A new model for engineering education

Research Experience for Undergraduates
Meet three Lehigh students who took part in research projects through this prestigious national program

Asking the questions that matter
Annual symposium sharpens students' competitive edge

Structural integrity
Lehigh team wins best video award in 2021 PCI Big Beam competition

Global social impact
Interdisciplinary team recognized in NIH "DEBUT Challenge"
The Latest at the Rossin College
PhD candidate Shen Wang earns Tribologists & Lubrication Engineers scholarship
MechE student recognized with 2022 academic award from STLE Philadelphia Section
ChBE graduate student awarded $1,500 Philadelphia STLE scholarship
The Philadelphia Section of the STLE is pleased to award a $1,500 scholarship to second year Lehigh University graduate student Jasreen Kaur, in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department. Working under the...
Scot Willoughby '89 on "Building the Biggest Eye in Space"
Lehigh electrical engineering alum to discuss his role in launching the James Webb Space Telescope
ChBE undergraduate receives Philadelphia STLE scholarship
The Philadelphia section of the STLE is pleased to award a $500 Scholarship to Pedro Oliveira a chemical engineering major with a minor in biotechnology at Lehigh University. Oliveira completed his junior year and will be...
$1.87M NIH award notice for ChBE Professor Schultz
The National Institutes of Health awards a $1.87M grant to Lehigh University's ChBE Professor Kelly Schultz Schultz has been awarded an R35-Maximizing Investigators' Research Award from the NIH National Institute of...
Natasha Hunt '22: Researching biomaterials to heal knee injuries
Newly-minted Lehigh Bioengineer doubles down on research in Lehigh's Chow Lab as a grad student
Graduate Student Spotlight
Leveraging ML in semiconductor design
Onoriode Ogidi-Ekoko ’15 ’16G was 5,400 miles from Nigeria when he defended his doctoral dissertation in electrical engineering, but he's right at home discussing his research into power electronics—work that could lead to compact, faster power conversion devices.
Designing faster, better ways to process data
Amanda Baran ’21 started her master’s research in computer science and engineering during her senior year. Today, she's working on next-generation distributed synchronization protocols so that online consumers can get what they want, when they want it.
Video: Engineering an alternative energy source
Research on tidal turbines by mechanical engineering PhD students Cong Han and Christopher Ruhl may someday help tidal energy become a viable source of renewable power.
Video: Improving disease diagnosis
Caroline Ferguson, a fourth-year PhD student in bioengineering, talks about her research into improving the diagnosis of both cancer and chronic fatigue syndrome, and the very personal reason that motivates her work.
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.