 COLLEGE HOME | LEHIGH HOME | SEARCH |
 |
|
 |
|||||||
|
||||||||
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||
|
|
 |
COT scientist wins poster prize Creating value from industrial waste RCEAS announces Ingenuity, teaching awards Professors, grad student win recognition Four professors and a graduate student in the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science, have been chosen to receive awards at the annual faculty dinner on May 3. Wrap-up of recent awards received by professors, including DuPont's two Rick Blum (ECE) wins first Keystone Innovation Zone grant from state of Ghadiali to use Francis fellowship to study the mechanics of the lung $2-million earthquake engineering research grant from NSF to help ATLSS develop self-centering steel frame systems Revolutions come and go, but the basics endure Prof. Hartman, newly named interim ISE chair,is named young engineer of 2004 by PSPE Prof. Davison and Ph.D. candidate win best paper award from CMB Prof. Chan is named Fellow of American Ceramic Society Leonidas Bleris, Ph.D. candidate in ECE, will receive prestigious fellowship from National Academies CEE's Prof. Lu receives lifetime honor at conference on earthquake engineering World's top chemical engineering body elects Prof. John Chen as its president Prof. Blum's unforgettable week: A new book and a new IEEE fellow Prof. Schiesser is awarded honorary doctorate from Belgium's Polytechnique de Mons Prof. Tansu is awarded U.S. patent for new method of emitting lasers INFORMS' 2004 dissertation prize goes to Prof. Snyder of ISE Prof. Voloshin named to executive board of Society for Experimental Mechanics Four polymers students win TICONA award South Korean company's technology gift fuels dreams of chip-controlled devices. A CAREER Award for CSE's Prof. Heflin. Lehigh one of three to win NSF award for International Materials Institute. Prof. Chaudhury is 2005 winner of major adhesion research award. Indian Institute of Chemical Engineering honors Prof. Sircar with Chemcon award. At aluminum extrusion conference, IMF researchers play leading role National grant will help ISE professors forecast demand in semiconductor industry SenGupta becomes the youngest to win SCI's ion exchange award. Cheng receives career grant from Lindback Foundation. Jellison's Ph.D. dissertation is second best in her field. Vinci is repeat winner of MS&E's Doan award. Chemical engineering graduate student receives university's T.A. award. Winning paper extends fatigue technique from welded submarines to welded bridges. AASHTO subcommittee honors Fisher for a lifetime of achievement. Lehigh undergrad wins national award from civil engineering society. Answering the call to glass science, undergrad wins ACerS award. With timely help from a former teacher, decorated alum offers advice to students. IPD, IBE students shine at "March Madness" RCEAS faculty, students and staff cited for research and teaching. A repeat winner at the Manufacturing Expo. Three win EPI poster awards. Ph.D. candidate in mechanical engineering receives top graduate award from NSF. SPE honors three students for research work. College Moves Up in National Graduate School Rankings. ChE's Prof. Sircar is elected to the National Academy of Engineering ECE's Prof. Kishore is using NSF CAREER award to conduct wireless outreach to Susquehanna County Keith Gardiner, professor of industrial and systems engineering and director of the Center for Manufacturing Systems Engineering, has been named Engineer of the Year for 2004 by the Lehigh Valley Engineering Council (LVEC). See more details>> Ashish Pattekar wins Boeing Award. David Wu and Suleyman Karabuk have been chosen by the Institute of Industrial Engineers to receive the Best Paper Award for 2002-03 for writing on issues pertaining to operations engineering. Prof. Linderoth prepares a Master Worker to ease access to the Computational Grid Nurturing tomorrow's scientists NSF awards bioengineering program $1.38 million Rosemary Berger, assistant professor in Industrial & Systems Engineering, was awarded second place in the 2003 INFORMS JFIG Paper Competition. Eleven engineering professors to be named to endowed chairs at annual Founder's Day. A bountiful year for ChE faculty and students NSF gives $1.38-million entrepreneurial boost to bioengineering program MS&E junior receives Tarby Prize. ERC's Sarunac receives patent,makes national presentations. Prof. Wachs to receive two top honors. Graduate student wins first prize in IBM international contest. Prof. Korth elected Fellow of IEEE. Prof. Sperling honored at polymer conference. Environmental engineering grad students win research awards. ChE students win two out of threeAlumni Association grad awards. Entrepreneurs offer automation