. The EcoPRT (ecological personal rapid transit) is an ultra-li …
NC State forms NSF-Funded Center for Advanced Electronics Through Machine Learning With UIUC and Georgia Tech
August 2, 2016North Carolina State University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Georgia Tech are forming a center that aims to speed up design and verification of microelectronic circuits and systems, reducing development costs and time-to-market for manufacturers of microelectronic products, especially integrated circuits. The center is funded for five years through the National Science Foundation’s Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers (I/UCRC) program, and by the industrial members of the center.
How Teaching Robots to Identify Microscopic Fossils Could Help Us Understand Oceans
July 21, 2016Although divided by geography and discipline, ReEdgar Lobaton, an electrical and computer engineering researcher at NC State University, Tom Marchittoc, a geological sciences researcher at CU Boulder, and Ritayan Mitra, a post-doc at NC State are partners in an attempt to solve a tricky engineering challenge and advance our understanding of Earth’s oceans.
Researchers Devise New Tool to Measure Polarization of Light
June 24, 2016Researchers from North Carolina State University’s Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering have developed a new tool for detecting and measuring the polarization of light based on a single spatial sampling of the light.
New Technique Improves Accuracy of Computer Vision Technologies
June 20, 2016Researchers from North Carolina State University’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering have developed a new technique that improves the ability of computer vision technologies to better identify and separate objects in an image, a process called segmentation.
How students are tackling unstructured data indexing with POWER8
January 13, 2015North Carolina State University is one of the participants in the Innov8 with POWER8 Challenge. Utilizing technology from IBM and OpenPOWER Foundation members including NVIDIA, Mellanox and Altera, I’m overseeing a team that is working on a custom Fiel …