Departmental News

CEE student organizations have had to make major sacrifices because of the pandemic. Over the course of a few days, students were forced to pivot quickly from on-campus classes and labs to distance learning. As a result, all student extra-curricular activities were drastically affected. The ASCE Carolinas Conference (regional event) was cancelled in the Spring, […]

CEE Senior Aaron Butler grew up in Maxton, North Carolina, in the Sandhills region of North Carolina near Lumberton. One of his first loves, dirt biking in the sandy trails around his parents’ home, led to an enduring connection to the outdoors. Following a recommendation from his high school guidance counselor, Aaron enrolled in East […]

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.

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 […]

Charlotte Banks – a regional research initiative led by Dr. Gloria Elliott of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science at UNC Charlotte focused on making more organs available for transplant, is the topic on this video edition of “Inside UNC Charlotte”. Joining Elliott in the studio, is Jedd Lewis, President of the Organ Preservation Alliance and […]

Participating in the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s 2017 University Design Challenge, a team of UNC Charlotte engineering students received honorable mention for its ‘navigation intent and size/form factor’ work. The purposed of the competition was to help the Air Force solve a critical problem for the nation’s military and Special Operations community. “Each team […]

UNC Charlotte researchers have worked in the field of freeform optics for more than 10 years. In that time, numerous advances have been made that are now creating a whole new world of optical applications and fundamentally changing the way optical devices are designed. Undergraduate students, graduate students and alumni from the Lee College of […]

Through his undergraduate studies, senior design project, graduate thesis, summer internships, a job and now a position as a research faculty member, the one constant for Dr. Joseph Owen has been freeform optics. He has learned about them, made them, applied them, measured them and is now researching how to advance them to the next […]

Arnab Baruah was recently announced as the first recipient of the Bharatkumar S. Joshi Memorial Scholarship, named in memory of Associate Professor Dr. Bharatkumar S. Joshi of the William States Lee College of Engineering. Baruah is currently working on his dissertation, “Ultra Low Power Wireless Transceiver for Wearable Medical Devices.” His research is primarily focused […]