Scientific Publishing: What Does the Future Hold?
Lehigh University students, faculty, alumni, researchers, scientists, engineers, and librarians: if you write, use, or disseminate scientific material, this conference is for you.
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AICUP recognizing Lehigh research excellence
Lehigh, one of 14 schools selected to represent independent higher education's contributions to the Commonwealth during the upcoming first annual Independent College Day at the Capitol.
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Viral Tug-of-War to Open Distinguished Lecture Series
The first session in the Rossin College Distinguished Lecture Series is set for Monday, December 6, 2005, with Dr. Carlos Bustamante.
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Energy researchers make strong showing at international coal conference
Researchers from Lehigh's Energy Research Center taught a tutorial, chaired two technical sessions and presented three papers at the 30th International Technical Conference on Coal Utilization and Fuel Systems held recently in Clearwater, Florida.
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Kothare gives invited talk in Germany
Mayuresh V. Kothare, the R.L. McCann Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, gave an invited talk in August at the International Workshop on Assessment and Future Directions of Nonlinear Model Predictive Control in Freudenstadt, Germany.
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Astronaut issues a Martian challenge to students who analyzed failed shuttle
Pamela Melroy, NASA astronaut and space shuttle pilot, issued an unambiguous challenge to 15 Lehigh engineering students on April 14 when she came to the university to discuss the future of space flight.
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A master gives an encouraging audience to Lehigh's student researchers
The term "master class" conjures up images of aspiring musicians playing for a veteran performer: One thinks of nervous voice students singing for Luciano Pavarotti or cellists quaking before Yo-yo Ma.
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Nobel chemistry laureate Alan Heeger to give talk and hold master class for student researchers
Alan J. Heeger will hold a public master class for undergraduate and graduate students when he visits Lehigh in February to talk about the risks and innovation that led to his winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2000.
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Prof. Kothare and Ph.D. students present papers at AIChE conference
Mayuresh V. Kothare, the R. L. McCann Associate Professor of chemical engineering and co-director of the Chemical Process Modeling and Control Research Center, chaired a session on Advances in Process Control at the recent annual meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).
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Wachs and group gain visibility at ACS meeting in Philadelphia.
Israel Wachs, the G. Whitney Snyder Professor of chemical engineering, and his research group of graduate students, post-docs, visiting scientists and collaborating scientists played a prominent role at the 228th national meeting of the American Chemical Society held in Philadelphia in August.
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Control researchers active at conferences.
A multisciplinary group of graduate students and professors drew favorable reviews recently at national conferences devoted to process modeling and control.
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ISE prof, student discuss Engr 5 in ASEE presentations
Keith Gardiner, professor of industrial and systems engineering and director of the Center for Manufacturing Systems Engineering, and Seray Ozturk, a senior in the ISE department, presented papers at the Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Meeting of the American Society of Engineering Education at Raritan Valley Community College in New Jersey.
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Prof. Kothare gives semi-plenary lecture at international symposium of ADCHEM.
Mayuresh Kothare, associate professor of chemical engineering and co-director of the Chemical Process Modeling and Control Research Center, was invited to give a semi-plenary lecture at the 7th International Symposium on Advanced Control of Chemical Processes (ADCHEM) in Hong Kong in January.
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C&EN feature highlights role played by Prof. Wachs in organizing symposium on Raman spectroscopy.
Thirty years after it was first used to study a catalyst, Raman spectroscopy is enjoying an exponential surge in popularity among catalysis researchers, says Israel Wachs, the G. Whitney Snyder Professor of chemical engineering.
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MEM faculty and students active at APS Fluid Mechanics meeting.
Faculty, visiting scientists and Ph.D. candidates in the department of mechanical engineering and mechanics gave 11 presentations at the recent annual meeting of the Division of Fluid Mechanics of the American Physical Society, which serves as an international focal point for fundamental advances in the field of fluid mechanics.
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Prof. McHugh attends workshop in Leeds, England,on proposed degree in macromolecular engineering
Anthony McHugh, the P.C. Rossin Professor and chair of chemical engineering, represented Lehigh recently at a workshop in Leeds, England, on macromolecular engineering.
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ChE department, PMC research center well-represented at AIChE conference
Faculty and graduate students in the department of chemical engineering played active roles at the annual meeting last month of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) in San Francisco.
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"Wireless Day" to feature presentations, poster sessions
Nine professors in the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science will discuss their research at a "Wireless Day" Open House on Monday, Dec. 8, in the Rauch Business Center.
