Faculty & Programs

A week from now, most of the nation will be adding their dying roses to the garbage, a sign of another Valentine's Day come and gone.

For the family members and loved ones of students at Lehigh University, however, their "steel roses" will live on for much longer.

Over 100 students from across campus filed into the university's Maker Space at Wilbur Powerhouse in early February to craft a unique Valentine gift and find out more about the various tools and materials the facility has to offer.

Lehigh mechanical engineering and mechanics assistant professor Keith Moored's work in fluid dynamic interactions has earned him an National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award.

Team from Lehigh and Northwestern explore use of big data to understand the creative process.

Creativity has long been an intangible concept, says Ting Wang.

The complex process of connecting two seemingly unrelated scientific ideas is difficult to understand.

"It's kind of magic," says Wang, assistant professor of computer science and engineering. "How are you connecting these two thoughts?"

Rick Blum and his team are using advanced signal processing techniques to produce models for radar that can be tools for the design of real-world products.

What do you envision when you think of radar? Massive, rotating antennas at airports tracking your last flight? Colorful precipitation maps presented by your local TV meteorologist? Beams sweeping the sky in search of incoming missiles?

ECE Associate Professor Sushil Kumar has conducted five years of experimental and theoretical research on plasmonic lasers.

Lasers have become indispensable to modern life since they were invented more than fifty years ago. The ability to generate and amplify light waves into a coherent, monochromatic and well-focused beam has yielded applications too numerous to count: laser scanners, laser printers, laser surgery, laser-based data storage, ultrafast data communications via laser light, and the list goes on.

From its earliest days, Lehigh has been invested in materials. Mining and metallurgy was one of the university's first academic programs in 1865. It makes sense, then, in an age marked by rapid technological advancements, that Lehigh would turn to materials—in this case, the metals used in additive manufacturing, also known as 3-D printing.

As many universities and research centers explore the applications of 3-D printing, Lehigh is "one of a very small handful of places that has made materials really the focus," says Richard Vinci.

 Lehigh engineering's Yevgeny Berdichevsky was one of several presenters at the university's first ever Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Symposium.

The electrical and computer engineering assistant professor presented "Epilespsy-on-a-chip" during the event, held in April 2017 at Iacocca Hall on Lehigh's Mountaintop Campus. He presented to over 80 attendees from Lehigh and the Atlantic coast region, including Delaware, New Jersey and Maryland.

Lehigh University has seen significant growth in the field of additive manufacturing since the first 3-D printer arrived on campus in 2014. The printing lab took center stage this Spring during the 2017 Advancing Technology for Business Growth event.

CSE associate professor Xiaolei Huang aims to harness AI to improve medical imaging.

Artificial intelligence—commonly known as AI—is already exceeding human abilities. Self-driving cars use AI to perform some tasks more safely than people. E-commerce companies use AI to tailor product ads to customers’ tastes more quickly and precisely than any breathing marketing analyst can.

And soon AI will be used to “read” biomedical images more accurately than medical personnel alone—providing better early cervical cancer detection at lower cost than current methods.

Dan M. Frangopol, the Fazlur R. Khan Endowed Chair of Structural Engineering and Architecture, was selected by the Lehigh Valley section of the American Society of Civil Engineers (LVASCE) as the 2016 Civil Engineer of the Year.