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Bechtel Group, Inc. announced in July that Craig Albert, a 1985 Mechanical Engineering graduate of The William States Lee College of Engineering, will be the company’s new president and chief operating officer. Albert has led Bechtel Group’s Infrastructure business unit since 2016. An active alumnus of the Lee College of Engineering, Craig and his wife […]

On July 27, Dr. Rob Keynton began his first week as dean of The William States Lee College of Engineering. Undergraduate and graduate students from several engineering disciplines and organizations pitched in to help Dean Keynton set up his new office in Duke Centennial Hall. An introductory message from Dean Keynton to the Forty Niner […]

The Lee College of Engineering has awarded its top honors for teaching, the Undergraduate and Graduate Excellence in Teaching Awards for 2019-20. The winner of the undergraduate teaching award is Dr. Mihail (Misha) Cutitaru of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. The winner of the graduate teaching award is Dr. Nicole Braxtan of the Civil […]

Researchers in The William States Lee College of Engineering won 24 grants totaling almost $3.5 million in the second quarter of 2020. A listing of new grants is here.

When Civil Engineering student Amir Alansari learned of a drinking-water-treatment challenge that no one had been able to solve for almost 50 years, he knew he had to give it a try. The challenge became what he now describes as an “obsession” for him, as he reinvented scientific methodology, collected massive amounts of data and […]

Now in its fourth year, the UNC Charlotte-led Center for Advanced Multimodal Mobility Solutions and Education (CAMMSE) has completed 27 transportation-related research projects and has another 33 currently underway, including research into the optimization of autonomous vehicles, analysis of cycling behavior based of crowdsourced data, and optimization and improvement of current public transit services. Established […]

Since 2012, the somewhat unusual research pairing of a geologist and mechanical engineer at UNC Charlotte has led to some important scientific results, and has recently earned recognition of their work with a top award for interdisciplinary research and publication. Dr. Martha Cary (Missy) Eppes, professor of Earth Sciences in the Department of Geography and […]

The opportunity to make a difference and the potential to create important academic and research programs are what first attracted Bob Johnson to UNC Charlotte. He made the most of the possibilities, helping The William States Lee of College of Engineering reach record levels of enrollment and research, add new programs, and construct new buildings. […]

Paul Nowell Before he graduated from UNC Charlotte with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, Eric Duncan ’20 was working for Germain Racing, a NASCAR team based in Lexington, North Carolina. His first day as a race engineer was March 16, or as Duncan puts it, “just in time for the world to shut down.” A […]

Lee College of Engineering student teams had to work remotely for the final six weeks of their Senior Design projects, which added a new challenge to the two-semester projects. The traditional Senior Design Expo in the UNC Charlotte Student Activity Center could not be held, so all teams had to present their projects virtually for […]