Jun 30, 2014
A Makers’ Place
MakerFaire, the nationwide network of do-it-yourself showcases, is a celebration of all things made. And NC State is the university where ideas become reality. The two come together this weekend at Maker Faire North Carolina, which will bring 10,000 thinkers and doers to the North Carolina State Fairgrounds.
Dr. Huaiyu Dai and Dr. Peng Ning have been awarded $479,993 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for research on "Intelligent and Cross-Layer Attack and Defense in Spectrum Sharing" to address this need.
NC State's "VitalFlo" project led by ECE alumnus (BS EE 2010) -- and current ECE graduate assistant -- James Dieffenderfer has won the first prize of $150,000 from the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT)'s Student Technology Prize in Primary Healthcare competition.
As part of the polarimetry class taught by Michael Escuti and Michael Kudenov at NC State, students were instructed to build a simple polarimeter using an off-the-shelf digital camera and a polarizing filter.
Imagine vehicles that can make their own way through a battlefield to pick up the wounded, health information that follows patients from home to hospital to doctor’s office, and disaster response systems that help coordinate humans, robots and dogs. These are just a few of the potential benefits of cyber-physical systems-also sometimes referred to as […]
Engineering researchers have developed new software, called FreePDK15, to facilitate chip design - and are making it freely available in order to foster new research focused on pushing the frontiers of computer technology.
North Carolina State University researchers have developed methods for electronically manipulating the flight muscles of moths and for monitoring the electrical signals moths use to control those muscles.
Dr. Michael Kudenov, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University, has been awarded a Young Investigator Program award from both the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) and the US Navy Office of Naval Research (ONR).
Researchers from North Carolina State University and Carnegie Mellon University, in collaboration with Disney Research, have developed a system that can track a football in three-dimensional space using low-frequency magnetic fields.
Researchers at NC State have created a remotely-controlled testing facility that allows students, professors and private companies from around the world to test prototype antennas for wireless devices.