Lehigh ISE chair was recently elected president of the Association of Chairs of Operations Research Departments (Mobile sensing and deep learning make strides in structural health monitoring of bridges
PITA-funded project led by CEE chair Shamim Pakzad employs machine learning with physics-based foundations to exploit "crowdsensed" data from mobile applications
Shankar weighs in on future impact of virtual power plants
Energy Systems Engineering Director Rudy Shankar contributed to a recent MIT Technology Review article on "How virtual power plants are shaping tomorrow's energy system."
The article, published Feb. 7, 2024, posits that "by orchestrating EVs, batteries, and smart home devices, VPPs can help make the grid cleaner and more efficient."
BioE Faculty Spotlight: Taneka Jones
Dr. Jones just joined the BioE department at the end of 2023. We are excited to have her on the team and look forward to building more connections.
Where are you from, where do you call your hometown?
A few years ago, I had maternal DNA testing conducted. I'm from Cameroon!
Can you walk us through your educational and work experience/background? What is your story?
BioE National BMES Conference, Fall 2023
Many of our students and faculty attended the annual BMES (Biomedical Engineering Society) conference in October 2023 in Seattle, Washington.
Thank you to everyone who came- especially those that presented!
BioE Fall 23 Graduate Ice Skating
On Thursday, Decmeber 14th, the BioE graduate students gathered at Bethlehem's Arts Quest ice rink down at the Steel Stacks! We had a blast skating and showing each other our cool ice moves.
BioE Fall 2023 Holiday Party
On Thursday, December 7, 2023 we had our Fall 23 Department Holiday Party.
The party had a great turn out, and thank you to everyone who came, engaged, and ate the food!
Advancing military radar with state-of-the-art semiconductor materials
Vermaak co-organizes workshop on materials challenges for liquid propellant rocket engines
Recently, MechE Prof. Natasha Vermaak joined forces with The Aerospace Corporation’s Dr. T. Wabel, Dr. F. Bendana, and Prof. Z. Cordero from MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics to host a workshop by invitation only for over 60 leaders in industry, government labs, and academia working at the cutting edge of technologies for reusable liquid-propellant rocket engines (Figure 1).
Materials interfaces: A prime spot for innovation
The smaller the crystals, the bigger the possibilities.
So goes one of the mottos of Fadi Abdeljawad, an associate professor of materials science and engineering at Lehigh University. Abdeljawad joined the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science in August 2023 and has several research initiatives underway to develop theoretical and computational models that explain how materials behave at near atomic scale resolution.