Departmental News

The global pandemic caused by coronavirus, which is affecting humanity on a scale not seen in more than 100 years, is disrupting the traditional start of the academic year at colleges and universities worldwide. While the situation challenges higher education administrators on a number of fronts, researchers are able to view the crisis through a […]

As the aerodynamicist for the Speed Demon 715 Streamliner team, Dr. Charles Jenckes’s job was to make the 400-mile-per-hour-plus vehicle stable without increasing its drag. The UNC Charlotte assistant professor succeeded in his task, and in the summer of 2020 the Speed Demon 715 car reached 481 miles per hour and set the record for […]

The Lee College of Engineering has strong ties to the legacy of NASCAR champion Alan Kulwicki. These ties include generous support of the Kulwicki family for the UNC Charlotte Motorsports Engineering program, including a recent gift of $15,000 from the Kulwicki Donor Advised Fund in support of the new eFormula SAE program. Since 2009, the […]

To provide engineers with advanced coursework about dimensional measurement, The William States Lee College of Engineering’s Mechanical Engineering Department and Center for Precision Metrology offer the Graduate Certificate in Precision Metrology Program. The four-course program is designed with working professionals in mind, offering study topics important to industrial engineering careers through both distance-learning and in-class […]

Although the program was delayed and the annual launch finale event in Huntsville cancelled, 54 teams were able to compete remotely in the design, building and testing portions of the 2020 NASA Student Launch competition, and the UNC Charlotte Rocketry team finished second overall, and first in the payload portion of the event. The 2020 […]

Bechtel Group, Inc. announced in July that Craig Albert, a 1985 Mechanical Engineering graduate of The William States Lee College of Engineering, will be the company’s new president and chief operating officer. Albert has led Bechtel Group’s Infrastructure business unit since 2016. An active alumnus of the Lee College of Engineering, Craig and his wife […]

On July 27, Dr. Rob Keynton began his first week as dean of The William States Lee College of Engineering. Undergraduate and graduate students from several engineering disciplines and organizations pitched in to help Dean Keynton set up his new office in Duke Centennial Hall. An introductory message from Dean Keynton to the Forty Niner […]

The Lee College of Engineering has awarded its top honors for teaching, the Undergraduate and Graduate Excellence in Teaching Awards for 2019-20. The winner of the undergraduate teaching award is Dr. Mihail (Misha) Cutitaru of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. The winner of the graduate teaching award is Dr. Nicole Braxtan of the Civil […]

Researchers in The William States Lee College of Engineering won 24 grants totaling almost $3.5 million in the second quarter of 2020. A listing of new grants is here.

When Civil Engineering student Amir Alansari learned of a drinking-water-treatment challenge that no one had been able to solve for almost 50 years, he knew he had to give it a try. The challenge became what he now describes as an “obsession” for him, as he reinvented scientific methodology, collected massive amounts of data and […]