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Belle Sullivan: Environmental Engineering
A Global Social Impact Fellow asks: can a savvy approach to mushroom production alleviate the 'hunger months' in Sierra Leone?
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Mickias Bekele: Computer Science and Business
A rising sophomore uses his summer wisely, learning the ropes of the software industry—from the inside.
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Caleb Leaser: MechE and Design
Through Lehigh's distinctive IDEAS honors program, a design engineer helps others see the world in vibrant colors.
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Ashleigh Crawford: Bioengineering
An undergraduate research scholarship leads to grad school and a laser-focus on vaccine development.
The Latest at the Rossin College
Leadership updates for Lehigh’s materials research institute
Reichmanis to lead Institute for Functional Materials and Devices; Jain to take on new role with NSF
Interdisciplinary team secures $1M NSF grant to study floating wind turbines from multiple perspectives
Innovative project is led by geotechnical engineering professor Muhannad Suleiman, with I-CPIE collaborators
Harris ’87 ’23P named to Lehigh's Board of Trustees
Chemical engineering alum is chairman of the board, chief executive officer, and president of Balchem Corporation
Stephanie Moreno-Rivera ’26 takes STEM advocacy to Capitol Hill
Mechanical engineer leverages her role in the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers to champion Hispanic representation in science, technology, engineering and math fields
BioE Alumni Spotlight: Julianne Kerwood '17
BioE Alumni Spotlight: Julianne Kerwood '17
Name: Julianne Kerwood
Where are you from/where is your hometown? Norristown, PA
Where do you currently live and work? What is your current company, job title...
Interdisciplinary team awarded $3.7 million DOE grant for hydrogen technology project
Lehigh engineering researchers Carlos Romero, Zheng Yao, and Mayuresh Kothare work to advance sustainable hydrogen production
Graduate Student Spotlight
Leading beyond the lab
ChBE doctoral candidate Myeongyeon Lee, who served as chair of the department's annual Graduate Student Symposium, was recognized with the Lehigh Graduate Engineering Leadership and Service Award for his contributions to the engineering graduate student community. Lee is researching data-driven strategies for advancing high-performance organic field-effect transistors in the Reichmanis Group.
On a path to professorship
Qi Wang, a PhD student in Lehigh's ISE program, is making strides with guidance from the Future Academic Career Experiential Training (FACET) program, which offers seminars on topics such as applying for grants and teaching. Although she initially envisioned an industry career, Wang has shifted her goal to becoming a professor. She recently co-taught her first course and plans to apply for a postdoc.
Innovative algorithms for safer robot perception
Mechanical engineering PhD student Guangyi Liu, a member of Lehigh’s Autonomous and Intelligent Robotics Laboratory (AIR Lab), is developing a framework to improve the risk awareness of robotic systems. The framework, which can be applied to any robotic system, will allow the robot to act safely with uncertain perception measurements and inputs.
CONCISE Lab shines at World Environmental & Water Resources Congress
Papers by Nazia Raza and Saskia A. Putri won awards in the Graduate Student Technical Paper Competition at the annual ASCE-EWRI event. Both are PhD students in the InterCONnected Critical Infrastructure Systems Engineering Laboratory, led by CEE Assistant Professor Farrah Moazeni.
Engineering Departments
Interdisciplinary Research Institutes
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IRI: Diverse disciplines powering progressWe believe that interdisciplinary research is our best hope for addressing the complex challenges that lie ahead. Lehigh’s Interdisciplinary Research Institutes (IRIs) bring together leading faculty and graduate researchers from a variety of fields to focus on a specific challenge. This innovative approach allows these research teams to use their combined strengths to confront problems from every perspective and to develop multifaceted solutions.
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I-FMDThe Institute for Functional Materials and Devices (I-FMD) focuses on synthesis, fabrication, processing, and characterization of materials, devices and related systems. Existing research interests include photonics and electronics, metals, ceramics, biomaterials, polymers, and composites, and incorporate devices ranging in size from the nanometer and micrometer scales and beyond.
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I-DISCThe Institute for Data, Intelligent Systems, and Computation (I-DISC) is devoted to the study of problems that involve massive amounts of data and/or large-scale computations, and developing the science that enables the extraction of useful and actionable information across disciplines and research fields.
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I-CPIEResearch within the Institute for Cyber Physical Infrastructure and Energy (I-CPIE) underpins all aspects of modern society. The demands and impacts of society’s reliance upon energy, communications, structural, and transportation systems requires a broad approach that’s focused not only on engineering systems, but on improving people’s lives.