Students Archives

A young woman smiles as she looking through the opening of a metal container.
Dec 02, 2024
  • Ken Buday

Engineering Exhibited

Students exhibited the very definition of engineering during East Carolina University’s Department of Engineering Capstone Symposium in the Main Campus Student Center. “There’s always going to be something to go...

A smiling man in a black shirt uses a small wrench to fasten two pieces of metal.
Nov 20, 2024
  • Ken Buday

Bot Battle

A team of East Carolina University students placed second in the Association of Technology, Management and Applied Engineering (ATMAE) national robotics competition Oct. 28-31 in Las Vegas. The finish continued...

Four people wearing ECU construction hard hats sit at a table and sign documents.
Nov 11, 2024
  • Ken Buday

Signing Day

Signing day is known as the day high school athletes commit to play for a particular university. Last week at East Carolina University, four construction management students put pen to...

A woman wearing a black shirt sitting at a table gestures with her hand in the air as she talks to another woman sitting at the table with orange, black, yellow and white balloons in the background.
Nov 01, 2024
  • Ken Buday

Peer Project

When East Carolina University computer science student Qanitah Danial began searching for an internship, she didn’t know where to turn. “I had a terrible experience because I was running across...

Cameron Smitherman, wearing a camouflaged uniform, stands on the ground in front of the back of an open helicopter that has pallets of boxes of storm relief supplies.
Oct 10, 2024
  • Ken Buday

Above and Beyond

Flying in a Chinook helicopter over the mountains of North Carolina, ECU industrial technology student Cameron Smitherman saw the full scope of Helene’s devastation. “It’s very evident that the storm...

Sep 17, 2024
  • Ken Buday

Recognizing Excellence

After working an overnight shift at Bristol Myers Squibb, Essence Anderson doesn’t see the work end. The Clayton resident cares for her parents and siblings, and then hops online to...

Aug 07, 2024
  • Ken Buday

Community Connection

Soon, Noah Gwynn will no longer have to fish for information as farm manager for Classic Seafood Group. He’ll have it right at his fingertips. Gwynn is working with Dr....

Jul 25, 2024
  • Ken Buday

Future of Research

In continuing efforts to study electrical activity in the brain, Dr. Sunghan Kim had a thought to give high school students a glimpse into hands-on university research. “The whole idea...

Jul 16, 2024
  • Ken Buday

Tomorrow’s Technologists

In a world where robots constructed from cardboard boxes battle for ultimate supremacy, Jordan Elliott surmised that his came out on top. “They double-teamed me at the end, but I...

Jul 08, 2024
  • Ken Buday

Summer Sounds

A summer along the North Carolina coast sounded too good to pass up for eight East Carolina University engineering students conducting field work for a research project on near-shore atmospheric...