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Women have come a long way in enriching the scientific community – yet there’s still more to be achieved. We are recognizing women researchers who, through the scope of their work have contributed towards the development in STEM research. Featuring Dr. Leda Lunardi and Alice Cline Parker (ECE Alumni Hall of Fame 2017)

“You can always improve signal quality by using a larger antenna, but that’s simply not practical for many wavelengths,” says Jacob Adams, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at NC State University and senior author of a paper on the work. “For example, antennas operating in the high-frequency range — 3 to 30 megahertz (MHz) — would be 5 meters long or longer. We’ve shown that DAM can improve signal quality dramatically when using much smaller antennas. How much smaller can vary, but we’ve demonstrated the concept using antennas one-third the size of a conventional antenna for a given wavelength.”

Spacewalking astronauts hustled through battery hookups outside the International Space Station on Friday in a major upgrade of the solar power grid. NASA’s Christina Koch and Nick Hague successfully installed a set of new and stronger batteries, continuing replacement work that began a week ago.

A North Carolina State University graduate is taking off Thursday for the International Space Station, where she is expected to make history.

Three crew members, including NC State alumna Christina Koch have arrived safely at the International Space Station, following a successful launch and docking of their Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft Thursday.

Rhett Davis, professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University, has been named Technical and Educational Advisor for Silicon Integration Initiative. Si2 is a leading research and development joint venture that provides standard interoperability solutions for integrated circuit design tools.

It won’t be an ordinary Women’s History Month, at least for NASA. Christina Koch and Anne McClain will be the first all-female crew to do a spacewalk. Koch has an extensive background in remote scientific field engineering and development of space science instrument. She holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from NC State University.

To accelerate the development of quantum computing, North Carolina State University and IBM are putting the technology in the hands of the future workforce of the field — college students. New curriculum and research on quantum computing, enabled by IBM’s first university-based quantum computing hub in North America at NC State, is introducing students to the technology that experts say will shape computing in the coming years.

Taking a look at the role that the College of Engineering at NC State plays in contributing to the local and national economies, and its success in preparing graduates to fill “the needs of STEM-area employers both in the Triangle and across North Carolina.”

The IBM Quantum Computing Hub, a partnership with IBM that provides researchers, professors, and even students with web-based access to IBM quantum computing devices at Yorktown Heights, New York, just hired two new leaders and is looking to expand their reach.

The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur Magazine listed N.C. State University in Raleigh and UNC-Chapel Hill in the Top 25 Undergraduate Schools for Entrepreneurship Studies.

ABB is engaged in a collaborative R&D project with NC State to develop the underlying power systems required to support rapid charging of electric vehicles. ABB’s North American Corporate Research Center is based on Centennial Campus.

North Carolina State University on Thursday honored the first black student to receive an undergraduate degree from the school.

North Carolina State University (NCSU) researchers have developed a medium-voltage fast charger (MVFC) that they say offers 60% less power loss than conventional systems, is only a tenth the size, and delivers similar charging times.

When Irwin Holmes Jr. arrived as an electrical engineering freshman at N.C. State University in the fall of 1956, living on campus was out of the question. Now, the building that houses the campus housing office will bear his name.