College of Engineering and Technology Archives

May 18, 2021
  • Kenneth Buday

ECU students play chicken, place second at game design competition

The chickens are angry. Farmers take their eggs and coop them up all day. They’re tired of it, and now they’re on the attack. You as a farmer have but...

May 18, 2021
  • Kenneth Buday

Grad, SGA president Tucker Robbins relishes time at ECU

In the span of four years, Tucker Robbins journeyed from a self-described humble high school student to an honors graduate of East Carolina University. “I could never put a dollar...

May 18, 2021
  • Kenneth Buday

Jarod Palmer gets ECU engineering degree at age 19

Jarod Palmer grew up riding dirt bikes and four-wheelers. “I always like going fast,” he said. A point that was made abundantly clear when he graduated from East Carolina University...

May 03, 2021
  • Kenneth Buday

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...

Apr 22, 2021
  • Kenneth Buday

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...

Apr 19, 2021
  • Kenneth Buday

ECU’s David Batts named editor of international technology journal

Dr. David Batts, an associate professor in East Carolina University’s Department of Technology Systems, has been named editor of the Journal of Technology Studies. The journal, which is published twice...

Apr 15, 2021
  • Kenneth Buday

ECU engineering student accepted into German internship program

East Carolina University engineering student Cole Dickerson has been accepted into the German Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Research Internships in Science and Engineering (RISE) program for the summer. DAAD is...

Apr 12, 2021
  • Kenneth Buday

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...

Apr 08, 2021
  • Kenneth Buday

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...

Apr 05, 2021
  • Kenneth Buday

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...