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"College is what you make of it. You can do anything you want, from working all day to just having fun, but an even balance is what is best in the end."

- Brian Gerard ‘07
materials science and engineering major

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August 2007

“Faculty”
  • Arup SenGupta, the P.C. Rossin Professor of civil and environmental engineering and also of chemical engineering, has received his third major honor this year. SenGupta was recognized recently as a Fellow by the American Society of Civil Engineers, based largely upon his work in developing a system that filters arsenic from contaminated well water. The system has been installed in more than 150 villages in Eastern India. The World Health Organization estimates that as many as 100 million people in Eastern India and the neighboring country of Bangladesh may be drinking water containing toxic levels of arsenic. Earlier this year, SenGupta and his research team received the Silver Award in the National Academy of Engineering’s Grainger Challenge for Sustainability, and a development award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, based upon their efforts in this area.
  • In July, Himanshu Jain, professor of materials science and engineering, accepted the Otto Schott Research Award at the International Congress on Glass in Strasbourg, France. The award, given once every two years, is among the most prestigious in the area of glass research. Jain, who is cited for “outstanding work towards advancing fundamental understanding of the movements of atoms inside glass,” shares the award with Walter Kob of the University of Montpellier in France. The Donors' Association for the Promotion of Science in Germany, which administers the Schott award, also noted Jain's research into unique light-induced phenomena in glass, his studies of the corrosion of glass in nuclear environments, and his work with sensors, infrared optics, waveguides, photolithography, nanolithography and other photonic applications of glass.
“Programs”
  • During the week of July 9-13, the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science hosted nearly two dozen middle school-aged girls for its annual CHOICES (Charting Horizons and Opportunities in Careers in Engineering and Science) camp. The camp, also supported by the Lehigh chapter of the Society of Women Engineers, is intended to spark interest among young women in the pursuit of education in science and engineering. CHOICES is a weeklong event that provides five full days of “fungineering” – fun but intellectually-challenging experiments that create an understanding of how things are built and what engineers do.