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NC State Launches Four New Master’s Programs to Strengthen Graduate Portfolio

<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/january-2026-new-masters-programs-website-image.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="Winter sky at Wolf Plaza" decoding="async" loading="lazy"></div>NC State is leveraging its interdisciplinary strengths and building institutional momentum with the launch of four new master’s programs. Each program reflects the university’s commitment to academic innovation, cross-college collaboration, and future-ready education.

NC State’s Product Innovation Lab Showcase Highlights AI, Safety Tech and Smarter Design

<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2025nc-state-innovation-showcase-161.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="Person presenting sleep monitoring research poster to an attendee at a conference." decoding="async" loading="lazy"></div>Graduate students from across NC State collaborated to develop and pitch innovative products ranging from smart health wearables to AI-powered tools, showcasing how cross-disciplinary teams turn ideas into market-ready solutions.

Pitch Competition Shows Ag Tech ‘Alive and Thriving’ at NC State

<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/bhavya.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="Before an audience, a man points to a slide projection to make a point about his battery technology." decoding="async" loading="lazy"></div>At the N.C. PSI Seed2Grow Showcase and Pitch Competition, NC State students and researchers shared their ag tech innovations with industry leaders and investors.

NC State’s REFRAME Project Will Harness AI To Identify Business Opportunities in Crop Leftovers

<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/d-jones-portrait.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="Daniela Jones portrait" decoding="async" loading="lazy"></div>NC State is leading efforts to develop an AI-enabled platform that can help farmers, processing plants and others identify new business opportunities in the bioeconomy.

Students Use Data Science Skills to Address USDA Ag Challenges

<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/image-1.jpeg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="Five students pose together" decoding="async" loading="lazy"></div>As USDA interns, five NC State graduate students applied data science skills to help build AI tools for agriculture.

A Look Back at 2025

<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/bk15242.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="the NC State belltower is bathed in red light during the annual Packapalooza event on Hillsborough Street in Raleigh, NC; fireworks explode in the sky above while a group of onlookers watch" decoding="async" loading="lazy"></div>From new milestones to career-defining awards, faculty, staff and students at NC State continue to lead the pack into a new year of innovation and success.

Sensing Success

<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/3f9a9811-edited.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="From left to right: John Amein, Michael Kudenov and Happy Amein standing side-by-side in a laboratory setting" decoding="async" loading="lazy"></div>A professorship established by John Amein ’84 and his wife Happy supports Professor Michael Kudenov’s research on sensor development that is growing more success for North Carolina agriculture.

Meet Ben Patton, Our Fall 2025 ECE Student Speaker

<div class="featured-img"><img width="2000" height="1333" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Ben-Patton-WEB-1.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Ben-Patton-WEB-1.jpg 2000w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Ben-Patton-WEB-1-1280x853.jpg 1280w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Ben-Patton-WEB-1-980x653.jpg 980w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Ben-Patton-WEB-1-480x320.jpg 480w" sizes="(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 2000px, 100vw"></div>Ben Patton will address the Class of 2025 at NC State ECE’s Fall Graduation, sharing a message shaped by resilience, community and the power of connection.

Improved Cough-Detection Tech Can Help With Health Monitoring

<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/lobaton-cough-header-2025.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="cartoon shows a person coughing"></div>The advance makes it easier to monitor chronic health conditions and predict health risks such as asthma attacks.