Student Leadership Committee Celebrates Summer with BBQ

Jun 13, 2024

Student Leadership Committee Celebrates Summer with BBQ

The FREEDM Systems Center is glad to announce that our Student Leadership Committee has been reinstated! Our students have been hard at work planning events that bring our students and faculty together. This past weekend on Saturday, June 8th, the committee came together to put on a delicious BBQ at Lake Wheeler! Many students from…

Jun 13, 2024

STEP E-Dragster Challenge Ignites Innovation and Learning in Sustainable Transportation

In a collaborative effort between North Carolina State University (NCSU), the FREEDM Systems Center, and Duke Energy, the Sustainable Transportation Education Program E-Dragster Challenge recently captivated 40 students from six schools throughout North Carolina in a thrilling showcase of engineering skills and sustainable transportation innovation. The E-Dragster Challenge saw participants race their meticulously crafted E-Dragsters,…

Apr 19, 2024

Partha Das Takes Home 2nd Place Award at GSA Research Day!

Recently, NC State’s College of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) held their annual Graduate Student Association Research Day. While there were many impressive presentations, FREEDM’s own Partha Das took home the 2nd place award! His focus is on developing next-generation fault-tolerant drives for transportation applications. In his own words describing the use of these applications,…

Jan 17, 2024

Congrats to Sneha!

The FREEDM Systems Center is proud to announce that one of our students has received the 2023 Women in Technology Scholarship! This award is sponsored by Cadence, a company focused on producing technology using the latest AI. Their goal with this scholarship is to support diversity in technology by helping fund women in technical programs.…

Jan 8, 2024

FREEDM adds New Faculty and Staff in 2024

In January, FREEDM welcomed three new employees to the Center: John Gajda, Dr. Alyssa Kody, and Erik Bishop. John will primarily support our Electric Power Systems Engineering program as a Professor of the Practice and teach several classes this spring. John has a long resume in the power industry with roles in industry, regulatory, cooperative…

Jan 8, 2024

Dr. Ning Lu named College of Engineering Outstanding Undergraduate Advisor

FREEDM power systems faculty Dr. Ning Lu received the 2023 George H. Blessis Outstanding Undergraduate Advisor Award, given by the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University.

Oct 6, 2023

FREEDM Congratulates Hanpyo Lee on GCPA Scholarship Award

Hanpyo Lee, a 4th year PhD candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NC State, has recently been honored with the prestigious Gulf Coast Power Association (GCPA) Scholarship. Last summer, with the recommendation of Dr. Ning Lu, Hanpyo became an intern at the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). During this…

Aug 25, 2023

FREEDM congratulates Priya Raghuraman on AEE scholarship award

Congratulations to Priya Raghuraman for receiving a scholarship from the Association of Energy Engineers named in honor of former AEE President Konstantin Lobodovski. Like many students, Priya was inspired by a teacher to pursue engineering. “I took a power systems class in undergraduate at VJTI, Mumbai,” said Priya. “And Dr. Pragati Gupta and Dr. H.…

Aug 25, 2023

FREEDM Startup is Finalist for Solar Prize

NC Solar Inverters, a startup from the FREEDM Systems Center at NC State, is a finalist for Round 6 of the American Made Solar Prize. Sponsored by the Solar Energy Technology Office of the US Department of Energy, the Solar Prize is an open competition designed to energize US manufacturing to address tough challenges facing…

May 2, 2023

Two FREEDM students among ECE graduate student winners

The Graduate Studies Committee in Electrical and Computer Engineering annually recognizes high performing students for leadership, research, scholarly achievement, and citizenship. Sagar Rastogi won the Research Award and Sneha Narasimhan was recognized for Scholarly Achievement. Sagar’s research seeks to improve the reliability of isolated DC-DC converters for heavy-duty electric vehicles. His analysis of magnetics behavior…

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