Departmental News

U.S. News & World Report again ranked William States Lee College of Engineering among the Best Graduate Programs in the nation, according to the publication’s 2023-2024 Best Graduate Schools rankings.

Learn about Celestin Gasirabo’s journey to Charlotte.

Tiefu Zhao, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and his team of faculty and student researchers are very accustomed to intense lab work. With years of sleeves rolled up and eyes focused down on their technology, they have developed the innovation of wireless power transfer for trains, a first in the U.S.

In Hong Yang, Assistant Professor in the William States Lee College of Engineering, earned the prestigious NSF CAREER Award in January of this year to support his investigations in neuromodulation, which is one of the fastest-growing areas of medicine. Yang’s proposal entitled “CAREER: Magnetic Stimulation and Myelination” was awarded $450,710 for a five-year study beginning 2023.

EPIC’s PoleVolt™ received the Clean Cities/Clean Fuels Coalition Award from Centralina Regional Council last week on February 8. The recognition, part of the “Region of Excellence” awards program, supports regional partnerships to promote clean fuels and energy efficient mobility options.

U.S. News & World Report again nationally ranked William States Lee College of Engineering among the Best Online Master’s in Engineering.

“Antibiotic resistance has been a silent pandemic,” said Mariya Munir, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering in the William States Lee College of Engineering. “My idea was to see how I could come up with different strategies to combat antibiotic resistance in the environment.” Munir, along with co-collaborators from across campus and funding from the NIH, researches antibiotic-resistant bacteria and detects ways to eliminate them.

EPIC Executive Director and the Duke Energy Distinguished Chair in Power Engineering Systems Mike Mazzola, answers questions about damage to electrical substations and the measures communities can take to withstand widespread power outages.

Badrul Chowdhury, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering with joint appointment in Systems Engineering & Engineering Management, was awarded a $4 million research grant entitled “Resilient Community Microgrids with Dynamic Reconfiguration to Serve Critical Loads in the Aftermath of Severe Events” from the Department of Energy (DoE)

Three engineering graduate students are researching impactful projects by leveraging the highly competitive and prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship award from the National Science Foundation. Chris Neff, Electrical Engineering, Patrick Bounds and Marc Duemmler, both Mechanical Engineering, are graduate students in the William States Lee College of Engineering and Fellows in the NSF program. These three students are among only 2,000 students selected nationwide to receive the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship from more than 16,000 applicants.