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Former Students Launch Company Aiming to Help Smokers Kick the Habit

<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2015/08/Nicotrax-sidebar-425.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">Suraaj Doshi and Kyle Linton worked to together to propel the idea of a smart cigarette case that communicates with a smoker's smartphone to record who the smoker is with as well as where and when a smoker reaches for a cigarette.

Smart Battery Gauge Technology: From Research Innovation To Commercial Application

<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2015/08/Smart-Battery-Gauge-for-web.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">ECE Professor Mo-Yuen Chow is finding solutions to these problems with research funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) program.

NCSU ECE Undergraduate Team Wins Best Energy Efficiency Award at IEEE Competition

<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2015/08/Picture-team.png" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">In July of 2015, a team of four NCSU ECE undergraduate students participated for the first time in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Future Energy Competition (IFEC) and won the best Energy Efficiency award at the final competition at the University of Sheffield, UK.

ECE Researchers Investigate Social Networks in Award-Winning Paper

<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2015/08/eun3v2.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">The award-winning paper by Xu and Eun entitled, "Modeling Time-Sensitive Information Diffusion in Online Social Networks" focused on the complex issue of how to predict how many users will forward or comment on information posted in online social networks.

ECE Students Invent Solution for Sleep Apnea

<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2015/08/Research-Award-Brugarolas2-11.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">Rita Brugarolas and Jose Manuel Valero-Sarmiento, ASSIST PhD students in Electrical Engineering and research assistants in Dr. Alper Bozkurt's iBionics Laboratory at North Carolina State University, conceived a novel idea: an auto-titrating oral appliance for at home use.

Researchers Boost Wireless Power Transfer with Magnetic Field Enhancement

<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2015/07/RickettsSIDEBARFULL.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">Research from North Carolina State University and Carnegie Mellon University shows that passing wireless power transfer through a magnetic resonance field enhancer (MRFE) - which can be as simple as a copper loop - can boost the transfer efficiency by at least 100 percent as compared to transferring through air alone.

ECE graduate proves it’s never too late to climb higher

<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2015/07/whitmire-son.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">George Whitmire was a sight to behold at this year's spring commencement ceremony at PNC Arena. With his son Connor at his side, Whitmire received his electrical engineering degree and a chance at new opportunities for his future.

Researchers Gain Best Paper Award – Prove Need for ASSIST Technologies

<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2015/07/James_BSN.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">During the 12th IEEE Body Sensor Networks Conference 2015 brought a diverse group of military and corporate entities along with academic researchers and physicians together in an open colloquium. mong attendees and presenters was ASSIST Center graduate student James Dieffenderfer, a graduate research assistant with the Integrated Bionic MicroSystems Laboratory in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University.

Art, Engineering and Infinity: ECE Students alongside Escher and da Vinci

<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2015/06/IMG_18191.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">A collaboration between NC State University and the North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA), as part of a series of STEAM initiatives to promote innovation has given a team of college students the opportunity to showcase an electronic display they developed alongside the works of M.C. Escher and Leonardo da Vinci.

Distributed Technique for Power ‘Scheduling’ Advances Smart Grid Concept

<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2015/06/4456181936_885076030a_o.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">ECE researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique for "scheduling" energy in electric grids that moves away from centralized management.