Jul 30, 2013
Dr. Bozkurt Uses Video Game Tech to Steer Roaches on Autopilot
Dr. Alper Bozkurt, assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University, is using video game technology to remotely control cockroaches on autopilot, with a computer steering the cockroach through a controlled environment.
Wencong Su, a recent Ph.D. graduate of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University, will join the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Michigan-Dearborn as a tenure-track assistant professor in the Fall of 2013.
The NC State University Underwater Robotics Club was recently honored at the annual ONR AUVSI Robosub competition in San Diego, CA. 
Researchers have developed a model to improve the clarity of the vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) transmissions needed to make a single driver capable of controling multiple vehicles or routing vehicles around hazardous road conditions. Those are all aspects of the "intelligent transportation" concept.
Ki Wook Kim and Jagdish Narayan have been awarded $420,000 by the National Science Foundation for research on Topological Insulator Hybrid Structures for Novel Optoelectronic Applications.
Ioannis Papapanagiotou, a Ph.D. alumnus of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NC State University, will join the department of Computer and Information Technology at Purdue University as a faculty member.
Dr. John Muth has assisted with the development of three-dimensional (3-D) printing technology and techniques to create free-standing structures made of liquid metal at room temperature.
ECE Alumni, Christina Hammock, Chosen As One of Eight New Astronaut Candidates
NC State researchers have developed a software algorithm that can detect when an individual agent in a D-NCS has been compromised by a cyber-attack.
Dr. Ki Wook Kim, professor of electrical and computer engineering at NC State University, has been awarded $475,000 by the University of Texas - Austin for research on Charge/Spin Transport and Thermal Management in 2D Crystal Nanostructure Devices.