Category: Alumni

Triangle Finnish Association To Honor Baliga
April 24, 2025Friends and colleagues are invited to celebrate NC State professor B. Jayant Baliga for winning Finland’s 2024 Millennium Prize for Global Impact Technology.

Distinguished Global Alumni Award honors Xu She’s clean energy impact and global journey
April 23, 2025Xu She, Ph.D., recipient of the 2025 Distinguished Global Alumni Award, credits his time at NC State for transforming his career and opening doors to unprecedented opportunities. Now leading innovation in clean energy at Lunar Energy, Xu continues to give back by mentoring students and advancing sustainability on a global scale.

Meet Amanda Dixon ’99, Our Spring 2025 ECE Commencement Speaker
April 21, 2025Amanda Dixon ’99 will speak at the Spring 2025 ECE Commencement. She returns to campus to celebrate the Class of 2025 and share her journey in smart cities.

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.