This story originally ran on CMU’s news site By Laura Kelly Email Media Inquiries All it takes is faith, trust, a little pixie dust and augmented reality to bring Tinker Bell to stage like never before. TheatAR, a semester-long student initiated project in the Entertainment Technology Center (ETC), combines stage actors and animation to create... Read more »
Full ArticleETC Professor of the Practice Jesse Schell was named one of the 2019 KAPi award winners by Living in Digital Times. The KAPi Awards recognize the most innovative games, software, devices and apps for educating and entertaining today’s digital children. More information about this year’s award winners can be found in the press-release.
Full ArticleEach 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... Read more »
Full ArticleWe are excited to share our conversation with ETC Alumna Alyson Szymanski, Class of 2008. In addition to learning about Alyson’s adventures since leaving the ETC, she also shared her views on the gaming industry as well as great advice for current and future ETC students. Thank you Alyson! ETC: What have you been doing... Read more »
Full ArticleThis week marked final presentations of the Building Virtual Worlds (BVW) Class ‘Round 4’ for the Fall, 2018 semester. If you are not familiar with this class, students are challenged to build five virtual worlds throughout the semester. They must work quickly, creatively, and collaboratively as they have two weeks or less to create each... Read more »
Full ArticleThe ETC is proud of our faculty and alumni who have made an impact on the Askwith Kenner Global Languages & Cultures Room, a new space within the David A. Tepper Quadrangle. This new space is a technology focused lab that promotes interactive experiences that relate to different languages and cultures from around the world,... Read more »
Full ArticleEach 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 hundreds 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 »
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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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