Engineering/Technology Archives

Almost 2,000 graduates were recognized at East Carolina University’s fall 2022 commencement ceremony in Minges Coliseum.
Dec 16, 2022
  • ECU News Services

AUDACITY TO ASPIRE

Nearly 2,000 East Carolina University graduates turned their tassels in Minges Coliseum on Friday, celebrating fall commencement 2022 along with their families, friends, and university faculty, staff and administrators. Chancellor...

ECU graduate with cap and gown standing in front of the cupola.
Dec 11, 2022
  • ECU News Services

GRAD PROFILES FALL 22: PIRATE RESILIENCY

Resiliency is a common theme for many students that make up Pirate Nation. Hard work and dedication are in their DNA and you’ll often find Pirates lending a helping hand...

East Carolina University's Grace Jacobson's love of the environment started in the garden with her father. Her passion has paid off with an engineering degree with a concentration in environmental engineering
Dec 08, 2022
  • Ken Buday

ENVIRONMENTAL DYNAMO

STATISTICS Name: Grace Jacobson College: College of Engineering and Technology Major: Engineering, environmental concentration; minor in mathematics Age: 22 Classification/Year: Senior Hometown: Cary, North Carolina Hobbies/interests: Gardening, bike riding, playing...

Nov 11, 2022
  • Ken Buday

Engineering student is lone undergraduate to receive national AWRA scholarship

East Carolina University engineering student Ariel Lineberger has received the 2022 American Water Resources Association (AWRA) Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Scholarship. The association awarded just three of the scholarships in...

Oct 18, 2022
  • Ken Buday

ECU recognizes contributions of Golden LEAF Foundation with naming

A new plaque in the Life Sciences and Biotechnology Building celebrates the Golden LEAF Foundation’s long-term commitment and partnership with East Carolina University. Chancellor Philip Rogers welcomed Scott Hamilton, president...

Oct 10, 2022
  • Ken Buday

EPA grants to help ECU support students, businesses

The East Carolina University Center for Sustainable Energy and Environmental Engineering has received three grants from the Environmental Protection Agency totaling more than $740,000. The center, which is part of...

Engineering student Robert Malpass is looking to use his skills in robotics to help the environment.
Oct 10, 2022
  • Hannah Eccleston

Student: Robert Malpass

Industrial engineering technology major Robert Malpass is combining his love for technology and robotics with his passion for helping the environment. “I started in robotics and gained a passion for...

Oct 04, 2022
  • Ken Buday

Program to facilitate ECU, European research collaborations

East Carolina University’s College of Engineering and Technology will soon be collaborating with the European Union on the Next Generation Internet (NGI) Enrichers Program. The program will bring European “internet...

Dr. Jean-Luc Scemama, associate professor of biology; Dr. Heather Vance-Chalcraft, assistant professor of biology; and Dr. Jason Yao, professor of engineering are part of an East Carolina University team receiving $1 million of a multi-university grant to support students from underrepresented backgrounds in science, technology, engineering and math.
Sep 28, 2022
  • Lacey L. Gray

RECRUITING STUDENTS TO STEM

East Carolina University is one of five North Carolina universities collaborating on a $3.4 million, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation to better recruit and support students from underrepresented...

Sep 21, 2022
  • Ken Buday

Solar demonstration, seminar part of ECU’s Pollution Prevention Week

East Carolina University is marking Pollution Prevention Week with a number of activities on campus. “This is a national week, and we are one of many universities celebrating,” said Dr....