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Category: academics Class of 2025: Thomas Lu named Outstanding Senior for the Bradley Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering , articleThomas Lu is an expert juggler. Whether he’s flawlessly balancing his two majors and three minors with his research work at the Vlaisavljevich Research Lab, or participating in the actual juggling club he founded, Lu never lets a ball drop.
Date: May 02, 2025 -
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Category: research Digital twins and virtual reality transform utility workforce training , articleVirginia Tech researchers are leading the way for the future of workforce development by combining virtual reality with digital twin technology to create safe, immersive, and effective training.
Date: Apr 29, 2025 -
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Category: academics Dushan Boroyevich honored with emeritus status , articleFor more than 34 years, Boroyevich led numerous research projects in the areas of multiphase power conversion, electronic power distribution systems, modeling and control, and multidisciplinary design optimization of power electronics converters.
Date: Mar 11, 2025 -
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Category: news directly from around campus Divita Vohra ’17 finds her engineering rhythm at Spotify , articleDivita works at Spotify as the senior product manager in AI Foundations and Infrastructure. In this interview, she chatted about her journey to Spotify; how users experience machine learning and artificial intelligence in the platform; and her best advice for Hokie engineering students.
Date: Mar 06, 2025 -
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Category: academics Harpreet S. Dhillon appointed College of Engineering's associate dean for research and innovation , articleDhillon, the W. Martin Johnson Professor of Engineering and associate director of Wireless@Virginia Tech, began his new position in December.
Date: Feb 19, 2025 -
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Category: news directly from around campus Ajay Jagtiani ’88 pursues engineering excellence through the law , articleFor several decades, Ajay Jagtiani’s career as a patent lawyer was made easy thanks to his engineering education at Virginia Tech.
Date: Jan 13, 2025 -
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Virginia Tech Global Distinction Lingjia Liu and Yi Shi, wireless experts, elected fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers , articleVirginia Tech wireless communications researchers Lingjia Liu and Yi Shi have been elevated to fellows as part of the 2025 class for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), highlighting their excellence in solving the real-world challenges of wireless security, incorporating machine learning, and spectrum sharing.
Date: Dec 17, 2024 -
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Category: academics Class of 2024: Haley Rindfleisch takes control of her engineering future , articleAs the youngest daughter of two John Deere mechanical engineers, Rindfleisch spent her days working with her dad in the garage and taking auto shop classes. When it came time for college, she was prepared to major in the “family business” (mechanical engineering) at Virginia Tech.
Date: Dec 13, 2024 -
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Category: research Jeff Reed elected fellow of the National Academy of Inventors , articleOver the course of his 30-year career at Virginia Tech, Reed has mentored countless students, received $86 million in research funding, and holds 20 U.S. patents and six foreign patents in the field of wireless communications.
Date: Dec 10, 2024 -
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Virginia Tech Global Distinction Electrical and computer engineering earns high honors in U.S. News & World Report rankings , articleVirginia Tech's Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering ranked at the No. 2 spot, highlighting Virginia Tech’s continued growth in research and reputation.
Date: Nov 27, 2024 -
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Category: research Tiny tech, big impact: Miniaturized gas-analyzing tech boldly moves research forward , articleSPOCK is the world’s first “miniature” gas chromatograph built with patent-pending technology that analyzes chemical composition and physical properties and delivers real-time results, revolutionizing aerosol work in industry safety, environmental science, and national security.
Date: Oct 25, 2024 -
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Virginia Tech Global Distinction Taking a quantum leap in semiconductor fabrication , articleVirginia Tech's semiconductor processing has been revamped and revitalized through a $3 million gift-in-kind from SPTS Technologies.
Date: Sep 30, 2024 -
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Category: news directly from around campus AI and the engineer: Virginia Tech alum builds engineering career in AI and machine learning , articleBy exploring data science, analytics and machine learning, Ray Hensberger ’06 found his engineering niche in generative AI at Amazon Web Services.
Date: Sep 27, 2024 -
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Virginia Tech Global Distinction Building wireless infrastructure , articleVirginia Tech's Lingla Liu's research focuses on NextG wireless, networking, and computing systems that may have potential impacts for the future of NextG standards across the globe.
Date: Sep 16, 2024 -
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Category: news directly from around campus From student to start-up: Virginia Tech alumnus changes the moving industry with artificial intelligence , articleInspired by a single photo, Zach Rattner ’11 leveraged his curiosity and engineering background to co-found Yembo, an AI company offering virtual surveying solutions for moving companies.
Date: Aug 05, 2024 -
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Category: research Leveling up cybersecurity through AI games , articleVirginia Tech’s Angelos Stavrou is training artificial intelligence to defend computer networks through a $16 million collaborative cybersecurity project.
Date: Jun 28, 2024 -
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Category: news directly from around campus Electrifying Leadership: Virginia Tech engineering alumna leads the charge for a bright future , articleAs the executive vice president of the Tennessee Valley Authority, Jeannette Mills ’88 uses her Hokie engineering skills every day to support 10 million people.
Date: Jun 18, 2024 -
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Category: research The future of health care is in our cells , articleWith a groundbreaking technology called nano-optoelectrodes, Virginia Tech associate professor Wei Zhou is working on a new way to make health care more personalized.
Date: Jun 11, 2024 -
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Virginia Tech Global Distinction Research seeks a green transformation of the electric grid , articleToday’s electric grid is 140 years old, used by a world Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla could only imagine. But can it stand up to the demands of an increasingly electrified society?
