Student Success

A paper written by ISE Grad Student Xiaolong Kuang in collaboration with Professor Luis F. Zuluaga, has been named one of the two winners of the 2019 Journal of Global Optimization Best Paper Award for their work entitled "Completely Positive and Completely Positive Semidefinite Tensor Relaxations For Polynomial Optimization". The Journal of Global Optimization is a journal Dealing with theoretical and computational aspects of seeking global optima and their application.

Lehigh students, staff, and an alum showcased their inventions, projects, and businesses Tuesday, Oct. 22, at CREATIVATE, an annual event sponsored by the Baker Institute for Entrepreneurship, Creativity and Innovation and held this year in the Lehigh University Art Galleries Main Gallery in Zoellner Arts Center. 

Innovative students engaged with about 200 attendees, answering questions, explaining their ideas, and displaying interactive prototypes to test. 

The Lehigh student chapter of The Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS) received a cum laude Student Chapter Award at the organization’s annual meeting in Seattle, Washington this week. This is the fifth year that the student group, comprised of Industrial and Systems Engineering graduate students, has been recognized in the top 20% of student chapters. The purpose of the Student Chapter Annual Award is to recognize achievements of student chapters and to motivate them to perform well.

Lehigh’s Baker Institute for Entrepreneurship, Creativity & Innovation will host Creativate—its sixth annual celebration of creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship—5-7 p.m., Tuesday, October 22, at Lehigh University Art Galleries (LUAG) within Zoellner Arts Center. 

It was hot and humid, storm clouds were building up fast, and there was still one more element of the ropes course left to do.

Anna Francisco '21 understands the importance, and impact, of making improvements. It's something she experienced in a recent internship and as a member of the Lehigh swimming and diving team.
 

Three alumni of ISE’s PhD program are entering the academic field in prestigious positions at several high-profile universities.

Ali Mohammad Nezhad, PhD '18, will be part of the faculty at Purdue University as the Golomb Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics.

Mark (Miao) Bai, PhD '17, spent a year performing postdoctoral research at the Mayo Clinic and has now started an Assistant Professor position at the University of Connecticut’s Operations and Info Management Department.

While at Lehigh, rising seniors and student athletes Ashleigh Crawford (bioengineering; cross country/track), Diana Hammerstone (materials science and engineering; cross country/track), and Sarah Boyer (materials science and engineering; rowing) have been empowered to succeed in the engineering field.

There’s a colorful interlude for passersby on Fourth Street in Bethlehem—a pop-up parklet outside Roasted restaurant built by Lehigh’s Engineers Without Borders outreach committee and Professor of Practice Karen Beck Pooley’s Lehigh Valley Parklets team.

The colorful parklet, a sidewalk extension that fits within two city parking spaces and strives to improve pedestrian and customer experiences, will be in place until Oct. 31.

He had lined up a job at an engineering company, paid a security deposit on an apartment, and was weeks away from making his post-graduation, cross-country move to Seattle when he called his parents.

“I was driving to my grandparents on Mother’s Day, and my parents were, too, so it was a good time to talk,” says Peter Schwarzenberg ’16. “I was like, ‘I think I’m going to go to grad school.’ And there was just...silence.”