to reef aquarium enthusiasts. Whether they adorn a doctor's waiting room or a private living room, aquariums offer a portrait of tranquility, a soothing slice of aquatic activity. Prof. Ding named Class of 1961 Professor. Yujie J. Ding, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been named Class of 1961 Professor. The award recognizes associate professors "who have shown distinction in teaching, research and service." Prof. Stenger receives Lehigh's Hillman Award. Harvey Stenger, professor of chemical engineering and former dean of the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science, has received the university's 2003 Hillman Award for Excellence in Graduate Advising. Three win poster prizes at EPI’s annual review. Two graduate students and one postdoctoral researcher won poster presentation awards and cash prizes recently at the annual review meeting of the Emulsion Polymers Institute’s Industrial Liaison Program. Lehigh Alumnus Recognized as "New Face of Engineering" for National Engineers Week 2003. Joleen Codner, who earned an M.S. in manufacturing systems engineering (MSE) from Lehigh in 2001, was selected last month as one of the nation’s “The New Faces of Engineering .?BR>See more details >> ATLSS Receives Grant for Earthquake Engineering. Lehigh’s ATLSS Engineering Research Center, the nation’s leading laboratory for the large-scale testing of bridges, buildings and other structures, is building a state-of-the-art lab to study how large structures perform under earthquakes of the largest magnitude. Alan W. Pense, whose record of leadership, teaching and research has been matched only by his indefatigable wit, was honored recently with the Distinguished Alumni Award from the department of materials science and engineering. Helmut Thielsch receives M. Eng. award 54 years after attending Lehigh.
Stephen Pessiki, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, received the PCI Distinguished Educator Award from the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute at the group’s convention last month in Nashville, Tenn. See more details >> In US News &World Report "Best Colleges" survey, Lehigh Engineering moves up. Lehigh ranked 37th among national universities in the U.S. News & World Report's "2003 America's Best Colleges" rankings released recently. See more details >> Wojciech Misiolek has recently received four national grants, two of which will support research into issues affecting the deformation of aluminum alloys and two related to the processing of steel. See more details >> Lehigh's Center for Optical Technologies last week received a grant of $15 million from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development and a major gift from Daniel E. Smith Jr. '71, president and CEO of Sycamore Networks Inc., to endow the center's chair... See more details >> Alan Pense to receive Distinguished Alumni Award Alan Pense, provost emeritus and professor emeritus of materials science and engineering, will receive the Distinguished Alumni Award from the MS&E department for outstanding teaching and research in physical and mechanical metallurgy, and for excellence in leadership and management. See more details >> The first annual Lehigh Engineering Ingenuity Award for Alumni/Friend of the College, will be presented to quintessential alumnus, Peter C. Rossin, at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 10, 2002, following Dr. de Gennes?public lecture in Packard Lab Auditorium. See more details >> John Chen, receives world’s top award for heat transfer research. Dr. Chen, the Carl R. Anderson Professor of chemical engineering, has received the 2001 Max Jakob Memorial Award, the top international prize for achievements in heat transfer. See more details >> Beedle to be honored On Sept. 26, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, the Lehigh-based international organization that Beedle founded in 1969 and directed until 2000, will honor Beedle at its first-annual Awards Gala, a black-tie affair that will be held at the New York Marriott Marquis. The Council will cite Beedle’s contributions to the advancement of tall building technology and to the urban environment. See more details >> Benscoter honored again by AMS Arlan Benscoter, a research engineer in the MS&E department, has received the International Distinguished Educator Award from ASM International, the premier society for materials engineers and scientists. See more details >> Munoz-Avila wins best paper award at conference on case-based reasoning Hector Munoz-Avila, assistant professor of computer science and engineering, received the Best Research Paper Award of the Sixth European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ECCBR-02), which was held in