General News

With the passing of Bailey Squier, co-founder of Digital Metrology Standards Consortium (DMSC), its Board of Directors contemplated ways to ensure his accomplishments and legacy are not forgotten. As a symbol of gratitude and admiration for the life and legacy of Mr. Squier, the DMSC Board established the Bailey H. Squier DMSC Metrology Memorial Scholarship.

Hamed Tabkhi, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, is working with community stakeholders and researchers from the criminal justice and criminology, electrical and computer engineering, and civil and environmental engineering departments and the Center for Applied Geographic Information Science, to “co-create and co-design” solutions to public safety with AI.

UNC Charlotte has been awarded a Strategy Development Grant of $500,000 from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration.

On October 18, electric vehicle leaders gathered at Charlotte Motor Speedway for the inaugural EVRSafe (Electric Vehicle Racing Safety) Conference. UNC Charlotte, along with the Stand 21 Safety Foundation and Charlotte Motor Speedway, took an industry-leading step to address EV racing safety concerns by bringing together experts who provided facts and dispelled the many myths about EVs.

UNC Charlotte Leadership Academy participants have joined forces with The Hollingsworth Foundation to promote awareness of SCA-7, a rare neurodegenerative disorder. With less than 1500 people diagnosed with SCA-7 in the United States, and less than 2% of all SCA cases, little is known about the disorder, and even less is being done to create […]

Qiang Zhu, associate professor of mechanical engineering, leverages informatics, computational research and modeling to advance the understanding of organic materials, directly leading to greater ability to generate clean energy. Zhu earned both an NSF CAREER Award and a Department of Energy Early Career Award which are furthering his studies at William States Lee College of Engineering.

Dr. Jy Wu, Infrastructure and Environmental Systems, was selected to receive the Thomas L. Reynolds Leadership Award for 2022-23. The most recent Graduate Program Excellence Award recipients, originally announced in May, were honored Sept. 20 in a reception held in the Student Union Art Gallery.

Countries around the globe, including the U.S., are racing to be carbon neutral by 2050. The key to success will be balancing the need for clean energy with the need for security. A team of researchers across the UNC system, led by UNC Charlotte, is working to build a more secure and reliable power grid, thanks to funding through the UNC System Research Opportunities Initiative

UNC Charlotte thanked local legislators for their support during a Charlotte Regional Legislative Caucus meeting this week, held on UNC Charlotte’s campus.

U.S. News includes William States Lee College of Engineering in their 2024 rankings