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Lu Named Blessis Outstanding Undergraduate Advisor Award Recipient

<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/NIng-Lu-2-1-1.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy"></div>Ning Lu, Professor in the ECE Department has been announced as the winner of this year’s George H. Blessis Outstanding Undergraduate Advisor Award, given by the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University. The award recognizes faculty members who consistently and willingly give their time and effort to advising, counseling, and mentoring students and […]

Amay Bandodkar Named on List of Highly Cited Researchers

<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Amay_Bandodkar-headshot-1.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="image of NC State researcher" decoding="async" loading="lazy"></div>Congratulations to Amay Bandodkar, Assistant Professor of ECE, for being recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate. Clarivate Plc, a global leader in connecting people and organizations to intelligence they can trust to transform their world, recently revealed its 2023 list of Highly Cited Researchers™ – influential researchers at universities, research institutes and commercial […]

NC State Research Team Wins ASME Award for Pioneering Work on GaN-Based Power Package

<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/SourishSankarSinha_Photo.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="Graduate student standing in lab" decoding="async" loading="lazy"></div>A team from NC State won the Student Innovative Paper Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) in the Microelectromechanical Engineering Division at the 2023 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition in New Orleans. Doctoral students Sourish Sinha (ECE) and Pouria Zaghari (MAE) won for their paper, “Finite Element Analysis and Fatigue Life […]

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" decoding="async" loading="lazy"></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 […]

Brian Floyd Receives Innovator of the Year Award

<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Floyd-with-Department-Head-and-Chancellor-1024x683-1.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy"></div>Brian Floyd was recognized with the Innovator of the Year award for his trailblazing work in the areas of radio frequency (RF) and millimeter-wave (mmWave) integrated circuits.

Aydin Aysu Receives NSF CRII Award

<img width="1024" height="684" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/unnamed-1-1024x684.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy" srcset="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/unnamed-1-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/unnamed-1-452x302.jpg 452w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/unnamed-1-768x513.jpg 768w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/unnamed-1-1080x721.jpg 1080w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/unnamed-1.jpg 2000w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px">Dr. Aydin Aysu receives the National Science Foundation CISE Research Initiation Initiative (NSF CRII).

Best Laboratory Collaboration Awarded to NC State Ph.D. Student

<img width="1024" height="684" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/EC200978-1024x684.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy" srcset="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/EC200978-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/EC200978-452x302.jpg 452w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/EC200978-768x513.jpg 768w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/EC200978-1080x721.jpg 1080w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/EC200978.jpg 2000w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px">The best lab collaboration was awarded to Sally Ghanem with VISSTA Lab.

Dai and Franzon win 2019 Qualcomm Faculty Award

<img width="1024" height="684" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/EC200945-1024x684.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy" srcset="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/EC200945-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/EC200945-452x302.jpg 452w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/EC200945-768x513.jpg 768w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/EC200945-1080x721.jpg 1080w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/EC200945.jpg 2000w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px">Dr. Huaiyu Dai and Dr. Paul Franzon have been awarded 2019 Qualcomm Faculty Awards for research that is inspirational to graduate students and serves to spark new approaches in key technology areas.

HKN Receives Outstanding Chapter Award

<img width="1024" height="684" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/EC200635-1024x684.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy" srcset="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/EC200635-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/EC200635-452x302.jpg 452w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/EC200635-768x513.jpg 768w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/EC200635-1080x721.jpg 1080w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/EC200635.jpg 2000w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px">NC State's IEEE-HKN Chapter has been awarded an Outstanding Chapter Award for 2017-2018, continuing their long record of excellence.

Bhattacharya’s Student Hazra Receives Best Paper Award from IEEE Power Electronics

<img width="1024" height="768" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/PELS_award_photo-1024x768.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy" srcset="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/PELS_award_photo-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/PELS_award_photo-452x339.jpg 452w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/PELS_award_photo-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/PELS_award_photo-510x382.jpg 510w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/PELS_award_photo-1080x810.jpg 1080w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px">Dr. Bhattacharya’s former Ph.D. student Dr. Samir Hazra’s paper entitled, “Gate Driver Design Considerations for Silicon Carbide MOSFETs Including Series Connected Devices” was selected for the IEEE PELS TC6 Emerging Technology Best Paper Award.