Date: Jun 03, 2024 -
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Category: academics Class of 2024: Jenny Li named Outstanding Senior for the Bradley Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering , articleJenny Li’s life has been full of firsts: first-born child to Chinese immigrants; first cohort member of the Virginia Tech Pathways for Future Engineers Program, and first-generation college student. Now, she can add another first to her list – being named the 2024 Outstanding Senior by the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Date: Apr 30, 2024 -
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Virginia Tech Global Distinction Grant projects to unlock potential, secure the future of open networks , articleVirginia Tech researchers Nishith Tripathi and Lingjia Liu received $4 million from the Innovation Fund to develop the future of O-RAN technology.
Date: Mar 22, 2024 -
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Virginia Tech Global Distinction Building up the semiconductor workforce with $30 million partnership , articleVirginia Tech faculty Yang "Cindy" Yi and Luke Lester are taking on the challenge to bring more women into technology and semiconductor industries through UPWARDS, an international partnership between the U.S. and Japan.
Date: Mar 08, 2024 -
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Category: academics Alumni Spotlight: Aiming for the stars with Megan Bennett '20 , articleThanks to her electrical engineering degree from Virginia Tech, Megan Bennett EE’20 is headed to the moon. Not literally, of course. As an electrical design engineer at Blue Origin, Bennett works on the lunar development team and transportation unit, where she is building a lunar habitat and lander that will host NASA-selected astronauts to live and work in space.
Date: Feb 23, 2024 -
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Category: research Yuhao Zhang receives 2024 Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research , articleUtilizing cutting edge power electronics research, Zhang will study two different structural designs for semiconductors in naval power devices.
Date: Jan 15, 2024 -
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Virginia Tech Advantage Class of 2023: Hayley Wisman seeks to help others through robotics , articleAfter graduating from the computer engineering program, Wisman will continue her education by getting a master's degree and working with the Assistive Robotics Lab.
Date: Dec 12, 2023 -
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Category: academics Class of 2023: Fourth-generation Hokie Hayden Craun goes from farming to firmware , articleFourth-generation Hokie Crayden Craun deviated from family tradition to major in computer engineering, and now he'll be joining Kollmorgen, a manufacturing company.
Date: Dec 11, 2023 -
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Category: research Embedding fibers to undo the tapestry of memory loss in Alzheimer's disease , articleAssociate Professor Xiaoting Jia receives a collaborative National Institutes of Health grant to embed bidirectional fibers in the brainwith the ultimate goal of reversing memory loss caused by Alzheimer's disease.
Date: Nov 27, 2023 -
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Category: research Aiming for a home run with electrical engineering education , articleWith a $944,231 National Science Foundation CAREER award, Nicole Pitterson in the Department of Engineering Education will develop models for how faculty can design and teach content for their courses in a way that aligns holistically with their students’ needs.
Date: Aug 09, 2023 -
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Category: academics Transforming the engineering graduate student experience , articleWith the support of a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation, the College of Engineering will focus on changing the graduate engineering education system by connecting, integrating, and improving numerous processes in addition to providing support for graduate students.
Date: Mar 30, 2023 -
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Category: academics Engineering for the real world , articleLaunched this fall as an approved course and led by David Gray of engineering education, the Interdisciplinary Capstone is designed to bring together students from across the College of Engineering.
Date: Sep 13, 2022 -
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Category: academics Rising Sophomore Abroad Program takes flight once more , articleAfter a two-year hiatus, nearly 100 undergraduate engineering students traveled to six countries during the two-week global education experience.
Date: Jun 13, 2022 -
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Category: research Homero Murzi receives NSF CAREER award to create the next generation of engineering education leaders in diversity, equity, and inclusion , articleMurzi, who also leads the award-winning Rising Sophomore Abroad Program, brings a unique understanding on how to best educate the next generation of engineers and what global roles they might take on.
Date: Jun 13, 2022 -
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Category: research New effort to connect college support networks for low-income engineering students , articleA team from the Virginia Tech's Department of Engineering Education, the University of Cincinnati, Weber State University, Northern Virginia Community College, and Florida International University will lead a $3 million research hub, one of the first in the nation.
Date: May 25, 2022 -
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Category: research Q&A: Exploring engineering education research with David Knight , articleWhen you think of making a life-changing decision, like where to pursue your doctoral program, what factors would affect your decision? Location? Faculty? Or is it which program provides the most funding?
Date: May 04, 2022 -
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Category: academics Crafting a new way to explore engineering majors through Minecraft , articleIn a world of lectures, brochures, and informational slideshows, Ben Chambers is taking a hands-on approach to engineering major exploration: Minecraft.
Date: Jul 22, 2021 -
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Category: research Jeremi London receives NSF CAREER award to break down engineering education barriers , articleWith her recent National Science Foundation CAREER grant, London is poised to tackle one of today’s most pressing questions for engineering: Who gets to be an engineer?
Date: Jul 12, 2021 -
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Category: impact Engineering education endowment honors Bev Watford, creates new doctoral awards , articleThanks to an anonymous $100,000 endowment, the Department of Engineering Education created two new doctoral awards in honor of Watford, associate dean of equity and engagement in the College of Engineering. Kirsten Davis and Cynthia Hampton are the inaugural recipients.
Date: Jun 15, 2021