News Archives
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August 24, 2018
Building the Future: Education and Workforce Programs Give Students the Tools They Need for Career Success
A group of students huddled around tables in a lab at N.C. State University one hot summer day in late July, peering through plastic goggles as they soldered components onto printed circuit boards. The finished boards would operate as power […]
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August 22, 2018
Spotlight on FREEDM Alumni: Rishabh Jain
Simulating the grid is hard. So, when the National Renewable Energy Lab needed a new staff engineer, they came to FREEDM and hired one of the best. Dr. Rishabh Jain completed his degree requirements at NC State and successfully defended […]
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July 16, 2018
Spotlight Q&A: Dr. Subhashish Bhattacharya
With 280+ publications bearing his name, Dr. Subhashish Battacharya is a very busy NC State University ECE Faculty member and FREEDM Systems Center researcher. Since 2005, his research has focused on Power Electronics and Power Systems including Electric Vehicle Systems, and Electronic […]
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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 […]