Jun 30, 2014
Raising Dots, Opening Doors
An NC State materials science and engineering alumnus, Yang recovered from an accident that led to permanent blindness, is now set on using microelectromechanical systems, or MEMS, to create an electroactive polymer system for tactile, full-page and refreshable displays----starting the conversation on Polymer Braille.
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.
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.
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.
As apart of a team of researchers from around the U.S. , a NC State and UNC group within the Smart Energy CPS team is pursuing the idea of creating a distributed computing system that would disseminate monitoring and control functions across multiple virtual machines in a cloud computing network that overlays the grid.
The ECE department would like to congratulate this year's winners of the ECE Senior Awards: Jeffrey Allgeyer, Kyle Barth, and Paula McDonald.
NC State researchers, Alper Bozkurt and David Roberts, are focused on the use cyber-physical systems to share information and coordinate emergency and disaster response and recovery in the Smart Emergency Response System (SERS) project. Specifically, once aspect of the equation: dogs.