Every year since the start of the program, the ETC has taken all its first-year students on an annual West Coast Trip where students and staff fly cross-country to spend a week in California split between Los Angeles and San Francisco. There, students spend their days visiting companies from across the entertainment and technology industries... Read more »
Full ArticleBy Hannah Kobre After months of research, development, testing, and even a trip halfway around the globe, ETC students have finally completed a project meant to help children all over the world stay healthy. It’s been a long time in the making. In 2020, ETC Assistant Teaching Professor Charles Johnson (CFA 1987) gave a virtual... Read more »
Full ArticleOn December 6th, 2024, members of the ETC and CMU community gathered together to celebrate the incredible work ETC students have done this semester. Fall Festival is an ETC tradition. Started by Randy Pausch as part of the Building Virtual Worlds course, it was originally a stage showcase in McConomy Auditorium before eventually taking the... Read more »
Full ArticleBy 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 »
Full ArticleBy 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 »
Full ArticleDear 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 »
Full Articleby 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 »
Full ArticleBy 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 »
Full Articleby 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 »
Full ArticleIn 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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Post graduation results of ETC students who completed degree requirements in May 2024.
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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