Industrial Solutions Lab News

Senior Niner Engineers Solve Bosch Packaging Challenge

When fall 2024 arrived at UNC Charlotte, five senior Niner Engineers didn’t just get a textbook assignment — they were handed an actual production problem by Bosch Power Tools. The challenge: design a new system to reduce quality defects and ergonomic risks in a packaging process at the company’s Lincolnton, North Carolina, plant. Through the […]

Senior Design Project helps a student to realize his career goals

In Fall of 2022, Davey Sides entered the Senior Design Program. Davey was happy that our program had such a high number of industry partners participating. He was especially happy that the company he was currently interning for, Bosch Tool, was sponsoring a project. Davey was assigned to the project which deepened his relationship with […]

Monroe Science Center fields Senior Design-created museum exhibit sponsored by the Bosch Community Fund

In November 2023, the Bosch Community Fund awarded a grant to the Industrial Solutions Lab (ISL) to sponsor an engineering Senior Design project focused on creating a STEM-related exhibit for a local STEM outreach effort. For this purpose, ISL partnered with the Monroe Science Center (MSC).  MSC proposed the idea of creating a STEM exhibit that illustrates the science behind earthquakes. […]

Work Truck magazine highlights Senior Design Program success at Fontaine Modification

Fontaine Modification has been a participant in the UNC Charlotte Engineering Senior Design Program for several years. Work Truck Magazine recently published an article that highlighted the success they have had with the Program and described their current Senior Design Project.