Aberdeen, Scotland, Sept. 4-7. See more details >> Four win TICONA award Two Ph.D. candidates in polymer science and engineering and two in chemical engineering have won the 2002 TICONA Award for outstanding research in their field. TICONA, which manufactures plastics and polymers at its headquarters in New Jersey, is part of the international company, Hoechst Celanese. See more details >> Graduate student wins PWEA award Prakhar Prakash, a Ph.D. candidate in environmental engineering in the department of civil and environmental engineering, has received the 2002 Graduate Student Research Paper Award from the Pennsylvania Water Environment Association (PWEA). See more details >> Once again, Lehigh grad student wins metallography prize For the third time in four years, a graduate student from the MS&E department has received the top award for a poster presentation at the International Metallographic Contest sponsored by ASM’s International Metallographic Society. See more details >> MS&E alumna receives LUAA’s Graduate Leadership Award Kelly Eaton Wardlow ?1, who earned a B.S. in materials science and engineering and is now a graduate student in the College of Education, has received the Graduate Student Leadership Award from the Lehigh University Alumni Association.. See more details >> Graduate student wins second major national award It is better to bend than to break ?the adage is aimed at the uncompromising spirit, but it also applies to buildings located in earthquake zones, structural engineers at Lehigh are learning. See more details >> From around the world, experts head to Fisher symposium John W. Fisher, the Joseph T. Stuart Professor of civil engineering, has won nearly every medal and distinction in his field, and has examined most of the major failures ofo steel structures in America in the last four decades. See more details >> …and new from IPD ?a sixth consecutive NCIIA grant A Lehigh team of six students in the Integrated Product Development (IPD) program has won a $14,000 grant from the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance in a national competition. The three engineering students and three business students hope to use the award to start a business based on their invention. See more details >> MS&E grad student wins in microanalysis category at ACS contest Edward Gorzkowski, graduate student in materials science and engineering, received first place in the microanalysis category of the Ceramographic Competition held recently at the annual meeting of the American Ceramics Society. See more details >> New ISE professor receives award for paper on optimization Jeff Linderoth, who will join the faculty in the fall as an assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering, has received the 2002 SIAM Activity Group on Optimization Prize from SIAM (Science and Industry Advance with Mathematics), an international organization that promotes applied mathematics. See more details >> Grenestedt receives a five-year CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study carbon- and glass-fiber composites, and the "sandwich" structures that are made of composite material "skins" on each side of a core of soft and light foam or balsa wood. See more details >> Lehigh Student & Faculty Team wins National Award for Entrepreneurial Innovation A Lehigh team of three business students and three engineering students and their CBE faculty advisor have won $14000 in a national competition for student entrepreneurs. See more details >> Kothare and graduate students are in control at ACC Eric Mulder and Leyla Ozkan, graduate students in chemical engineering, received best presentation prizes in their individual sessions at the 2002 American Control Conference held last month in Anchorage, Alaska. See more details >> McAulay is finalist in international photonics contest Alastair McAulay, professor of electrical and computer engineering, who is serving as vice president for research and technology at All Optical Networks Inc. during a one-year sabbatical, was one of four runners-up in the recent Speed Up Photonics Contest sponsored by VPIsystems. See more details >> The joys of a constantly full plate Chris Jewell ?3, an arts-engineering major pursuing degrees in chemical engineering and molecular biology, has received the Pool Prize, one of the top honors given to Lehigh undergraduate students. See more details >> The Institute for Metal Forming receives grant The Institute for Metal Forming in the department of materials science and engineering has received more than $100,000 in grants from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to help Pennsylvania businesses address problems associated with aluminum production. See more details >> CE alum Joe Romano wins