Rudy Shankar: Why we all should care about the power grid
Have engineers played a role in the current policy uncertainties surrounding the power grid and renewable energy?
Larry Snyder: Streamlining supply chains with operations research, machine learning
Recent hires bolster growth of computer science at Lehigh
It’s an exciting time for the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
MEM faculty members named Outstanding Reviewers by Acta Journals
Mechanical engineering and mechanics assistant professors Natasha Vermaak has been named recipients of 2019 Outstanding Reviewer awards by Acta Journals.
The awards recognize excellence in contributions as a reviewer for journals Acta Materialia and/or Scripta Materialia during 2018.
Materials informatics reveals new class of super-hard alloys
A new method of discovering materials using data analytics and electron microscopy has found a new class of extremely hard alloys. Such materials could potentially withstand severe impact from projectiles, providing better protection of soldiers in combat.
Engineers reveal reversible superglue inspired by snail mucus
Snails secrete a mucus that acts like superglue, allowing them to adhere to rough surfaces like rocks.
Inspired by this aspect of snail biology, scientists at the University of Pennsylvania, Lehigh University and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology have created a superglue-like material that is “intrinsically reversible.” In other words, it can easily come unglued.
Frangopol awarded 2019 George W. Housner Structural Control and Monitoring Medal
George W. Houser is widely considered the father of seismic engineering, which ushered in safer, more cost-effective construction in earthquake-prone areas.
So it’s fitting that a medal bearing his name would be bestowed on a researcher who’s played a similarly foundational role in ensuring the reliability of modern civil infrastructure systems.
WATCH: The Rotating Wheel Rayleigh Taylor Instability Experiment
Arindam Banerjee, an associate professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics, and his students developed the Rotating Wheel Rayleigh Taylor Instability Experiment, which studies two-fluid mixing to mimic inertial confinement fusion. The lab, known as the Turbulent Mixing Laboratory, took Lehigh students five years to build from scratch. Watch the video in the Lehigh University News Center.
Pamukcu named to LSU Civil & Environmental Engineering Hall of Distinction
Civil and environmental engineering professor Sibel Pamukcu has been inducted into the Hall of Distinction of Louisiana State University’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE).
World-renowned Lehigh Microscopy School now in its 49th year
The Lehigh Microscopy School has been running for nearly half a century.