Category: Alumni
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.
Announcing the 2022 ECE Alumni and Community Awards
October 21, 2022At an induction ceremony on October 21, 2022, 5 members of the seventh class of inductees were honored and joined the ranks of the ECE Alumni Hall of Fame, out of over 17,000 alumni, and were joined by two new awards.
Engineering Entrepreneurship
July 6, 2022Get to know Freshspire, an electrical and computer engineering alumni startup.
First-generation ECE graduate returns success
November 2, 2021Growing up in a blue-collar family in eastern North Carolina, Maurice Partin thinks his parents knew the only way he’d get to college was with a scholarship. And now he’s helping first-gen college students follow in his path.
Welcoming 2021 Inductees to Alumni Hall of Fame
October 22, 2021At an induction ceremony on October 22, 2021, 9 members of the sixth class of inductees were honored and joined the ranks of the 95 members of the ECE Alumni Hall of Fame, out of over 16,000 alumni.
Paying it forward
May 17, 2021Ryan Unger, ECE ’20, received support from the Student Emergency Fund after losing his home and job in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This year, he was able to give $2,500 to help students facing similar struggles.
Local Company with ECE Roots Donates Innovative Face Masks for Commencement
May 10, 2021For spring commencement, a local entrepreneur from NC State ECE is donating thousands of masks using material created at NC State.
NC State ECE Alumnus Leads Development of the First Rapid At-Home Test-Kit for COVID-19
February 4, 2021Frankie Myers (BS EE & CPE 2006), director of engineering at Lucira Health led the design and development of the first at-home rapid COVID-19 test-kit — check out his insights into their innovative process!
Alumna receives Skip Ellis Early Career Award
July 14, 2020Tawana Dillahunt, a computer engineering alumna and associate professor at the University of Michigan named the inaugural recipient of the CRA-WP Skip Ellis Early Career Award.
Alumni Co-Owned Startup Allows Contractors to Monitor Job Sites Remotely
May 29, 2020A pain-point noted by an ECE alumnus facing the construction industry that led to the launch of a new venture – Bedrock Wireless, a company aimed to bring data-forward solutions to construction sites.