Departmental News

As part of their final presentations, senior design teams are required to create a video that explains their projects. The videos judged the three best at this spring’s 2018 Senior Design Expo.

The UNC Charlotte Astrobotics Robotic Team, the 49er Miners, took third place in the Caterpillar Autonomy Award at the 2018 NASA Robotic Mining Competition at Kennedy Space Center on Friday May 18th. The team joined the elite group of only a handful of schools in the history of the competition that have accomplished a fully […]

The results of NASA’s 2018 Student Launch competition are tabulated, and The William States Lee College of Engineering’s 49er Rocketry Team placed second in the nation, the highest finish in the team’s history. First place went to Vanderbilt University’s Aerospace Design Lab team, the team’s fourth win in the past five years. Student Launch is […]

The Lee College of Engineering hosted almost 300 energy industry professionals in the EPIC Building on May 15, 2018. The event was Duke Energy Engineer’s Day, which included presentations given by engineering peers and vendors, along with time for networking. Participants were able to make contacts and develop relationships with peers, as well as earn […]

The William States Lee College of Engineering graduated 576 students at UNC Charlotte’s spring 2018 commencement over the weekend. The graduates included with 386 bachelor’s degrees, 172 with master’s and 18 with Ph.D.s. A photo gallery of the Order of the Engineer ceremony, commencement and graduation reception is here.

For their innovative research on safety and fire protection strategies for tall wood structures, three graduate students from The William States Lee College of Engineering were chosen to present their work at the 2018 Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE) International Conference on Performance Based Codes and Fire Safety Design Methods in Honolulu, Hawaii, in […]

The William States Lee College of Engineering held its spring-semester Senior Design Expo on May 3, 2018. Teams who started in fall 2017 presented their completed two-semester projects, while teams who started in spring 2018 presented their first-semester design-concept posters. The three completed projects judged the best were: First Place – NASA University Student Launch […]

The Graduate School has named Xiaoxue (Lisa) Chen, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, as a 2018 outstanding graduate teaching assistant (TA). The Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards recognize students nominated by faculty supervisors for their work as teaching assistants. The awards, presented at the doctoral and master’s levels, recognize outstanding and innovative teaching techniques. For 2018, there […]

A team of Construction Management and Civil Engineering Technology students from UNC Charlotte placed 3rd in the 2017 ACI/ASCC Concrete Construction Competition, an international competition sponsored by the American Concrete Institute (ACI) and the American Society of Concrete Contractors (ASCC). This year’s Lee College of Engineering team from UNC Charlotte was comprised of ETCM students […]

Making use of shared digital fabrication spaces on campus, a new UNC Charlotte club is fulfilling its mission of engaging and connecting students, as they design and build useful items for area nonprofits and university projects. The DigiFab Club started in fall 2017, and is made up primarily of engineering and architecture students. The club […]