From ECE students to ECE alumni! 🥲🎓 Congratulations to all our ECE graduates. Regardless of where their career takes them, they’ve always got a home in the ECE department! 🏠

Only one week to go for the Engineering Young Alumni Social with the Virginia Tech College of Engineering! 🎉 Kick off the summer months with fellow Virginia Tech engineering alumni in Fairfax, Virginia, at Ornery Beer Company on May 28! Register here: aimsbbis.vt.edu/coemaysocial25

There was nothing artificial about the intelligence on display during the presentations our students gave before the semester ended in ECE 4524 - Artificial Intelligence and Engineering Applications! 🤖

One month out, and we’re still thinking about the spring 2025 major design experience (MDE) expo! 🤩 Want to be involved with future student MDE projects? Learn how to get involved as an industry partner: ece.vt.edu/mde/partners.h…

The path is looking upwards for those wanting to go into the circuits and semiconductor industry! 🛫 Xiaoting Jia led our latest UPWARDS: Aspiring Engineers seminar back in April to students thinking about what their future career could look like. 😌

High frequency (HF) radars are delivering high quality results on space weather research! 🪐 Our collaboration with Bowen University will make VT-NigerBEAR the first SuperDARN-design radar operating at low latitudes. Full article: innovationnewsnetwork.com/vt-nigerbear-h…

Shoutout to recent graduate Abigail Dillard for receiving the Phi Kappa Phi medallion for Virginia Tech Engineering ! 🎉 Only the top graduating senior in each college is selected for this honor—and of course, it had to be someone from ECE! 😎 ece.vt.edu/news/vt-ece-de…

Shoutout to Harpeet Dhillon, Lingjia Liu, and Yang (Cindy) Yi for their contributions as part of the 2024-25 Virginia Tech Engineering Dean’s Fellows cohort! 👏 Read the full story⬇ news.vt.edu/articles/2025/…

From donuts to networking events, IEEE at Virginia Tech offers plenty of opportunities for our students! 🍩🤝🍩 Recent networking and cybersecurity graduate Raphael Rodriguez expanded his professional network through IEEE.

The semester might be over, but learning from ECE alumni doesn’t have to stop! 🎓💡 Catch up on the colloquium alumni tech talks over on the ECE YouTube channel! youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Powering up hands-on engineering skills beyond the classroom. ⚡ This past semester, ECE student Sofia Pakhomkina joined BOLT at Virginia Tech on the powertrain subteam, working on incorporating the battery with the other engineering subteams. 🏍

ECE promotions: 🎉 Christina DiMarino - associate professor with tenure 🎉 Xiaoting Jia - professor 🎉 Xueling Shi - research assistant professor 🎉 Bharat Kunduri - research associate professor 🎉 Brentha Thurairajah - research associate professor news.vt.edu/articles/2025/…

We had a very special visit to ECE during Virginia Tech alumni weekend! 👀 Electrical engineering alum and early Qualcomm pioneer Ed Tiedemann ‘75 stopped by to tour our labs, connect with faculty, staff, and students, and visit the lab named in his honor. 🙌

Our electrical and computer engineering faculty published over 30 peer-reviewed articles in May, covering a wide berth of research areas including: 🔬 5G Networks 🔬 Virtual load theory 🔬 Benchmarking software 🔬 Sparse controllers 🔬 CubeSat applications ece.vt.edu/news/vt-ece-de…

While students are off working internships or taking summer classes, Blacksburg is still blooming and improving! 🤩

ECE alum Michael Sherburne and the team at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory developed a groundbreaking 4D-printed compound antenna that’s capable of sending and receiving signals across two different frequency spectrums: 2-7 GHz and 7-12 GHz. news.vt.edu/articles/2025/…

Tom Drayer just can’t get enough electrical engineering! ⚡ He’s earned three Virginia Tech degrees in ECE, serves as chair of our advisory board, and was recently named our Distinguished Alumni Spring Heta Lambda Beta (HLB) inductee! 🎉 Read more! 🙌 ece.vt.edu/news/vt-ece-de…

These students are escaping the heat and learning about circuits and devices with Arthur Ball! 🔥😊

Since January, our faculty have published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, even books, including the two-volume set edited by former IEEE president Saifur Rahman, “Smart Cyber-Physical Power Systems.” 📚 Read open-access chapters here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.10…

Music is just as embedded in Justin Winn’s life as computer engineering! 🎷💻 Congratulations to Justin Winn for having the winning piece in the Virginia Tech School of Performing Arts annual student music composition competition! 🥳 news.vt.edu/articles/2025/…