The U.S. Department of Energy recently announced the selection of 42 projects focused on early-stage research of transportation technologies that can give families and businesses greater choice in how they meet their mobility needs. Srdjan Lukic, PhD, Deputy Director of […]

Since the beginning, FREEDM has promoted solutions to transform the electric grid. We are pleased to announce that we are now joined in that effort by LF Energy, the newest project of the Linux Foundation. LF Energy will promote multi-user […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

  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 […]

Register Here Registration deadline is January 11, 2019 The integration of distributed generation, load balancing and energy storage form the model of a microgrid, and power electronics (PE) have become an important part of microgrid design. Not only are many storage and distributed […]

Join the FREEDM Student Leadership Council and Typhoon HIL for lunch and a tutorial that will provide industry perspective as well as hands-on experience. We will demonstrate how to prototype a solar inverter controller and port it onto a TI […]

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 […]