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Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories donates equipment to help prepare students for workforce UNC Charlotte’s William States Lee College of Engineering announces a significant partnership with Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL), the global leader in energy grid automation and protection. SEL, whose equipment is used as the industry standard by companies in more than 170 countries around the […]

Junior Andrei Vince, a computer engineering major, recently collaborated with Assistant Professor of Architecture Sabri Gökmen on a project that blends artificial intelligence with architectural design. Vince, alongside computer science student Aidan Oh, earned a stipend and gained hands-on experience exploring the intersection of engineering and architecture. Their challenge: use AI to quickly produce a 3D architectural […]

Through a growing number of international partnerships with other top universities, William States Lee College of Engineering offers students and researchers unique learning experiences. Many of these partnerships are anchored in Germany, highly regarded as a world leader in engineering with a strong reputation for innovation, accuracy and technology. 

Jordan Landis focuses the microscope to get a better view of particulates that are magnified 100x beneath the lens. She is not surprised to find multiple pieces of debris in the 1ml water sample. While these non-biodegradable microplastics are tiny, Landis understands they can hold much larger impacts:  the invisible-to-the-naked-eye sized plastics may negatively impact public health.

Niner Engineer Axel Knoll didn’t fly to Germany so he could learn to brew beer. It just happened to be an unexpected bonus of his recent exchange program. Knoll, along with fellow students Steve Freinstein and Matthew McGrew, enrolled in an exchange program with Germany’s Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, also known as Hochschule Karlsruhe (HKA), to earn course credit, and came home with so much more.