Faculty & Programs

Professor Mayuresh V. Kothare, Department Chairman and the R. L. McCann Professor has won the 2020 Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay. Professor Kothare was one among seven alumni who were recognized in 2020. IIT Bombay confers the Distinguished Alumnus Awards (DAA) every year to those who have reached positions of eminence in the areas of Business, Academics, Research, Government, Public Service and Entrepreneurship. These individuals would have "distinguished themselves in their fields of work and done the Institute proud".

Someday, underwater robots may so closely mimic creatures like fish that they’ll fool not only the real animals themselves but humans as well. That ability could yield information ranging from the health of fish stocks to the location of foreign watercraft.

Such robots would need to be fast, efficient, highly maneuverable, and acoustically stealthy. In other words, they would have to be very much like bottlenose dolphins or killer whales.

Donald O. Rockwell, the Paul B. Reinhold Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics in Lehigh University’s P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science, has been elected as a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).

Computer science and business alum Corey Caplan '18 will be one of the featured speakers at SmartCon 0, a major blockchain conference taking place Thursday, May 7, 2020, in Brooklyn. 

Caplan is CEO of Dolomite, a decentralized cryptocurrency trading platform he co-founded with fellow Lehigh alum Adam Knuckey ’18. 

Broken bones have a unique capacity to heal. The new bone that forms along the fracture line, called callus, starts out as a soft tissue and, over time, it hardens into bone that is just as strong—or stronger—than before the break.

But in some cases, the healing process goes awry. This failure to heal is called a nonunion, a painful and often debilitating condition that requires further medical intervention.

Former NASA astronaut and mechanical engineering and mechanics professor Terry Hart ’68 ’88H will deliver the address at Lehigh’s 152nd spring commencement on Monday, May 18. 

Hart was a member of NASA’s “Group 8”—the first selection of space shuttle astronaut candidates in nine years—and later joined NASA’s 11th space shuttle mission aboard the STS 41-C Challenger, launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 6, 1984.

As a property owner, you may have more agency over the extent of flooding after a storm than you may think. 

A team including Lehigh’s Industrial and Systems Engineering Professor Frank E. Curtis was awarded second place in the highly competitive Grid Optimization (GO) Competition, run and sponsored by the U.S.

If you’re able to walk without pain, give a silent shout-out to your cartilage. 

Every time you take a step, this flexible tissue absorbs the load and transfers it to the bone, allowing you to move freely. But unlike bone, if cartilage gets damaged—by injury, wear and tear, or inflammation—it can’t regenerate. Over time, the damaged tissue degrades, and walking becomes progressively more painful as the bones come in contact with each other.