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When he graduated with his Ph.D. in 1975, Dr. Kakad was offered two jobs, one at UNC Charlotte and the other at a major research university. “I sat with my advisor at Florida and asked for his thoughts,” Dr. Kakad said. “He said ‘I’ll give you a piece of advice. Go to Charlotte. It’s an […]

The William States Lee College of Engineering held its virtual spring-semester Senior Design Expo on May 7, 2021. Teams who started in fall 2020 presented their completed two-semester projects, while teams who started in spring 2021 presented their first-semester design-concept posters. Thirteen completed projects had been named finalists, and those were judged by 20 industry […]

Students from the Lee College of Engineering’s Freshman Learning Community designed and built a mobility cart for 8-month-old puppy Boots, a Pembroke Welsh Corgi whose front legs were not properly developed at birth. The freshmen donated their own time to the project, helping out owner Laura Russell who requested their assistance last fall. The students […]

At a time when he could have started slowing down and taking things easy, Don Blackmon decided instead to give back to his profession and the next generation of engineers, by going to work for The William States Lee College of Engineering. As an instructor for freshman engineering, an academic advisor and the director of […]

When you hear that a 6-foot-7-inch-tall transfer student is coming from another country to join a Forty Niner team, you probably think football or basketball. But the goal of Spencer Nichols in coming to UNC Charlotte from Canada was to join a Motorsports Engineering racing team, and he is now co-captain of the 2020-21 Formula […]

A tradition has been growing on the Forty Niner Rocketry Team, in which female students in the ETCM program recruit fellow ETCM females for the next year’s team. The 2020-21 team has Cortney Hahn as its third generation ETCM student. Cortney was recruited by Tyler Ainsworth, who is now an Applied Energy and Electromechanical Systems […]

Utilizing an innovative system that intakes seawater and directly converts ocean wave energy into the driving force to produce fresh water, a team of ETCM students and a faculty member, collaborating with a colleague outside of UNC Charlotte, has progressed to the advanced stages of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Waves to Water competition. […]

Researchers in the William States Lee College of Engineering won 27 grants totaling almost $1.75 million in the first quarter of 2021. A listing of new grants is here.

Four students, two from The William States Lee College of Engineering and two from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, were awarded the highly competitive and prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation for 2021. The four; Forest Atcheson, Electrical Engineering, Terawit Kongruengkit, Materials Engineering, Anthony Lindsay, Political Science, and Christopher Neff, […]

The Board of Certified Safety Professionals (BCSP) has approved UNC Charlotte’s Occupational Safety Concentration as a Graduate Safety Practitioner® (GSP) Quality Academic Program (QAP), certifying that the program has met minimum requirements for student curriculum in the safety field. The Occupational Safety Concentration is part of the Fire and Safety Engineering Technology (FRST) program within […]