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A team of Construction Management and Civil Engineering Technology students from UNC Charlotte placed 3rd in the 2017 ACI/ASCC Concrete Construction Competition, an international competition sponsored by the American Concrete Institute (ACI) and the American Society of Concrete Contractors (ASCC).

Making use of shared digital fabrication spaces on campus, a new UNC Charlotte club is fulfilling its mission of engaging and connecting students, as they design and build useful items for area nonprofits and university projects.

The UNC Charlotte American Society of Civil Engineers team had great results at the 2018 Carolinas Conference, with highlights including an overall victory in the Concrete Canoe competition, 2nd in the Steel Bridge and 2nd overall for the conference. The Concrete Canoe and Steel Bridge teams also qualified for the national championships in their events.

In fall 2107, all second-semester senior design teams had to submit a video about their project. This was the first time videos had been required as part of the senior design process. The videos were judged, and the winner was the Autocross SD2 Race Car Development Team video. To see more winning videos and all […]

Dressing out in head-to-toe white coveralls (affectionately know as bunny suits) to do laboratory work in the Cameron Center clean room has been a traditional experience for UNC Charlotte Electrical and Computer Engineering undergraduates for years. A new energy-related component has been added to the lab this semester, as students are now designing, fabricating and […]

As part of Discovery Place’s “Year of the Engineer,” students from the Lee College of Engineering took over the Charlotte educational museum on Saturday Feb. 10th to teach kids the problem-solving principles of engineering. A photo gallery of the Feb. 10 UNC Charlotte takeover is here.

The Terracon Foundation recently awarded a university grant of $10,000 to the Department of Engineering Technology and Construction Management (ETCM) at UNC Charlotte. The funds will be used to support scholarships for female and underrepresented minority students in the Construction and Facilities Management master’s degree program.

As a voice for the public and for engineering students, Linda Thurman of the Lee College of Engineering has been a valuable member of the North Carolina Board of Examiners for Engineers and Land Surveyors (NCBELS) since 2010. The energy and professionalism Thurman brings to the board will have an even greater impact in 2018, as she serves as the first-ever public member to chair NCBELS.

A UNC Charlotte commencement tradition is to discover which of the graduates has been working the longest to earn their 49er degree. At the December 2017 commencement, as graduates sat group by group when the number of years were called out, the “Last Man Standing” was Fire Safety Engineering Technology student Ron Mauney, who first started his UNC Charlotte journey 42 years earlier in 1975.

Ph.D. student Wahida Nasrin and Professor Jiang (Linda) Xie, both of UNC Charlotte Electrical and Computer Engineering, won a Best Paper Award from the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2017), which was held in Singapore December 4-8. Their winning paper was titled “An Efficient Target Cell Selection Scheme for Next-generation Open-access Femtocell Networks.”