Aug 26, 2013
ECE Alumnus to Become Faculty at University of Michigan-Dearborn
Wencong Su, a recent Ph.D. graduate of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University, will join the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Michigan-Dearborn as a tenure-track assistant professor in the Fall of 2013.
Researchers at RENCI and North Carolina State University took home an award at the recent US Ignite Application Summit for demonstrating a prototype next-generation Internet application that monitors large power systems over a wide-area, high-performance communication network.
NC State improved in the field of "engineering/technology and computer sciences" on a prestigious international scorecard of universities, jumping two spots from last year to rank No. 27 in the world for 2013.
North Carolina State University researchers have come up with a new technique for improving the connections between stacked solar cells, which should improve the overall efficiency of solar energy devices and reduce the cost of solar energy production.
Dr. Omer Oralkan, has received the prestigious Young Faculty Award (YFA) of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for his project titled "An Ultrasound-Based Noninvasive Neural Interface to the Retina."
Dr. Aranya Chakrabortty has received a $400,000 research award from the National Science Foundation to develop distributed estimation and control algorithms for cyber-physical systems with a particular focus on large power systems.
The NC State University Underwater Robotics Club was recently honored at the annual ONR AUVSI Robosub competition in San Diego, CA. 
Researchers have developed a model to improve the clarity of the vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) transmissions needed to make a single driver capable of controling multiple vehicles or routing vehicles around hazardous road conditions. Those are all aspects of the "intelligent transportation" concept.
Ki Wook Kim and Jagdish Narayan have been awarded $420,000 by the National Science Foundation for research on Topological Insulator Hybrid Structures for Novel Optoelectronic Applications.