Departmental News

This spring, Vivek Pulikkal was awarded the Graduate School Summer Fellowship (GSSF) 2020 for his research into special ways to eliminate per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (also known as PFAS) from groundwater. This past February, the Environmental Protection Agency released a Program Update to the PFAS Action Plan. PFAS are man-made chemicals used in industrial settings […]

Department Publications (partial list): Song, L. and Fan, W., Combined Latent Class and Partial Proportional Odds Model Approach to Exploring the Heterogeneities in Truck-Involved Severities at Cross and T-Intersections, Accepted for Publication, Accident Analysis and Prevention, June 2020. Li, Y. and Fan, W., Modeling and Evaluating Public Transit Equity and Accessibility by Integrating General Transit […]

Welcome to our 2020 newsletter. This issue includes a recap of our Spring semester, a semester like none other with the global pandemic and sudden shift to remote instruction, in addition to some highlights from the fall. As expected, our students, alumni, faculty, and staff have demonstrated perseverance and resilience. Our faculty have stepped up […]

Time certainly flashes by. The USDOT Center for Advanced Multimodal Mobility Solutions and Education (CAMMSE), led by UNC Charlotte, has been very active and doing extremely well. CAMMSE is a five-year, multi-campus, multi-million university transportation center funded by USDOT under the FAST ACT. CAMMSE is a consortium of five universities, including UNC Charlotte, University of […]

Dr. Timothy Kernicky joins the department as a Research Assistant Professor. Dr. Kernicky is no stranger to the department, having served as an adjunct instructor since 2018, teaching the structural materials lab. He’s taught six consecutive semesters of the class, to date, to almost 220 students. He enjoys finding what works for each student and […]

CEE student organizations have had to make major sacrifices because of the pandemic. Over the course of a few days, students were forced to pivot quickly from on-campus classes and labs to distance learning. As a result, all student extra-curricular activities were drastically affected. The ASCE Carolinas Conference (regional event) was cancelled in the Spring, […]

CEE Senior Aaron Butler grew up in Maxton, North Carolina, in the Sandhills region of North Carolina near Lumberton. One of his first loves, dirt biking in the sandy trails around his parents’ home, led to an enduring connection to the outdoors. Following a recommendation from his high school guidance counselor, Aaron enrolled in East […]

Students from the class of 2021 started off their college careers with an exciting day on Aug. 21st, first with convocation in the morning and then the total eclipse in the afternoon. Photos of Lee College of Engineering students are here.

To learn more about manufacturing and metrology, and then be able to take that knowledge back to their area of the country to share, two students from Navajo Technical University’s Crownpoint, New Mexico, campus spent the summer at UNC Charlotte’s Center for Precision Metrology. Wynona Wilson and Shane Tsosie are seniors at NTU majoring in […]

In fiscal year 2017, UNC Charlotte recorded its highest ever total of sponsored research awards in the amount of $50,917,579, according to the Office of Research and Economic Development report of sponsored awards for July 1, 2016, to June 30, 2017 . Faculty from The William States Lee College of Engineering Faculty led the way […]