OpenFieldUNC Charlotte · Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte / Charlotte) is North Carolina's premier urban research institution and an elite Carnegie R1 public university. Located in America's second-largest financial center, Charlotte is globally recognized for motorsports engineering at the North Carolina Motorsports and Automotive Research Center, data science, cybersecurity, precision optical engineering, and urban logistics.
Charlotte spans nine colleges including the William States Lee College of Engineering, College of Computing and Informatics (CCI), Belk College of Business, College of Health and Human Services, and the School of Data Science. Key institutes include the Energy Production and Infrastructure Center (EPIC) and the Center for Precision Metrology.
Undergraduate admissions are competitive through the Common Application. Graduate admissions require an accredited bachelor's degree with a minimum 3.0 GPA, statement of purpose, three letters of recommendation, and English proficiency (TOEFL 83+ or IELTS 6.5+).
Elite automotive and motorsports doctorate partnering with NASCAR teams and precision instrument manufacturers, focusing on race car aerodynamics wind-tunnel testing, nanometer metrology, and composites crashworthiness.
Housed in the largest computing college in the Carolinas, researching automated fraud detection algorithms, blockchain security, financial graph neural networks, and privacy-preserving machine learning.
Advanced research based at the Energy Production and Infrastructure Center (EPIC), investigating high-voltage smart grid integration, renewable microgrid stability, silicon carbide power electronics, and utility cyber defenses.
Interdisciplinary professional graduate degree uniting machine learning modeling, big data distributed pipelines, quantitative finance, and executive predictive analytics in Uptown Charlotte.
Preeminent optics doctoral program pioneering freeform optical fabrication, laser interferometry, nanophotonic waveguides, and astronomical instrumentation at the Center for Precision Metrology.
Interdisciplinary doctoral program analyzing urban stormwater runoff quality, green infrastructure modeling, wastewater virus surveillance, and flood mitigation resilience in rapidly urbanizing watersheds.
Director & Professor of Mechanical Engineering
North Carolina Motorsports and Automotive Research Center
Dr. Uddin specializes in vehicle aerodynamics, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) of race cars, turbulent wake flows, and thermal management of electric vehicle...
View researcher profile ↗Professor of Power Engineering
Energy Production and Infrastructure Center (EPIC)
Dr. Skubic investigates renewable electric power grid integration, wide-bandgap power semiconductor switching, microgrid cyber-physical protection, and battery ...
View researcher profile ↗Professor of Physics and Optical Science
Center for Precision Metrology & Department of Physics
Dr. Davies investigates optical metrology, absolute surface interferometry, freeform optical surface measurement calibration, and precision instrument design fo...
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