FREEDM PhD students Shokoufeh Valadkhani and Zhansen Akhmetov won $1,000 in scholarship funding for their technical poster presentation at the NCDOT Research and Innovation Symposium held in Raleigh on February 11 and 12. Led by Dr. Zejlko Pantic, the team […]

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 […]

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 […]

  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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

  Congratulations to Ajit Kanale, an NC State Ph.D. candidate working under Dr. Jay Baliga and Dr. Subhashich Bhattacharya, for winning the Electrical and Computer Engineering Doctoral Scholar of the Year. This award recognizes a student’s overall achievements in research, […]

The FREEDM Systems Center at North Carolina State University is building the next generation of electric vehicle fast charger. With funding from the US Department of Energy and in partnership with ABB and the New York Power Authority, a FREEDM […]

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 […]