Apr 7, 2023

NC State and ECE Open House

Every spring, eager high school students and their families walk through the Engineering Oval on Centennial Campus trying to learn as much as they can about what it would be like to attend NC State and major in an engineering discipline. FREEDM is there as well to showcase our research and get them excited about…

Apr 7, 2023

Advancing the Next Generation of Electric Trucks with Ricardo

Apr 7, 2023

Spring break in the sun, but not what you’d expect

Many members of our Wolfpack family spent Spring Break in the sun and so did Jakob Triemstra. But he and other NC State students with Engineers without Borders traveled to Sierra Leone to evaluate several schools for solar panel installations and a water reclamation system. See more from their trip in this video.

Feb 12, 2023

Sneha Narasimhan wins First Place Poster in the ECE GSA Graduate Research Symposium

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 peers and faculty members. Sneha Narasimhan, a student at FREEDM advised by Dr. Subhashish Bhattacharya,…

Feb 12, 2023

Bhattacharya receives two first-place paper awards at ECCE 2022

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).

Dec 9, 2022

Congratulations to Dr. Husain for the 2022 IAS Outstanding Achievement Award

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 with the Energy Conference Congress and Expo in Detroit, Michigan. “I am very honored to…

Aug 19, 2022

Industry Program Update for August 2022

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 representatives to discuss charging infrastructure needs Hosted visit from Delta Electronics Worked with NCSU on…

Aug 9, 2022

Alumnus wins IEEE IAS Best Thesis Award

Congratulations to Anup Anurag, Ph.D., for winning the IEEE Industry Applications Society Best Thesis Award for 2022. This international recognition was for his work titled “HV SiC MOSFET Enabled Solid State Transformers for Mobile Utility Support Equipment-based Applications.” Dr. Anurag’s research focused mainly on developing a medium voltage solid state transformer to integrate medium voltage…

Jul 6, 2022

Extreme Fast Charger development continues at FREEDM

The US Department of Energy recently announced funding to a team led by NC State to develop “Ultra-low Cost, All-SiC Modular Power Converters for DC Fast Charging Equipment Connected Directly to Medium Voltage Distribution.” The goal of this project is to build on previous work at FREEDM to improve the development of electric vehicle (EV)…

Jul 6, 2022

FREEDM welcomes new members FlexGen and Resilient Power

FREEDM is proud to announce our two newest Industry Members. FlexGen, headquartered in Durham, NC, designs storage solutions and energy management software for utility scale projects that integrate traditional and renewable generation. Resilient Power streamlines EV infrastructure installation with their patented solid-state power stations. “FlexGen is excited to join FREEDM for several reasons,” said Tony…