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"). |News
By ECE News<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2015/09/aqhuang.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">Progress Energy Distinguished Professor Alex Huang has been awarded $1,326,903 by the ABB, Inc for research of Silicon Carbide (SiC) based Solid State Circuit Breakers (SSCB). |News
By ECE News<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/http://news.lib.ncsu.edu/files/2015/09/Baliga-Portrait-RWW_0171-for-Chris-Tonelli-201x300.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">Dr. Jayant Baliga, an internationally recognized leader in electrical and computer engineering, has donated his papers to the North Carolina State University Libraries. Lauded by Scientific American as one of the heroes of the semiconductor revolution, Baliga received this year’s Global Energy Prize. In addition to being a distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering, Dr. Baliga […] |Faculty, News, Research
By ECE News<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2015/09/CIF-2015-848x4771.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">North Carolina State University researchers make meaningful advances in science, medicine and engineering that could have a significant impact on everything from human health to the business of brewing beer. |News
By ECE News<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2015/09/sbhatta4.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">Electrical and computer engineers at North Carolina State University have developed a new technique for creating less-expensive, low-power embedded systems - the computing devices found in everything from thermostats to automobiles.