General News

The Civil and Environmental Engineering Department held a Hooding Ceremony Sunday, November 22nd, to confer the honor of Ph.D. in Civil Engineering to four of its doctoral students. The ceremony was held in the Hauser Alumni Pavilion on the UNC Charlotte campus. The four students and their faculty mentors were:

Boots is a 10-week old Pembroke Welsh Corgi whose front legs were not properly developed at birth. Laura Russell, the dog’s owner, contacted The William States Lee College of Engineering to find out if students wanted to tackle the challenge of assisting Boots. The Lee College’s Freshman Learning Community (FLC) agreed to design and build […]

Because of their expertise in flow measurement, researchers from The William States Lee College of Engineering are working with doctors from the Wake Forest School of Medicine to help determine the extent to which the COVID-19 virus is spread during certain surgical procedures. The researchers have developed a system to generate particles similar in size […]

The National Science foundation has awarded a $500,000 Innovations in Graduate Education grant to UNC Charlotte that will support doctoral students in STEM disciplines, as they develop their capstone thesis projects for patenting instead of for journal publications as has been the norm. “The National Science Foundation is looking for fundamentally new ideas to change […]

By: Paul Nowell As the U.S. military develops the sophisticated weapon systems of the future, UNC Charlotte engineering students, including veteran Jason Solomon, are on the forefront of cutting-edge research in the field. In January 2019, Solomon, then an undergraduate, was chosen to lead the Hypersonic Wind Tunnel Senior Design Project in The William States […]

In continuation of the military veterans program in the Lee College of Engineering at UNC Charlotte and in a new collaboration with the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) has awarded a three-year $750,000 grant to fund an undergraduate veteran students research exchange program between the two universities. The new Shaping […]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Oct. 13, 2020 – UNC Charlotte has named the EPIC building the Albert & Freeman Energy Production and Infrastructure Center to recognize and honor alumni Craig and Darla Freeman Albert. The naming took place during a virtual ceremony on Wednesday, Oct. 7. “We are proud to celebrate and recognize alumni Craig and […]

With the first full week of in-person instruction underway at UNC Charlotte, there is a bit more life on campus and in the classrooms and laboratories. In-person classes are being held for specific areas of instruction, including engineering, with many of the classes being a hybrid mix of in-person and virtual instruction. UNC Charlotte has […]

The William States Lee College of Engineering welcomes 12 new faculty members to the fall 2020 semester. With experience and education from some of the finest companies and institutions in the world, these educators bring expertise to our classrooms and laboratories in engineering fields including manufacturing, fire safety, motorsports, robotics, smart infrastructure, mobile sensor networks […]

Researchers in The William States Lee College of Engineering won 35 grants totaling almost $3.5 million in the third quarter of 2020. A listing of new grants is here.