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When President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, he donated the money from the prize to several charities. One of these was the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, which used the money to fund the Obama Scholars program. One of the 12 winners of the new scholarships was Lee College of Engineering junior Jenny Salgado.

Helping a local utility solve its environmental challenges and at the same time providing students with valuable field experience, researchers from UNC Charlotte’s IDEAS Center are performing sedimentation studies on Lake Howell in Cabarrus County, North Carolina. The sedimentation research is part of the Infrastructure, Design, Environment and Sustainability (IDEAS) Center’s ongoing relationship with the Water and Sewer Authority of Cabarrus County (WSACC).

An engineer’s cake recipe

With the goal of creating strong community leaders, the Levine Scholars Program at UNC Charlotte is educating some of the top students in the country through special classes, civic engagement projects, summer internships and international travel.

Timothy Dinsmore believes in a balanced life. As a double major in Civil Engineering and Music Performance at UNC Charlotte, Dinsmore wants to be a master builder involved in all aspects of structures projects, while still making sure music and his guitar are important parts of his life.

On Dec. 12, 2011, Westinghouse Electric Co. and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte jointly announced Westinghouse’s commitment of more than $3 million in donated equipment, services and scholarship funding to provide support for the university’s Energy Production and Infrastructure Center (EPIC).

Motorsports Research, the new building for UNC Charlotte’s North Carolina Motorsports and Automotive Research Center (NCMARC) has opened.

As part of their engineering education, students in the Lee College of Engineering are helping to educate school children about engineering. Specifically, they are teaching them about energy engineering through displays and hands-on activities that include working models of nuclear, hydro and solar power, and through interactive games.

Developed with input from area industry professionals, a new concentration in energy engineering is strengthening the academic side of the Lee College of Engineering’s energy engineering programs, and giving mechanical engineering students the opportunity to focus their studies in the dynamic, growing field of energy.

Dr. Johnny Graham and Dr. Helene Hilger had similar paths in their Civil Engineering careers. They both were some of the first UNC Charlotte students to earn their doctoral degrees through an inter-institutional program with North Carolina State. They both went to work for The William States Lee College of Engineering. They both were highly recognized for their teaching and research work. And in spring 2012, they both retired.