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By Hannah Kobre ETC Teaching Professor Ralph Vituccio has been teaching his Visual Story course for close to 25 years. Now, after receiving a new appointment in CMU’s Film & Visual Media Program, he’s handing the reins over to his colleague — and reflecting on his experience leading the course. Visual Story is one of… Read more »
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By Hannah Kobre ETC Associate Teaching Professor Ruth Comley (ETC ‘05) designed her first haunted house early. “I was maybe 12 or 13 years old,” she said. “My pastor wanted to do a haunted house in the basement of the church, and he came to me and said, ‘How do we do this?’ I took… Read more »
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Dear ETC Community, I’ve been at the ETC for just over a month, and I just wanted to thank everyone for welcoming me so warmly. Between connecting with all of you and being introduced to the incredible work already happening here, it’s been the best kind of whirlwind. (And I’d be remiss if I didn’t… Read more »
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by Hannah Kobre On October 3rd, ETC students gathered in the Randy Pausch Interdisciplinary Studio (RPIS) for a panel featuring locally-based entertainment technology professionals — many of whom were ETC alums themselves — talking about their career paths. The panel was organized by ETC Associate Director and Career Consultant, Student Affairs Amanda Anderson as part… Read more »
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By Hannah Kobre Over 20+ years, the Entertainment Technology Center has built an incredible community of faculty, staff, students, and alumni. Through their shared commitment to innovative, interdisciplinary work, the ETC community has consistently been recognized for their artistic and technical achievements — including, this month, sweeping an entire Emmys category. Alumni Achievements Martin Montgomery… Read more »
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by Hannah Kobre In Spring 2024, second-year Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) student Nina Wang (ETC ‘25) led a team of ETC students on ”Flow” — a one-of-a-kind project meant to utilize the state-of-the-art facilities on offer at the ETC. In fact, the project was specifically conceived with one of those facilities in mind: the CAVERN…. Read more »
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In 2017, Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) Assistant Teaching Professor Moshe Mahler began working on his short film “The Art of Weightlessness.” Almost seven years later, Mahler’s film has won Best in Show at this year’s SIGGRAPH conference. “When I finished the film in 2023,” Mahler said, “my son pointed out that this film took his whole life to make!”
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On Sunday May 12, 2024 the ETC honored 68 students as we held the 2024 Diploma Ceremony at Acrisure Stadium . Following dinner, with fellow classmates, family, ETC faculty and staff, the latest group of ETC alumni received their Master of Entertainment Technology degrees from Carnegie Mellon University. During the ceremony, this year’s ETC Alumni… Read more »
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We received some sad news last month: Vicki Poklemba passed away suddenly on January 18, 2024. Vicki had been an employee of Carnegie Mellon University since 1976 and a member of the Entertainment Technology Center since the program moved into the Pittsburgh Technology Center in 2002. Vicki was the ETC Director of Administrative Operations. She… Read more »
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On December 8, 2023 starting at 6pm, the ETC will hold it’s annual Fall Festival. This end of the semester event showcases work from the first year students as well as the project from the second year students. Festival Website: https://festival.etc.cmu.edu/2023/ Livestream on our YouTube Channel
Student handbook for the ETC class that started August 26 2024
Post graduation results of ETC students who completed degree requirements in May 2023.
Student handbook for the ETC class that started August 28 2023.
Post graduation results of ETC students who completed degree requirements in December 2021 and May 2022
Post graduation results of ETC students who completed degree requirements in December 2020 and may 2021
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