Engineering Archives

Jun 10, 2019
  • Kenneth Buday

Professor touts online industrial engineering technology program at national conference

East Carolina’s online industrial engineering technology program received some national attention during the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers annual conference last month in Orlando, Florida. Dr. David Batts, associate...

May 16, 2019
  • Kenneth Buday

Sound Research: Ryan leads effort to support military

Dr. Teresa Ryan learned to appreciate military service members at a young age. As a child growing up near Fort Benning, Georgia, she watched with fascination as aspiring paratroopers in...

May 06, 2019
  • Kenneth Buday

Record graduating class recognized

The College of Engineering and Technology honored its largest graduating class during the 2019 Spring Recognition Ceremony Saturday at Minges Coliseum. Dr. Harry Ploehn, dean of the college, called the...

May 03, 2019

Rings of Honor: Order inducts new engineers

The College of Engineering and Technology’s Department of Engineering hosted its 10th Order of the Engineer induction ceremony on May 2 in the Black Box Theater in the Main Campus Student...

Apr 16, 2019

Engineering students space out

Six ECU engineering students participated in the inaugural N.C. Space Symposium hosted by N.C. Space Grant, a consortium of universities in North Carolina that support aerospace education and research, in partnership...

Apr 15, 2019

On These Streets

 The ECU chapter of Alpha Eta Mu Beta - the national honor society for biomedical engineering - took to the streets under rainy skies on Saturday, April 13, to clean...

Apr 11, 2019

SWE Gala raises funds for STEM education

The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) hosted its first fundraising gala on Friday, April 5. With support from the American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP), the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES),  Institute of Electrical and Electronics...

Mar 22, 2019

Engineering student tackles problem of plastic waste

It takes a special kind of person to not only see a problem as a challenge to be addressed, but to take action to do something about it. Freshman engineering...

Mar 13, 2019

Pi your professor

3/14 marks Tau Beta Pi’s second annual Pi Day! For each dollar donated, students, faculty and staff can enter a professor of their choosing to get pied as well as a...

Mar 04, 2019

Engineering better medical outcomes

Dr. Ali Vahdati, assistant professor of engineering, is working to improve precision medicine using computers and machine learning. His research using semantic data integration, standardization and dimensionality reduction to predict...