The 2023 ECE Graduate Research Symposium was hosted by the ECE Graduate Student Association on January 20. The Symposium is held each year and provides graduate students in the department a great way to show off their outstanding research to […]

Subhashish Bhattacharya, ECE Duke Energy Distinguished Professor, received two first-place paper awards at the ECCE 2022 conference from the IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS).

The IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS) Outstanding Achievement Award is a recognition of outstanding contributions in the application of electricity to industry. And this accolade was presented to Dr. Iqbal Husain at the recent IAS Annual Meeting held in conjunction […]

This is a brief summary of Center activities over the past few weeks that supported our Industry Partners. Faculty visit to new Schneider Electric facility called the RaleighHUB Hosted visit from ABB to discuss machines research Met with NC DOT […]

The ALCOA Foundation Engineering Research Achievement Award recognizes faculty for outstanding research during the preceding three years.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced $175 million for 68 research and development projects aimed at developing disruptive technologies to strengthen the nation’s advanced energy enterprise. The OPEN 2021 program prioritizes funding high-impact, high risk […]

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 presented a need to reduce costs. Energicity deploys small scale […]

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) recently donated a dozen Real-Time Automation Controllers (RTACs) for use in the Power Systems Teaching Lab at NC State. RTACs are used in electric substations for utility SCADA and substation automation. “Our students will use these […]

FREEDM, ABB and New York Power Authority are engaged in a collaborative R&D project to develop and deploy an extreme fast charger for electric vehicles. How extreme? The initial design calls for a 1 megawatt station with five charging points each […]

  As part of an ongoing initiative to foster interactions between students and industry, FREEDM’s Student Leadership Council (SLC) hosted their third workshop of the semester entitled “Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) for Power Electronics and Microgrids” on April 27, 2018. This workshop […]