Alumni Updates

Electrical engineering alum Gang (Gary) Xiong ’11 PhD has been named Intel’s 2020 Inventor of the Year for his efforts in pioneering technologies that will underpin future wireless networks.

National Academy of Engineering member and structural engineering alum Theodore V. Galambos ’59 PhD is featured in a special issue of CEGE Magazine, a publication of the University of Minnesota’s Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering. 

A team including Lehigh’s Industrial & Systems Engineering Ph.D Alum Xiaocheng Tang ‘15 was awarded the 2019 Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in the Practice of Advanced Analytics and Operations. This prize recognizes the quality and coherence of the analysis used in practice.

ER doc, healthcare systems engineer David Adinaro ’88 ’15 M.Eng. leads Secaucus Field Medical Station taking stress off NJ hospitals during pandemic

Earlier this year, Dr. David Adinaro was in between jobs after leaving New Jersey’s St. Joseph’s Healthcare System, where he’d spent the past 17 years. His short-term plan was to return to clinical emergency medicine, where he’d started his career. But before those plans could materialize for the former chief medical officer, COVID-19 began to bear down on the region.

Lehigh’s Energy Systems Engineering master’s program helped environmental engineer Sarah Conde ’15 M.Eng. flip the switch on new career with commercial solar developer

When the zombie apocalypse hits the Los Angeles area in the Netflix series “Daybreak,” a teenager observes that a local shopping mall keeps running because it’s solar powered. 

The Industrial and Systems Engineering Department keeps a strong connection with their alumni and they have been contributing tremendously to our success, in the most various ways, through their own accomplishments and contacts, through their knowledge of the industry needs and trends, and also through their unconditional advice and generous support.

Chemical and biomolecular engineering alum Aditi Chakrabarti ’17 PhD participated in the 2019 Rising Stars in Chemical Engineering program, a prestigious academic career workshop held annually by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

A professional master’s in Energy Systems Engineering gave David Reino ’16 ’17 M.Eng. the technical knowledge, leadership skills, and industry connections to land a job at a major utility—months before graduation

There are things that people count on: The sun sets in the west, spring follows winter, and when you flip a switch, the lights go on. 

Studying Healthcare Systems Engineering as a grad student propelled pharma consultant Zara Ali Ahmad ’16 ’18 M.Eng. into a fast-paced profession she’d never considered

Zara Ali Ahmad always thought she’d become a physician’s assistant. But as she entered her senior year majoring in behavioral neuroscience at Lehigh University, she was still keeping her options open.