Lee College of Engineering

The Duke Energy Smart Grid Laboratory located within the Albert & Freeman Energy Production and Infrastructure Center that provides faculty and students hands-on access to state-of-the-art mechanisms for advanced testing and evaluation of smart grid-enabling technologies and energy systems.

At UNC Charlotte, African American students are graduating at a rate higher than any time in the University’s history — especially in STEM majors.

UNC Charlotte’s Energy Production and Infrastructure Center receives a $3.6 million grant to support efforts to lower solar electricity costs, increase the competitiveness of American solar manufacturing and improve grid reliability.

Because of their expertise in flow measurement, researchers from The William States Lee College of Engineering are working with doctors from the Wake Forest School of Medicine to help determine the extent to which the COVID-19 virus is spread during certain surgical procedures.

UNC Charlotte recently received a National Science Foundation $500,000 Innovations in Graduate Education grant to support doctoral students in STEM disciplines as they develop their capstone thesis projects for patenting instead of for journal publications as has been the norm.

As the U.S. military develops the sophisticated weapon systems of the future, UNC Charlotte engineering students, including veteran Jason Solomon, are on the forefront of cutting-edge research in the field.

As the aerodynamicist for the Speed Demon 715 Streamliner team, Charles Jenckes had the job of making the 400-mile-per-hour-plus vehicle stable without increasing its drag.

The UNC Charlotte Rocketry team finished second overall and first in the payload portion of the 2020 NASA Student Launch competition. This is the third consecutive year a UNC Charlotte team has been the overall runners-up in this national event.Although the program was delayed and the annual launch finale event in Huntsville, Alabama, canceled, 54 teams competed remotely in the design, building and testing portions of the competition.

Rob Keynton is officially on the job as dean of the William States Lee College of Engineering. Undergraduate and graduate students from several engineering disciplines and organizations recently pitched in to help set up his new office in Duke Centennial Hall.

A Ph.D. student in Civil Engineering set out to tackle and solve one of the most complex problems in water treatment.