ETC Student Handbook 2020
The student handbook for the ETC students who entered into the program in August 2020.
Each year, the first Wednesday in December marks the ETC Fall Festival where friends, family and guests have the opportunity to see the amazing work done by our students throughout the semester. ETC first-year students show their work from the Building Virtual Worlds (BVW) class, a tradition started by ETC Co-founder Randy Pausch many years ago. Today, the ETC also celebrates work done in the Visual Story class, and second-year students have the opportunity to show their project work.
The BVW worlds shown at the fall festival are created during the “rounds” or assignments, and are all developed in two weeks or less. Student teams present their “worlds” to a panel of faculty, alumni and industry guests a week before the festival. The worlds selected for the festival then begin to create an entire interactive experience, including the world itself along with theming of the space provided.
Similar to previous years, ETC students worked with many different types of input devices to create their worlds, some of which include VR headsets, Makey Makey, X-box Kinect and Leap Motion . During the 2018 festival, guests had the opportunity to be a bartender in space. They could also collaborate with another guest to make fruit smoothies. These are just a couple of examples, but the ideas for this year’s worlds were limitless.
Here are a few of the worlds that were featured during the festival.
Do you want to be a bartender in VR? Please check out this fun experience that students created in 2 weeks 😱👏🎮 #cmuetc #bvw2018
Posted by Entertainment Technology Center on Monday, December 10, 2018
Again, Congratulations to Lighthouse team for winning the 2018 penguin award! #cmuetc #bvw2018 #vr
Posted by Entertainment Technology Center on Friday, December 7, 2018
The student handbook for the ETC students who entered into the program in August 2020.
Survey Results of the summer internships of the ETC class who are expected to meet degree requirements in 2021
Post graduation survey results of ETC students who completed degree requirements in December 2018 and May 2019.
Survey results of the summer internships of the ETC class who will meet degree requirements in 2020.
The student handbook for the ETC students who entered in the program in August of 2019.
Post graduation survey Results of ETC students who completed degree requirements in December 2017 and May 2018.
Survey results of the summer internships of the ETC class who will meet degree requirements in 2019
Student Handbook for the ETC class that started in August of 2018
Post Graduation survey results from ETC students who completed degree requirements during the December 2016, May 2017 and August 2017 semesters.
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