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Jul 21, 2021

WATER BROS Competes in American Made Challenge

Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte have joined with industry partners to develop the Wave Actuated, Tethered, Emergency Response, Buoyant Reverse Osmosis System (WATER BROS). Their company, Water Bros Desalination LLC, founded in part by NC State & FREEDM alum Landon Mackey, Ph.D., is developing the next…

Jul 12, 2021

NC State University & FREEDM Represent at ITEC 2021

Several Ph.D. level students from the College of Engineering at NC State University participated in the IEEE ITEC 2021 conference in June. Tomas Sadilek, NC State University and FREEDM Ph.D. candidate, was recently recognized by the organization for his paper titled Design and Evaluation of SiC Active Soft-Switching Cell for 1-ph/3-ph Universal Voltage Input PFC…

Jul 6, 2021

Alumni Receive IEEE Best Paper Award

FREEDM Alumni Anup Anurag, Ph.D., and Sayan Acharya, Ph.D., along with Dr. Subhashish Bhattacharya recently received the Best Paper Award at ECCE Asia 2021 for their paper titled, “Solid State Transformer and Medium Voltage Grid Connection Applications Enabled by Gen3 10 kV SiC MOSFETs based Three-Phase Two-Level Converter Systems”. What problem does this research help…

Jun 29, 2021

Tech Webinar Recap: FREEDM Tech Webinar: FPGA Implementation for Rapid Prototyping of High-Performance Voltage Source Inverters

June 29, 2021 Presented by Yukun Luo, Ph.D. & NC State University Doctoral Graduate FPGA is a powerful platform that can play an essential role in the high-performance digital control of power electronics systems. However, the FPGA system’s design is quite different from that of a traditional microprocessor or a digital signal processor (DSP). Instead…

Jun 21, 2021

NC State University Student Earns Recognition at APEC 2021

Ashish Kumar, NC State University and FREEDM Ph.D. candidate, was recently recognized as an APEC 2021 Technical Lecture and Dialogue Best Presentation Award Winner for his lecture titled, “Performance Evaluation of 10 kV SiC Current Switch Based PWM Current Source Inverter for 4.16 kV Motor Drive Applications”. What problem does this research help solve and who…

Mar 2, 2021

Ning Lu, Ph.D. Elevated to IEEE Fellow

December 2020-  Ning Lu, Ph.D. was honored with elevation to IEEE Fellow in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the field of electrical and computer engineering. Dr. Lu was elevated for contributions to load modeling and control methods for providing demand side grid services. “Becoming an IEEE Fellow is a particular honor since it is…

Mar 1, 2021

Facebook joins FREEDM

FREEDM is proud to announce that Facebook, Inc., has joined the Center as a Full Member. Everyone knows Facebook as a social media giant but not many know that they design and operate their own data centers. “Facebook is constantly looking to improve performance of our data centers,” said Paul Hsu, Director, Data Center Design…

Feb 18, 2021

Henkel and FREEDM Enter Research Partnership

Henkel Corporation and FREEDM Systems Engineering Research Center today announced a new partnership agreement designed to study the impact of materials technology on power electronics applications. Henkel, well-known for its global presence in the chemical and consumer goods industries, has joined  FREEDM as an Associate Member and will leverage services from NC State University’s Packaging…

Feb 1, 2021

FREEDM joins the American-Made Network

The FREEDM Systems Center at NC State University is now an official partner of the American-Made Network, which supports the efforts of competitors in the American-Made Challenges program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy. The American-Made Network is designed to strengthen and scale critical connections to accelerate and sustain innovation.  American-Made Challenges incentivize the…

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 & Canadian universities. The initiative recognizes undergraduate students who have declared a major in electrical and computer engineering, are high achievers with strong GPAs with distinctive…