By ECE News<img width="974" height="542" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/3dpeim.png" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">A true success - on June 13-15, 2016, over 80 participants, 11 from outside the US, attended the 1st International Symposium on 3D Power Electronics Integration and Manufacturing (www.3D-PEIM.org) in Raleigh, North Carolina. The symposium offered 39 presentations in 11 sessions, and was led off by three tutorials that focused on “The World of Packaging Technologies and Critical Issues” taught by Professors Douglas Hopkins, Guo-Quan Lu, and Patrick McCluskey. |CAEML, News, NSF, Research, semiconductor, Smart
By ECE News<img width="992" height="558" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/CAEML-992x5581-2.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">North 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. |college of engineering, graduate studies, News, Programs, ranking, statistics
By ECE News<img width="1024" height="551" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/MH14487-1024x551.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">The Graduate Program in NC State University's College of Engineering ranks among the nation's top 25 graduate engineering programs by GraduatePrograms.com, a product of SR Education Group.
The website's 2016 rankings put the College's graduate program at No. 11 nationally amongst other schools that offer graduate degrees in engineering. Rankings are determined based on student reviews and ratings submitted to the site and data used in school listings gathered from 2015-16 National Center for Education Statistics.
A student reviewer posted, "The program is well designed for students from different parts of the world. It gives a thorough knowledge about the subjects. The faculty are well prepared for the subjects." |Life, News, Research
By ECE News<img width="464" height="261" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Kudenov-Nature-Biotech-header-2016-992x558_thumb.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">In a partnership melding neuroscience and electrical engineering, researchers from UNC-Chapel Hill and NC State University have developed a new technology that will allow neuroscientists to capture images of the brain almost 10 times larger than previously possible. |News, Smart
By ECE News<img width="388" height="178" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Lobaton-paleo-ocean-SIDEBAR-400_thumb.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">Although 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. |News, Smart
By ECE News<img width="369" height="145" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Kudenov-detector-400_thumb.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">Researchers 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. |News, Smart
By ECE News<img width="456" height="150" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Lobaton-algo-left-new-technique-right-HEADER-992x558_thumb1.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">Researchers 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. |Events, News, Programs
By ECE News<img width="354" height="153" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/firstplace_thumb.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">Soaring past the anticipated-favorite teams from Tennessee Tech and the University of Crete, a team of students from NC State's Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering emerged the winner of the Spectrum-Sharing Radio Contest hosted at Virginia Tech. |Life, News, Research
By ECE News<img width="992" height="558" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/HET-Header-1422-992x558.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">Researchers at NC State have developed an integrated, wearable system that monitors a user's environment, heart rate and other physical attributes with the goal of predicting and preventing asthma attacks. The researchers plan to begin testing the system on a larger subject population this summer. |Campus Life
By ECE News<img width="992" height="558" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/weather-711-992x558.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">If you're interested in a truly local weather report, check out the real-time data available from a new weather station installed atop Engineering Building 2. NC State's WeatherSTEM provides up-to-the-minute readings on temperature, wind, humidity, ozone, ultraviolet radiation, barometric pressure and other key metrics.