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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.

Students in UNC Charlotte’s William States Lee College of Engineering, Belk College of Business and College of Computing and Informatics who are preparing for careers in STEM, supply chain and logistics will gain access to scholarship support, mentorship and hands-on learning through a new partnership between the W.S. Lee College of Engineering and Bobcat Company, a leading global manufacturer of compact equipment used in construction, agriculture and land maintenance.

Through a growing number of international partnerships with other top universities, William States Lee College of Engineering offers students and researchers unique learning experiences. Many of these partnerships are anchored in Germany, highly regarded as a world leader in engineering with a strong reputation for innovation, accuracy and technology.

William States Lee College of Engineering faculty have been recognized for their exceptional contributions to research, innovation, teaching and service. These achievements reflect the College’s ongoing commitment to engineering excellence and societal impact.