News Briefs

Innovative, energy-saving, and potentially carbon-negative HIX-Desal process, developed by Lehigh University researchers, will be deployed in a research project funded by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

Turning cities’ wastewater into usable freshwater is an environmental win.

Engineering the system to be more energy efficient makes a good idea even better.

Using a greenhouse gas—carbon dioxide—to power the process?

Spencer C. Schantz Technical Talk

Speaker: Yurii Nesterov, University of Louvain

Title: Inexact High-Order Proximal-Point Methods with Auxiliary Search Procedure

Date: Monday, August 2, 2021

Name:     Joydeep Munshi

Education:  Mechanical Engineering

Degrees, Institutions, Years

PhD, Lehigh University, 2020

Master’s, Jadavpur University, 2017

Bachelor’s, West Bengal University of Technology, 2012

Where are you from, and where do you currently reside?

ChBE researchers use innovative in situ and operando molecular spectroscopy to study heterogeneous solid acid catalysts, seen as a promising avenue toward cleaner, cheaper chemicals and fuels

Add olefins to the list of things the world is currently short on.

Lehigh University’s Industrial Assessment Center received support this week from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to assist small- and medium-sized manufacturers in reducing their carbon emissions and lowering energy costs, while training the next generation of energy-efficiency workers.

CEE professor, ADVANCE Center faculty director Kristen Jellison among Lehigh collaborators on three-year, multi-institutional project that seeks to shed new light on the role of research productivity and extraneous factors in determining who receives coveted tenure positions

Keith M. Gardiner, 88, professor emeritus in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) in the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science, passed away on May 24, 2021. 

Over more than three decades at Lehigh University (1987-2018), Gardiner taught courses in organizational planning and control, manufacturing management and systems, micromanufacturing, and materials science.

The Lee A. Iacocca Institute Endowment Fund will be established as a matching gift of $4 million. An additional $1 million match will support Lehigh’s overall global initiatives. Ultimately, when the match is fully realized, the Iacocca Institute will benefit from philanthropic investments totaling $8 million, while the university’s global initiatives will receive $2 million. 

As seen in the Spring 2021 issue of the Lehigh Bulletin...

Lehigh University has been awarded Bronze-level Recognition from the American Society for Engineering Education’s Diversity Recognition Program.