There are over one billion people in the world without access to electricity. Let that sink in for a minute. It’s probably hard for anyone reading this on their web browser to imagine living without electricity. The scale of the […]

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 […]

The Center for Advanced Power Engineering Research (CAPER) is a membership driven consortium among several universities and industry partners in the Southeast. The Center’s main mission is to develop and demonstrate grid modernization technologies and to enhance the educational experience for students […]

  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 […]

Talley Student Union, Piedmont-Mountains Ballroom Join employers for the Electrical and Computer Engineering Spring Recruiting Fair – ECE CasualConnections – on Tuesday, February 6, 2018.  Companies include: Cisco Systems, Hughes Network Systems, Intel Corporation, John Deere, Key Tech, L3 Technologies, M.C. Dean, Qorvo, Siemens, Synopsys, Xylem. […]

The Alliance to Save Energy invites you to join us on October 13th at NCSU for a conversation on Research & Innovation:  Examining the Future of Energy Efficiency in North Carolina. Space is limited so register now:   go.ncsu.edu/asepolicyperspective  

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 […]

Rahul Chakraborty was born in Kolkata, India in 1993. He received the Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, in 2015 and the Master of Science (Engineering) in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, […]

A new study using complex computational models finds that smart solid-state transformers (SSTs) could be used to make a stable, reliable “smart grid” – allowing the power distribution system to route renewable energy from homes and businesses into the power […]