Professor Shamim Pakzad, an expert in structural health monitoring and smart cities, has been named chair of Lehigh’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), effective July 1, 2021.
A member of the Rossin College faculty since 2008, Pakzad served as interim CEE department chair for the past year and as the department’s director of graduate studies prior to that (2017-2020).
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.
Wenxin Liu’s research has been funded by the Office of Naval Research for the past 10 years.
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?
