Student Success

Disha Kamale, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, was recently selected as a 2025 Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Rising Star. Kamale is one of 30 researchers from across the nation selected for this honor, which aims to identify research excellence and academic leadership potential.

She attended the 2025 CPS Rising Stars Workshop, which is funded by the National Science Foundation, held March 12 at Vanderbilt University.

The Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York Annual Spring 2025 Symposium was held March 12 on the Lehigh University campus. This is an annual northeastern spring symposium that focuses on the fundamentals and applications of catalysts. Catalysts, which are materials that control and accelerate chemical reactions with applications in sustainable technology, biotechnology, energy, chemicals, environmental remediation, pharmaceuticals, etc., account for approximately 25% of the U.S. gross national product (GNP).

Six undergraduate students from Lehigh University, including five from the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science, have been selected for the prestigious DAAD Research Internship in Science and Engineering (RISE) program in Germany for summer 2025. This internationally competitive scholarship provides students the opportunity to spend three months conducting research in their respective fields under the guidance of a professor or graduate student at a German university.

Electrical engineering PhD student Xubin Fang won first place in the Lehigh Valley IEEE Graduate Student Contest during the IEEE Engineering Week banquet in February. Fellow electrical engineering PhD student Uzma Khan earned second place. 

The poster session, held on Lehigh’s Mountaintop Campus, provides a platform for students to showcase their research, exchange ideas, and gain feedback from peers, faculty, and industry experts. 

Zesheng Liu, a second-year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, was awarded Best Paper at the NeurIPS 2024 Workshop on Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning, among a field of submissions representing some of the tech world’s biggest names.

BioE Student Spotlight: Zachary Weiser

Article written by Rida M., Bioengineering undergraduate student and student office worker in the Department of Bioengineering.

Mechanical engineer Conner Larocque ’25 could be chilling out and enjoying a quiet stretch of zero commitments until mid-March, when he joins SpaceX for his first post-college job.

Instead, he’s spending countless hours a week designing and building a remote-piloted airplane that will, he hopes, break an endurance record by flying continuously for longer than 80 hours. He’s doing it all on his own, and under the self-imposed and somewhat crushing deadline of the impending real-world obligations of full-time employment. 

BioE Student Spotlight: Sara Oswald

Article written by Rida M., Bioengineering undergraduate student and student office worker in the Department of Bioengineering.

'Mossgrove' will bring an organic dimension to the geometric architecture of the Fairchild-Martindale Library via a Capstone project in the Rossin College

The development of metamaterials—composite materials that have desirable or unusual properties related to their physical structure—is opening up possibilities for innovation in a wide range of fields.   

As a Clare Boothe Luce (CBL) Research Scholar, mechanical engineer Hana Hussain ’26 is gaining perspective on how these next-gen materials could be used in the aerospace industry, particularly in relation to cooling systems.