By ECE News<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2015/10/laser.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">Michael Escuti received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study and make novel hologram technologies. He created a tool that did much more. The technology he developed offers a new way to manipulate light, with applications from studying alien worlds to making cellphones more energy efficient. |News, Research
By ECE News<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2015/10/cps-ps.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">Dr. Aranya Chakrabortty and Dr. Alexandra Duel-Hallen (Sasha) have been awarded $600,000 from the Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS) of the US National Science Foundation to develop an advanced design architecture that will enable integration of high-speed communication networks with wide-area control of large power systems using Synchronized Phasor Measurements (or "Synchrophasors"). |News
By ECE News<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2015/10/weaver-2.png" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">Ask Brandi Weaver for a favorite memory from her student days at NC State and you will get more than one thing. A lot more. Weaver, a 2003 graduate of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was involved in the College’s Minority Engineering Programs (MEP) and student chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers. She was […] |Faculty, News
By ECE News<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2015/10/mbs-2.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">The advent of the Information Age has made it much easier to track one’s family history, turning days spent poring over dusty vital records into a few hours online. The same can be said of tracing one’s academic history. The Mathematics Genealogy Project at North Dakota State University compiles an online database of mathematicians with […] |News, Research
By ECE News<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2015/10/_MH14707.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">Researchers at the Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST) - a National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Center (ERC) led by NC State - are working to pull these wearables into the future through dramatic reduction in power consumption and novel sensor and low-power computing technologies. |News, Research
By ECE News<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2015/10/solar-panels-2.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">FREEDM, a National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Center (ERC) headquartered on Centennial Campus, received positive feedback from NSF during a spring site visit and learned that the center will be fully funded through year 10. |News, Research
By ECE News<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2015/10/computer-chip.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">ECE researchers have developed software using two new techniques to help computer chip designers improve memory systems. |News
By ECE News<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2015/09/Plant-Bio-SIDEBAR-full.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">An interdisciplinary team of researchers from North Carolina State University and University of California, Davis has developed a modeling algorithm that is able to identify genes associated with specific biological functions in plants. The modeling tool will help plant biologists target individual genes that control how plants respond to drought, high temperatures or other environmental […] |News
By ECE News<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2015/09/freedm-living-huang.png" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">Dr. Alex HuangAlex Huang, Progress Energy Distinguished Professor and founding director of the FREEDM Systems Center, and Xiaoqing Song, an electrical engineering graduate student, developed the so-called FREEDM-Pair, which combines the workmanlike advantages of the IGBT device with the high performance of silicon carbide wide bandgap devices. |Awards, News, Research
By ECE News<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2015/08/Control-loop-copy.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">Dr. Aranya Chakrabortty the recipients for an NSF award for the development of an advanced design architecture that will enable integration of high-speed communication networks with wide-area control of large power systems using Synchronized Phasor Measurements (or "Synchrophasors").