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Last month, UNC Charlotte’s rocketry team won the Best Vehicle Design award in the NASA Student Launch competition, beating 31 other university teams from across the country in the contest’s rocket construction category. Although partially charred, with parts burned up or missing after its final launch erupted in a massive fireball, the rocket – nicknamed […]
The awards of the USLI senior design team continue to come. This team was just named a top 3 finalist by National Instrument in their nationwide student competition. The project included a dynamic thrust modulation system, ground hazard identification system, atmospheric sensor package, as well as a dynamic analysis of structural elements. The largest portion […]
Congratulations to the USLI Senior design team for its recent success in a national competition against other university teams. In this competition, the team had to design and construct a re-useable dual deployment rocket capable of carrying a payload to an altitude of one mile. The NASA University Student Launch competition just concluded at the […]
The Solar Traffic Light team recently won second place in the undergraduate division of the University of North Carolina Social Entrepreneurship Conference. There were 40 teams in the competition. The Solar Traffic Light team was made up of students Alex Esposito, Ben Godsell, Thomas McGukin, Kashif Subhan and Nathan Smith, and project mentors Dr. Nan […]
Mark your calendars for the following key events in 2014. This is the biggest year to date for senior design. Thursday May 1, 2014: SPRING EXPO, Student Activity Center, 11:00 AM – 2 PM OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Friday August 29, 2014: Fall Kickoff Breakfast for industry supporters, mentors and students Friday December 5, 2014: […]
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UNC Charlotte’s Design Expo yields jobs for new college graduates By Lisa Thornton Correspondent Posted: Monday, Jun 24, 2013 Modified: Monday, Jun. 24, 2013 From left, senior engineering majors Wesley Waterhouse, 23, David Mayfield, 23, and Aaron Cameron, 23, demonstrate the tabletop signaling device for restaurants they created for Nirak Inc. the company sponsor of […]
Three Years Later Senior Design Team Vision Takes Transit Partnership Full Circle with Parking Lot Power As the Spring 2013 teams finished their senior design projects and departed with their engineering degrees, proof that this highly-anticipated competition gets real-world results is now at hand for an exceptional group from 2010. That team produced the initial […]
Mark your calendars for the key events in the 2013-2014 year. Please note the dates for the Expos, which promise to be the biggest and best yet! Friday August 30, 2013: Fall Kickoff Breakfast for industry supporters, mentors and students Friday December 6, 2013: FALL EXPO, Student Activity Center Food Court, 11:00 AM – 2 […]
Thank you to all our Spring 2013 Senior Design project supporters!
2013 Schedule of Events Mark your calendars for the key events of 2013. Please be sure to put the Expo dates on your calendar, as they promise to be the biggest yet! January 25, 2013 Spring Kickoff Breakfast for invited industry supporters, mentors and students May 2, 2013 SPRING EXPO, Student Activity Center, 11:00 AM-2pm […]
Missed the deadline for a Spring 2013 start? No worries, we are currently accepting project descriptions until July 1, for the FALL 2013 semester. The project submission form can be found on the left tab “Project Request Form”.