Message from the Dean
This first “Dean’s Update” highlights recent college achievements based largely upon Lehigh’s innovative academic renewal program known as the 2020 initiative...(cont.)

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Koch elected to National Academy of Engineering
The director of Lehigh’s Center for Optical Technologies has become the
university’s ninth current faculty member to receive the prestigious
honor....(cont.)

Lehigh Engineering’s 2006 NSF CAREER Award Recipients
Kristen Jellison, environmental engineering, and Yunfeng Zhang,
structural engineering, have recently been named by the NSF as
recipeints of 2006 CAREER Awards – and the 5-year, $400,000 grants are certainly validation of the federal agency’s interest in the success of their respective research.

• Kristen Jellison: Improving water quality -- and bridging cultural
  borders with engineering...(cont.)
• Yunfeng Zhang: Smart structures – and a fully-integrated structural engineering curriculum...(cont.)