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Jul 6, 2022

Extreme Fast Charger development continues at FREEDM
Apr 22, 2022

FREEDM Student Ajit Kanale wins ECE Doctoral Scholar of the Year
Feb 16, 2022

FREEDM to receive $4.8 Million to Develop Microgrid Co-Design Platform
May 6, 2022

FREEDM Director, Iqbal Husain, receives 2022 ALCOA Foundation Engineering Research Achievement Award
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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

May 6, 2022

FREEDM Director, Iqbal Husain, receives 2022 ALCOA Foundation Engineering Research Achievement Award

The ALCOA Foundation Engineering Research Achievement Award recognizes faculty for outstanding research during the preceding three years.

Apr 22, 2022

Iqbal Husain interview on Making the Move to Electric Mining Infrastructure

Dr. Husain is making the news in Australia. He’s at Curtin University in Perth as a Fullbright Scholar for a few months and working on charging solutions for really big...

Apr 22, 2022

FREEDM Student Ajit Kanale wins ECE Doctoral Scholar of the Year

  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...

Feb 16, 2022

FREEDM to receive $4.8 Million to Develop Microgrid Co-Design Platform

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced $175 million for 68 research and development projects aimed at developing disruptive technologies to strengthen the nation’s advanced energy...