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Research and Resources

Although information technology is infused throughout all aspects of Lehigh’s engineering programs, there are many labs and facilities established across the campus designed for research in specific areas of this field. It is a wide-ranging set of activities and research, including topics such as display technologies, signal processing and communications, internetworking, wireless infrastructure and networking security, computer and software architecture, graphics and virtual environments, Web modeling and evaluation, mobile robotics, systems experimentation and analysis, and pattern recognition.

Some of the successful projects undertaken by Lehigh faculty and student research teams are as follows:

  • A team of Lehigh engineers joined with colleagues from University of Pennsylvania and Lockheed Martin to design a self-navigating, self-driving car equipped with video-camera "eyes" and laser range-finder systems that allowed the vehicle to drive itself through a sixty-mile course, as part of a DARPA-funded research competition.
  • Lehigh signal processing and communications researchers have found ways to help law enforcement and security officials search for concealed weapons. This has been accomplished by combining visual and "millimeter wave" images to produce one fused digital image that can identify weapons hidden beneath clothing.
  • Students in the "InSyte Lab" work with faculty to better understand how computers think and learn, and apply that knowledge to the development of games, project planning and decision support systems.
  • Wireless engineering students at Lehigh work to establish multitier network models to help provide underserved geographical regions with access to Internet, cell phone, and emergency-response services.


List of Research Centers, Laboratories, & Institutes:

  • Automation and Robotics Lab
  • Center for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
  • Center for Optical Technologies
  • Center for Value Chain Research
  • Computer Architecture and Arithmetic Research Lab
  • Constructive, Collaborative Inquiry-Based Multimedia E-Learning (CIMEL)
  • Enterprise Systems Center
  • Graphics, Interaction, and Virtual Environments (GIVE Lab)
  • Manufacturing Logistics Institute
  • Manufacturing Technology Lab
  • Mobile Robotics Laboratory (MRL)
  • Networking Group Lab
  • Parallel and Distributed Text Mining
  • Pattern Recognition Research (PRR Lab)
  • Semantic Web and Agent Technologies (SWAT Lab)
  • Sherman Fairchild Center for Solid-State Studies
  • Signal Processing and Communications Research Lab
  • Software Architecture Lab
  • Systems, Experimentation, and Analysis Laboratory for Databases (SEAL DB)
  • Web Understanding Modeling and Evaluation Lab (WUME)
  • Wireless Infrastructure and Networking Security Lab
  • Web Understanding, Modeling, and Evaluation (WUME Lab)