Engineering Spotlight Spotlight

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-Christy Smith ’08
industrial engineering major

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December 2006

  • Mooi Choo Chuah, professor of Computer Science & Engineering, will present her work in disruption-tolerant computer networks at Milcom 2006, the annual military communications conference sponsored by Lockheed Martin, Cisco Systems, and IEEE. Chuah is part of a team working on a DARPA-sponsored research project that explores new emerging network scenarios, such as mobile and ad-hoc networks, and specifically studies their impact upon military operations and communications.

  • Joachim Grenestedt, professor of Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics, and his team have formed a partnership with Northrop Grumman Ship Systems to test ship panels made of lightweight composite materials for future military and commercial applications. Grenestedt and his staff built a drop tower and impact bunker at Lehigh’s Advanced Technology for Large Structural Systems Research Center (ATLSS), and dropped a 150-pound projectile on the test panels from various heights to simulate a collision between a fast-moving ship and a heavy floating object.

  • Tom Koch, director of Lehigh's Center for Optical Technologies, is participating in a multi-university research initiative into silicon-based lasers and nanophotonics, funded by the U.S. Department of Defense. The project, based within MIT's Microphotonics Center, includes collaborators from eight leading research universities: Boston, Caltech, Cornell, Lehigh, Stanford, Delaware, Rochester and MIT. The project also involves some international collaborators from the universities of Toronto and McMasters (Canada), Catania and Trento (Italy), and FOM (Netherlands).

  • Mayuresh Kothare, the R.L. McCann Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, is collaborating with semiconductor design firm ADCUS Inc. to develop and embed Model Predictive Control technologies in a system-on-a-chip framework. Future applications for such technology could include devices such as iPods, CD drive controllers, conventional control systems and an implantable biomedical device for insulin delivery.

  • Forbes T. Brown, emeritus professor of Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics, has published the second edition of his book Engineering System Dynamics: A Unified Graph-Centered Approach. With more than 1,000 references, tables, equations and illustrations, this reference covers design-motivated modeling and analysis of systems with mechanical, fluid, electrical, thermodynamic or hybrid components.

  • Glenn D. Blank, associate professor of Computer Science & Engineering, William M. Pottenger, assistant professor of Computer Science & Engineering, Lynn Columba-Piervallo, associate professor of Teaching, Learning & Technology, and Henry U. Odi, executive director of Academic Outreach/Special Projects, received a National Science Foundation grant for Students That Are Ready for Technology (S.T.A.R.T.)

  • Anand Jagota, professor of Chemical Engineering, Slava Rotkin, assistant professor of Physics, and Chris Kiely, professor of Materials Science & Engineering, received a National Foundation grant for NIRT-GOALI: Solution-Based Dispersion, Sorting and Placement of Carbon Nanotubes.

  • Tom Koch, director of Lehigh’s Center for Optical Technology, received a Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development grant for Lehigh Nanophotonics Research Initiative meant to "accelerate commercial adoption, education and outreach in emerging nanophotonics technologies.”

  • Richard Sause, professor of Civil & Environmental Engineer, received a U.S. Department of Energy grant for Lehigh University Critical Infrastructure Lab.

  • Dmitri V. Vezenov, assistant professor of Chemistry, Weixian Zhang, associate professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, and Jutta Marzillier, professor of practice Biological Sciences, received a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services grant for Force Spectroscopy Platform for Label Free Genome Sequencing.

  • Israel Wachs, professor of Chemical Engineering and Christopher J. Kiely, professor of Material Science & Engineering, received a National Science Foundation grant for NIRT: Tuning the Electronic and Molecular Structures of Catalytic Active Sites with Oxide Nanoligands.