Shanzila Chowdhury, a dual-engineering degree student at NC State and Meredith College, is one of two students to be awarded the 2018 Sensus Reach™ Scholarship. The scholarship, which was established in 2016, is a merit- and need-based award given annually […]

The FREEDM Systems Center was well represented at the 2018 eGrid Workshop held November 12 – 14 in Charleston, SC. This international workshop focused on the role of power electronics in electric utilities and included presentations from leading experts in industry and […]

Sponsored by IEEE PELS and IAS, the Energy Conversion Congress and Expo 2018 was held in Portland, Oregon on September 23 – 27. And FREEDM was there in force. We had over 20 students attend with five PI’s and our […]

Dr. Samir Hazra a former Ph.D. student of Prof. Subhashish Bhattacharya at FREEDM, received first prize in the 2018 IEEE Industry Application Society Chapters and Membership Development (IAS CMD) Student Thesis Contest for his doctoral work entitled, “Power Generation and […]

There are over one billion people in the world without access to electricity. Let that sink in for a minute. It’s probably hard for anyone reading this on their web browser to imagine living without electricity. The scale of the […]

We passed! As an Engineering Research Center funded by the National Science Foundation, there is an annual “exam” before a panel of outside experts who review the Center’s research progress and program performance. FREEDM is happy to announce that the NSF […]

Vishnu Mahadeva Iyer, a research assistant at the FREEDM Systems Center at NC State, won the Outstanding Presenter award at the IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC) held in Tampa, FL in March 2017. The topic of his presentation is […]

Landon Mackey and Md Rifat Kaisar Rachi, PhD EE Candidates at the FREEDM Systems Center won first prize at the North Carolina Renewable Ocean Energy Program (NCROEP) Symposium held in early April 2017 for their poster entitled “Ultra-Fast Speed DC Circuit Protection […]

Dr. Radha Sree Krishna Moorthy, Post Doc Research Associate at the FREEDM Systems Center, won the IEEE Industry Applications Society Chapters and Membership Development (IAS CMD) Student Thesis Contest, PhD category, for her work entitled, “Analysis and Design of Impulse […]

Like many electricity systems around the world, the Irish grid faces some challenges. How can Ireland and Northern Ireland optimize the generation of renewable energy at the point of consumption, while maintaining safe, secure, reliable energy at affordable prices? How can […]