award from New Jersey SPE Joe Romano, who earned a B.S. in 1992 and an M.S. in 1997, both in civil engineering, has been named Young Engineer of the Year for 2002 by the New Jersey Society of Professional Engineers. See more details >> Choi receives best poster award from Catalysis Society Sukwon Choi received the award for best student poster at the Spring Symposium of The Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York... See more details >> New ISE professor wins applied mathematics paper award Jeff Linderoth, who will join the faculty next fall as an assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering, has received the SIAM Optimization Prize, an award given once every three years for the most outstanding paper on a topic in optimization that is published in English in a peer-reviewed journal. See more details >> ChE graduate student Abpamano wins university TA award Maytee Abpamano, a Ph.D. candidate in chemical engineering, was one of two students to receive the Lehigh University Teaching Assistant Award at the recent Faculty Dinner. The other winner was Stephen Tompkins, a Ph.D. candidate in English. See more details >> Stenger and Kothare receive faculty awards Harvey Stenger, professor of chemical engineering, has received the Stabler Award for Excellence in Teaching, and Mayuresh Kothare, Rossin Assistant Professor of chemical engineering, has received the Alfred Noble Robinson Award for promoting the interests of the university. See more details >> Harvard and MIT await NSF-endowed Lehigh graduates Two seniors who are completing dual degrees in science and engineering have each received the federal government’s top national scholarship to attend graduate school. See more details >> Mechanical Engineering seniors share Wei Prize Hannah Riger and Leslie Gennari have received the Wei Prize, which is awarded each year to a mechanical engineering senior. See more details >> Contributions of graduate students are observed this week Lehigh is celebrating National Graduate Student Appreciation Week April 1-6 with a variety of events sponsored by the Office of Graduate Student Life with help from the university libraries, the Wellness Center, Career Services and local businesses. See more details >> Voloshin to receive SEM’s Brewer Award Arkady Voloshin, professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics,has been chosen to receive the 2002 Brewer Award from the Society of Experimental Mechanics at SEM’s annual conference in Milwaukee in June. The award recognizes Voloshin’s contributions as an “outstanding practicing stress analyst?and the “practicality of his professional contributions.?B> See more details >> Lynn Beedle,a university distinguished professor who taught civil engineering for more than 50 years at Lehigh, has been chosen to receive the Outstanding Projects and Leaders and Leaders (OPAL) Award for Lifetime Achievement in Management from the American Society of Civil Engineers. The award granted at a black-tie dinner in Los Angeles on April 27. Beedle is the founder and former executive director of the Lehigh-based Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, an international organization of architects, engineers and planners. Engineering Dean Wins Top Award Mohamed S. El-Aasser, Dean of the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science, has been chosen to receive the Roy W. Tess Award in Coatings for 2002 from the American Chemical Society’s Division of Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering. El-Aasser, who is renowned internationally for his pioneering research in polymers, will receive the award and give an address on Aug. 26 in Boston, at ACS?224th national meeting. See more details >> CAREER Award from NSF for CEE's Derick Brown See more details >> ChE grad students win Adhesion Society’s Peebles Award Animangsu Ghatak and Katherine Vorvolakos, Ph.D. candidates in chemical engineering, recently received the Peebles Award for Graduate StudentResearch in Adhesion Science from the Adhesion Society at the Second World Congress of Adhesion in Orlando, Fla. See more details >> Lehigh chapter of Hispanic engineers earns recognition The Lehigh University Chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) has been nominated as one of the outstanding medium-sized clubs in the country by the organization's national office in Los Angeles. See more details >> Mad student inventors off again to Smithsonian For the fourth year in a row, a team of students in Lehigh’s award-winning Integrated Product Development (IPD) program has been invited to display an invention at “March Madness of the Mind,?an event sponsored by the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance. See more details >> |
|
|
 |
 |
