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Senior Design Program

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As an engineering or engineering technology student, you will develop critical skills while working in multi-disciplinary teams to tackle real-world challenges. The distinct Charlotte senior design program gives you a competitive advantage through a two-semester experience where over 80% of projects are real industry challenges, allowing you to both design and build while gaining deeper skills and connections. To support you at every stage of the engineering process, you will have full access to the state-of-the-art design tools and advanced fabrication equipment of the unique Industrial Solutions Lab, powered by Lilly.

Community of Student Innovators
500+ students work on approximately 90 projects/year
Designing Across Disciplines
2-semester senior design projects with an interdisciplinary team
Industry Partners. Student Solutions.
With most projects industry funded and mentored, seniors solve real world challenges

Become a Program Partner

At UNC Charlotte, our mission is to graduate innovative, world-class engineers. But we can’t do it without you.

Industry partners are critical to our success and play an integral role in the development of high quality engineering graduates.

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One of our key milestones in Senior Design is the Senior Design Expo.

Held at the end of the semester, the Expo gives our seniors the opportunity to showcase their work to our industry partners, faculty, staff and students.

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    Senior Design Committee Members

    The Senior Design Committee brings together faculty leaders from across the William States Lee College of Engineering to guide and strengthen the Senior Design Program at UNC Charlotte. Representing multiple engineering disciplines, these members provide oversight, mentorship and strategic direction to ensure every project meets high academic and industry standards. They help shape one of the college’s most impactful, hands-on learning experiences.

    • Meg Harkins, M.S., P.E., Senior Design Committee Chair
    • Gary Teng, Ph.D., Industrial and Systems Engineering
    • Jim Hartman, Director, Industrial Solutions Laboratory
    • Amanda Keys, Business Support, Industrial Solutions Laboratory
    • Christoph Kossack, Ph. D., Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science
    • Yamilka Baez-Rivera, Ph.D., Electrical Engineering Technology
    • Sam Shue, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering
    • Wei Gao, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering
    • John Nettles, Mechanical Engineering Technology

    Questions about Senior Design?

    Contact Jim Hartman, Director of the Industrial Solutions Lab for guidance or information, or submit your questions via our online contact form.

    Contact Us

    Jim Hartman, MBA

    Professor of Practice
    Director for the Industrial Solutions Laboratory
    Industrial Solutions Laboratory
    Jim.Hartman@charlotte.edu
    704-614-9766
    Cameron 185A
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    Amanda Keys

    Senior Design Program Manager
    Industrial Solutions Laboratory
    akeys3@charlotte.edu
    704-687-1216
    Cameron Hall 187
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