Engineering faculty among honorees at UNC Charlotte’s Invention of the Year Awards

IPWatchdog covered UNC Charlotte’s 2026 Invention of the Year Awards, which recognized breakthrough technologies including several inventions with ties to the William States Lee College of Engineering. The evening’s Grand Award went to Soumitra Roy Joy, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, for advances in signal transmission using engineered metallic island structures, while category honorees included a portable optical inspection device for detecting microscopic defects developed by Kosta Falaggis, associate professor of mechanical engineering, and Sevda Mamaghani, doctoral student in mechanical engineering.

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