Engineering News

Engineering News

• The Department of Engineering would like to congratulate the following faculty members for their promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure.
• • Dr. BJ Kim
  • Dr. Loren Limberis
• Congratulations to Dr. Evelyn Brown on her promotion to Professor.

A special thanks to all of you for your hard work and dedication to the success of engineering at East Carolina University.

• Congratulations! To Dr. Loren Limberis whose paper titled, "Temperature Alarm Laboratory Design Project for a Circuit Analysis Course in a General Engineering Curriculum," received the 2011 Division of Experimentation and Laboratory Oriented Studies (DELOS) Best Paper Award.

• The department of Engineering would like to congratulate the following faculty members for their promotion to Associate Professor with tenure:
• • Dr. Gene Dixon
  • Dr. Ed Howard
  • Dr. Barbara Muller-Borer
  • Dr. Rick Williams
  • Dr. Jianchu "Jason" Yao

Thank you for your hard work and dedication to the success of engineering at East Carolina University.  The department would also like to thank Becky Foster, Dr. Tarek Abdel-Salam, Dr. Evelyn Brown, Dr. Paul Kauffmann, Dr. Gerald Micklow, and Dr. John Reis for their efforts in assisting and preparing the candidates.

• Congratulations to Engineering Student Joshua Wheeler and his mentor Dr. Tarek Abdel-Salam on Joshua Wheeler's reception of the 2011 Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity (URCA) Award.

•  Congratulations to Dr. Evelyn Brown, Dr. Gene Dixon, Dr. Ed Howard and Karen De Urquidi on their award of a $599,894 S-Stem grant from NSF titled "Expanding Engineering in Eastern North Carolina."  The award is effective May 15, 2011 and expires April 30, 2016.

• On Saturday, February 12, 2011, ECU engineering faculty members Dr. Rick Williams and Dr. Ricky Castles assisted with the North Carolina Regional Science Olympiad Tournament involving 600 middle and high school students competing from 25 schools across seven northeastern North Carolina counties.  Dr. Rick Williams led the "Mission Possible" event while Dr. Ricky Castles managed the "Battery Buggy" event.  The battery buggy event involved middle school students who worked in teams of two to construct a battery powered car and navigate that car from a fixed beginning location around a bucket to a fixed ending point.  Prior to the start of the event the competitors submitted their cars for impounding and inspection which ensured each car was within regulation size and did not have any illegal equipment onboard.  Scoring of the event was based both on the accuracy of the stopping point of the car relative to the prescribed stopping point and the speed of the vehicle.  Each team had an opportunity to take two trials.  Thank you to ECU Engineering students and Robotics Club members Ben Sheridan, Jerry Koontz, and Paul Cox who assisted with inspections, timing, and measuring of distances.

• Congratulations to Dr. Jianchu "Jason" Yao:  2010-2011 ECU Scholar-Teacher Award recipient.

• Congratulations to Dr. Loren Limberis, Mark Yates, Andy Ferrell, Sam Millard, Jordan Clark, Catherine Smith, Victoria Miller and Daniel Kelleher for the successful formation of the East Carolina University Student Chapter of ISPE (International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering).