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ASSIST Welcomes Jason Strohmaier as Chief Systems Engineer

<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/eb2-4.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">The NSF Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST) welcomes Jason Strohmaier, a Maryland native, as the newly appointed Chief Systems Engineer.

Franzon Investigates Scalability of Hardware Accelerators for Cortical Processors

<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2015/03/paulf.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">Dr. Paul Franzon, distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been awarded $705,602 by the US Air Force (USAF) to research new architectures for implementing cognitive algorithms.

Dr. Franzon Named Distinguished Professor

<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2015/02/paulf.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">We are pleased to announce that effective February 1, 2015, Dr. Paul Franzon has been named Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

ASSIST Faculty and Students Engage With Children’s Museum

<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2015/02/victordiaz.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">This fall, ASSIST faculty and graduate students opened their labs and shared their work with local middle school students and their families.

Escuti Innovation Lights Amsterdam’s Rainbow Station

<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2014/12/1876-5889-image1.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">The "Rainbow Station" project by artist Daan Roosegaarde was made possible by technology adapted specifically for the project through collaboration with NC State researcher Dr. Michael Escuti and ImagineOptix Corporation, the company he founded to pioneer patterned liquid crystal optic technologies.

Lubkeman and Rotenberg Elevated to IEEE Fellow

<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2015/02/IEEEFellows2015.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">Dr. Lubkeman receives this honor for contributions to power system distribution systems and Dr. Rotenberg for his contributions to the microarchitecture of high-performance and reliable microprocessors.

Earl Energy Finds Talent at FREEDM Center and NC State

<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2015/02/earl2.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">In addition to recently hiring two former FREEDM Center students, Anirud Mulukutla and Vinay Baliga, industry member Earl Energy had three NC State engineering students work as interns this past summer.

General Tapped to Lead PowerAmerica

<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2015/01/justice1422848x477.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">A retired U.S. Army major general has been named the new executive director of PowerAmerica, the public-private power electronics manufacturing institute that will be located on Centennial Campus.

How students are tackling unstructured data indexing with POWER8

North 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 Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) accelerator for analytics software to quickly index unstructured data, a process that until this point […]

Bozkurt Investigates New Technology to Detect Sleep Disorders

<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2014/12/aybozkur.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">Dr. Alper Bozkurt, in collaboration with Duke University School of Medicine, has been awarded $414,218 by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to research methods of monitoring sleep and detect sleep disorders with a long term goal of developing a low cost, low power, low noise, ultra-miniaturized, wireless system for automated assessment of sleep physiology.