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The William States Lee College of Engineering graduated 576 students at UNC Charlotte’s spring 2018 commencement over the weekend. The graduates included with 386 bachelor’s degrees, 172 with master’s and 18 with Ph.D.s.

For their innovative research on safety and fire protection strategies for tall wood structures, three graduate students from The William States Lee College of Engineering were chosen to present their work at the 2018 Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE) International Conference on Performance Based Codes and Fire Safety Design Methods in Honolulu, Hawaii, in April.

The William States Lee College of Engineering held its spring-semester Senior Design Expo on May 3, 2018. Teams who started in fall 2017 presented their completed two-semester projects, while teams who started in spring 2018 presented their first-semester design-concept posters.

The Graduate School has named Xiaoxue (Lisa) Chen, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, as a 2018 outstanding graduate teaching assistant (TA).

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.