Virtual Hackathons – win prizes!!

Looking for developers and innovators to solve problems ranging from data solutions to blockchain and machine learning…

These hackathons not only provide an opportunity to win some cool prizes, but also to learn more about building with the latest technology, collaborate, and keep your skills growing over the summer.

There is no cost to enter and projects can be submitted online anytime prior to the deadline. Each challenge also has resources and a community chat available to help participants connect and ask questions along the way!

Here are the basic details:

AWS Data Exchange Challenge– Goal: Build (or update) a data-driven solution that tells a story by employing at least one of the categories using at least two AWS services and at least one of the 3rd-party data products from AWS Data Exchange providers.- Categories: Data Visualization, Data Analysis,Data and Machine Learning- Prizes: Over $35,000 in prizes- Deadline: August 24- Details + Registration: https://bit.ly/AWSde20u

PyTorch Summer Hackathon– Goal: Build projects using PyTorch in one of the three categories: PyTorch Developer Tools, Web/Mobile Applications powered by PyTorch, PyTorch Responsible AI Development Tools- Prizes: Over $25,000 in prizes- Deadline: August 25- Details + Registration: https://bit.ly/PyTorch20u

Hackusama– Goal: Use Substrate to build/update a blockchain, or build/update any project in the Open Hack for the Kusama ecosystem. (For more details on the submission requirements, please see the Hacker Guide.)– Prizes: $30,000 in prizes- Deadline: August 14- Details + Registration: https://bit.ly/Hackusama20u

