NC State University has been named among 10 “Energy Elite” colleges and universities by the American Energy Society (AES). NC State has numerous energy-related degree programs and a strong energy research portfolio, including centers and institutes such as the FREEDM Systems […]

  The IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) provides the world’s largest forum for sharing the latest in technological developments in the electric power industry, for developing standards that guide the development and construction of equipment and systems, and for […]

Each year the IEEE Power & Energy Society awards promising students scholarships through its Scholarship Plus Initiative. This year, one hundred and thirty five students were selected from 78 U.S., Puerto Rico & Canadian universities. The initiative recognizes undergraduate students […]

Prof. Douglas C Hopkins, Ph.D.,  NC State University Research Professor, FREEDM Faculty and Director of the Laboratory for Packaging Research in Electronic Energy Systems (PREES), has joined the Executive Council of the International Microelectronic Assembly and Packaging Society (iMaps). IMAPS […]

Please join us in congratulating Hulgize Kassa, FREEDM’s long-time Lab Manager, on being recognized for excellent customer service by the NC State ECE Department at their 2019 Award for Excellence ceremony. “This is something that is extraordinary for a lab […]

Shanzila Chowdhury, a dual-engineering degree student at NC State and Meredith College, is one of two students to be awarded the 2018 Sensus Reach™ Scholarship. The scholarship, which was established in 2016, is a merit- and need-based award given annually […]

The FREEDM Systems Center was well represented at the 2018 eGrid Workshop held November 12 – 14 in Charleston, SC. This international workshop focused on the role of power electronics in electric utilities and included presentations from leading experts in industry and […]

Sponsored by IEEE PELS and IAS, the Energy Conversion Congress and Expo 2018 was held in Portland, Oregon on September 23 – 27. And FREEDM was there in force. We had over 20 students attend with five PI’s and our […]

Dr. Samir Hazra a former Ph.D. student of Prof. Subhashish Bhattacharya at FREEDM, received first prize in the 2018 IEEE Industry Application Society Chapters and Membership Development (IAS CMD) Student Thesis Contest for his doctoral work entitled, “Power Generation and […]

There are over one billion people in the world without access to electricity. Let that sink in for a minute. It’s probably hard for anyone reading this on their web browser to imagine living without electricity. The scale of the […]