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Since 1915, Pitt students and faculty have connected with ham radio enthusiasts from around the world. This month, they had the unique opportunity to try to connect with the Orion spacecraft as it traveled to the moon and back! news.engineering.pitt.edu/ma…
ALT Jake Wendt, Sebastian Shaffer, Taimur Ilahi, and Juan Manfredi on the roof of Benedum Hall standing near a satellite dish and a radio antenna.
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Pitt’s Infrastructure Sensing Collaboration (UPISC) is excited to host its 2026 Workshop, June 2 – 3, at the Energy Innovation Center in Pittsburgh, in collaboration with the National Energy Technology Laboratory and supported by Pitt’s INSITES Consortium. news.engineering.pitt.edu/co…
ALT Digital twin around a refinery / energy plant, lit up at dusk.
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Engineering in the 412 since 1846 - long before it was the 412.
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Congrats to Samuel Dickerson (@PittECE)! ASEE has recognized him with its 2026 North Central Section Outstanding Teaching Award, which celebrates exceptional teachers who help transform how engineering is taught. news.engineering.pitt.edu/as…
ALT Student Nikki Zhang working with Samual Dickerson
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Congratulations to Fang Peng (@PittECE)! IEEE recently honored him with its prestigious Medal in Power Engineering for his work to transform Z-source and modular multi-level converter technology. news.engineering.pitt.edu/ie…
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Congratulations to Sabrina Helbig (@PittECE)! Innomotics has awarded her the 2026 Peter Hammond Award, which recognizes a remarkable Pitt graduate student working to advance the field of electric power conversion. news.engineering.pitt.edu/10…
ALT (L - R): Mukul Rastogi, Frank Santucci (alumnus), Kevin Wissner, Sabrina Helbig, Brandon Grainger, Michael Sullivan (alumnus), Tony Pollice (alumnus), Joshua Lubin (alumnus), and Liviu Mihalache
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This February, Brandon Grainger (@PittECE) attended the Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science award event to recognize remarkable middle and high school leaders in STEM and to get them thinking about engineering education and career pathways. news.engineering.pitt.edu/po…
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Pitt students Iyan Nekib (BS ECE ’25 ) and PJ Granieri (@PittECE) had an amazing opportunity to partner with Microsoft to solve a real-world issue in the OpenEBS Mayastor storage engine. It gave them a crash course in cloud-native computing. news.engineering.pitt.edu/tw…
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Congratulations to Jillian Zitcovich, Anthony Spadafore, Joaquin Tristan, Jack Wasco and Alexis Shafer! The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Power and Energy Society has recognized them with PES scholarships. news.engineering.pitt.edu/fi…
ALT Jillian Zitcovich, Anthony Spadafore, and Joaquin Tristan
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From playing guitar to help pay his way through @PittECE to designing microprocessors at Intel and fueling innovation at DARPA, Robert Colwell (BS EE ’77) knows well the power of fearless curiosity, inspiring mentors, and leading with kindness. news.engineering.pitt.edu/in…
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Congratulations to Nathan Youngblood @PittECE! For his pioneering work to advance optical computing, he has received a prestigious Friedrich Wilhem Bessel Research Award from Germany’s Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. news.engineering.pitt.edu/ha…
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10 Dec 2025
Our students shined at the Fall 2025 Design Expo, solving real-world industry problems collaboratively and creatively. Congratulations to all the teams for their amazing designs! news.engineering.pitt.edu/fa…
ALT (L - R): Angelina Pribozie, Kyla Frenja, Katie LeClaire, Francesca Chioda, Jace Statam, and Karla Frank
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24 Nov 2025
Congratulations to Mai Abdelhakim! She was recognized with an Excellent Service Award at three co-located IEEE conferences held in downtown Pittsburgh on Nov. 11 – 14. news.engineering.pitt.edu/pi…
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Kudos to our @McMasterU & @ChemePitt colleagues!
21 Nov 2025
Published this month @NatureComms: scientists from @McMasterU and @ChemePitt create the first functionally complete logic gate in a soft material using only beams of visible light - a step forward in "Materials That Compute." phys.org/news/2025-11-logic-… via @physorg_com
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Thanks to @ThePittNews for this great feature about our amazing computer engineering senior, Cooper Sainiak!pittnews.com/article/199017/…
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Join industry, academic, and national laboratory leaders at the IEEE Workshop on Security and Resiliency of Critical Infrastructure and Space Technologies on Tuesday, November 11, at the Wyndham Grand Hotel in Pittsburgh. news.engineering.pitt.edu/ke…
ALT Satellite in the foreground with Earth at night, lit up and connected, in the background. (Adobe stock photo)
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24 Oct 2025
Congratulations to the SHREC team for another amazing achievement! NASA adopted a radiation-tolerant computer system developed here at Pitt—and the system was deployed on the moon! pittwire.pitt.edu/features-a…
ALT Radiation-tolerant circuit board. Photo credit: NASA
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11 Aug 2025
Congratulations to Kara Bocan! IEEE - HKN recognized her as the 2025 C. Holmes McDonald Outstanding Teacher. news.engineering.pitt.edu/se…
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PittECE retweeted
28 Jul 2025
Adam Balawejder BSECE '07 MSECE '10 was an amazing young alumnus who gave back to the next generation of engineers as an adjunct professor in our First Year Engineering Program. Our hearts go out to his family, friends and colleagues. legacy.com/us/obituaries/nam…
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24 Jul 2025
Thanks to Pitt Magazine for this awesome story about the Swanson School's ongoing contributions to electric power research! pittwire.pitt.edu/magazine/f…
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