Through an undergraduate research opportunity and senior design project, Chris Hughes got the chance to work with some of the country’s top researchers, and he’s now taking this experience to a new level that he had never even considered possible.

In the largest senior design expo ever, engineering students took to center court at Halton Arena on May 6 to display the results of their year-long projects.

The impact of the UNC Charlotte’s Energy Production and Infrastructure Center (EPIC) was clearly evident at this year’s Lee College of Engineering Senior Design Expo, with a number of the capstone projects being directly related to energy.

This series of video clips from Senior Design Expo 2011 lets students explain and demonstrate their projects.

Two Charlotte energy companies, Duke Energy and Siemens Energy, today announced $8.8 million in support for the Energy Production and Infrastructure Center (EPIC) at UNC Charlotte. Duke Energy will provide approximately $4.5 million and Siemens Energy will provide approximately $4.3 million in support of the Center. Both companies will do this over several years as the EPIC program develops.

Alumni from The William States Lee College of Engineering and other university programs came together May 17, 2011, to form the UNC Charlotte Motorsports Alumni Chapter.

Work is well underway on the new motorsports engineering building. The 16,500-square-foot $4.5-million facility is scheduled to open this fall.

In designing the support structure for the 120-foot 80,000-pound Airbus A320 known as “The Miracle on the Hudson”, seniors from the Lee College of Engineering got real-world engineering experience and a taste of being part of something historic.

During your summer travels, be sure to take along the picture of Norm the Niner that can be printed out from the college web site at coe.uncc.edu/norm, post it to the college Facebook page and win a prize.

The Systems Engineering and Engineering Management Department graduated its first class of bachelor’s degree students on May 16, 2011.

In the laboratory of Engineering Technology Assistant Professor Na Lu, researchers are synthesizing and analyzing the properties of composite materials made using natural fibers and recycled plastic materials for construction and infrastructure applications.

Taking everything into account from the cost of turbines to migratory bird patterns, a team of Lee College of Engineering seniors analyzed the feasibility of a 50-megawatt wind farm in North Carolina, and came to the conclusion that a site off of Cape Hatteras would be best.

Josh Shipplett's first time working over the wall on the pit crew of a NASCAR Sprint Cup team went pretty well. He won the Daytona 500.

Her final semester was a busy, tough one for Civil and Environmental Engineering senior Misty Last, but it was pretty much indicative of her whole college career, which also included two tours of Afghanistan and having a baby. When she did graduate in May, though, she didn’t do any slowing down.