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A Leader Passes: Remembering Chancellor Larry Monteith

<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/monteith-center-unveiling.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt=""></div>Chancellor Monteith oversaw a dramatic expansion in NC State's research enterprise, bringing the university to the threshold of the 21st century.

Jonathan Wierer Elected as Fellow Member of Optica

<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Jonathan-Wierer-headshot-1.jpeg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="Image of blonde, white male with glasses in front of tree"></div>ECE Professor Jonathan Wierer was elected as a Fellow Member of Optica by the Society’s Board of Directors this October. He is being honored specifically “For pioneering contributions to the physics and engineering of high-efficiency, high-power light-emitting-diode illumination sources.” Optica (formerly OSA) is dedicated to promoting the generation, application, archiving, and dissemination of knowledge in […]

Alper Bozkurt and Team Win $4.3M Grant

<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/cyborg.png" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="close-up image of locust"></div>A multidisciplinary team led by researchers at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis (WashU) has received a $4.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Integrative Strategies for Understanding Neural and Cognitive Systems (NCS) program. NC State ECE Distinguished Professor and ASSIST Center Co-Director Alper Bozkurt is part of the […]

NC State to Lead Regional Semiconductor Innovation Hub

<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/EC300578.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt=""></div>NC State will use its engineering prowess to help shape domestic production of wide bandgap semiconductors.

NC State to Lead Regional Semiconductor Innovation Hub

<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/EC300578.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt=""></div>NC State will use its engineering prowess to help shape domestic production of wide bandgap semiconductors.

ECE Department Welcomes New Faculty

<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/BK-13973-2.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt=""></div>The ECE Department has hired 4 new faculty members for the 2023-2024 academic year.

Wearable Connector Technology Advances at Wilson College of Textiles Could Assist Doctors, Soldiers in Combat

<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IMG_7651.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt=""></div>Read the original article here. What comes to mind when you think about “wearable technology?” In 2023, likely a lot, at a time when smartwatches and rings measure heart rates, track exercise and even receive text messages. Your mind might even drift to that “ugly” light-up sweater or costume you saw last Halloween or holiday […]

Faculty and Student win DesignCon Best Paper Award

Dr. Paul Franzon and recent computer engineering Ph.D. graduate, Priyank Kashyap, won the DesignCon 2023 Best Paper Award for their "Data-Driven PAM4 SerDes Modeling with Generative Adversarial Network" paper.

Two ECE students win 2022-23 Graduate Program Awards

<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/MAH1217.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt=""></div>The College of Engineering recognized two ECE students in the 2022-23 Graduate Program Awards. Ashwini Ganesh won COE Doctoral Scholar of the Year in Citizenship and Service, and Mihir Khara won COE Master Scholar of the Year in Scholarly Achievement.

ECE Students win Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship

<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/campus-140313-copy1.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt=""></div>Fin Amin, Tse-Han Pan, Joseph Carlson and Nitish Deshpande, all ECE Ph.D. students, were selected as winners in the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship North America 2023!