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Fred Kish Honored with 2025 IEEE Nick Holonyak, Jr. Medal

<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/kish-compressed-33.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt=""></div>Fred Kish, director of the NC State Nanofabrication Facility, has received the 2025 IEEE Nick Holonyak, Jr. Medal. He was recognized for his groundbreaking work in semiconductor optoelectronics, including photonic integrated circuits and high-efficiency LEDs, which have advanced telecommunications and energy efficiency.

PowerAmerica CTO Victor Veliadis Named NAI Fellow

<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Victor-Veliavis.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt=""></div>Veliadis, who is the Executive Director of PowerAmerica Institute, and a professor of electrical and computer engineering at NC State University, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

Christina Koch awarded North Carolina Award of Science

<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Untitled.jpeg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt=""></div>Christina Koch, a two-time NC State ECE alumna, will receive the highest civilian honor awarded by the state.

Ph.D. Candidate Krishna Namburi and Faculty Member Iqbal Husain Win Best Paper Award at ITEC 2024

<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Untitled.jpeg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt=""></div>Krishna Mpk Namburi, a standout student from our Electrical and Computer Engineering department, and faculty member Iqbal Husain were awarded the Best Paper Award at the prestigious ITEC 2024 conference.

Michael Daniele Receives the 2024 William F. Lane Outstanding Teaching Award

<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Michael-Daniele-1500x539-1.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt=""></div>Michael Daniele, associate professor in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, has received the 2024 William F. Lane Outstanding Teaching Award

Electrical and Computer Engineering Student Awarded IEEE Scholarship

<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/R4_03410.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt=""></div>Matt Parker is 1 of 82 recipients across the country to receive an IEEE scholarship for his studies of the power industry and its impact on our society.

Lu Named Blessis Outstanding Undergraduate Advisor Award Recipient

<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/NIng-Lu-2-1-1.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt=""></div>Ning Lu, Professor in the ECE Department has been announced as the winner of this year’s George H. Blessis Outstanding Undergraduate Advisor Award, given by the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University. The award recognizes faculty members who consistently and willingly give their time and effort to advising, counseling, and mentoring students and […]

Amay Bandodkar Named on List of Highly Cited Researchers

<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Amay_Bandodkar-headshot-1.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="image of NC State researcher"></div>Congratulations to Amay Bandodkar, Assistant Professor of ECE, for being recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate. Clarivate Plc, a global leader in connecting people and organizations to intelligence they can trust to transform their world, recently revealed its 2023 list of Highly Cited Researchers™ – influential researchers at universities, research institutes and commercial […]

NC State Research Team Wins ASME Award for Pioneering Work on GaN-Based Power Package

<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/SourishSankarSinha_Photo.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="Graduate student standing in lab"></div>A team from NC State won the Student Innovative Paper Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) in the Microelectromechanical Engineering Division at the 2023 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition in New Orleans. Doctoral students Sourish Sinha (ECE) and Pouria Zaghari (MAE) won for their paper, “Finite Element Analysis and Fatigue Life […]

Jonathan Wierer Elected as Fellow Member of Optica

<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Jonathan-Wierer-headshot-1.jpeg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="Image of blonde, white male with glasses in front of tree"></div>ECE Professor Jonathan Wierer was elected as a Fellow Member of Optica by the Society’s Board of Directors this October. He is being honored specifically “For pioneering contributions to the physics and engineering of high-efficiency, high-power light-emitting-diode illumination sources.” Optica (formerly OSA) is dedicated to promoting the generation, application, archiving, and dissemination of knowledge in […]