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As the lead engineer on a $2-billion airport improvement project, UNC Charlotte alumnus Ashton Watson is involved in all types of engineering, on all types of capital jobs, with all types of stakeholders. And he’s having a ball doing it.
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.
Alumni from The Williams States Lee College of Engineering were recognized for their professional and community achievements by UNC Charlotte’s Young Alumni Chapter and Black Alumni Chapter on Oct. 12, 2018.
The Lee College of Engineering celebrated UNC Charlotte’s 2018 Homecoming with the annual college picnic on Friday and Bob’s Bash tailgate party before kickoff on Saturday. A photo gallery of the events is here.
Researchers at UNC Charlotte have been awarded funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF)’s Smart and Connected Communities program to co-develop technology to support public safety. The $1.9 million, four-year grant will develop an optical sensing platform that uses artificial intelligence to detect and prevent street crime without the use of profiling. The technology will […]
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded $942,000 to EPIC, UNC Charlotte’s energy engineering research center, to develop an innovative solution related to curbside charging of electric vehicles.
UNC Charlotte’s Lee College of Engineering is hosting a free educational and networking event on Wednesday Oct. 24, 2018, entitled “Creating and Developing More Diverse Engineering Leaders.”
Lee College of Engineering’s Tony Schmitz invests significant time in his students with a goal to “train decision makers.” For his efforts, he was named the 2018 recipient of the Bank of America Award for Teaching Excellence, one of UNC Charlotte’s most prestigious accolades.
Mechanical Engineering alumna Jessica Rogers is featured by SWE’s ‘All Together’ website for her work serving as an ambassador for the Society of Women Engineers across the globe.
Exploring the field of metrology from a German perspective, a group of Lee College of Engineering students visited a number of German industrial and metrology sites on nine-day trip this summer, and also learned about the culture of the country and earned three hours of course credit.