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October 25, 2021
Enhancing Undergraduate Education with Hands On projects at FREEDM
Most people associate FREEDM with our research projects and graduate students, but we also work closely with undergraduate students. The two phrases we often hear from these students are “I had no idea this was how it worked” and “That […]
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FREEDM Tech Webinar Series: A New Technique for HV Electric Field Analysis and E-Field Profiling in Layered Packaging
Power modules often fail at triple points where three materials come together and partial discharge can age the insulation. This presentation proposes a capacitive modeling method to reveal techniques to reduce the electric field intensity that were not previously obvious. […]
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July 28, 2021
How a game of Telephone helped keep the lights on in Sierra Leone
Nicole Poindexter needed help. Her company, Energicity, is a not-for-profit that develops mini-grids for communities in Africa. Their expansion into Sierra Leone meant more growth and greater impact but also presented a need to reduce costs. Energicity deploys small scale […]
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July 12, 2021
NC State University & FREEDM Represent at ITEC 2021
Several Ph.D. level students from the College of Engineering at NC State University participated in the IEEE ITEC 2021 conference in June. Tomas Sadilek, NC State University and FREEDM Ph.D. candidate, was recently recognized by the organization for his paper […]
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PowerAmerica 2021 Wide Bandgap Summer Workshop
The 2021 PowerAmerica Wide Bandgap Summer Workshop, “The Roadmap to the Future of SiC and GaN,” is back this year in an online format. Join us for an engaging series of keynotes, tutorials, presentations, virtual networking and more. Don’t miss […]
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July 6, 2021
Alumni Receive IEEE Best Paper Award
FREEDM Alumni Anup Anurag, Ph.D., and Sayan Acharya, Ph.D., along with Dr. Subhashish Bhattacharya recently received the Best Paper Award at ECCE Asia 2021 for their paper titled, “Solid State Transformer and Medium Voltage Grid Connection Applications Enabled by Gen3 […]
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June 29, 2021
Tech Webinar Recap: FREEDM Tech Webinar: FPGA Implementation for Rapid Prototyping of High-Performance Voltage Source Inverters
June 29, 2021 Presented by Yukun Luo, Ph.D. & NC State University Doctoral Graduate FPGA is a powerful platform that can play an essential role in the high-performance digital control of power electronics systems. However, the FPGA system’s design is […]
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June 21, 2021
NC State University Student Earns Recognition at APEC 2021
Ashish Kumar, NC State University and FREEDM Ph.D. candidate, was recently recognized as an APEC 2021 Technical Lecture and Dialogue Best Presentation Award Winner for his lecture titled, “Performance Evaluation of 10 kV SiC Current Switch Based PWM Current Source Inverter […]
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March 2, 2021
Ning Lu, Ph.D. Elevated to IEEE Fellow
December 2020- Ning Lu, Ph.D. was honored with elevation to IEEE Fellow in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the field of electrical and computer engineering. Dr. Lu was elevated for contributions to load modeling and control methods for providing […]
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March 1, 2021
Facebook joins FREEDM
FREEDM is proud to announce that Facebook, Inc., has joined the Center as a Full Member. Everyone knows Facebook as a social media giant but not many know that they design and operate their own data centers. “Facebook is constantly […]