Engineering Spotlight Spotlight

"I couldn’t have asked for a better undergraduate degree program. I’ve had the best at Lehigh."

- Amanda Simens '06
materials science and engineering major

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November 2006

  • Donald Bolle, former dean of engineering and professor emeritus of Electrical & Computer Engineering, has received the 2006 IEEE Richard M. Emberson Award for “encouraging and promoting IEEE volunteers” and “effectively planning and executing IEEE goals and objectives worldwide.” IEEE – the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers – is the world's largest technical professional society, with more than 365,000 members in 150 countries.

  • Brian Davison, assistant professor of Computer Science & Engineering, has captured a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation for his research in web-based information searching and retrieval. Davison's research focuses on the integration of text and link analysis applied to search and classification problems on the web. Earlier this year, he was named one of 12 Microsoft Live Labs "Accelerating Search" award recipients.

  • Daniel M. Frangopol, an expert in structural reliability, optimization and life-cycle engineering, has been appointed as the university’s first holder of the Fazlur Rahman Khan Chair of Structural Engineering & Architecture. Frangopol, who comes to Lehigh from the University of Colorado at Boulder, will set up new research in two areas for which he has a passion: life-cycle engineering—a holistic approach to design, construction, and ongoing management of a given structure through its entire life-cycle—and the maintenance and management of bridges and other structures.

  • Anthony McHugh, chair of Chemical Engineering, has been named a co-recipient of the 2006 Alan Glanville Award of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining. The award is given annually for a paper published by the Institute that is of particular merit in the field of polymers. The paper was published in 2004 in the journal Plastics, Rubber and Composites: Macromolecular Engineering. The work was part of a joint project carried out under the National Science Foundation’s Center for Advanced Engineering Fibers and Films, located at Clemson University, of which McHugh is an affiliate member.