Message from the Dean
Welcome to the December 2004/January 2005 edition of Enginews, the monthly online newsletter of the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science...(cont.)

Awards
World's top chemical engineering body elects Prof. John Chen as its president
John Chen, the Carl R. Anderson Professor of chemical engineering and former dean of the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science at Lehigh University, has been elected president of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He will serve as president-elect in 2005 and as president in 2006...(cont.)

Prof. Blum's unforgettable week: A new book and a new IEEE fellow
Rick Blum, the Robert W. Weiseman Chair in Electrical Engineering, has been named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), one of the highest honors in his field...(cont.)

Prof. Schiesser is awarded honorary doctorate from Belgium's Polytechnique de Mons
William Schiesser, professor emeritus of chemical engineering and also mathematics, has received an honorary Doctor of Applied Science degree from the Polytechnique de Mons in Belgium for his work in numerical algorithms and software for scientific computation...(cont.)

Prof. Tansu is awarded U.S. patent for new method of emitting lasers
Nelson Tansu, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been awarded a U.S. patent for a new method of achieving 1550-nanometer lasers on gallium-arsenide...(cont.)

INFORMS' 2004 dissertation prize goes to Prof. Snyder of ISE
Larry Snyder, assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering, has received the 2004 Dissertation Prize from the INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Section...(cont.)

Research & Innovations
A new experimental laboratory at the ATLSS Center will shake the world of earthquake engineering
The ATLSS Research Center has opened a state-of-the-art new testing facility that simulates the effects of earthquakes and promises to help engineers build structures that better withstand seismic events and explosions...(cont.)

Students
A research internship can allow students to learn while working in the lab with their professor.
Or it can offer them the chance to learn while building a new lab with their professor. Such was the case last summer when David Negro '06 and Soo Hooi Oh '06 helped Boon Siew Ooi, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, set up a new optoelectronics and photonics lab in Lehigh's Center for Optical Technologies...(cont.)

Graduate student in CE to give presentation at AWS's annual meeting in New Orleans
Sougata Roy, a Ph.D. candidate in civil engineering, has been invited to speak at the American Welding Society's fifth annual Weld Cracking Conference in February in New Orleans...(cont.)

Graduate student garners second national award in 2004
John Greenleaf '01, a Ph.D. candidate in environmental engineering in the department of civil and environmental engineering, has received two major awards this year...(cont.)

Department News
Advising NASA during Florida sabbatical, Prof. Marder pursues lifelong interest
Arnold Marder was a college freshman in October 1957 when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first man-made satellite to orbit the earth...(cont.)

Lectures & Presenations
“Risk and Innovation in Science --- A Personal History: The Route to the Nobel Prize”
The P.C. Rossin College of Engineering & Applied Science Distinguished Lecture Series presents Dr. Alan Heeger, Nobel Prize Laureate lecture...(cont.)

December 2003, January, 2004