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https://ece.ncsu.edu/seminar/266070/

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Speaker: Josep Miquel Jornet
Associate Dean of Research
Northeastern University

ECE Coffee Talk: Autonomous Vehicles

Please join us for the second ECE Coffee Talk of the fall semester on Friday, Nov. 7, 2025, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in EB2 3001. This mini-workshop will focus on Autonomous Vehicles, with discussion on sensing, communication, traffic modeling, control, and decision-making for both ground and airborne systems.

We will also welcome an invited speaker from the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering to help facilitate collaboration opportunities between ECE and CE.

Hosts
Suresh and Aritra

Speakers
Ali, Ismail and Ali Hajbabaei (Civil Engineering)

Aranya will serve as moderator and provide a closing pitch on delay designs.

Coffee and cookies will be provided.

View the event flyer for additional details:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jyOZv1cx3OjQ0nht5SeSS05pTDmxARei/edit?slide=id.p1#slide=id.p1

This will be a valuable opportunity for collaboration among CCSL, PES and NET.

We look forward to seeing you there.

https://ece.ncsu.edu/seminar/how-to-bounce-a-radio-signal-off-the-moon-and-other-space-communications-adventures/

The idea of using orbiting satellites for communication was introduced by science fiction writer and futurist Arthur C. Clarke in 1945. In 1946 the first experiments using the moon as a passive reflector were performed. Building on the idea of passive reflectors, NASA’s first communications satellite project, Project Echo, was begun in 1960. In this...

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Speaker: Dan Stancil
Alcoa Distinguished Professor Emeritus
NC State University

Daniel D. Stancil is Alcoa Distinguished Professor Emeritus at NC State. His early interest in radios and electronics launched a fun and rewarding engineering career. Along the way he picked up engineering degrees from Tennessee Tech (B.S.E.E.) and MIT (M.S., E.E. and Ph.D.). He has spent many years as a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at both Carnegie Mellon University and NC State. While at CMU he served as Associate Head of the ECE Department, and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering. He was Head of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at North Carolina State University from 2009-2023, and Executive Director of the IBM Quantum Innovation Center at NC State from 2019-2024. Dr. Stancil is a Life Fellow of the IEEE. He has been an amateur radio operator since before high school, and is presently licensed as WY3O.