Category: Alumni
Christina Koch awarded North Carolina Award of Science
November 4, 2024Christina Koch, a two-time NC State ECE alumna, will receive the highest civilian honor awarded by the state.
Announcing the 2024 ECE Alumni Awards
November 1, 2024We are incredibly proud to announce the 2024 inductees to the ECE Alumni Hall of Fame. We also celebrate the third recipient of the Outstanding Early Career Award—showing some of the best of our amazing alumni.
NC State Alum Ranbir Singh Creates Feed The Pack Endowment
July 24, 2024Thanks to a generous gift from NC State ECE alum Ranbir Singh, the Feed the Pack Food Pantry has taken a critical step in ensuring the long-term sustainability of its efforts to combat food insecurity on NC State’s campus.
Five ECE Alums Recognized on ‘Power 100’ List
May 28, 2024Five ECE alums joined almost 40 other university alums on the Business North Carolina list of influential leaders making significant impact in the state.
Advising a Tech Giant
August 2, 2023Wilson White ’03 brings his computer engineering background and a law degree to work as a vice president at Google.
ECE Alumna, Karen Jansen, Named Head of the Poole College’s Department of Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
July 7, 2023Karen Jansen is returning to NC State as the head of Poole College’s Department of Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship after receiving her undergraduate degree in computer engineering, right here at NC State.
#ThrowbackThursday ECE Alum Cracks the Mars Rover Code
July 1, 2023Over two years ago, NC State ECE Alum cracks the hidden code NASA planted on Mar’s Rover robot.
Alumna Christina Koch to Orbit the Moon on Artemis II
April 3, 2023Christina Koch (BS EE ’01; MS EE ’02) named to NASA’s Artemis II crew, venturing around the Moon on a 10-day mission
_pace, the Final Frontier
February 7, 2023In a triumphant return to Astronomy Days at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, astronaut Christina Koch spells out how even a simple game of Scrabble can take an unexpected turn when you’re floating in zero gravity.
ECE Alum, Shree Nayar, awarded Okawa Prize for contributions to digital photography
January 5, 2023ECE Alum, Shree Nayar, has changed the way visual information is captured and used by both machines and humans. He is honored with 2022 Okawa Prize.
ECE Professor and Alumna Receive IEEE-USA Award
January 3, 2023Leda Lunardi, ECE Professor, and Alice Parker, ECE alumna, have received the IEEE-USA Award for Distinguished Literary Contributions Furthering Public Understanding and the Advancement of the Engineering Profession.
ECE alumnus honored for supercomputing innovations
December 21, 2022Jim Fischer, ECE alumnus, was a key player in several groundbreaking initiatives during his 40-year career at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Learn more about his work.