Top Stories

Jun 22, 2018 | Home Page

FREEDM Celebrates Ten Years of Energy Research

Sep 18, 2017

New Manufacturing Process For SiC Power Devices Opens Market to More Competition

Jul 17, 2017

Smart Transformers for a Cleaner and Flexible Power Grid

Jul 5, 2017

Study Finds ‘Smart’ Transformers Could Make Reliable Smart Grid a Reality

Sep 15, 2016

New Tech Promises to Boost Vehicle Efficiency

Latest NewsSee All Stories

May 9, 2018

Celebrate 10 years with FREEDM (there will be cake!)

FREEDM will host our 2018 Annual Conference on June 7 and 8 at the McKimmon Conference Center in Raleigh. We are also celebrating our Tenth Year as an NSF Engineering...

May 9, 2018

Students host workshop with Typhoon HIL

  As part of an ongoing initiative to foster interactions between students and industry, FREEDM’s Student Leadership Council (SLC) hosted their third workshop of the semester entitled “Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) for...

Mar 30, 2018

Spotlight on FREEDM Alumni: Likhita Ravuri

While a student at BITS Pilani in India, Likhita Ravuri was researching opportunities to complete her undergraduate degree abroad when she came across FREEDM Systems Center.  She joined Dr. Sdrjan Lukic’s...

Mar 26, 2018

FREEDM Graduate Assistant Receives Prestigious Award

Megan Morin, a graduate assistant and NC State PhD student in technology, engineering and design education, will receive the Donald Maley Spirit of Excellence Outstanding Graduate Student Citation from the Foundation...

Mar 14, 2018

FREEDM Students shine at APEC 2018

FREEDM was well represented at the 2018 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference held in San Antonio, Texas, March 5 through 8. In addition to co-sponsoring a booth on the exhibit...

Mar 13, 2018

FREEDM Welcomes New Member Gilbarco

Gilbarco Veeder-Root, a subsidiary of Fortive, is a supplier of fuel dispensers, payment systems, and support services primarily for convenience stores. Headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina, they employ approximately 4,000...

Jan 29, 2018

Spotlight on FREEDM Alumni: Yigitcan Unludag

Originally from Istanbul, Turkey, FREEDM Alumnus, Yigitcan Unludag (Yeet-John Un-loo-duh) is part of a family of Wolfpack graduates.  Both of his parents and an older brother attended NC State and...

Oct 6, 2017

View the latest FREEDM Video

The FREEDM Systems Center has several videos posted to our Vimeo site. This most recent installment highlights the unique capabilities of the multiple labs located within the center. This video...

Sep 18, 2017

New Manufacturing Process For SiC Power Devices Opens Market to More Competition

For Immediate Release September 13, 2017 Jay Baliga  |  919.515.6169 Matt Shipman  |  919.515.6386 Researchers from North Carolina State University are rolling out a new manufacturing process and chip design for silicon carbide (SiC)...