On June 7-8, 2018 the FREEDM Systems Center hosted its annual conference and celebration to highlight accomplishments over the past ten years as a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center. FREEDM industry members, faculty, staff, students, and alumni came together to […]

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 Research Center. The conference will showcase the achievements of the last […]

  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 Power Electronics and Microgrids” on April 27, 2018. This workshop […]

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 research team for a semester before returning to India to […]

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 for Technology and Engineering Education (FTEE). The International Technology and […]

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 floor with PowerAmerica, FREEDM students participated in technical and dialogue […]

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 people around the world. Their products include automatic tank gauging […]

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 it was while visiting Raleigh that Yigitcan decided to follow […]

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 below was produced with help from World Energy TV. It’s a […]

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) power devices, which can be used to more efficiently regulate […]