ECE Assistant Professor Amay Bandodkar and PhD student Erim Uzunoğlu built a wearable patch that vibrates to warn of environmental hazards, plus an e-skin that helps robots avoid hazards. ncst.at/re8G50ZWQeq

First-ever plasma beam antenna! ECE PhD student Prya Darshni and Professor Paul Franzon used a laser to turn a beam of air into an antenna that transmits radio waves. ncst.at/6xsg50ZUHwM

Computer engineering breaks into the top 20! NC State's undergrad computer engineering program is No. 19 in the nation in U.S. News' 2027 rankings. The College of Engineering rose to No. 32, with eight programs in the top 20. ncst.at/MFei50ZSmJQ

Thousands of students turned out for POP Back on Centennial Campus this fall, connecting with student groups and employers despite a rain delay. Our ECE community was there for the fun! Read more: ncst.at/XryM50ZPCNc

ECE PhD student Arundhuti Haldar co-authored research showing ML models boost day-ahead solar forecasts by up to 13%, helping utilities balance supply and demand. Read more: ncst.at/SBQB50ZPCKH

Congrats to ECE's Hantao Cui on winning the IEEE PES Prize Paper Award. Just 2 papers are selected annually from thousands of papers. His research helps stabilize power grids amid the clean energy shift. Read more: ncst.at/4xI650ZNnK7

Welcome to ECE, Brittany N. Smith & Wei-Hsi Chen! Smith directs our new FLAME microelectronics lab; Chen leads our FORGE robotics lab. Excited for the energy they bring to NC State ECE this fall. Read more: ncst.at/9Sgs50ZJBTL

ECE Assistant Professor Vijay K. Shah leads a $1M NSF award (w/ Yale) to build ARMANI, AI tools for smarter 5G/6G networks. Grad & undergrad students get hands-on experience. Read more: ncst.at/o1MM50ZJBSl

Congratulations to NC State ECE's Aydin Aysu on receiving the 2026 DAC Under-40 Innovators Award. It recognizes his work in making hardware security central to how we design AI accelerators and post-quantum cryptographic systems.

ECE Professor Edgar Lobaton is helping lead NC State's new partnership with Red Hat to build safer, production-ready AI systems from complex policy guidelines. Read more: ncst.at/wX4Z50ZygW5

ECE Professor Michael Kudenov co-led a study using pokeweed and UV light to detect rare earth elements like dysprosium in plants, advancing phytomining for critical tech minerals. Read more: ncst.at/p03q50Zti0G

ECE's Michela Becchi is leading one of three DOE Genesis Mission projects at NC State, building an AI framework to help researchers program next-gen computing hardware. Read more: ncst.at/OvF850ZwhSi

Congrats to ECE's Aritra Mitra on winning an NSF CAREER Award! His work builds AI systems that stay reliable despite noisy or corrupted data, with uses in robotics, wireless networks and power systems. Read more: ncst.at/JQ5s50Zwaim

ECE prof Sabre Kais, Goodnight Distinguished Chair in Quantum Computing, chaired NC State first Quantum Machine Learning workshop with 150 researchers from IBM, NVIDIA & more. Read more: ncst.at/pA8G50Zs9Ms

🩹 Congrats to ECE's Amay Bandodkar on winning an NSF CAREER Award! His lab is building wireless smart bandages that monitor wounds in real-time, powered by the body itself. 🔋 Read more: ncst.at/P3NN50ZtUnz

ECE profs Amay Bandodkar & Abraham Vazquez-Guardado, with grad student Akshay Bhardwaj, built a battery powered by humidity alone, even in the desert. Read more: ncst.at/NyEr50ZkFlv

Four College of Engineering seniors won Outstanding Senior Awards at this year's Engineering Awards Banquet, with ECE students nominated across every category. Congrats to all honorees! 🎓 Read more: ncst.at/YvNt50ZeK2a

NC State's ICaSL (Prof. Suresh Venkatesh) is teaming up with Axiro Semiconductor to advance next-gen phased-array and integrated sensing & communication (ISAC) tech — pairing ECE research with real-world chip manufacturing. 📡 ncst.at/w0oT50ZeL5z

Three NC State students are tackling real ag challenges with engineering and CS skills through the N.C. PSI Makerspace, building tools like a tractor-mounted imaging system and a soil sensor. 🌱 Read more: ncst.at/v5fS50ZeK3u

NC State ECE's Tianfu Wu & PhD student Chinmay Savadikar built CHEEM, an AI framework that learns new tasks without forgetting old ones. Headed to CVPR 2026. Read more: ncst.at/3mJf50ZfeFp