Engineering Spotlight Spotlight

"It's what made me want to come to Lehigh, because I could develop in the sciences and in the humanities. I could see the importance of science in expanding my abilities to help people."

-U.S. Army Lt. Col. Theodore J. Choma, M.D., '85

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Lehigh’s heritage of engineering distinction can be clearly traced to the excellence of its graduate research and doctoral programs. Graduates from these programs have defined success in many ways – from developing the first artificial heart to receive widespread clinical use (Dr. William Pierce, Ph.D ’58), to overseeing the logistics of major military operations (Rear Admiral Charles Kubic, M.S. ’78), to developing a product line credited with generating $100 million in total sales in 2004 (Dr. Jesse Nawrocki, M.S. ‘99, Ph.D. ’01).

Lehigh’s engineering faculty is among the world’s finest. Ten are members of the National Academy of Engineering, and thirteen have received Faculty Early Career Development Awards (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation. Two of these CAREER Award winners were also honored with the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).

Our faculty and graduate students collaborate easily across traditional boundaries on projects that have applications in health care, the environment, energy, structural safety, and telecommunications, taking advantage of advances in new materials and technologies. Working closely with governmental and industrial research interests, our faculty guide graduate student teams in cutting-edge research across many key areas of scientific application, including biotechnology, nanotechnology, and large-scale systems engineering.

Graduate students at Lehigh also have access to some of the top facilities and instrumentation in their fields. Our microscopy center, Center for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology (CAMN), is widely regarded as one of the top two nanocharacterization facilities in the Western Hemisphere. Twelve orders of magnitude larger is our Engineering Research Center for Advanced Technology and Large Structural Systems (ATLSS), where researchers work to understand and mitigate the impact of earthquakes and other phenomena upon bridges and buildings. From the molecular to the megastructural and everywhere in between, Lehigh provide the tools that allow students and researchers to find novel and innovative solutions in their chosen fields.