Faculty & Programs

Lehigh had a strong presence at the IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) held during the first week of October 2017 in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. IPC is IEEE’s flagship conference dedicated to the fields of optics and photonics.

Lehigh faculty and students from the Center for Photonics and Nanoelectronics (CPN), the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), and the Department of Material Science and Engineering (MSE) presented nine technical talks.

Scientists in the United States and China have announced a discovery that they believe could enable the engineering of alloyed materials that are stronger and more ductile and possess superior electrical, magnetic and physical properties.

Writing in Science, the nation’s leading scientific journal, the researchers said they had found a surprising degree of order in the interior grain boundaries—the interfaces between crystalline grains—that determine the properties of polycrystalline materials such as metals and ceramics.

Lehigh University's newly established Department of Bioengineering is presenting in 18 poster and panel sessions at the annual meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) in Phoenix, Arizona from October 12-14, 2017.

A “first-of-its-kind” optimization model developed by Lehigh engineers—in collaboration with Pennsylvania’s Department of Corrections (PADOC)—last night received the prestigious Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice for 2017.

Last summer, Lehigh University students, professors and postdoctoral researchers from across academic disciplines spent ten weeks examining inconsistencies of a technique that might one day assist medical professionals in evaluating patients’ levels of cancer risk.

In a ceremony and rally on Friday, October 27, Lehigh University celebrated Founder’s Day to honor its founder, Asa Packer, and to recognize the leadership of faculty, staff, students, trustees, alumni, and friends.

Hector Muñoz-Avila received a grant from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) on “Adaptive Goal-Driven Autonomous Agents.” This is a joint project with Wright State University, with Lehigh serving as the prime contractor. The total award is $950K.

How do you find errors in a system that exists in a black box whose contents are a mystery even to experts?

That is one of the challenges of perfecting self-driving cars and other deep learning systems that are based on artificial neural networks—known as deep neural networks—modeled after the human brain. Inside these systems, a web of neurons enables a machine to process data with a nonlinear approach and, essentially, to teach itself to analyze information through what is known as training data.

Lehigh University’s Graduate Student Senate held its inaugural mentor appreciation event at the Zoellner Arts Center on November 3, 2017. Among the 44 members recognized, 12 were from Rossin College.

John P. Coulter, Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research at P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science at Lehigh University, has begun his term on the Engineering Research Council’s Board of Directors for 2017-2020.