Alumni Updates

EE alumna tapped to lead people-moving innovator

 

Judy Marks '84 has been named president of Otis, the world's leading manufacturer and service provider of elevators, escalators and moving walkways. The 66,000 employees of Otis, a unit of United Technologies Corporation (UTC) with annual revenues approaching $12 billion, serve more than 200 countries and territories and have sold and maintain approximately 2.6 million elevators and escalators worldwide.

 

Proud Lehigh alum and environmental engineering pioneer dies at 78

 

Dr. P. Aarne Vesilind, an alumnus of Lehigh University and pioneer in academic and industrial research in environmental engineering, passed away due to complications from cancer on January 28, 2018.

 

Accolades abound for researcher and Lehigh environmental engineering alum

 

Dr. Lee Blaney ’05 ’07G has had quite a banner year in the world of environmental engineering.

 

Ahmed Banafa '93G was interviewed by ABC television for his expertise on the Internet of Things (IoT) to kick off their coverage of the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.

 

"This is the wave of the future," Banafa said during the interview. "Everything is listening and reacting to what you're doing. By the end of 2020 we will have 50 billion connected devices."