Faculty & Programs

By Marc Deluca and Jeff Fetterman

Jeffrey Rickman, a professor of materials science and engineering and physics at Lehigh University, has been named a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS). 

Elsa Reichmanis, who helped make possible the chips in almost all of today’s electronics with her contributions in the field of microlithography, is now poised for new discoveries as Lehigh’s newly arrived Carl Robert Anderson Chair in Chemical Engineering.

Lesley Chow, an assistant professor of bioengineering and materials science and engineering in Lehigh University’s P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science, is a 2021 recipient of the Early-Career Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award (ECURMA) presented by the Engineering Division of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR).

The P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science is pleased to announce the college’s newly promoted faculty members, as voted by the Lehigh University Board of Trustees in May 2021.

Promotion to the rank of full professor

Frank E. Curtis, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Brian D. Davison, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

ISE faculty member Ted Ralphs, in partnership with Oleg Prokopyev at University of Pittsburgh, has won a three-year, half million dollar grant from the Office of Naval Research to study how to more realistically model and solve certain game-theoretic optimization problems.

ECE researcher Wenxin Liu awarded two ONR grants—totaling $900,000—for algorithmic design and hardware experimentation that could lead to advances in civilian microgrid technology

Wenxin Liu’s research has been funded by the Office of Naval Research for the past 10 years. 

ChBE assistant professor, a computational chemical engineer, to advance fundamental understanding of promising approach for safe, streamlined, cost-effective biomass and CO₂ conversion

Is it possible to build safe, sustainable chemical plants on a small scale? The kind of plants that could—among other things—convert biomass into biofuel, on the very farms producing those crops?

The ISE Department is proud to announce Theodore Ralphs, Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, as the recipient of the 2021 Lehigh University Rossin College Outstanding Doctoral Student Advising Award.