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The legacy of Alan Kulwicki, who will be inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame this weekend, continues to inspire motorsports engineers. This article explores the relationship between the Lee College of Engineering’s Motorsports Engineering program, alumni, students and supporters, and the memory and lasting impact of Kulwicki on racing.

With no axis of symmetry, freeform shapes being manufactured at the Lee College of Engineering are revolutionizing how optics direct light. And they look really cool. A photo gallery is here.

The Lee College of Engineering recognized its employees of the years and the service of its staff members on January 9th. The SHRA employee of the year was Eric Rhodes, and the EHRA employee of the year was Bill Arden, both of the Mosaic computing group. Civil Engineering lab manager Ted Brown was recognized for […]

Virtual Tour Explore the Lee College of Engineering’s six academic buildings and one residence hall in this new virtual tour that includes 360 degree photos, video clips, text descriptions and links to other information about our programs. You can navigate through the different buildings, their laboratories and classrooms by following the direction arrows, or by […]

A photo gallery of the December 15th Lee College of Engineering commencement and reception is here.

The Lee College Engineering has bid farewell to a legend. Dr. Patty Tolley was honored by the college for her 23 years of years of service on December 5th. Dr. Tolley is the Associate Dean for the College of Engineering, a faculty member in the ETGR program and an alumnus. Dr. Tolley has successfully started […]

The William States Lee College of Engineering held its fall-semester Senior Design Expo on Dec. 7th, 2018. Teams who started in spring 2018 presented their completed two-semester projects, while teams who started in fall 2018 presented their first-semester design-concept posters. In total there were 445 students working on 78 projects, which were supported by 45 […]

A team mechanical engineering graduate students from UNC Charlotte’s precision engineering program won the Student Challenge competition at the American Society of Precision Engineering’s 33rd annual conference, held Nov. 4-9 in Las Vegas. In second place was a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The UNC Charlotte team members were Alexander Blum, Jacob Cole, […]

Lee College of Engineering students Bhav Sardana and Vinayak Sharma, who are associated with UNC Charlotte’s Energy Informatics and Blockchain Technology Laboratory (E-IB Lab), secured the top two spots at this year’s NPower Energy Forecasting Challenge. RWE NPower, a leading UK-based utility, has been organizing the energy forecasting challenge since 2015. This year’s challenge was […]

Their senior design project encompasses a diverse range of topics, and the team itself is strengthened by the many perspectives of its members, since all seven are from different countries. The Engineering Design Toolkit team’s task during the past year has been to develop a user-friendly database that will help all future teams make design decisions quickly and accurately.