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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 […]

Tech Would Use Drones and Insect Biobots to Map Disaster Areas

<img width="992" height="558" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/19.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy" srcset="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/19.jpg 992w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/19-452x254.jpg 452w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/19-768x432.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 992px) 100vw, 992px">Researchers at North Carolina State University’s Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering have developed a combination of software and hardware that will allow them to use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and insect cyborgs, or biobots, to map large, unfamiliar areas – such as collapsed buildings after a disaster. “The idea would be to release a […]

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.

Escuti named 2016 NC State Innovator of the Year

<img width="1024" height="680" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/13-1024x680.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy" srcset="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/13.jpg 1024w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/13-452x300.jpg 452w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/13-768x510.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px">NC State held its 27th Celebration of Innovation and Entrepreneurship to recognize the outstanding achievements of its faculty inventors over the last year. With over 500 products to market and over 125 startups launched, NC State continues to contribute to the economy of North Carolina and the nation as a whole. In 2016, the Office […]

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 […]

ASSIST makes progress with testbed, other technologies

<img width="635" height="420" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/10.png" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy" srcset="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/10.png 635w, https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/10-452x299.png 452w" sizes="(max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px">Year four saw breakthroughs and new directions in research for the Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST). The National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center led by NC State’s Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and headquartered on Centennial Campus is building hassle-free wearable devices “that are doing […]