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Developing Economical Controllers for Next-Generation Power Systems

<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2015/10/cps-ps.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">Dr. Aranya Chakrabortty and Dr. Alexandra Duel-Hallen (Sasha) have been awarded $600,000 from the Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS) of the US National Science Foundation to develop an advanced design architecture that will enable integration of high-speed communication networks with wide-area control of large power systems using Synchronized Phasor Measurements (or "Synchrophasors").

Filling the Wearables Gap

<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2015/10/_MH14707.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">Researchers at the Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST) - a National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Center (ERC) led by NC State - are working to pull these wearables into the future through dramatic reduction in power consumption and novel sensor and low-power computing technologies. 

FREEDM Center Has Energizing Seventh Year

<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2015/10/solar-panels-2.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">FREEDM, a National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Center (ERC) headquartered on Centennial Campus, received positive feedback from NSF during a spring site visit and learned that the center will be fully funded through year 10.

New Performance Cloning Techniques to Boost Chip Memory Design

<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2015/10/computer-chip.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">ECE researchers have developed software using two new techniques to help computer chip designers improve memory systems.

Chakrabortty Receives NSF Grant to Help Modernize Power System Communications

<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2015/08/Control-loop-copy.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">Dr. Aranya Chakrabortty the recipients for an NSF award for the development of an advanced design architecture that will enable integration of high-speed communication networks with wide-area control of large power systems using Synchronized Phasor Measurements (or "Synchrophasors").

ECE Honored with Two Innovation Awards

<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2015/09/CIF-2015-848x4771.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">North Carolina State University researchers make meaningful advances in science, medicine and engineering that could have a significant impact on everything from human health to the business of brewing beer.

Algorithm Interprets Breathing Difficulties to Aid in Medical Care

<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2015/08/lungs.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed an efficient algorithm that can interpret the wheezing of patients with breathing difficulties to give medical providers information about what's happening in the lungs.

ECE Professor Helps to Clean Up Space of Debris

<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2015/08/satellite.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">ECE Professor Hamid Krim has been awarded over a million dollars by the United States Missile Defense Agency for research on the problem of space debris detection.  According to Professor Krim, “Space is a precious commodity…”As Krim describes, “Space is a precious commodity, and is expected to hold many answers to the future sustainability of earth.Yet, space is also […]

NCSU ECE Undergraduate Team Wins Best Energy Efficiency Award at IEEE Competition

<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2015/08/Picture-team.png" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">In July of 2015, a team of four NCSU ECE undergraduate students participated for the first time in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Future Energy Competition (IFEC) and won the best Energy Efficiency award at the final competition at the University of Sheffield, UK.

ECE Researchers Investigate Social Networks in Award-Winning Paper

<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2015/08/eun3v2.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">The award-winning paper by Xu and Eun entitled, "Modeling Time-Sensitive Information Diffusion in Online Social Networks" focused on the complex issue of how to predict how many users will forward or comment on information posted in online social networks.