May 20, 2016
Hail, New Weather Station
If you're interested in a truly local weather report, check out the real-time data available from a new weather station installed atop Engineering Building 2. NC State's WeatherSTEM provides up-to-the-minute readings on temperature, wind, humidity, ozone, ultraviolet radiation, barometric pressure and other key metrics.
Victor Veliadis, a senior advisory engineer for Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems, has been named the chief technology officer for PowerAmerica, the public-private power electronics institute hosted on Centennial Campus.
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is pleased to announce that Dr. Paul Franzon has assumed the position of Director of Graduate Programs in ECE effective May 15.
In a hallmark success for NC State, a record-breaking 31 students received Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation this year. Of those, an impressive ten engineering students, including Kristen Garcia, a graduate student in Electical Engineering, were honored as Fellows.
North Carolina State University's Park Scholarships program has named 40 students to its Class of 2020, with three of them selecting to study in ECE.
Engineering researchers led by Dr. Paul Franzon, have developed a suite of techniques that allow them to create passive radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags that are 25 percent smaller and less expensive.
Five NC State students, including Alex Starnes from Electrical and Computer Engineering will head off around the globe as winners of prestigious Fulbright grants for the 2016-17 academic year.
New UNC President Margaret Spellings took one last glance at the activity tracker on her wrist as she headed back to Holladay Hall-more than 10,000 steps on an illuminating tour of the largest campus in the university system.