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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.

Dr. Subhashish Bhattacharya Selected as University Faculty Scholar

<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2014/12/sbhatta41.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">Dr. Subhashish Bhattacharya, ABB term professor of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department was selected by colleagues to be a University Faculty Scholar for 2014-15.

Holmes honored with Distinguished Engineering Alumnus award

<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2014/11/_DSC0655.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">The College of Engineering at North Carolina State University honored ECE alumnus Irwin R. Holmes Jr. with the Distinguished Engineering Alumnus award at a ceremony held on Sept. 25 at the Park Alumni Center on NC State's Centennial Campus.

Cockroach Cyborgs Use Microphones to Detect, Trace Sounds

<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2014/11/BozkurtRoachHEADER848x477.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">North Carolina State University researchers have developed technology that allows cyborg cockroaches, or biobots, to pick up sounds with small microphones and seek out the source of the sound. The technology is designed to help emergency personnel find and rescue survivors in the aftermath of a disaster.

Kudenov and Escuti Work to Improve Detection of Eye Diseases

<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2014/10/mjescuti.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">Dr. Michael Kudenov and Dr. Michael Escuti have been awarded $427,376 by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research and development of a new type of rapid snapshot imaging polarimeter that will enable real-time full polarimetric video of the retina to be able to detect diseases like glaucoma early.