Lee College of Engineering

Bruce Gehrig, associate professor in the Engineering Technology and Construction Management Department in the Lee College of Engineering, has received a Fulbright grant to teach civil engineering and conduct water resource management research at Namibia University of Science and Technology in Namibia, Africa, in 2017.

The J. William Fulbright Scholars Grant program sends faculty of all experience levels and backgrounds to projects throughout the world. Gehrig will travel to Namibia from January to December 2017.

The “Go Army” top fuel dragster show car will be on campus from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Wednesday, April 20, in the Motorsports Research Lab.

Neal Strausbaugh, a chief mechanic for the Don Schumacher Racing team, will provide one-hour briefs and conduct question-and-answer sessions at 1:30 and 2:30 p.m.

UNC Charlotte’s Energy Production and Infrastructure Center, in conjunction with CLT Joules, will hold the energy seminar series “Reinventing the Power Industry” from 1 to 4 p.m., Thursday, April 21.

UNC Charlotte employees demonstrate devotion to duty, display innovation, participate in community/public service efforts and engender better human relations. For their efforts, staff members are nominated for and recognized as Employees of the Year. For 2016, the University honored Lebra Nance, Lee Beard, Paul Taylor and Dorothy Vick.

A UNC Charlotte professor and four alumni were recognized as rising local leaders on the Charlotte Business Journal’s annual “40 under 40” list.

Robert Cox, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering in the Lee College of Engineering, was recognized for his work in spearheading a team of engineers to create a successful startup company, Sine Watts.

Needing multiple units of an expensive piece of equipment to complete his doctoral project, mechanical engineering student Sajad Kafashi decided to invent and build his own. Now, in addition to finishing his Ph.D., he is commercializing his invention, which he calls the Saji Waveform Generator.

Work on prediction models to reduce fieldwork for wetlands management, conducted as part of a N.C. Department of Transportation project, was recognized by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials and the Research Advisory Council as one of 2015’s “Sweet 16” high-value research projects.

Sheng-Guo Wang, a professor of electrical and computer engineering technology, was principal investigator for the award-winning project “Improvements to NCDOT’s Wetland Prediction Model.”

Designed to showcase the field, “Discover Engineering Day” will feature a talk from a NASA expert, tour of EPIC energy labs and the motorsports engineering facility, faculty research displays and more on Saturday, Feb. 20.

Tim Ezell, chief of NASA Systems Development, Integration and Test Division, will speak, and participants will learn more about the Charlotte Engineering Early College, a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools facility located near EPIC.

Forbes has named Chris Tyler, a 2015 mechanical engineering Ph.D. graduate of the Lee College of Engineering, to its 2016 30 Under 30 list.

A team of UNC Charlotte engineering technology and construction management students won the 2015 Concrete Construction Competition sponsored by the American Concrete Institute (ACI) and the American Society of Concrete Contractors (ASCC).