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ASSIST and IConS Researchers Part of NSF Convergence Accelerator Grant

<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/VOC-sensor-on-plant-1200-x-628-px.png" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="VOC Sensor on Plant" decoding="async" loading="lazy"></div>It seems almost impossible to imagine replicating the impressive olfactory sensing abilities of animals. Indeed, jewel beetles can detect a burning tree 50 miles away, and dogs can sniff out substances at concentrations of one part per trillion – that means detecting one drop of liquid in 20 Olympic-sized swimming pools – which is 1000 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Alper Bozkurt and Team Win $4.3M Grant

<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/cyborg.png" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="close-up image of locust" decoding="async" loading="lazy"></div>A multidisciplinary team led by researchers at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis (WashU) has received a $4.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Integrative Strategies for Understanding Neural and Cognitive Systems (NCS) program. NC State ECE Distinguished Professor and ASSIST Center Co-Director Alper Bozkurt is part of the […]

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.

ECE Graduate Research Symposium 2018

<img width="1024" height="560" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/EC200184-1024x560.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy" srcset="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/EC200184-1024x560.jpg 1024w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/EC200184-452x247.jpg 452w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/EC200184-768x420.jpg 768w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/EC200184-1080x591.jpg 1080w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/EC200184.jpg 2000w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px">The ECE Graduate Student Association at NC State hosted their annual research symposium on November 1, 2018. Five ECE graduate students from different specializations were selected for the impressive research.

ECE Changes its Name to Department of Cool Stuff Engineering

<img width="1024" height="460" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/CAMPUS.copperwolves.0817-2-1024x460.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy" srcset="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/CAMPUS.copperwolves.0817-2-1024x460.jpg 1024w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/CAMPUS.copperwolves.0817-2-452x203.jpg 452w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/CAMPUS.copperwolves.0817-2-768x345.jpg 768w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/CAMPUS.copperwolves.0817-2-1080x485.jpg 1080w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/CAMPUS.copperwolves.0817-2.jpg 2000w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px">We are excited to announce that, as part of our branding efforts and in celebration of our department’s 100th anniversary this year, we are henceforth changing our department’s name to better represent our ongoing role at North Carolina State University and across the country. Effective today, April 1, 2017, we have renamed to be the […]

From the Outback to the Wolfpack

<img width="635" height="420" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/12.png" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy" srcset="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/12.png 635w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/12-452x299.png 452w" sizes="(max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px">Dr. Paul Franzon learned to fly as a student in his university glider club, chasing kangaroos up and down the ridges of the Outback in south Australia. Today, you can catch a glimpse of him in the sky above Carter-Finley Stadium before the Wolfpack football team takes the field. Franzon, Distinguished Professor of Electrical and […]

ECE Welcomes New Faculty

<img width="1024" height="685" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cc.monteith.056-2-1-2-1024x685.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy" srcset="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cc.monteith.056-2-1-2-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cc.monteith.056-2-1-2-452x303.jpg 452w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cc.monteith.056-2-1-2-768x514.jpg 768w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cc.monteith.056-2-1-2-1080x723.jpg 1080w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cc.monteith.056-2-1-2.jpg 1500w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px">NC State ECE is proud announce the addition of five members to the faculty. A variety of scholars from all over the country, and various parts of the world, having joined the Wolfpack to lend their experience and expertise to our students and research. Ismail received his PhD from the University of South Florida in […]