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Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories donates equipment to help prepare students for workforce UNC Charlotte’s William States Lee College of Engineering announces a significant partnership with Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL), the global leader in energy grid automation and protection. SEL, whose equipment is used as the industry standard by companies in more than 170 countries around the world, has generously donated state-of-the-art equipment valued over $200,000 to the university’s Electromechanical Engineering Technology (ETEM) program.

Junior Andrei Vince, a computer engineering major, recently collaborated with Assistant Professor of Architecture Sabri Gökmen on a project that blends artificial intelligence with architectural design. Vince, alongside computer science student Aidan Oh, earned a stipend and gained hands-on experience exploring the intersection of engineering and architecture. Their challenge: use AI to quickly produce a 3D architectural […]

The University’s Carolinas Engine for Grid Modernization is one of 29 semifinalists in the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Regional Innovation Engines (NSF Engines) competition — selected for a virtual site visit from more than 300 initial applicants.

From moving to a new country to finding her profession in engineering, Zarshal Saeed’s journey is more than just a story of academic success.

Charlotte, with its burgeoning industrial landscape, has become a natural magnet for engineers. This includes Davey Sides, master’s program graduate and facilities engineer at Bosch.

UNC Charlotte engineering students had a successful 2025 competition season, led by their tenacity and hard work, resulting in lessons learned and celebrations.

Engineering involves significant creativity. For engineers, this incredibly transferrable trait can be applied in many different ways, often in a lab, such as a computer lab, maker space or machine shop. But a chocolate lab?

Despite being a seventh grader at Providence Day School, Sydney Flatow arrived on the UNC Charlotte campus early on Friday, April 4. She and four other students, together having the team name “Bumblebees,” gathered alongside nine other middle-school student teams in the halls of the William States Lee College of Engineering. They all came to campus prepared for a full day of computer science creativity and competitive coding, called the “Grant Williams Family Foundation Hackathon-For-Good.”

Dipankar Maity, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the William States Lee College of Engineering, earned the prestigious NSF CAREER Award in June of this year to support his investigations in how teams of smart machines, like connected robots, work together more reliably.

Xiang Chen, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, wins NSF CAREER award to explore the complexities of energy supportive materials. She is working to unravel these complex relationships and unlock the full potential of these ionic-conducting superlattices, pushing the boundaries of what’s currently possible in various technological fields.