ECU professor developing safety device for road workers
Earlier this month, a road construction worker in Ohio was struck and killed by a car. Last year near Statesville, three road workers were killed when they were struck while...
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ECU engineering students have acoustic research published
Two East Carolina University undergraduate students had research published through the Acoustical Society of America. Faith Cobb and Nia Wilson, both engineering majors, have been working with Dr. Teresa Ryan,...
ECU program provides financial, academic support for engineering students
Oscar Maldonado grew up watching and later working on the big rigs in his father’s trucking company in Clinton. His passion for trucks and cars grew — he’s the proud...
College honors faculty, students for research
The College of Engineering and Technology recognized faculty and students with College Research Awards as the spring semester concluded. The honorees include five faculty members, five graduate students and eight...
ECU blast simulator provides opportunities for research
John Benson puts in ear plugs and steps back. Five seconds, 10 seconds and then — BANG. Air bursts through a mylar film membrane and slams through the test chamber...
ECU engineering student gets NSF research fellowship
East Carolina University engineering student Shea Middleton has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. The oldest graduate fellowship of its kind, the NSF GRFP provides a three-year...
National lab to support ECU team’s desalination system
A wave to water team from East Carolina University’s College of Engineering and Technology has been selected to work with the U.S. Testing Expertise and Access to Marine Energy Research...
ECU student earns second in national research poster competition
The idea of a car that drives itself may seem like something for the future, but vehicles with some driver assistance systems are already on the road today. As technology...
PIRATES scholars program works through pandemic’s challenges
Two Department of Engineering professors are credited with obtaining a $4 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics program. The five-year grant program...
ECU’s Department of Computer Science to host research program
The East Carolina University Department of Computer Science has received a grant for a Research Experience for Undergraduates program beginning in May. The paid, 10-week program scheduled from May 17...