General News

The 49er Rocketry Club, comprised of engineering students, is raising money to enter and attend the 2018 NASA Student Launch Competition. This is a rigorous and fiercely competitive challenge to design, build and fly a high powered rocket to complete a mission designed by NASA.

The UNC Charlotte Formula SAE team is raising money to design and build a formula-style race car and compete at the Michigan International Speedway. The team of engineering and like-minded students collaborate to build the FSAE car from scratch and develop the performance of the vehicle to be competitive. The team is seeking $7,500 for […]

The members of IEEE-USA, an organizational unit of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, have elected Dr. Jim Conrad of The William States Lee College of Engineering to serves as their president for 2020. Dr. Conrad, a professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, will serve as president elect in 2019.

As part of their coursework, students in Energy Analytics have been competing very successfully in international energy forecasting competitions. This fall the course instructor decided the Lee College of Engineering would host a competition of its own, and 142 data scientists from 26 countries have formed 81 teams for the first ever UNC Charlotte BigDEAL Forecasting Competition 2018.

As the lead engineer on a $2-billion airport improvement project, UNC Charlotte alumnus Ashton Watson is involved in all types of engineering, on all types of capital jobs, with all types of stakeholders. And he’s having a ball doing it.

The Airport Engineering Onsite Seminar hosted by UNC Charlotte’s Civil and Environmental Engineering Department and Infrastructure, Design, Environment and Sustainability (IDEAS) Center was held Oct. 15-16 at the Carolinas Aviation Museum. The seminar featured presentations by industry, government and academic experts in airport design, construction, operation and maintenance.

Alumni from The Williams States Lee College of Engineering were recognized for their professional and community achievements by UNC Charlotte’s Young Alumni Chapter and Black Alumni Chapter on Oct. 12, 2018.

The Lee College of Engineering celebrated UNC Charlotte’s 2018 Homecoming with the annual college picnic on Friday and Bob’s Bash tailgate party before kickoff on Saturday. A photo gallery of the events is here.

Researchers at UNC Charlotte have been awarded funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF)’s Smart and Connected Communities program to co-develop technology to support public safety. The $1.9 million, four-year grant will develop an optical sensing platform that uses artificial intelligence to detect and prevent street crime without the use of profiling. The technology will […]

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded $942,000 to EPIC, UNC Charlotte’s energy engineering research center, to develop an innovative solution related to curbside charging of electric vehicles.