New research grant funding for ChBE faculty

Everyday faculty are engaging in research and scholarship across many disciplines. To earn grant funding is no small feat. Each scholarly discovery not only offers new perspectives to the research and educational missions of the ChBE department at Lehigh but is also a testament of quality innovation hard at work.

McIntosh named inaugural Zisman Family Chair in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Professor Steven McIntosh has been named the inaugural Zisman Family Chair in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in Lehigh University’s P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science. 

McIntosh, who joined Lehigh’s faculty in 2010, conducts research in the areas of catalysis, electrochemistry, materials chemistry, and reaction engineering. He was named chair of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering department in 2021. 

Kothare is IFAC 2023 High Impact Paper Award recipient

The High Impact Paper Award from the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) has selected “Robust constrained model predictive control using linear matrix inequalities” paper by Lehigh University ChBE Professor Mayuresh Kothare as the 2023 recipient. Co-authors include Venkataramanan Balakrishnan, Dean of the Case School of Engineering and Manfred Morari, Electrical and Systems Engineering Faculty Fellow of UPenn.
 

A simpler path to supercharge robotic systems

Robotic arms are typically composed of joints, which help the arm move and perform a task. Each of those joints is capable of either rotating or extending—and the number of such possible independent movements is referred to as the robotic system’s degree of freedom. The more joints in the arm, the higher the degree of freedom. 

Fixing the noise problem in quantum computing

The promise of quantum computing is a big one.

The ability to solve—in days—problems in areas such as mathematics, finance, and biological systems that are so complex it would take a classical computer hundreds of years to calculate. 

But that ability is a long way off, and a big reason why is noise.

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