Spotlights

2022-2023 Student Achievement Awards Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Outstanding Senior Computer Engineering: Adam HudsonThese awards recognize students of distinction from the Computer Engineering program. Outstanding Senior Electrical Engineering: Gideon Cooper & Ivy LeThese awards recognize students of distinction from the Electrical Engineering program. Outstanding Senior Double Major Computer & Electrical Engineering: Phillip Harmon & Gabriel Van […]

Dr. Yong Zhang Electrical and Computer Engineering Dr. Yong Zhang, Bissell Distinguished Professor of Engineering, of ECE at UNC Charlotte, and his collaborators recently invented a completely new device concept, solar-battery cell (SBC), that can be viewed as a single-device level hybridization of a solar cell and a battery or an electrical power storage device […]

Dr. Ahmed Arafa Electrical and Computer Engineering Dr. Ahmed Arafa, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is engaged in research on networked communication systems that is Inspired by the novel age-of-information (AoI) metric that assesses information freshness. Arafa’s research offers a pathway towards realizing the exchange of data in a timely manner in federated learning (FL), cloud computing, […]

Dr. Cecchi wins the College of Engineering Graduate Teaching Excellence Award Electrical & Computer Engineering Dr. Valentina Cecchi, ECE Associate Professor & Graduate Program Director, is the 2022 recipient of the William States Lee College of Engineering Graduate Award in Teaching Excellence.   Dr. Cecchi is committed to achieve a balance between education and research, which […]

2022 Graduate Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award Electrical and Computer Engineering Moinul Hossain is the Recipient of the 2022 Graduate Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award for the category of Mathematics, Physical Sciences, and Engineering. This award recognizes outstanding research and scholarship by a doctoral student at UNC Charlotte.  Dr. Moinul Hossain earned his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering […]

Emily Abbate wins IEEE Power & Energy Outstanding Student Scholarship IEEE PES Student Scholarship Emily A. Abbate, a student in the MSEE program in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) is a winner of the 2022 IEEE Power & Energy Society Outstanding Student Scholarship. The prestigious $10,000 scholarship celebrates and honors students around the world based […]

2021-2022 Student Achievement Awards Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Outstanding Senior Computer Engineering: Michael Campo and Sarah VitarisiThese awards recognize students of distinction from the Computer Engineering program. Outstanding Senior Electrical Engineering: Zach Matzinger and Toan NguyenThese awards recognize students of distinction from the Electrical Engineering program. Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant: Shyamal PatelThese awards recognize the valuable […]

Distributed and Collaborative Intelligent Systems New Research Project UNC Charlotte is now one of the members of the Distributed and Collaborative Intelligent Systems and Technology (DCIST) Collaborative Research Alliance (CRA). Led by UPenn, DCIST brings together more than ten institutions including MIT and GaTech.  The DCIST team will create autonomous, resilient, cognitive, heterogeneous swarms that […]

Resilient Community Microgrids New Research Project Dr. Badrul Chowdhury, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, won a Research Grant entitled “Resilient Community Microgrids with Dynamic Reconfiguration to Serve Critical Loads in the Aftermath of Severe Events” from the Department of Energy (DoE). This $3.6 million award from the DoE’s Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) will help Dr. […]

New Research Project Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte have been awarded two research grants amounting to over $1M funding to develop wireless charging technology for potential train applications. This research is led by Dr. Tiefu Zhao from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Energy Production and Infrastructure Center (EPIC), Dr. Shen-En Chen […]