Lee College of Engineering

State official to talk about N.C.’s energy plan

Sushma Masemore, deputy assistant secretary for environment, North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), will discuss North Carolina’s energy plan at 5 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 16, in EPIC, Room G256. This talk is part of the EPIC Energy Seminar Series.Masemore oversees the DEQ energy group and leads the department’s effort to implement Gov. Roy Cooper’s executive order on climate change and clean energy. She has nearly 30 years of federal, state and industrial experience in air pollution engineering.

U.S. Energy Department official visits campus

Undersecretary for Science Paul Dabbar, an official with the U.S. Department of Energy, visited campus Thursday, Sept. 5, where he toured the University’s Energy Production and Infrastructure Center.

Certificate program aided Ph.D. student’s college teaching aspirations

UNC Charlotte doctoral student Tony Martin aims to teach at the college level after completing a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. To better prepare him for the future, he decided to pursue a Post-Master’s Certificate in University and College Teaching.

Civil engineering students win national innovation contest

A student team from UNC Charlotte’s William States Lee College of Engineering won the 2019 American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE) National Student Innovation Contest recently held near Washington, D.C.

Civil engineering students Michael Murray, Bryan Moreno and Nathan Lindholm swept the competition, taking first place in the Entrepreneur Category, winning the Audience Award and being named the top team overall.

Visiting Fulbright Fellow collaborating with engineering professor

Roisin Hyde, a Ph.D. student from Ireland, is using her Fulbright Fellowship to expand her studies of incorporating waste materials into the manufacturing of concrete. She selected UNC Charlotte in order to work with the Lee College of Engineering’s Brett Tempest, a pioneering researcher in the development of coal fly ash concrete.

49er Rocketry Team scores second in NASA contest

The results are in, and UNC Charlotte’s 49er Rocketry Team achieved major success at this year’s NASA Student Launch Competition.

Engineering students place first in concrete competition

A team of Construction Management and Civil Engineering Technology students from UNC Charlotte placed first in the 2019 ACI/ASCC Concrete Construction Competition, an international contest sponsored by the American Concrete Institute (ACI) and the American Society of Concrete Contractors (ASCC).

Team members were Ross Newsome, Benjamin Hager, George Poulos, Kenny Wang and Joseph Ocampo. Assistant Professor Tara Cavalline was the team’s mentor.

Engineering professor among 2019 UNC BOG teaching award winners

Tony Schmitz from the William States Lee College of Engineering is one of the 17 recipients of the UNC Board of Governors Awards for Excellence in Teaching.

Crowdfunding projects support engineering students

Last year was the first time in two decades that the UNC Charlotte American Society of Civil Engineers’ concrete canoe team advanced to the national competition. But upon arriving for the contest at San Diego State University, the team realized it was missing one thing: its canoe.

Thankfully, the canoe, which had been shipped early via UPS, showed up later in a nearby city after a frantic search. But the team learned a valuable lesson.