News Archives
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June 22, 2018
ARPA-E Announces Grid Optimization (GO) Competition
The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) is challenging the research and industrial communities to successfully develop and test power system optimization and control algorithms to accelerate the development and comprehensive evaluation of new solution methods for grid optimization. The goal […]
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June 22, 2018
FREEDM Celebrates Ten Years of Energy Research
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 […]
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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 Power Electronics and Microgrids” on April 27, 2018. This workshop […]
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March 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 research team for a semester before returning to India to […]
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March 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 for Technology and Engineering Education (FTEE). The International Technology and […]
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March 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 floor with PowerAmerica, FREEDM students participated in technical and dialogue […]
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March 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 people around the world. Their products include automatic tank gauging […]
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January 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 it was while visiting Raleigh that Yigitcan decided to follow […]
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October 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 below was produced with help from World Energy TV. It’s a […]
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September 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) power devices, which can be used to more efficiently regulate […]