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

Department News
Hartman named ISE chair
Joseph Hartman, the Soteria and George N. Kledaras Endowed Chair and associate professor of industrial and systems engineering, has been named chair of the ISE department...(cont.)

Haller tapped to head engineering minor
Bill Haller, professor of practice in the department of electrical and computer engineering, has been named director of the new engineering minor program in the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science...(cont.)

Students
Entrepreneurship alive and well at Lehigh
Three years ago, when Adam Mack ‘06 moved into his freshman dorm room in Lower Centennials, he became frustrated. No matter how he arranged his furniture, he couldn’t find enough space for everything...(cont.)

Multidisciplinary student orchestrates engineering and musical interests
It was Monday, the day before final exams for the spring semester. Students hurried across the UC lawn to the library and to review sessions for last-minute cramming..(cont.)

Laser focused on the future of Engineering
The second annual summer camp of Lehigh's Center for Optical Technologies (COT) attracted 30 middle-school students to three separate sessions..(cont.)

Awards
Optimizing a world of uncertainty
Investors trying to predict the stock market, farmers fretting over the weather, national security officials anticipating a terrorist attack - the amount of uncertainty in the world can seem daunting...(cont.)

COT scientist wins poster prize
Ashtosh Ganjoo, a senior research scientist with the Center for Optical Technologies, was awarded the Certificate of Excellence for his poster, "Origin of optical losses in chalcogenide glass waveguides," at the 2005 NSLS Users' Annual Meeting held recently at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York...(cont.)

Research & Innovations
Solving the large-scale problem of large-scale problem solving
The challenge facing schedulers at UPS and other major delivery companies is not too difficult for the average person to appreciate..(cont.)

Publications
Quantum leap for Quantum Dots
A research group led by Boon S. Ooi, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been featured in one of the top semiconductor magazines for its work with the modeling of semiconductor quantum dots..(cont.)

Lectures & Presentations
Energy Research Center wows attendees of Int'l 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...(cont.)

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...(cont.)