General News

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. Schmitz, a professor of mechanical engineering and engineering science, and the […]

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. SWE article.

New engineering students kicked off the 2018-19 academic year with Donuts with the Dean, before heading to Convocation.

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. The group was made up of eight undergraduate […]

The Center for Advanced Multimodal Mobility Solutions and Education (CAMMSE) held its first research symposium August 6-7 in Charlotte, bringing together student and faculty researchers from throughout the country to share results and findings of recent and ongoing transportation research. With UNC Charlotte as the lead, CAMMSE is a multi-institutional U.S. Department of Transportation center […]

Nicholas Dove of Elizabethtown has won the University of North Carolina at Charlotte’s 2018 Alan Kulwicki Memorial Scholarship for Motorsports Engineering. The son of Tena H. Dove and William Dove, Nicholas will be starting his studies in UNC Charlotte’s William States Lee College of Engineering in August. The four-year Kulwicki Scholarship, established in 1994, is […]

UNC Charlotte has received approval from the UNC System to offer the PhD in Civil Engineering. We are awaiting approval from SACSCOC to begin enrolling students. This is the university’s 24th doctoral program. The new degree will provide doctoral-level education for students seeking civil engineering careers in practice, research and teaching/academia. “I think we are […]

Dr. Scott Smith, chair of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science at UNC Charlotte, was honored with the Lifetime Service Award by the North American Manufacturing Research Institution of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (NAMRI/SME), at the 46th annual North American Manufacturing Research Conference (NAMRC) held in College Station, Texas. NAMRC is an international forum for […]

Building and operating a 1/8-scale hydrogen-powered locomotive named the ‘Hydrogen Hero’, a team of engineering students from UNC Charlotte and the University of Birmingham, England, were the top student team and third-place team overall at the Institute of Mechanical Engineers Railway Challenge held in Leicestershire, England, in July. Recent Mechanical Engineering graduates Noah Weiss and […]

Congratulations to Tumininu (Tumi) Lawanson, for being named a Young Clean Energy Innovator of the Year by the Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) at its Intersolar North American ceremony on July 11, 2018 in San Francisco, California. Originally from Nigeria, Lawanson is seeking to improve electricity access and reliability in her home country. She worked […]