Faculty & Programs

Professor Arindam Banerjee, an international expert in fluid dynamics, has been named chair of Lehigh's Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, effective July 1, 2021.

Banerjee leads Lehigh’s Turbulent Flow Design Group and conducts research in multi-scale fluid dynamics with particular emphasis on energy and biological systems. He joined the Rossin College faculty as an assistant professor in 2012 and was promoted to the rank of full professor in 2020.

Panayiotis “Panos” Diplas, P.C. Rossin Professor of Water Resources Engineering in Lehigh University’s P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science, has been named as the recipient of the 2021 Hunter Rouse Hydraulic Engineering Award.

Zakya H. Kafafi, Distinguished Research Fellow within the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science at Lehigh University, was recently elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), one of the highest honors given to engineers in the United States.

LiDAR (shorthand for “light detection and ranging”) has been hailed as a game-changer in the race toward developing a truly “driverless” car, or what the Society of Automotive Engineers defines as a Level 5 autonomous vehicle (AV). 

The International Association of Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure (ISHMII) has honored Dan M. Frangopol, the inaugural Fazlur R. Khan Endowed Chair of Structural Engineering and Architecture at Lehigh University, with the 2021 Aftab Mufti Medal for lifetime achievement in civil structural health monitoring.

Computer science and engineering professor Hank Korth weighed in on the future impact of blockchain technology on the financial world in an explainer article on Bitcoin and other forms of cryptocurrency recently published in The Morning Call. Korth's current research is focused in blockchain systems, with an emphasis on blockchain databases and applications in financial systems. 

According to the article: