Student Success

In this video, chemical and biomolecular engineering doctoral student John McGlynn explains how he's using a technique called microrheology to enhance wound repair and tissue regeneration.

McGlynn, a fifth-year PhD student, is advised by Kelly Schultz, an associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering. The Schultz Lab focuses on the "focus on the characterization of colloidal and polymeric gel scaffolds and the development of new techniques to characterize these complex systems."

Jordan Inacio '11 '12G '17G is a fourth-year PhD student in mechanical engineering. His research utilizes a unique computational approach to improve clinical healing outcomes for bone fracture patients.

Inacio is advised by Hannah Dailey, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics, whose research group "emphasizes imaging-driven engineering approaches to clinical problems in orthopaedics and currently collaborates with surgeon-investigators in hospital health networks across the world." 

John Kershner is a second-year PhD student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics. He's researching owl-inspired aeroacoustics to design mechanisms that may one day help planes fly with less noise. 

The back of owls' feathers are "layered in an interesting way where they are essentially porous," he explains. "Our goal was to be one of the first groups to actually fly an aircraft and demonstrate owl-inspired noise reduction."

With two internship experiences already under their belts, undergraduates Alex Perlman ’23 and Cole Kuehmann ’22 are set to return to the pioneering space-transportation company for a third summer in 2022.

Over the past two summers, Lehigh engineers Alex Perlman ’23 and Cole Kuehmann ’22 have interned at SpaceX, gaining hands-on experience in the aerospace industry while working at the company’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California.

Electrical engineering PhD student Abhishek Singh credits Lehigh’s ‘practical’ approach to graduate education—and invaluable mentoring from advisor Xiaochen Guo—with shaping his research on intelligent computer architecture. 

There’s a certain thrill that comes with knowing your research may someday impact millions of people. But with that potential comes great responsibility.

“When we do our research, we have to make sure we’re not opening up additional security problems,” says Abhishek Singh.

ICYMI: Soaring Together with Mechanical Engineering PhD student Shira Morosohk

ICYMI: Soaring Together with Sareena Karim '22