Departmental News

Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. student Nishant Ojal will be going to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory after he graduates this summer, continuing work he started during an internship with LLNL last semester, which involved researching ways to improve additive manufacturing. Ojal will be defending his doctoral thesis at UNC Charlotte on July 6th. His thesis work has […]

At the invitation of W.S. Lee College of Engineering Advisory Board member Pam Fletcher, Vice President of Global Innovation at General Motors, Dean Rob Keynton got the chance to drive the Army’s new Infantry Squad Vehicle (ISV) at the opening ceremony and tour of the new GM Defense facility in Concord, NC, on May 4th. […]

The American Chemical Society has published a paper on its website ACS Nano about the research of UNC Charlotte faculty members and their colleagues involving the development of a new miracle organic-inorganic hybrid semiconductor, which is one of the most stable hybrid and structurally most-perfect semiconductors known. The research is sponsored by the Army Research […]

Spring 2021 commencement ceremonies were held at Jerry Richardson Stadium on the UNC Charlotte campus last weekend, with Lee College of Engineering students graduating on May 14th. UNC Charlotte conferred 3,746 undergraduate degrees and 1,524 graduate degrees upon the Class of 2021. In Engineering, there were 430 undergraduate, 79 master’s and 19 Ph.D. degrees conferred. […]

When he graduated with his Ph.D. in 1975, Dr. Kakad was offered two jobs, one at UNC Charlotte and the other at a major research university. “I sat with my advisor at Florida and asked for his thoughts,” Dr. Kakad said. “He said ‘I’ll give you a piece of advice. Go to Charlotte. It’s an […]

The William States Lee College of Engineering held its virtual spring-semester Senior Design Expo on May 7, 2021. Teams who started in fall 2020 presented their completed two-semester projects, while teams who started in spring 2021 presented their first-semester design-concept posters. Thirteen completed projects had been named finalists, and those were judged by 20 industry […]

Students from the Lee College of Engineering’s Freshman Learning Community designed and built a mobility cart for 8-month-old puppy Boots, a Pembroke Welsh Corgi whose front legs were not properly developed at birth. The freshmen donated their own time to the project, helping out owner Laura Russell who requested their assistance last fall. The students […]

At a time when he could have started slowing down and taking things easy, Don Blackmon decided instead to give back to his profession and the next generation of engineers, by going to work for The William States Lee College of Engineering. As an instructor for freshman engineering, an academic advisor and the director of […]

When you hear that a 6-foot-7-inch-tall transfer student is coming from another country to join a Forty Niner team, you probably think football or basketball. But the goal of Spencer Nichols in coming to UNC Charlotte from Canada was to join a Motorsports Engineering racing team, and he is now co-captain of the 2020-21 Formula […]

A tradition has been growing on the Forty Niner Rocketry Team, in which female students in the ETCM program recruit fellow ETCM females for the next year’s team. The 2020-21 team has Cortney Hahn as its third generation ETCM student. Cortney was recruited by Tyler Ainsworth, who is now an Applied Energy and Electromechanical Systems […]