Student Success

The student-run nonprofit PPE4ALL was created shortly after the onset of the pandemic in early 2020.

Through a generous gift from the Van Hoesen family, the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department is pleased to announce Baoyu Zhou as the recipient of the seventh annual Van Hoesen Family Best Publication Award. Baoyu will receive a $1,000 monetary prize for his paper:

The Industrial and Systems Engineering Department is pleased to announce Giavanna Tabbachino as the recipient of the 2021 Lawrence E. White Fellowship for Master’s in Management Science and Engineering offered by the ISE Department. This fellowship is made available through the generosity of Lehigh and department alumnus Lawrence E.

Rossin College PhD students Caroline Ferguson (bioengineering) and Joshua Smeltzer (materials science and engineering) have each been awarded a $10,000 Supplemental Stipend Fellowship Award from the Koerner Family Foundation (KFF).

Graduate students in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering have been recognized with top honors in recent poster contests held by the Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York and the Catalysis Club of Philadelphia.

This past summer, bioengineering major Miranda Royds ’21 and IDEAS (Integrated Degree in Engineering, Arts, and Science) student Emma Gromacki ’21 interned at EagleForce Health, working on a tracking app used in a COVID-19 context, in areas like symptom tracking, geospatial tracking, and contact tracing. 

The next step in Carol Obando-Derstine’s professional journey from the public sector to the power industry? A master’s degree in Energy Systems Engineering from Lehigh University.

Carol Obando-Derstine knows what it’s like to live in a place where the lights don’t always come on when you flip a switch. Her family immigrated to the United States from Colombia when she was a child and she doesn’t take electricity for granted.

Energy Systems Engineering master’s student Oumou Sidibe balances a full-time career with graduate studies as she sets her sights on improving energy generation and access in Mali.

Lehigh University’s master’s program in Energy Systems Engineering (ESE) regularly attracts students with big goals.

For Oumou Sidibe, that goal is to change the nature of energy generation in Mali.

Two Rossin College teams participated in the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute’s 2020 Engineering Student Design Competition, with Lehigh University Team 2 placing third overall. 

In PCI’s annual “Big Beam” competition, which marked its 20th year, students from various universities across the country, along with faculty advisors, compete in designing, building, and testing a 22-foot, precast concrete beam. This experience gives students a look into the precast concrete industry and provides the opportunity to work with local manufacturers.