General News

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.

Dr. Steven R. Schmid has joined The William States Lee College of Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte as the first-ever Belk-Woodward Distinguished Professor in Engineering. A nationally known expert in manufacturing, Dr. Schmid will be collaborating with researchers in the college’s Center for Precision Metrology and with regional companies. “It is […]

The 2020 winners of the Albert Engineering Leadership Scholars Program for the Lee College of Engineering are Aiden Lamar of Durham, NC, Summer Prentice of Jacksonville, NC, and Abigail Rose of Greensboro, NC. Housed in the UNC Charlotte Honors College, the Albert Scholars Program is a merit-based scholarship program designed to develop future engineering leaders […]

The American Society for Engineering Management (ASEM) has named Dr. Yesim Sireli, associate professor of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management in the Lee College of Engineering, as a fellow of the Society and Secretary for 2020-2021. ASEM Fellowship is the highest honor given to a member. Inductees are chosen according to their distinguished service to […]

The global pandemic caused by coronavirus, which is affecting humanity on a scale not seen in more than 100 years, is disrupting the traditional start of the academic year at colleges and universities worldwide. While the situation challenges higher education administrators on a number of fronts, researchers are able to view the crisis through a […]

As the aerodynamicist for the Speed Demon 715 Streamliner team, Dr. Charles Jenckes’s job was to make the 400-mile-per-hour-plus vehicle stable without increasing its drag. The UNC Charlotte assistant professor succeeded in his task, and in the summer of 2020 the Speed Demon 715 car reached 481 miles per hour and set the record for […]

The Lee College of Engineering has strong ties to the legacy of NASCAR champion Alan Kulwicki. These ties include generous support of the Kulwicki family for the UNC Charlotte Motorsports Engineering program, including a recent gift of $15,000 from the Kulwicki Donor Advised Fund in support of the new eFormula SAE program. Since 2009, the […]

To provide engineers with advanced coursework about dimensional measurement, The William States Lee College of Engineering’s Mechanical Engineering Department and Center for Precision Metrology offer the Graduate Certificate in Precision Metrology Program. The four-course program is designed with working professionals in mind, offering study topics important to industrial engineering careers through both distance-learning and in-class […]

Although the program was delayed and the annual launch finale event in Huntsville cancelled, 54 teams were able to compete remotely in the design, building and testing portions of the 2020 NASA Student Launch competition, and the UNC Charlotte Rocketry team finished second overall, and first in the payload portion of the event. The 2020 […]

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 […]