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Mar 3, 2025

FREEDM students win Poster Award at NCDOT Research and Innovation Symposium

FREEDM PhD students Shokoufeh Valadkhani and Zhansen Akhmetov won $1,000 in scholarship funding for their technical poster presentation at the NCDOT Research and Innovation Symposium held in Raleigh on February…

Jan 11, 2022

FREEDM to demonstrate technology from Gismo Power

As a Silver Connector for the American Made Challenge, FREEDM supported several teams for the Solar Prize Round 5 including Gismo Power who was named a semifinalist for the hardware track…

Oct 25, 2021

Enhancing Undergraduate Education with Hands On projects at FREEDM

Most people associate FREEDM with our research projects and graduate students, but we also work closely with undergraduate students. The two phrases we often hear from these students are “I…

Jul 28, 2021

How a game of Telephone helped keep the lights on in Sierra Leone

Nicole Poindexter needed help. Her company, Energicity, is a not-for-profit that develops mini-grids for communities in Africa. Their expansion into Sierra Leone meant more growth and greater impact but also…

Jan 7, 2021

NC State University Undergrad Students Win 2020 IEEE PES Scholarships

Each year the IEEE Power & Energy Society awards students scholarships through its Scholarship Plus Initiative. One hundred eighteen students were selected this year from 78 U.S., Puerto Rico &…

Dec 17, 2020

Tech Webinar Recap: Frequency Decoupled Energy Management System for Storage Units in DC Microgrids

Presenter: Niloofar Ghanbari, NC State & FREEDM Systems Center Ph.D. Candidate Principal Investigator: Subhashish Bhattacharya, NC State University Duke Energy Distinguished Professor DC microgrids have several advantages over AC microgrids but also…

Oct 5, 2020

Technical Webinar Recap: Dynamic Wireless Charging Systems for Electrified Transportation

Dynamic Wireless Charging Systems for Electrified Transportation Many consumers cite range anxiety as a barrier to purchasing an electric vehicle (EV). Others note that EV charging times can be longer…

Sep 18, 2020

MS-EPSE Students Present at PAC World Americas Conference

Recent MS-EPSE graduates Carolina Zhang, Pranav Kulkarni, Syed Arsal Hussain and Xihui Chen presented their capstone project at PAC World Americas 2020 Virtual Conference.  View the presentation:  Multi-Terminal Permissive Overreaching…

Sep 18, 2020

FREEDM Research and Education Update

Dear Members, Academic Partners and Friends, I hope this note finds you well and able to meet the personal and professional challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although our labs were…

Sep 18, 2020

Congratulations to Our Recent Graduates

Please join us in congratulating our most recent Ph.D. and MS graduates! Although they had to adapt to a new defense process, these students didn’t let adversity stop them from…