August 2009

"Faculty"

• Gang Tan, assistant professor of Computer Science & Engineering, studies small errors in software code that can result in massive problems when the software fails. He is developing automated techniques that can scan for errors in large software systems.
• Three researchers at Lehigh's ATLSS Center, Richard Sause, James Ricles, and Larry Fahnestock, were recently awarded the 2009 Raymond C. Reese Research Prize. The international prize given by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) is awarded to the author(s) of a paper that not only describes structural research, but how it can be applied to new designs. In addition to their work with the ATLSS Center, Sause and Ricles are structural engineering professors in the department of Civil & Environmental Engineering. Fahnestock , a 2006 Ph.D. graduate of Lehigh, is an assistant professor in the civil and environmental engineering department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
• Anand Jagota, professor of Chemical Engineering, and Suresh Manohar, a graduate student in the same department, are working with a team of researchers from DuPont to produce carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for use in electronics, lasers, medicine, and other applications. The group recently published an article in Nature describing its use of a DNA-based method of sorting CNTs according to their diameters and chirality.
• Assistant professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Zhiyuan Yan, and his students are designing codes that improve the integrity of information transmitted in a wireless network usually plagued by jamming and interference. The codes they are working on detect and correct errors in network coding.
• Joel Sutherland, managing director of the Center for Value Chain Research (CVCR), will receive the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals' (CSCMP) 2009 Distinguished Service Award on September 21, at CSCMP's Annual Global Conference in Chicago. Sutherland is being honored for his innovation, leadership, and solutions to improve supply chain efficiency and effectiveness.

"Students"

• Qiaoqiang Gan is the recent recipient of the IEEE Photonic Society Graduate Student Fellowship award. The IEEE Photonics Society awards up to twelve Fellowships a year spread between three geographical regions: the Americas, Europe/the Middle East/Africa, and Asia/the Pacific. Gan works with his advisor, Filbert Bartoli, the Chandler Weaver Chair of Electrical & Computer Engineering, learning how to control the movement of light waves. His work will have an impact on biosensing, medical imaging, and all-optical telecommunication networks. Gan is published in a number of international technical journals and was awarded the 2008 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad in June.

"Alumni"

• On July 7, Sandra Stelling '91 was recognized by Cambridge Who's Who for her dedication and leadership. A mechanical engineering graduate, she worked at Boeing before becoming Managing Director for Alaska Airlines. Stelling also works with the admissions office alumni outreach program.

"Programs"

• Spurred by the looming energy crisis, Lehigh has formed the Energy Systems Engineering Institute (ESEI) led by new Professor of Practice, Dr. Andrew Coleman '90, and has created a new Master of Engineering in Energy Systems Engineering program. The 10-month degree program began its inaugural term at the start of the second summer session in July. Students earning the M.Eng. will take courses in three key areas: energy generation, energy management and distribution, and energy and the environment. They will also complete a project-management course and a hands-on research project related to a challenge facing the energy industry. Although the program is focused in the engineering department, students will also take classes in chemistry, physics, business, earth and environmental science, and political science. Before joining the Lehigh faculty, Director, Coleman, served as a Project Manager focusing on Land and Groundwater and an account executive at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in Palo Alto, California. Coleman received his bachelor's degree in geology from Lehigh in 1990, an M.A. in structural geology from the City College of New York, and an M. Phil. in earth and environmental sciences and a Ph.D. in structural geology from the City University of New York.
• In AMR Research's new national survey of the nation's premier supply chain organizations, Lehigh's supply chain program was named one of the top 19 in the country. It was one of only two private universities included in the survey and is the smallest of the participating institutions. Lehigh received the highest score possible in the areas of completeness of curriculum and academic and research innovation. Robert Trent, the Supply Chain Management program director, cites the standards set by co-directors of the RCEAS Integrated Product Development (IPD) program, Todd Watkins and John Ochs as a benchmark for the SCM program.
• The 2009 Modeling and Optimization Theory: Theory and Applications (MOPTA) Conference, established by chair of the department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Tamas Terlaky, and George and Soteria Kledaras '87, will allow researchers from theoretical and applied backgrounds in optimization to share knowledge with each other. The conference, held August 19-21, will include speakers from the University of Florida, NASA Langley Research Center, MIT, Princeton, and Otto-von-Guericke Universitat in Germany. Visit the website for registration and additional information.

     

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