Preparation paid off for a team of East Carolina University engineering and technology students with a first-place finish at a national robot competition.
Published: Tuesday, November 26th, 2019 @ 8:51 am
By: ECU News Services
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East Carolina University student Sean Wear is a veteran with a passion for industrial engineering.
Published: Tuesday, October 29th, 2019 @ 10:56 pm
By: ECU News Services
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President Donald J. Trump is reaffirming and strengthening the long-standing partnership between the United States and Australia.
Published: Friday, September 20th, 2019 @ 8:20 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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ABB, Inc. (NYSE: ABB), a global leader in electrification products, robotics, and industrial automation, will expand in Orange County and create more than 400 jobs, Governor Roy Cooper announced today.
Published: Thursday, July 11th, 2019 @ 2:38 am
By: Governor's Office
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State Superintendent Mark Johnson has put a price tag on his plan to make North Carolina the best place for public school educators to begin, learn, and teach by 2030.
Published: Wednesday, March 20th, 2019 @ 11:12 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Dealing with the American workforce so it can fit in the missing links between job openings and folks who want to work.
Published: Wednesday, November 14th, 2018 @ 4:08 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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So I'm thrilled to be here in the Badger State with the hardworking men and women of Foxconn working with you. Moments ago, we broke ground on a plant that will provide jobs for much more than 13,000 Wisconsin workers.
Published: Thursday, July 5th, 2018 @ 6:36 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Ernst & Young LLP (EY), one of the largest professional services organizations in the world, will expand in Mecklenburg County creating 375 jobs and investing $8.2 million in Charlotte over the next five years, Governor Roy Cooper announced today
Published: Tuesday, February 27th, 2018 @ 10:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As the new year begins, Uptown Greenville is becoming a training ground as students have six weeks to design, build, and test their robots for the FIRST Robotics Competition
Published: Thursday, January 18th, 2018 @ 7:00 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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East Carolina University's youngest students got their first look inside the ECU Lab School during open house on Aug. 24
Published: Tuesday, August 29th, 2017 @ 3:18 pm
By: ECU News Services
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A common theme unifying recent debates about tax reform in North Carolina and in Washington is the idea that the punitive tax treatment of business investment is a bad idea
Published: Friday, April 21st, 2017 @ 1:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 1653, an Anglican clergyman named William Lee had an idea. Watching his family members work constantly with their knitting needles, Lee wondered if it might be possible to automate the process of knitting wool into cloth
Published: Tuesday, October 11th, 2016 @ 4:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This strange election cycle has focused too much on personalities and too little on issues, but sooner or later we have to believe the campaigns will shift to a real discussion about issues
Published: Saturday, September 17th, 2016 @ 12:32 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Politicians make promises. It's what they do. Candidates often promise bold and grandiose actions to get your vote and win their elections. Some sound appealing, but are they realistic and attainable?
Published: Thursday, August 25th, 2016 @ 7:03 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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The Emerging Issues Forum always puts a microscope on the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead and this year's event was no exception.
Published: Friday, February 19th, 2016 @ 7:46 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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East Carolina University scientists have been sending a small craft to navigate the North Carolina coast studying underwater noise and keeping tabs on tagged marine life all to better understand the ocean environment.
Published: Saturday, October 3rd, 2015 @ 4:55 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Every day had something new in store for two Honors College students who spent their summer working with East Carolina University's leaders in robotic heart surgery.
Published: Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015 @ 4:41 am
By: ECU News Services
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In my 40 years as an industrial sales engineer, I have been in almost every kind of manufacturing plant possible from Waste Stuff to. Shineola.
Published: Sunday, July 12th, 2015 @ 5:13 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Rising seventh-grader Alyssa Mayo had never built a robot much less programmed one to move, turn and scoop up a ping pong ball.
Published: Thursday, July 9th, 2015 @ 1:41 am
By: ECU News Services
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Some seventh-grade students in Martin and Pitt counties have found even the tiniest of creatures can become addicted to sugar and caffeine - and energy drinks can be lethal.
Published: Monday, April 27th, 2015 @ 1:37 pm
By: ECU News Services
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The worlds of art, beekeeping, sailing, hunting, sewing, video games and woodworking are among the activities young people can explore during College for Kids 2015 at Beaufort County Community College.
Published: Tuesday, March 24th, 2015 @ 6:04 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Gov. Pat McCrory announced during his March 2 visit to the East Carolina Heart Institute at East Carolina University that his budget will allocate $16 million over the next two years to stabilize the financial challenges at the Brody School of Medicine.
Published: Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015 @ 7:40 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Governor Pat McCrory congratulated students and teachers in Angier, Burlington, Coats and Dunn today upon receiving$20,000 Innovate Learning Grants from Verizon. The grants highlight the importance of STEM education and promote opportunities to study STEM subjects and achieve in these fields...
Published: Monday, December 8th, 2014 @ 9:45 pm
By: Chris Downey
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The Golden LEAF Foundation, which assists tobacco-dependent, economically distressed and rural communities across North Carolina, will hold a meeting of its Board of Directors on Thursday, October 2, 2014
Published: Friday, September 26th, 2014 @ 11:43 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Ten-year-old Tyrrek Grizzle took control of his paddle, maneuvering his miniature land mover with ease.
Published: Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014 @ 11:20 pm
By: ECU News Services
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East Carolina University has been building a workforce of teachers, nurses, artists and doctors for decades. Add another fast-growing group to the list of professionals that ECU sends out to serve the region: engineers.
Published: Friday, April 25th, 2014 @ 4:15 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Duke Energy this week announced that Beaufort County Community College has been awarded $141,029 to buy equipment for a new Industrial Maintenance Program at BCCC.
Published: Sunday, March 9th, 2014 @ 8:22 pm
By: Barbara Tansey
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A new space for collaborative medical research and robotics training was lauded by East Carolina University officials this week as a visionary project at the heart of the university's mission and talents.
Published: Monday, February 17th, 2014 @ 11:59 pm
By: ECU News Services
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A team of College of Technology and Computer Science students worked hard to overcome a few obstacles and place third in 2013 Association of Technology, Management and Applied Engineering's (ATMAE) national robotics competition in New Orleans.
Published: Wednesday, February 12th, 2014 @ 9:03 am
By: ECU News Services
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Nearly 500 high school students from across North Carolina and as far away as Virginia and South Carolina met in excitement Jan. 4 at East Carolina University to get a first glimpse into the 2014 FIRST Robotics Competition.
Published: Friday, January 10th, 2014 @ 8:07 am
By: ECU News Services
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It's a Pirate home football game weekend and it's also the final installment of the 2013 Freeboot Friday music series.
Published: Tuesday, November 12th, 2013 @ 3:24 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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When industrial technology students at East Carolina University needed help recently with manufacturing parts for an upcoming robotics competition, they knew exactly where to turn - the Machinist Program at Beaufort County Community College.
Published: Tuesday, May 7th, 2013 @ 9:52 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The youth in the Rev. Richard Joyner’s church in Conetoe already are health ambassadors, growing vegetables and teaching neighbors about healthy lifestyles.
Published: Monday, May 6th, 2013 @ 5:41 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Shortly after clocks were introduced to Japan in the sixteenth century, Japanese inventors used the principles underlying the clock’s movements to create robots.
Published: Wednesday, April 10th, 2013 @ 6:17 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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