Faculty positions in ECE
ECE is recruiting for six tenure-track faculty positions in the following areas:
ECE Tutorials Available
The ECE Tutorials site, with videos and links to help undergraduate students in ECE, is now online! Visit it now.
Notable ECE Alumni
Many alumni from the ECE department appear on the list of notable Virginia Tech alumni. ECE graduates have gone on to impact a variety of fields; they have served as magazine editors, CEOs of technology companies, leaders in higher education, and public servants at all levels of government.
ECE YouTube Channel
The ECE YouTube channel is now live! Check out a selection of videos highlighting student projects:
Looking to hire an ECE graduate?
The Virginia Tech Chapter of the IEEE sponsors a job board for ECE students and alumni. Employers can post positions for students to review.
ECE Email Digest
The ECE Email digest service is now online! (VT PID required) Sign up to receive information about news, events, or research seminars in your email.
RSS feeds in Atom format are also available.
Open Source Software from the
Real-Time Systems Lab
The HyFlow™ project is developing distributed software transactional memory (or D-STM) as an alternative to lock-based distributed concurrency control.
ChronOS Real-Time Linux is a real-time Linux patch designed to provide a testbed for real-time and distributed task scheduling and resource management research.
Online Masters of Information Technology program among the top
U.S. News & World Report has listed Virginia Tech’s online Masters of Information Technology program as one of the top online programs in the country. The MIT program is coordinated by ECE, CS, and the Pamplin College of Business
Chao Wang receives NSF CAREER award to improve computer software debugging
Chao Wang has received an NSF CAREER award to study the increasingly complex problem of debugging software. The problem becomes more difficult with multicore processors and concurrent software. Wang says that detecting and repairing software bugs is becoming extremely labor-intensive because of the rapidly increasing size and complexity of today’s software.
ECE Senior starts Student Intellectual Property Society
ECE senior Kevin Sprenger, along with other students interested in both science and law, founded the Student Intellectual Property Society to promote understanding of intellectual property law.
High starting salaries for ECEs
Salaries for students who graduated in 2011 are higher than those of last year's graduates for all majors, but engineers are at the top with an average starting salary of $61,872. Computer engineers are the most highly paid of the engineering majors, with an average salary of $70,400.
L-3 Joins the National Science Foundation’s Cybersecurity Research Program at Virginia Tech
L-3 STRATIS announced today that it has joined with Virginia Tech as an industry partner in the Security and Software Engineering Research Center (S2ERC). ECE's Charles Clancy is the director of the Ted and Karyn Hume Center for National Security and Technology and leads Virginia Tech’s S2ERC program efforts.
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Friday, February 3, 2012
Fun Friday
8:00 AM ECE/ISE Student Lounge
Donuts will be available outside the ECE/ISE student lounge on the third floor of Whittemore.
Contact: www.ieee.vt.edu
Bioinformatics Seminar: Application of Next Generation Sequencing in Epigenetic Study
2:00 PM Virginia Tech Research Center - Arlington: Room 4-024
Speaker(s): Hongyun Li, PhD; Noel Chen, PhD. BGI Americas
Contact: yuewang@vt.edu
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Amateur Radio Exam Session
7:00 PM Squires Dogwood Room
The Virginia Tech Amateur Radio Association is hosting an exam session for anyone interested in earning or upgrading a ham radio license. Please bring $15, a photo ID, and your ssn (or frn if already licensed). All are welcome!
Contact: nafrissell@vt.edu
Thursday, February 9, 2012
IEEE Meeting
5:00 PM Whittemore 349
Contact: www.ieee.vt.edu
Friday, February 10, 2012
Generalizing the Utility of Graphics Processing Units in Large-Scale Heterogeneous Computing Systems
9:00 AM 2010A Torgersen Hall
Dissertation Defense Announcement for Shucai XIAO Details.
Contact: wfeng@vt.edu
Seminar on Bioinformatics and Bio-imaging: Exploiting Structured Sparsity for Higher-quality MRI Reconstruction: a Low-rank Approach
10:30 AM Virginia Tech Research Center - Arlington: Room 4-024
Speaker: Dr. Xin Li, Associate Professor of ECE, West Virginia University Details.
Contact: yuewang@vt.edu
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
LST Seminar: Information Visualization for Knowledge Discovery
4:00 PM VT Research Center-Arlington, Ballston Room (2nd Floor)
Dr. Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland presents a Leaders in Science and Technology Seminar on "Information Visualization for Knowledge Discovery." Please RSVP by January 31st to donleo@vt.edu. Details.
Contact: yuewang@vt.edu
Thursday, February 23, 2012
IEEE Meeting
5:00 PM Whittemore 349
Contact: www.ieee.vt.edu