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Senior Design Day demonstrates Innovation and Creativity

<img width="1024" height="682" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/22-1024x682.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy" srcset="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/22.jpg 1024w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/22-452x301.jpg 452w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/22-768x512.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px">On Friday, December 2, 2016, NC State Seniors in Electrical and Computer Engineering revealed their prototypes at Engineering Design Day. Four individual competitions were held, one for project proposal of in-progress projects (which will be prototyped in the Spring) and three for full-scale prototypes of finished projects. “We learned a lot about circuit components and […]

Gift Creates New Opportunities for Veterans Studying at NC State

<img width="452" height="254" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/20-452x254.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">Supporting student veterans at NC State University is a cause close to Mark Carter’s heart. As a radar technician in the Marine Corps, Carter realized he had an aptitude for electronics and knew he wanted to further his education in NC State’s Department of Electical and Computer Engineering. Attending the university was not a certainty, […]

PowerAmerica Sponsors New STEM Boy Scouts Initiative

<img width="300" height="200" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/17.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">PowerAmerica is sponsoring the establishment of North Carolina's first STEM Scouts program at the Science House on Centennial Campus in conjunction with the Occoneechee Council, Boy Scouts of America.

Broken Barriers: EE Alumnus’ Varsity Sweater in Walk of Fame

<img width="350" height="232" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/16.png" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">University's first African-American graduate and the first African-American to play on a Wolfpack athletic team, Irwin Holmes donated his tennis varsity letter sweater to the new NC State Athletics Walk of Fame and History in the renovated Reynolds Coliseum.

ECE Student is Finalist in 3 Minute Thesis Competition

<img width="397" height="384" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/15.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">10 finalists in the Graduate School's second annual 3 Minute Thesis competition will demonstrate who is most capable of describing their Ph.D. research in just three minutes and with only one slide. Ph.D. candidates who have completed their confirmation milestone, was narrowed to 10 finalists, including one from Electrical and Computer Engineering - Tanvir Arafat Khan.

Pitches, Prize Wheels and Presentations

<img width="992" height="558" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/4.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy" srcset="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/4.jpg 992w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/4-452x254.jpg 452w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/4-768x432.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 992px) 100vw, 992px">What do you get when you combine a pitch competition with cash prizes, live demos that feature everything from the latest virtual reality technology to toys redesigned for children with special needs, and a prize wheel you can spin to win all the t-shirts your heart desires? Entrepalooza, NC State’s entrepreneurship and innovation festival, is […]

Successful Inaugural 3D-PEIM Symposium

<img width="974" height="542" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/3dpeim.png" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy" srcset="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/3dpeim.png 974w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/3dpeim-452x252.png 452w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/3dpeim-768x427.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 974px) 100vw, 974px">A true success - on June 13-15, 2016, over 80 participants, 11 from outside the US, attended the 1st International Symposium on 3D Power Electronics Integration and Manufacturing (www.3D-PEIM.org) in Raleigh, North Carolina. The symposium offered 39 presentations in 11 sessions, and was led off by three tutorials that focused on “The World of Packaging Technologies and Critical Issues” taught by Professors Douglas Hopkins, Guo-Quan Lu, and Patrick McCluskey.

ECE Team Wins Spectrum-Sharing Radio Contest

<img width="354" height="153" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/firstplace_thumb.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">Soaring past the anticipated-favorite teams from Tennessee Tech and the University of Crete, a team of students from NC State's Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering emerged the winner of the Spectrum-Sharing Radio Contest hosted at Virginia Tech.

Misra selected for TEDxRaleigh 2016

Two NC State faculty members are among 13 locals selected to present at TEDxRaleigh 2016, an event designed to showcase the best and the brightest of Raleigh thinkers, tinkers and revolutionary visionaries.

ECE Student Shares Krispy Kreme Challenge Experience

<img width="328" height="184" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/IMG_1417-e1455301105777_thumb.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">Graduate School Webmaster Darren White organized a #GradPack team of students to collect video and share their graduate student experience during the race.