One of our most popular Facebook posts to date: It’s official: the new Virginia Tech drone park is open! It’s the largest in the nation, and students from all disciplines are encouraged to use it. Posted by Virginia Tech College of Engineering on Thursday, April 26, 2018
Facebook Live: Inside FutureHAUS at Virginia Tech
Welcome to the Virginia Tech FutureHAUS Dubai, an innovative, interdisciplinary, and ambitious project to design and build a futuristic, modular smart home. Students and faculty from the Virginia Tech College of Architecture and Urban Studies and College of Engineering have been working nearly two years on the planning, design, and building of the home in anticipation of an international …
Welcome to the new academic year from Dean Ross
Welcome to the new academic year from Dean Ross Today is the first day of classes at Virginia Tech! Dean Ross reflects on the year past and extends warm wishes for a successful academic year ahead. Posted by Virginia Tech College of Engineering on Monday, August 20, 2018
Engineering students take lifesaving concept to market with help from university environment and donors
A little seed money and a lot of advice goes a long way for a budding entrepreneur. Take it from the two Hokie engineering student founders of Park & Diamond, a young startup that makes collapsible, sleek bike helmets. After winning seven pitch competitions last year, many held by the Apex Center for Entrepreneurs, the company took off in a major way, earning …
Congratulations, class of 2018
Spring 2018 Commencement Congratulations, class of 2018. Posted by Virginia Tech College of Engineering on Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Despite bumps in the road, engineering team places third in North American autonomous vehicle competition
After a journey that involved a crash, a dead battery, and late-night coding sprints, a Virginia Tech engineering team took home a third place finish in the first year of an autonomous vehicle competition held by Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) and General Motors. Student-led Victor Tango AutoDrive was the sole team — out of eight total collegiate design teams …
$5 million gift from alumnus and family creates pathway for 60 first-generation students per year
When electrical engineering alumnus Joe T. May ’62 was in high school, he says he wasn’t exactly on a successful path. After a suspension for smoking cigarettes — something that today, May said, “wouldn’t raise an eyebrow,” but did then in the small Mennonite community he lived in — May’s principal allowed him to graduate only if he promised “to …
Hyperloop at Virginia Tech detools a fiberglass layup
Hyperloop detools a heavy fiberglass layup To get ready for SpaceX’s Hyperloop pod competition this summer, Hyperloop at Virginia Tech is doing some heavy lifting — literally. Posted by Virginia Tech College of Engineering on Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Alumnus tackles young alumni engagement with grassroots efforts
Dan Surber is a problem solver. But the Virginia Tech alumnus, who graduated in 2010 with a bachelor’s degree in industrial and systems engineering, saw a problem he alone couldn’t fix: he thought more young alumni should be engaged with the university. So when Eileen Van Aken, interim department head of the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, approached …
Challenging education spurs alumnus’ varied career, inspires him to give back
John Grizzard walked into his final engineering exam at Virginia Tech three days before his graduation in 1985. With the diploma so close, he and his classmates hoped the professor might take it easy on them. “We’re all seniors in the class and we’re all thinking, ‘oh, we’re all going to graduate, this is going to be an easy exam, …