Each year, the ETC is delighted to welcome various companies throughout the industry to visit us in Pittsburgh. Below, Susan Timko, our Director of Career Services reflects on the partnership between employers and the ETC. “Do you have the summer off?” That is a question I get very often during spring semester at the ETC. ... Read more »
Full ArticleThe ETC offers a project-based curriculum and in general, the projects originate in three ways: external sponsors, faculty research and student proposed projects through the “pitch” process. Some of our most exciting projects begin as student pitches. The student-pitch process was designed to give students the opportunity to explore an original idea that is of... Read more »
Full ArticleWe are delighted to welcome Anthony Daniels back to the ETC for his bi-annual visit. Anthony first visited the ETC in 2004 as part of Carnegie Mellon University’s Robot Hall of Fame. Since then Anthony has been visiting the ETC once every semester. Many ETC students are huge Star Wars fans so you can imagine... Read more »
Full ArticleThe ETC Project Course is one of the core elements of our curriculum and is a course that drives many students to our program. ETC Students have completed thousands of projects over the years, and a key component to the success of these projects is feedback. Professor Randy Pausch, co-founder of the ETC liked to... Read more »
Full ArticleThe ETC is delighted to congratulate Professor Jessica Hammer on being chosen as one of the inaugural recipients of the Moran Career Development Professorship. The purpose of this fund is to support a career development professorship, the recipient of which shall be a junior faculty member seeking tenure whose appointment is in any department of... Read more »
Full ArticleThis Fall, the ETC launched our first ETC Newsletter. In an effort to explore new forms of communication with everyone, we thought a newsletter might be helpful in sharing updates throughout the year. Additionally, this will give us the opportunity to highlight the achievements of some of our alumni through the “Alumni Spotlight”. The newsletter... Read more »
Full ArticleEach Fall, ETC students embark on a thrilling event known as the Adventure Module. While this experience has taken on a variety of activities throughout the years (cruises, museum visits, theme park visits, etc.), it has remained an important part of the ETC Fundamentals course and has become an important yearly ETC tradition. A core... Read more »
Full ArticleRecently, we had the opportunity to catch up with ETC Alumnus Samik Bhowal, Class of 2008. During an interview, we asked Samik to share reflections on his time at the ETC as well as what he has been doing since graduation. Having completed his ETC degree almost ten years ago, Samik had a lot of ... Read more »
Full ArticleLast week, Pittsburgh’s NPR station WESA did a story on the game created by ETC student team Prism. The game helps elementary school students understand the experiences of their peers on the autism spectrum. http://www.wesa.fm/post/video-game-helps-kids-understand-experiences-peers-autism-spectrum#stream/0 The student team consisting of Ridima Ramesh – Designer, Lena (Xueyang) Wang -Artist , Daniel Wolpow -Producer/Writer, Yutian Zheng –... Read more »
Full ArticleThe ETC strongly encourages students to obtain an internship during the summer between their two years of academic study. We find that students who take advantage of this opportunity not only have a valuable learning experience but also have improved chances for success after graduation. During the summer of 2018, ETC students gained amazing experience... Read more »
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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.
Survey results of the summer internships of the ETC class who will meet degree requirements in 2018
ETC students are able to declare a concentration along with their MET. Attached is the latest list of elective courses for each concentration. ETC students should see their handbook for more information on how to apply for a concentration.
The handbooks for the students who started at the ETC during the fall of 2017 semester.
Post graduation survey results from ETC students who completed degree requirements during the December 2015, May 2016 and August 2016 semesters.
The student handbook for the ETC class that started during the fall 2016 semester.
Survey results of the summer internships of the ETC class who will meet degree requirements in 2017
Post graduation survey of ETC students, finishing degree requirements in December 2014 and May 2015
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