General News
49ers Engineering the U.S.’s First New Nuclear Units in 30 Years
At one time or another they were all engineering students at UNC Charlotte. Now, eight 49er graduates are key members of the engineering team that is building the first new commercial nuclear reactors in the United States in the past 30 years.
Eric Cutler – Defying Gravity
As a sophomore mechanical engineering student, Eric Cutler is learning how forces act upon a body and about the resulting motions in response to these forces. For Cutler these laws of physics certainly aren’t limitations, though, since he has spent most of his life defying gravity.
News Systems Engineering Graduate Certificate Programs
Systems Engineering and Engineering Management (SEEM) is offering new graduate certificate programs with flexible delivery options in the areas of Energy Analytics, Lean Six Sigma, Logistics and Supply Chains, and Systems Analytics. “We created these programs to meet the need for engineers and other professionals to increase their knowledge in what have become important skill […]
Materials Characterization Lab Offers Advanced Analytical Resources
Providing faculty and student researchers with advanced materials analyses resources, UNC Charlotte’s Materials Characterization Lab (MCL) offers sampling services, training, shared instrument usage and expertise at a convenient location and affordable cost.
Defying the Odds
Chains of events can lead many directions. For one Lee College of Engineering student graduating this May, his chain of events went from bad decisions, to substance abuse, to living in a shipping container, to accepting the help of others, to again believing in himself and to ultimately defying the odds.
NCDOT Awards $1.4M in Grants to Lee College of Engineering Researchers
The North Carolina Department of Transportation has awarded seven new research grants totaling almost $1.4 million to faculty researchers in The William States Lee College of Engineering. The engineering departments that will be involved in the research are Engineering Technology and Construction Management (ETCM), and Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE).
Molly Welsh Wins NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
The National Science Foundation has awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship to INES Ph.D. student Molly Welsh to support her research in promoting nitrogen removal in agricultural stream ecosystems and identifying microbial controls on nutrient cycling.
ASCE Carolinas Conference
The Lee College of Engineering’s ASCE student chapter participated in the 2014 Carolinas Conference on March 6th at the Citadel.
New Power and Energy Society
Founded by the students themselves, the new Power and Energy Society at UNC Charlotte is an interdisciplinary group working to further education and understanding of the energy industry.
Concrete Testing for Design of North Carolina Pavements
In an effort to improve economy, durability and smoothness of highway pavements, a new design procedure is being implemented nationwide. This procedure, outlined in the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (M-EPDG), represents the work of leading researchers over the past two decades.