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Combustion Canada Conference features five ERC presentations
Nenad Sarunac, principal research engineer and associate director of the Energy Research Center, presented five technical papers at the recent international Combustion Canada 2003 (CC-03) conference in Vancouver, B.C. Sarunac also chaired a session on advanced controls for combustion system optimization.
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Israel Wachs lectures in France and Germany. Wachs, professor of chemical engineering, gave a plenary lecture earlier this month at the First International Operando Spectroscopy meeting in Lunteren, The Netherlands.
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Symposium discusses Rx for state’s slumping industrial base. Leaders of three key Pennsylvania industries met March 25 at Lehigh to discuss how to become more globally competitive, energy-efficient and environmentally friendly.
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University Deans Meet to Enhance Technological Literacy Initiatives for K-12 Students. 149 Education and Engineering Deans and Faculty from eight nations recently attended an IEEE Meeting to assess On-Campus Programs and to plan new ones.
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Wojciech Misiolek, graduate students, and staff at the Institute for Metal Forming have taken part in half a dozen major international conferences in the U.S. and abroad in recent months.
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Israel Wachs, professor of chemical engineering, recently took part in the National Research Council Workshop on the Environment.
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Sibel Pamukcu, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, was recently invited to give a keynote address at the 9th Turkish National Symposium of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering in Istanbul.
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Felipe Perez, a Ph.D. candidate in civil engineering, gave a presentation last month at a convention of the American Concrete Institute in Phoenix and at a convention of the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute in Nashville, Tenn.
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Three dozen faculty and students from the department of chemical engineering (ChE) attended the 2002 Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers recently in Indianapolis
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John Fisher live on CNN
John Fisher, professor emeritus of civil engineering, was interviewed live on CNN on Monday, Sept. 9, on a program analyzing the collapse of the World Trade Center in last year’s terrorist attacks.
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Chan lectures at IFFF conference in Japan
Helen Chan, professor of materials science and engineering, gave an invited talk on “Critical Issues in Single Crystal Growth of PMN:PT by Seeded Polycrystal Conversion” at IFFF 2002, the International Joint Conference on the Applications of Ferroelectrics, in Nara, Japan, in May.
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Walker discusses separated flows at conference in France
J. D. A. Walker, professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics, gave an invited keynote address to a IUTAM (International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics) conference on Unsteady Separated Flows held recently in Toulouse, France.
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Harmer lectures on alumina, optical applications for ceramics Martin Harmer, the Alcoa Foundation Professor of materials science and engineering, delivered a keynote lecture at the Kingery-Burke-Coble International Symposium on Transparent Ceramics for Optical Applications.
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Hwang to keynote at high-tech forum in China
James Hwang, professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been invited to give the keynote address at the International High-Tech Forum on Integrated Circuits, which will be held in Zhuhai, China, from June 26-28.
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Gardiner gives global gathering a glimpse at future of manufacturing education
Keith Gardiner, professor of industrial and systems engineering and director of the Center for Manufacturing Systems Engineering, gave a presentation on “Education for Future Manufacturing” at the recent International Manufacturing Education Conference at the University of Twente in The Netherlands.
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Wachs active in Spain
Israel Wachs gave a plenary lecture on “Molecular Structure and Reactivity of the Group Five Metal Oxides” at the Fourth International Symposium on Group Five Compounds last month in Toledo, Spain.
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Wachs, Choi give presentation at CNSF exhibition in Washington, D.C.
Israel Wachs, professor of chemical engineering, and Sukwon Choi, a Ph.D. candidate in chemical engineering, gave a presentation on their research at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on May 15, at the eighth-annual Exhibition and Reception of the Coalition for National Science Funding.).
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Hwang helps wireless experts make personal contact
James Hwang, professor of electrical and computer engineering, served as co-organizer of the recent 11th annual Wireless and Optical Communications Conference (WOCC).
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ATLSS and IMF researchers give presentations to Navy
Seven Lehigh researchers receiving funding from the Office of Naval Research presented the results of their investigations last month at an annual workshop at the Naval Surface Warfare Center’s Carderock Division in Bethesda, Md.
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Three IPD student teams are invited to Florida conference
Three student teams from the Integrated Product Development Program have been invited to the Unigraphics Users Group and ICCON joint national conference in Florida at the end of April to present their work in computer-aided design as it applies to product development. The students are all seniors majoring in mechanical engineering.
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