Virginia Tech ECE

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Now this is drone racing! 🤩 Kevin Ni, an ECE Micro/Nanosystems student, gives us an inside look at the Drone Racing Team at Virginia Tech and the experience behind winning the national championship this past semester! 🏆

ECE is everywhere — even in Peru! 🌎 ECE students in the Green Engineering, Culture and History in Peru class just wrapped up their study abroad experience after a semester of preparation. 🦙

It “figures” our electrical and computer engineering faculty would come up with detailed and interesting figures for the over 30 peer-reviewed articles and papers published during May. Browse our published May research here: ece.vt.edu/news/vt-ece-de…

ECE alum Andrew Merewitz has been through it all during his engineering career! 🦃🍎 He fell in love with Virginia Tech from day one, landed a role at Bloomberg, moved on to Amazon, and now leads as an engineering manager at Netflix! news.vt.edu/articles/2025/…

Happy first day of summer, Hokies! 🔆

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/…

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…

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

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…

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/…

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

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…

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. 🙌

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/…

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. 🏍

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=…

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.

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

Shoutout to recent graduate Abigail Dillard for receiving the Phi Kappa Phi medallion for @VTEngineering ! 🎉 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…