Lee College of Engineering

Wes Williams is an associate professor of mechanical engineering technology in The William States Lee College of Engineering at UNC Charlotte.

Tony Vo ’04 has a good thing brewing — his popular Waterbean Coffee chain is one of Charlotte’s best.

Valentina Cecchi, associate professor and graduate program director in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been named honorary consul of Italy to the state of North Carolina.

After a spirited five-stage, three-year national competition, a team of UNC Charlotte researchers and students finished second in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Waves to Water Prize for technology

Kendall Britton, as a member of the Class of 2022, will graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the University’s William States Lee College of Engineering. A native of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Britton, as part of his senior design project, delivered a presentation to Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation. He discusses that opportunity along with offering advice to prospective engineering students.

A pair of interdisciplinary researchers from architecture and engineering recently received a grant from the National Science Foundation to use artificial intelligence to improve health care among the elderly.

The funding of $255,992 is through a Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I grant, designed to assist researchers transform scientific discoveries into commercial products.

The EPIC atrium is now the Robert E. Johnson Atrium in recognition and honor of Bob Johnson, dean emeritus of The William States Lee College of Engineering. The naming took place during a special ceremony in the Albert & Freeman Energy Production and Infrastructure Center on Thursday, March 17.

PoleVolt™, an electric vehicle charging station developed by UNC Charlotte’s Energy Production and Infrastructure Center in partnership with Duke Energy, the city of Charlotte and the Centralina Regional Council was unveiled at the Ritz at Washington Heights park.

From easing congested weekday commutes by optimizing traffic light signals to increasing health in impacted communities by creating greenways, transportation engineers improve individual lives and communities every day. To learn more about the field that addresses these issues in Charlotte and cities across the country and globe, North Carolina middle school and high school students come to UNC Charlotte for a week of hands-on learning on campus as well as field trips to transportation museums and Charlotte-Douglas International Airport. 

UNC Charlotte will develop a Center for Additive Manufacture of Advanced Ceramics to address the expanding needs of advanced manufacturing in North Carolina with the support of a 2022-24 University of North Carolina Research Opportunity Initiative (ROI) grant.