Departmental News

The Lee College of Engineering celebrated UNC Charlotte’s 2018 Homecoming with the annual college picnic on Friday and Bob’s Bash tailgate party before kickoff on Saturday. A photo gallery of the events is here.

Researchers at UNC Charlotte have been awarded funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF)’s Smart and Connected Communities program to co-develop technology to support public safety. The $1.9 million, four-year grant will develop an optical sensing platform that uses artificial intelligence to detect and prevent street crime without the use of profiling. The technology will […]

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded a $942,000 to EPIC, UNC Charlotte’s energy engineering research center, to develop an innovative solution related to curbside charging of electric vehicles. Lee College of Engineering faculty members who will be involved in the research include principle project managers Dr. Rob Cox and Dr. Mike Mazzola (who is […]

UNC Charlotte’s Lee College of Engineering is hosting a free educational and networking event on Wednesday Oct. 24, 2018, entitled “Creating and Developing More Diverse Engineering Leaders”. (Event timeline: 2:00 check in, 3:00 programming, 7:00 closing remarks). Open to all UNC Charlotte students, alumni, faculty and staff as well as industry folks (women and underrepresented […]

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 […]