Joe Skovira is a Professor of Practice at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. He teaches ECE 5725: Design with Embedded Operating Systems, works with Master of Engineering students on project teams, and assists in general instruction in Computer Systems Laboratory (CSL) and digital circuits classes.
Joe has a background in research and design of computing systems ranging from micro-controllers, to individual servers, to high performance, clustered systems. Joe has worked in high performance computing for IBM at the Cornell’s Theory Center in Rhodes Hall and has also worked on Linux based cluster systems as a research consultant for a number of organizations. Joe was also part of the development team for arXiv.org, an on-line repository of scientific pre-prints hosted at Cornell University.
The numbered call board that has hung over the circulation desk since Olin Library opened will be given a new life in the renovated space as a digital clock. Read more about Students give iconic Olin Library call board new life as a clock
The robot’s layered filtration system will gather tiny bits of plastic the size of a sesame seed and smaller, which contaminate ecosystems and damage human and animal health. Read more about Students design robot to collect microplastics from beaches
ECE students, working with Senior Lecturer Joe Skovira, helped get the Bill Nye Solar Noon clock back up and running atop Rhodes Hall. Watch the videos from alumni magazine Cornellians! Read more about With Cornell’s ‘Solar Noon’ Clock, Bill Nye ’77 Aims to Leave a Legacy
