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Powering up

<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2014/10/freedm2014.png" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">The Future Renewable Electric Energy Delivery and Management - FREEDM - Systems Center had a lot of new technology to show off to National Science Foundation (NSF) officials during the center's sixth site visit this spring.

Soarin’ Over the State Fair

<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/drone-2-400.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">Three times a day at the fair, members of the champion NC State Aerial Robotics Club demonstrate the vast money-saving potential and worthiness of the small unmanned aerial vehicles, which can provide farmers with invaluable information about how to improve their crops for just a few pennies.

Researchers Take Big-Data Approach to Estimate Range of Electric Vehicles

<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2014/10/ElectricCar848x477.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed new software that estimates how much farther electric vehicles can drive before needing to recharge.

Floyd Receives STTR Funding from Physical Devices LLC

<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2014/10/bafloyd.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">Dr. Brian Floyd, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been awarded $258,000 by Physical Devices LLC for research on STTR Phase II: Fully-Integrated Tunable Filters Employing Synthetic Linear Interference Delay.

Taking an elephant by the collar

<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2014/10/DSC_0832.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">The US Army Research Office in Durham, NC, was working with Adventures with Elephants near Bela Bela in South Africa when they contacted the College of Engineering in hopes of finding a way to limit elephant rampages and damage caused by elephants wandering into populated areas, saving human and elephant lives in the process.

Franzon Explores Ways to Reduce Cost of RFID Chips

<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2014/10/IBM_full_chip.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">Dr. Paul Franzon, professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been awarded $445,713 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for research on AC Powered Digital Circuits, specifically exploring ways to reduce the cost of RFID chips by eliminating most of the circuitry needed for managing the recovered power on the chip.

Krim selected as Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer

<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2014/10/ahk.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">Dr. Hamid Krim has been selected as a 2015 Distinguished Lecturer by the IEEE Signal Processing Society. The Society's Distinguished Lecturer Program provides means for chapters to have access to individuals who are well known educators and authors in the fields of signal processing, to lecture at Chapter meetings.

Dai Seeks Solution to National Wireless Security Needs

<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2014/10/hdai.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">Dr. Huaiyu Dai and Dr. Peng Ning have been awarded $479,993 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for research on "Intelligent and Cross-Layer Attack and Defense in Spectrum Sharing" to address this need.

VitalFlo Wins $150,000 First Prize in CIMIT Competition

<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2014/09/vitaflo03.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">NC State's "VitalFlo" project led by ECE alumnus (BS EE 2010) -- and current ECE graduate assistant --  James Dieffenderfer has won the first prize of $150,000 from the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT)'s Student Technology Prize in Primary Healthcare competition.

Polarization Imaging Reveals New Views of Hunt Library

<img width="1" height="1" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/migration/images/2014/09/PolarizationHunt1HEADER848x477.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy">As part of the polarimetry class taught by Michael Escuti and Michael Kudenov at NC State, students were instructed to build a simple polarimeter using an off-the-shelf digital camera and a polarizing filter.