Engineering Spotlight Spotlight

"Our new coating keeps the lubricity of silicone and gains the durability of a composite material."

-Jesse Nawrocki '95

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Innovative. Demanding. Supportive. These are some of the words that describe an education in engineering at Lehigh University.

But what sets Lehigh’s P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science apart is its unflagging devotion to the development of the whole student.

That’s because at Lehigh, we strive to prepare students as completely as possible for life in an age that promises changes at a pace never before seen.

At the Rossin College, classrooms are located wherever solutions are needed. Learning takes place in state-of-the-art classrooms and laboratories, and in the halls of industry.  We expect our students to assume positions of leadership after they leave us, and we give them many opportunities to learn to take charge while they are here. Our students work together in teams, often with students from business and the arts and sciences, in an atmosphere that is competitive but never divisive. They join professors and graduate students in the lab, and help them publish the results of their research.

In our unique cooperative education program, students gain real-world work experience. And in internships and yearlong design courses, they design products useful to our industrial partners. Lehigh’s engineering curriculum is rigorous but flexible. We emphasize the fundamentals while easing the boundaries between the classical disciplines. We believe this philosophy of “new engineering” helps our graduates meet the challenges of a global society and its emerging technologies. More importantly, we believe it inspires them to become world citizens.

The results are encouraging. At Lehigh today, engineering students are leaders on campus – in theater and music groups, in athletics and student government, and in fraternities and sororities. They are prepared to succeed generations of Lehigh engineers who have earned renown for their contributions not just to engineering, but also to business, law, medicine and education. Alumni include many of the most successful CEO's and entrepreunerial leaders in the world.