Faculty & Programs

If algorithms are going to impact nearly every aspect of our lives, they should meet the highest standards of accountability. Yet little is known—particularly to those outside the field of computer science—about how these algorithms actually operate. 

Making this form of artificial intelligence more transparent to the lay audience is the driving force behind the work of Lehigh University faculty member Sihong Xie. “Creating accountable machine learning is the ultimate goal of our research,” he says.

John P. Coulter, senior associate dean for research in Lehigh University’s P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science, will serve as chair-elect of the Engineering Research Council (ERC) of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), effective June 1.  

John P. Coulter, a professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics and senior associate dean for research in Lehigh University’s P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science, has been elected as a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

As a kid growing up in Amman, Jordan, Karmel Shehadeh knew she wanted to one day be a professor and a researcher. Today, she is both. And at the end of her faculty profile, she includes an unusual line. It’s not a sentiment you typically come across in such writeups, but it’s targeted toward a special group of students. In this episode, you’ll find out why she makes a point of including that sentence not only in her profile, but in the acknowledgement section of her research papers.

Rick Blum, the Robert W. Wieseman Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Lehigh University, seeks to bring efficiency to distributed learning techniques emerging as crucial to modern artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).

The United States has the capacity to generate 7200 terawatt-hours per year from offshore wind. “That’s twice the total electricity use in the U.S. in 2020,” says Muhannad Suleiman, a professor of civil and environmental engineering (CEE) who specializes in geotechnical engineering. “But right now, the U.S. produces only approximately 40 megawatts, which is the equivalent of about 7 wind turbines.”

In March 2022, MechE Prof.

Dan M. Frangopol, Lehigh’s inaugural Fazlur R. Khan Endowed Chair of Structural Engineering and Architecture, has been ranked 95th in the world and 45th nationally by Research.com in a list of leading scientists in the area of engineering and technology.