Alumni Updates

Episode #12 of Lehigh's Go Getters podcast features engineering alum Frank L. Douglas ’66, an award-winning, longtime veteran in healthcare, pharmaceutical research, and entrepreneurial endeavors. During his career, he led the discovery, development, and market launch of more than 20 pharmaceuticals. He is the former CEO and a current board member of TheVax Genetics Vaccines and a co-founder of Douglas Ahmed Consulting. Douglas received the the 2019 Dr.

Chemical and biomolecular engineering alum Susan Daniel '99 '01G '05 PhD has been named director of the Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE) at Cornell University, effective July 1, 2021.

Chemical engineering alum Frederick Douglas ’80G, founder and president of Cosmos Technologies, was recently featured in the Pittsburgh Business Times’ Personalities of Pittsburgh series. 

Cosmos Technologies is a small business engineering consulting firm with locations in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Kentucky. Douglas founded the company after an 18-year career in chemical engineering. 

Mechanical engineering alum Dan Boyer ’14 PhD is a 2021 recipient of the prestigious U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Early Career Award.

Materials science and engineering alum Stephen Kachur ’13 has joined CPS Technologies, a producer of high-performance energy management components, as a senior scientist focused on product development, according to a press release. 

When Matt Dwyer ’06 first arrived at Patagonia as materials innovator, the popular outdoor clothing company strove to “build the best products, cause no unnecessary harm and use business to inspire solutions to the environmental crisis.” About five years later, Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard simplified the mission statement: “We’re in business to save our home planet,” Dwyer recalls Chouinard saying.

As head of materials innovation and development at Patagonia, Dwyer’s main responsibility is to help execute that goal.

Mechanical engineering alum Kim Hanemann ’86 has been named president of Public Service Electric & Gas (PSE&G), New Jersey’s largest electric and gas utility, effective June 30, 2021, according to a Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) news release.

It's common knowledge that our oceans have a plastics problem, in the form of water and soda bottles, drinking straws, single-use plastic bags, and the like. But not as well known—and perhaps the most egregious ocean pollutant—are discarded plastic commercial fishing nets lurking just below the water's surface, destroying marine life.

Electrical engineering alum Jiankang Bu '01 PhD has been named vice president of engineering for Ideal Power, developer of B-TRAN bi-directional power switches, according to a press release.

Chemical engineering alum and former Lehigh volleyball star Rochelle Healea Sheridan '03 works in the oil and gas industry. 

As a staff engineer for Energy Transfer, based at the company's Marcus Hook Terminal in Pennsylvania, she hopes to be a source of inspiration for young women looking to take a similar path.