Airport Engineering Onsite Seminar

The Airport Engineering Onsite Seminar hosted by UNC Charlotte’s Civil and Environmental Engineering Department and Infrastructure, Design, Environment and Sustainability (IDEAS) Center was held Oct. 15-16 at the Carolinas Aviation Museum. The seminar featured presentations by industry, government and academic experts in airport design, construction, operation and maintenance.

Held in partnership with Charlotte Douglas International Airport and the Carolinas Aviation Museum, the two-day program featured a behind-the-scenes tour of the airport. This seminar offered 11 professional development hours (PDHs) to licensed engineers and architects. The keynote speaker was a first-hand account of what it was like to be a passenger on US Airways Flight 1549, the “Miracle on the Hudson” airplane.

Special thanks for seminar execution goes to Lee College of Engineering alumni Ashton Watson, Airport Engineer at Charlotte Douglas Airport; Jack Christine, Chief Operating Officer for the airport; and Carl Ellington, Vice President of Talbert, Bright, and Ellington an engineering consulting firm working on several airport capital projects.