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Mar 30, 2026

A Hopeful Future of Pets

Left to right: Panelists Alper Bozkurt, Carlos Goller, and Margaret Gruen address the audience during the Hopeful Futures: Future of Pets event. Did you know that over 70% of households in the U.S. have pets? Pet ownership has been steadily increasing over the last 35 years, up from 56% in 1988. As pets continue to…

Jan 12, 2026

Yifan Wu, NC State Research Team Wins Best Presentation Award at ACI

Congratulations to NC State ECE Ph.D. student Yifan Wu on receiving the Best Presentation Award at the 2025 Animal-Computer Interaction International Conference (ACI). Mentored by Professors David Roberts (CS) and Alper Bozkurt (ECE, ASSIST and IConS), Wu presented his paper, “Toward Automated Pain Evaluation in Osteoarthritic Dogs Through Inertial Data and Machine Learning” last month at the conference in Indiana; this is…

May 22, 2025

NC State Engineering Shows Off Skills at General Assembly’s UNC System Day

This is an article originally written by Nicole Zelniker. May 9, 2025 North Carolina State University students, faculty and alumni came out to represent the College of Engineering for the University of North Carolina System Day at the General Assembly. Among the mascots and merriment, representatives from different College of Engineering departments displayed new and updated technology in…

Mar 14, 2025

Sensors, Centered

The Institute for Connected Sensor-Systems (IConS) ties together NC State’s strengths in sensor development and application-driven solutions. This is an article originally written by Engineering Communications for the Engineering Magazine. In 2021, Shevaun Neupert wrote a proposal for the National Institutes of Health on integrating off-the-shelf wearable devices, such as a smartwatch, into her research on…

Feb 28, 2025

Year 3 Seed Grant Request for Proposals

The Seed Grant Request for Proposals has been released and has a deadline of April 28, 2025. We encourage you to take this opportunity to actively showcase your research and to foster collaborations with another college within NC State University. This initiative aims to enhance interdisciplinary partnerships and innovation in research endeavors. Important DaysRFP Release Date: TODAY (February 28,…

Sep 16, 2024

Seed Grant Funding Results – Project 2

Michael Dickey, Qingshan Wei, Coby Schal, and Jean Ristaino awarded seed grant from IConS to develop and validate new sensor technologies for plants.

Sep 9, 2024

Fall 2024 Seed Grant Funding Results – Project 1

Budhathoki-Uprety and Ware awarded seed grant from IConS to create next-gen optical biosensors by combining advanced materials and cutting-edge technology.
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Aug 8, 2024

Partnership Seeds Two Agricultural Sensor Projects

This is an article originally written by Dee Shore for for the NC Plant Sciences Initiative. A new partnership among NC State University’s Institute for Connected Sensor Systems, N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative and Kenan Institute for Engineering, Technology and Science has provided seed funding for two interdisciplinary research projects aimed at using sensors to advance agriculture. One project involves creating a…

Jun 24, 2024

Year 2 Seed Grant Request for Proposals

The Seed Grant Request for Proposals has been released and has a deadline of July 19, 2024. If you have a research idea to be supported by or to support a connected sensor system application but are looking for potential partners from other Colleges, please feel free to contact IConS leadership and we would be glad to connect you with relevant other PIs…
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Mar 1, 2024

Seed Grant Funding Results – Project 3

After careful consideration of the many proposals we received in our first Seed Grant RFP, we chose three projects that align well with our mission to advance innovation in sensors and sensor systems, while providing unique interdisciplinary training for a graduate student team. Awardee PI Suresh Venkatesh (Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering) and…