Faculty & Programs

Terry Hart, a professor of practice in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics and a former NASA astronaut, took part in a virtual event on the topic of women and the space program, presented by PBS39. 

The event, held in March during Women’s History Month, included a screening of “The Future is Female: Women, Space and NASA” (a preview of upcoming PBS39 documentary special “Moon-to-Mars: The Next Giant Leap”) and a panel discussion.

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).