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Over 450 ECE Graduates Honored at Spring Graduation Ceremony

<img width="1024" height="683" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/33870301023_de1684e421_k-1024x683.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">More than 450 B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. recipients celebrated their graduation on May 12 at Reynolds Coliseum, joined there by more than 2,500 friends, relatives, and guests, and watched on live stream by over an additional 2,000 supporters.

ECE Changes its Name to Department of Cool Stuff Engineering

<img width="1024" height="460" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/CAMPUS.copperwolves.0817-2-1024x460.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">We are excited to announce that, as part of our branding efforts and in celebration of our department’s 100th anniversary this year, we are henceforth changing our department’s name to better represent our ongoing role at North Carolina State University and across the country. Effective today, April 1, 2017, we have renamed to be the […]

Muth becomes Jefferson Science Fellow

It is our pleasure to announce that Dr. John F. Muth, has been selected for the thirteenth class of Jefferson Science Fellows. Dr. Muth was selected in December 2016 and will begin his one-year assignments in Washington, DC in August 2017. The Jefferson Science Fellows (JSF) Program is designed to further build capacity for science, […]

Senior Design Day demonstrates Innovation and Creativity

<img width="1024" height="682" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/22-1024x682.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">On Friday, December 2, 2016, NC State Seniors in Electrical and Computer Engineering revealed their prototypes at Engineering Design Day. Four individual competitions were held, one for project proposal of in-progress projects (which will be prototyped in the Spring) and three for full-scale prototypes of finished projects. “We learned a lot about circuit components and […]

Gift Creates New Opportunities for Veterans Studying at NC State

<img width="452" height="254" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/20-452x254.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">Supporting student veterans at NC State University is a cause close to Mark Carter’s heart. As a radar technician in the Marine Corps, Carter realized he had an aptitude for electronics and knew he wanted to further his education in NC State’s Department of Electical and Computer Engineering. Attending the university was not a certainty, […]

PowerAmerica Sponsors New STEM Boy Scouts Initiative

<img width="300" height="200" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/17.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">PowerAmerica is sponsoring the establishment of North Carolina's first STEM Scouts program at the Science House on Centennial Campus in conjunction with the Occoneechee Council, Boy Scouts of America.

Broken Barriers: EE Alumnus’ Varsity Sweater in Walk of Fame

<img width="350" height="232" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/16.png" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">University's first African-American graduate and the first African-American to play on a Wolfpack athletic team, Irwin Holmes donated his tennis varsity letter sweater to the new NC State Athletics Walk of Fame and History in the renovated Reynolds Coliseum.

ECE Student is Finalist in 3 Minute Thesis Competition

<img width="397" height="384" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/15.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">10 finalists in the Graduate School's second annual 3 Minute Thesis competition will demonstrate who is most capable of describing their Ph.D. research in just three minutes and with only one slide. Ph.D. candidates who have completed their confirmation milestone, was narrowed to 10 finalists, including one from Electrical and Computer Engineering - Tanvir Arafat Khan.

Pitches, Prize Wheels and Presentations

<img width="992" height="558" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/4.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">What do you get when you combine a pitch competition with cash prizes, live demos that feature everything from the latest virtual reality technology to toys redesigned for children with special needs, and a prize wheel you can spin to win all the t-shirts your heart desires? Entrepalooza, NC State’s entrepreneurship and innovation festival, is […]

Successful Inaugural 3D-PEIM Symposium

<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.