Faculty & Programs

Engineering faculty at Lehigh’s P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science are included in a consortium that was recently awarded $2.5 million by the U.S. Department of Transportation (US DOT) in its first round of funding for Regional University Transportation Centers. The multi-year grant is authorized under the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act or the FAST Act, the first federal law in more than a decade to provide long-term funding certainty for surface transportation infrastructure planning and investment.

Nearly 50 students will have the opportunity to attend an international microarchitecture conference, thanks to an NSF travel grant awarded to Xiaochen Guo, Rossin assistant professor in electrical and computer engineering at Lehigh University.

If immunotherapy—the harnessing of the body’s immune system—can destroy cancer cells, as has been demonstrated, why not try to trigger the body’s immune system to battle deadly bacteria?

That question drives Marcos Pires’ pursuit of what he calls bacterial immunotherapy or immunobiotics—using the human immune system’s powerful mechanisms of preventing entry and colonization of pathogens to defeat the deadliest, antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

Steven McIntosh wants to transform the way ammonia is produced. He hopes to create a viable alternative to the conventional method, which uses massive amounts of energy and emits harmful carbon dioxide. He’s exploring a sustainable electrochemical method to efficiently drive the chemical reaction that produces ammonia.

According to Eric P.S. Baumer, an assistant professor of computer science and engineering who studies human-computer interaction, society’s entanglement with social media is more complicated than it may appear. His new research takes a fine-grained look at Facebook use and non-use, using a more nuanced approach than has previously been utilized.

NSF CAREER Award supports Lehigh professor Nick Strandwitz’s vision of the transistor of the future

Cache, as the saying goes, is king

As you waste your lunch hour scrolling through cat videos, snarky celebrity-bashing memes, and videos from your niece's third birthday party, for just a moment consider the majesty of the system behind the screen that enables such lightning-fast access to literally everything under the sun.

NSF supports effort to enable academic researchers of every variety to find the data they need

There was a time—not that long ago—when the phrases "Google it" or "check Yahoo" would have been interpreted as sneezes, or a perhaps symptoms of an oncoming seizure, rather than as coherent thoughts.

Today, these are key to answering all of life's questions.

Lehigh's civil engineering program recognized among best in the world by ARWU

The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) recently listed Lehigh's civil engineering program among the best in the world, topped only by programs at Tongji University of Shanghai, China, and the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland.

To test for malignancy or monitor the effectiveness of cancer treatment, a person’s tissue must be extracted, sent to a lab, stained and analyzed by a pathologist—a process that can take days to complete and is subject to human error.

Xuanhong Cheng, associate professor of materials science and engineering, and James Hwang, professor of electrical and computer engineering, have something different in mind.