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				1 Red and White Week Red and White Week October 27, 2024 - November 3, 2024 See more details TRIGER: Timed RF Integrated Gating for Energy Regulation TRIGER: Timed RF Integrated Gating for Energy Regulation November 1, 2024 10:15 am - 11:45 am EB2 1231 https://ece.ncsu.edu/seminar/triger-timed-rf-integrated-gating-for-energy-regulation/ Technological advances in power electronics have enabled unprecedented growth of renewable energy sources over the past several decades. Power electronics innovations have brought significant improvements in controllability, performance, and energy availability, but are also fundamentally changing the nature of the grid as a system. As a result, the Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency... Speaker: Brian McCabe Senior Principal Engineer United Technologies Research Center Dr. McCabe is Discipline Lead for Electrical & Electromagnetic Systems at RTRC, the corporate research center for RTX. He is responsible for staff development and research capabilities in electromagnetic, photonic, optical and power electronics systems. Brian is the Principal Investigator for the TRIGER program. He holds a BS from Carnegie Mellon, an MS from Rensselaer, and a PhD from NYU Polytechnic University, all in electrical engineering. See more details ECE Alumni Awards Ceremony ECE Alumni Awards Ceremony November 1, 2024 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Duke Energy Hall, Hunt Library See more details • • •	2 Red and White Week Red and White Week October 27, 2024 - November 3, 2024 See more details •	3 Red and White Week Red and White Week October 27, 2024 - November 3, 2024 See more details •
4 Applied AI Futures Seminar Applied AI Futures Seminar November 4, 2024 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Seminar Room, Plant Sciences Building Following the success of the College's Applied AI in Engineering and Computer Science symposium, We are excited to introduce the inaugural seminar in our Applied AI Futures Seminar Series. Join us on November 4 as we welcome Dr. Markus J. Buehler, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, to the College of Engineering. See more details •	5	6	7	8 Deep Learning Tools for Analyzing, Controlling, and Designing Optical Microscopes Deep Learning Tools for Analyzing, Controlling, and Designing Optical Microscopes November 8, 2024 10:15 am - 11:45 am EB2 1231 https://ece.ncsu.edu/seminar/deep-learning-tools-for-analyzing-controlling-and-designing-optical-microscopes/ This seminar presents recent advancements in applying deep learning to enhance optical microscope performance across three core domains: (1) Analysis, where object detection networks automatically locate and classify millions of cells based on color and morphology in thousands of images, mapping them to established coordinate systems such as the Allen Brain Atlas; (2) Control, where... Speaker: Alon Greenbaum Assistant Professor Joint BME Dr. Alon Greenbaum is an Assistant Professor in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He earned his BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University and his Ph.D. from UCLA, where he conducted pioneering biophotonics research in lens-free microscopy under Prof. Aydogan Ozcan. Driven by a passion for bridging technological gaps, Dr. Greenbaum expanded his research into biological imaging. During his postdoctoral fellowship with Prof. Viviana Gradinaru at Caltech, he developed advanced imaging techniques for visualizing intact bones. His lab now focuses on 3D imaging of organs and improving drug delivery to the inner ear. Dr. Greenbaum’s work has earned him the Good Ventures Postdoctoral Fellowship, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Student Research Fellowship, and the Goodnight Early Career Innovators Award. He has authored over 45 peer-reviewed articles and presented his research at more than 30 conferences. See more details •	9	10
11	12	13 Holiday Tree Lighting Holiday Tree Lighting November 13, 2024 10:00 am - 11:00 am See more details Qualcomm Tech Talk Qualcomm Tech Talk November 13, 2024 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm EB1-1007 See more details • •	14 Qualcomm Tech Talk (MS / BS) Qualcomm Tech Talk (MS / BS) November 14, 2024 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm EB2 - 1025 See more details •	15 Smarter Implantable Devices with µSensors and µActuators Smarter Implantable Devices with µSensors and µActuators November 15, 2024 10:15 am - 11:45 am EB2 1231 https://ece.ncsu.edu/seminar/smarter-implantable-devices-with-%c2%b5sensors-and-%c2%b5actuators/ The development of chronically reliable and multifunctional implantable and surgical devices is an enormous challenge in biomedical engineering with significant economic and clinical implications. Once in the body, implants often suffer from substantial performance degradation and premature failures due to various abiotic and biotic failure modes. Enabling technologies that improve the functionality, and the lifetime... Speaker: Hyowon (Hugh) Lee Associate Professor Purdue University Hyowon “Hugh” Lee is a Professor at the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering and the Director of the Center for Implantable Devices at Purdue University. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in biomedical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2008 and 2011, respectively, under the guidance of Jack Judy. Before joining Purdue, he worked as a senior process engineer for St. Jude Medical’s Implantable Electronic Systems Division where he worked on manufacturing challenges associated with implantable electronic devices such as pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillators, deep brain stimulators, and spinal cord stimulators. His current research interest centers around improving the reliability and functionality of implantable sensors and actuators. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award and he recently co- founded two medical devices startups. His lab is supported by NINDS, NHLBI, NIDA, NSF, Indiana CTSI, Samsung, and Eli Lilly. See more details •	16	17
18	19	20	21	22 Novel sensing and wireless communication systems using dynamic metasurfaces Novel sensing and wireless communication systems using dynamic metasurfaces November 22, 2024 10:15 am - 11:45 am EB2 1231 https://ece.ncsu.edu/seminar/novel-sensing-and-wireless-communication-systems-using-dynamic-metasurfaces/ Uninterrupted wireless communications with high data rates face challenges due to signal blockage and diffraction by various surfaces in the propagation environment. Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) offer a solution to this issue by redirecting wireless signals toward intended users. RISs create a smart electromagnetic environment where signal blockage can be avoided, security can be enhanced,... Speaker: Mohammadreza Imani Assistant Professor Arizona State University Mohammadreza F. Imani received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan (USA) in 2013. From 2014 to 2020, he worked as a Postdoc and Research Scientist at Duke University. In 2020, he joined the School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University as an Assistant Professor. He has over a decade of experience working on metamaterials and metasurfaces for designing novel antennas and devices for a wide array of applications, including super-resolution sensors, highly efficient wireless power transfer systems, fast security screening systems, synthetic aperture radar, and (MIMO) wireless communication. He has authored and co-authored over 70 journal publications and holds 7 patents. His research interests include analytical and applied electromagnetics, metamaterials and metasurfaces, computational imaging and sensing, wireless power transfer, antenna analysis and synthesis, and wireless communication systems. See more details •	23	24
25	26	27	28 Thanksgiving Holiday (No classes; University closed Thursday & Friday) Thanksgiving Holiday (No classes; University closed Thursday & Friday) November 28, 2024 - November 29, 2024 See more details •	29 Thanksgiving Holiday (No classes; University closed Thursday & Friday) Thanksgiving Holiday (No classes; University closed Thursday & Friday) November 28, 2024 - November 29, 2024 See more details •	30

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