Engineering Archives

Dec 13, 2019
  • Doug Boyd

TASSELS TURNED

David Knight III of Raleigh is the first in his family to graduate from college. He did so Friday, receiving his degree from the East Carolina University’s College of Engineering...

Dec 09, 2019

ECU’s Steinbaker earns award from Duke Energy

Griffin Steinbaker, an East Carolina University electrical engineering major, won an award for best undergraduate research poster during Duke Energy Week at Duke University in Durham. The idea behind his...

Dec 04, 2019
  • Kenneth Buday

WAVE OF ENERGY

Finding inspiration in nature, two East Carolina University professors and their student researchers are hoping to put the current of the Gulf Stream to good use. Dr. Praveen Malali, director...

Dec 02, 2019

Engineering students participate in undergraduate research symposium

Twelve students represented East Carolina University’s Department of Engineering at the State of North Carolina Undergraduate Research and Creativity Symposium Nov. 23 at Duke University. The annual event is designed to...

Nov 26, 2019

VOLUME OF RESEARCH

Dr. Teresa Ryan, an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering at East Carolina University, has received a $370,000 grant to continue her efforts to help protect military personnel. Ryan has been...

Nov 25, 2019
  • Kenneth Buday

PIRATES SUPPORTING PIRATES

The Purple Pantry targets food insecurity on the campus of East Carolina University, and now in its second year, it has experienced an increase in the number of students it...

Nov 22, 2019
  • Kenneth Buday

KICKING BOT

Preparation paid off for a team of East Carolina University engineering and technology students with a first-place finish at a national robot competition. The members of the robotics team of...

Nov 15, 2019
  • Kenneth Buday

WASTE NOT

Holly Whitmyer is happy to be out of the classroom. She hasn’t graduated from East Carolina University yet, but she is among seven students tasked with a real-world project that...

Oct 30, 2019
  • Kenneth Buday

BUILDING A BETTER BOT

One by one, students sorted the tiny, tangled wires of purple, white, yellow and black. And one by one, students painstakingly attached those tiny, tangled wires to even smaller connections...

Oct 30, 2019

ECU students attend SouthTec conference

A group of students from the East Carolina University chapter for the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) attended the SouthTec conference in Greenville, South Carolina. The conference brought together manufacturing...