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The Power of People The William States Lee College of Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte is proud to announce the addition of our new faculty members for 2017. As educators and researchers, these individuals bring a wealth of experience and training from some of the best academic institutions and companies in […]

An essential part of the United States and North Carolina economies, the continued success of manufacturing is dependent on innovation, and that innovation is driven by a diverse workforce that relies on the engineering, technological and scientific talents of women. That message, and discussions on how women will continue to impact and build successful careers […]

COLLEGE PARK, MD, October 12, 2017 — The American Physical Society (APS) has selected the Society’s 2017 Fellows, including Dr. Yong Zhang of the Lee College of Engineering. Dr. Zhang is the Bissell Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UNC Charlotte. His research areas include photovoltaics, solid-state-lighting, optical spectroscopy, and […]

The William States Lee College of Engineering held its 17th annual Recruiting, Networking and Career Exploration Picnic on Friday, September 29. A photo gallery of the students, industry representatives and faculty is here.

Six UNC Charlotte alumni including 2012 Civil Engineering graduate Melissa Oliver are among Charlotte Agenda’s 2017 class of “30 Under 30.” These individuals are “young people who are leaving their marks on the city like never before,” according to the website. Mellisa Oliver (’12) is a civil engineering designer at LandDesign. She is credited with […]

The fall 2017 Senior Design projects are now underway with a record 326 students working on 61 projects, 45 of which are sponsored by industry. Photos from the kickoff breakfast are here.

Students from the class of 2021 started off their college careers with an exciting day on Aug. 21st, first with convocation in the morning and then the total eclipse in the afternoon. Photos of Lee College of Engineering students are here:

The National Science Foundation has awarded a $250,000 grant to ECE Professor Dr. Jiang (Linda) Xie for the project “Hierarchical Framework with Distributed Resource Allocation for Mobile Fog Computing.” The project summary is as follows: “A mobile fog computing system is composed of geographically distributed ‘fog nodes’, which are fixed or mobile computing devices with […]

To learn more about manufacturing and metrology, and then be able to take that knowledge back to their area of the country to share, two students from Navajo Technical University’s Crownpoint, New Mexico, campus spent the summer at UNC Charlotte’s Center for Precision Metrology. Wynona Wilson and Shane Tsosie are seniors at NTU majoring in […]

In fiscal year 2017, UNC Charlotte recorded its highest ever total of sponsored research awards in the amount of $50,917,579, according to the Office of Research and Economic Development report of sponsored awards for July 1, 2016, to June 30, 2017 . Faculty from The William States Lee College of Engineering Faculty led the way […]