The Polytechnic University of Timișoara, Romania, will award an honorary doctorate to Lehigh University civil and environmental engineering professor Dan M. Frangopol prior to CESARE 2024, the 4th International Conference on Coordinating Engineering for Sustainability and Resilience.
Dan M. Frangopol, the Fazlur R. Khan Endowed Chair of Structural Engineering and Architecture, has contributed to national news coverage of the tragic March 26 collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore.
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An interdisciplinary team of researchers, led by Y. C. Ethan Yang, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, has been awarded a $1 million grant by the National Science Foundation and the Japan Science and Technology Agency to fund research focusing on flood-prone areas in the U.S. and Japan. The project aims to enhance flood risk management through human-centered data analysis.
Everyone loves a hero. Or at least it seems that way. Marvel superhero films have grossed more than $29.8 billion worldwide, making the franchise the most popular of any ever created.
Professor Ricardo H.R. Castro has a theory about why the world can’t get enough of characters who can fly or shape-shift, have superhuman strength or telepathy, or can regenerate lost limbs or even manipulate reality itself.
Lehigh ISE Professor Lawrence V. Snyder has been elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers (IISE). This honor is reserved for a few distinguished members of IISE.
A research team led by civil and environmental engineering associate professor John T. Fox, has secured a $2 million grant from the Department of Energy to tackle the environmental impact of traditional concrete production.
A special issue of the Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, published by Elsevier, pays tribute to Himanshu Jain, Lehigh University’s T.L. Diamond Distinguished Chair in Engineering and Applied Science and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering.
ESE director Rudy Shankar leads course taught through a Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) program spotlighting South American nation's green energy transition
Tamás Terlaky has been appointed as the Alcoa Foundation Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, effective January 1, 2024, in recognition of his accomplishments and contributions to the Lehigh Engineering community.
Established in the 1960s by the Alcoa Foundation, this professorship was founded in honor of Joseph W. Richards (Class of 1886), who earned the first PhD granted by Lehigh and later joined the university faculty.
