Sep 11, 2013
Bozkurt Receives Research Award from NSF for Cyber-Physical Systems
Alper Bozkurt along with his collaborators (David Roberts from Computer Science and Barbara Sherman from College of Veterinary Medicine), have been awarded $999,103 by the National Science Foundation Cyber-Physical Systems (NSF-CPS) Program for their research on "CPS: Synergy: Integrated Sensing and Control Algorithms for Computer-Assisted Training".
Researchers at N.C. State have developed a new way for improving overall efficiency of solar panels that will reduce the cost of solar energy production.
Electric vehicles can now be charged faster than an iPhone-reducing what previously took four hours down to less than one hour.
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.
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.
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.
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.