Departmental News

In July 2024, Dr. Robert Cox was appointed as the Executive Director of the Energy Production & Infrastructure Center (EPIC).  Dr. Cox was previously the Associate Director of EPIC, a position he served in since 2019.  EPIC was originally created to be a hub for talent and applied research for the energy industry in the […]

IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) is the Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Computer Science Honor Society.  The IEEE-HKN Student Leadership Conference is HKN’s largest annual gathering offering a unique opportunity for its students to learn from practitioners. On 15-17 November 2024, close to 350 HKN students, advisors, alumni, IEEE leaders, industry recruiters, society experts, and graduate […]

Mason Sun has been awarded the 2025 Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award in the category of Math, Physical Sciences, and Engineering for his groundbreaking thesis, Wireless Power Transfer for Railway Electrification. The accolade, presented by the Graduate School, recognizes his innovative contributions to sustainable transportation technology. Sun’s thesis explores the potential of wireless power transfer (WPT) […]

Miao Wang, PhD Dr. Miao Whang is currently working on vehicular communication networks and electric vehicle charging in the smart grid. Before joining in UNC Charlotte, she was an Assistant Professor at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, from 2018 to 2023. She received her B.E. degree from Beijing University of […]

Dr. Minhaj Nur Alam, Assistant Professor of ECE, has been recently awarded funding from the National Eye Institute (NEI) at the National Institute of Health (NIH) for the project “Domain-adaptive federated learning to develop machine learning models for predicting incident and progression of geographic atrophy”. This grant will help Dr. Alam and his clinical collaborators […]

2023-2024 Student Achievement Awards Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Outstanding Senior Computer Engineering: Elijah Thomas These awards recognize students of distinction from the Computer Engineering program. Outstanding Senior Electrical Engineering: Rachel Griffin These awards recognize students of distinction from the Electrical Engineering program. Outstanding Senior Double Major Computer & Electrical Engineering: Joelle Bailey These awards recognize […]

The Career Center recently concluded its successful fourth ‘Niner Career Challenge’ in the fall of 2023, aimed at encouraging students to actively engage in their career development. Students earned points through various activities, including event attendance, coaching appointments, and drop-in sessions, with the chance to win spring 2024 tuition and monthly prizes. Wanseok Oh, a […]

Dr. Minhaj Nur Alam, Assistant Professor of ECE, has been recently awarded funding from the National Eye Institute (NEI) at the National Institute of ealth (NIH) for the project “Distributed approaches to train machine learning models in diabetic retinopathy”. Dr. Alam, along with his clinical collaborators at Stanford and Illinois, aim to establish distributed federated […]

UNC Charlotte’s College of Engineering has teamed up with Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences (HKA) and Bürkert, Germany, to offer three exceptional Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) students an unparalleled international experience. Matthew McGrew, Steve Feinstein, and Axel Knoll, the inaugural cohort, are currently undertaking an intensive internship at Bürkert in Germany from January to […]

UNC Charlotte recently welcomed leading minds in power electronics and electron devices for the IEEE Workshop on Wide Bandgap Power Devices & Applications (WiPDA). The event united experts in device science, circuit design, and application engineering, showcasing advancements and insights in areas like device fabrication, high-efficiency converters, and safe wide bandgap device operation. Discussions spanned […]