Faculty & Programs

Latest episode features ChBE Assistant Professor Whitney Blocher McTigue, who is working toward a future where innovative wound care and shelf-stable medicine lead to healthier lives

The Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) of Lehigh University is now offering a new redesigned master’s program portfolio. We will continue to offer a core master’s program, renamed Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR), for which new courses on organizational excellence, project management, and uncertainty systems are offered. The IEOR Program equips graduates with the skills to excel in their chosen fields while meeting the demands of industry, business, and government.

Weeds. Not only do they strangle your aunt’s petunias at the roots, they also have the entire agricultural industry in a $33 billion headlock.

That is the estimated annual cost of dealing with invasive plants that compete with cultivated crops for water, nutrients, light, and space.

A recent award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will bring together researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, lead), Carnegie Mellon University, and Lehigh University under the

The Mathematical and Resource Optimization program of the Office of Naval Research (ONR) recently awarded two grants to Lehigh Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) faculty for a total over $1M.

Lehigh's Chemical Engineering Professor James Gilchrist is the recipient of the AIChE 2024 PSRI Fluidization and Fluid-Particle Systems Award, an award that recognizes an individual's outstanding scientific/technical research contributions with impact in the field of fluidization and fluid-particle flow systems.

An interdisciplinary team led by Ethan Yang, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, have been awarded a $1 million, three-year grant from the Department of Energy to create a climate resilience center. The project will focus on improving localized climate models, aiming to provide communities with better tools to predict and mitigate the impacts of climate change. This initiative intersects with Lehigh’s Catastrophe Modeling Center.

Arindam Banerjee, Lehigh's Paul B. Reinhold Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics and chair of the MEM department, has been honored as an Associate Editor of the Year (2023) by the Journal of Fluids Engineering, an ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) publication.  

MechE Associate Professor Natasha Vermaak has completed her leadership term as the Chair of the Computational Materials Science and Engineering (CMSE) technical committee (2022-2024) within The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS). TMS is a professional society that connects over 10,000 minerals, metals, and materials scientists and engineers on six continents.