Building for the future
Dana Reed Fox ’07 learned valuable lessons as a construction management student at ECU. As the chief operating officer of Richmond (Virginia) Public Schools, she puts those lessons to work...
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Student snapshot
Joshua Williams Hometown: Dudley, North Carolina Class: Junior Major: Engineering, concentration in electrical engineering Career goals: To work on medical devices or with prosthetics Joshua Williams may not be taking...
ECU supports Army airborne through database development
Students and faculty in the College of Engineering and Technology are working on a $1.2 million research and development project to support the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division. “The objective is...
Eyes on the Skies
At age 4, Austin Mansfield ’17 watched from his Farmville home as Hurricane Floyd knocked down trees and flooded eastern North Carolina in 1999. “I was just so curious of...
Taste for Success
When Ryan Mitchell ’01 came to ECU, he thought he had seen the last of the family barbecue restaurant in Wilson where he had been working since age 13. “I...
Internship with one of NASCAR’s top teams motivates engineering student
Sophomore Colin Foley from New London spent last summer and part of his winter break interning with Richard Childress Racing, one of NASCAR’s most successful racing teams. “Every time I...
Engineering professor looks for traffic jams on the brain’s highways
The human brain is like a complex group of highways, and despite a good road map, traffic jams may develop. Sunghan Kim, an associate professor in the ECU Department of...
Engineering for success
STORY BY KEN BUDAY Engineering for success STUDENTS WITH ECU’S CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING HELP BUSINESSES BOOST EFFICIENCY AND CUT POLLUTION. As a child, Grace Jacobson could...
Distinguished Flying
Even though the Navy awarded him one of the military’s highest honors, for Maj. Cory Jones ’06, surviving a midair collision and helping lead his crew to a safe emergency...
Shooting for the Stars
STORY BY KEN BUDAY Shooting for the Stars Supporting the College of Education means supporting the future Artwork colors the walls inside East Carolina University’s Community School, where 105 children...