Student Success

As a junior majoring in electrical engineering, Mark Schafer ’20 ’22G attended a bioengineering seminar on the topic of single-walled carbon nanotubes. One of Schafer’s professors, Yevgeny Berdichevsky, was also in the audience. “Afterward, he mentioned he was surprised to see me at a bioengineering seminar,” Schafer recalls. “I explained my desire to get into research that bridged the divide between bioengineering and electrical engineering. So we kept talking, and I wound up in his lab my senior year, which led me to continue studying for a master’s degree at Lehigh with him as my advisor.”

Breaking an ankle is a tough way to discover what you want to do in life, but in Alicia Stein’s case it planted the seed that would grow into a career path.

When Stein was in middle school in Pennsylvania, she fractured her ankle three months before a big competition in Orlando.

IDEAS student overcomes challenges to represent Team USA in Italy at recent competition

Research by computer science and Engineering PhD students Jiawei Xu and Diego Salazar D'Antonio involves using robots to manipulate objects without human intervention, with the ultimate goal of helping humanity perform a range of tasks.

After he completes his PhD next May, mechanical engineering graduate student Anh Hung “Peter” Nguyen '18 '19G envisions a career in academia as a member of the faculty at a predominantly undergraduate university.

“It’s not because I’m not good at researching,” says the 26-year-old native of Vietnam, “but because I think I can contribute more in that role.” 

For Marta Kasica-Soltan ’21 ’22G, the family computer was one of her favorite things growing up. It wasn’t just something to play around with. It was something to explore.

She wanted to know how the machine actually worked. Through trial and error and a lot of YouTube, she started figuring things out, and pretty soon she became that kid the teachers always turned to when they got stumped by the classroom computers. When the internet cut out at home, she was the one her mother depended on to fix it. 

Mechanical engineering PhD candidate Bailey Brown '18 has been awarded a competitive Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program (NREIP) internship for the summer of 2022.

Rossin College bioengineering major Linxi (Poplar) Yang ’22 took top honors at the 2022 David and Lorraine Freed Undergraduate Research Symposium held Wednesday in Lehigh’s STEPS building. 

Undergraduate students from the Lehigh University chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) attended the 48th Annual NSBE Convention, held March 23-27, in Anaheim, CA. 

Lehigh’s NSBE chapter sent a delegation of 18 students from the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science to the national convention in California. Two other students attended the convention virtually.