Tiny new control device improves lateral stability of airplane
Engineers at Lehigh University have designed and successfully flight-tested a new control device that a pilot can use to tailor the lateral stability of aircraft.
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Donation of computer processors will benefit student, faculty researchers
Lehigh's scientific computing infrastructure expanded by almost 50 percent recently when JPMorgan Chase gave the university a computer cluster of 96 Intel processors with 288 total gigabytes of random access memory (RAM).
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Lehigh in top 5 for "micro outreach"
Small Times, the nation's top business journal devoted to micro- and nanotechnology, has ranked Lehigh among the top five schools in the U.S. for "micro industry outreach."
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New book aims to excite kids about nanotechnology
Andrea Harmer's new book, "Nanotechnology for Grades 1-6+," uses soccer balls and school buses to explain one of the most important new fields in science and engineering.
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New alloy verified for safer disposal of spent nuclear energy fuel
A new alloy developed and patented by researchers at Lehigh and two national laboratories could help the U.S. dispose more safely of 50,000 tons of spent nuclear energy fuel that are now stored at 125 sites in 39 states.
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New ERC technology curbs mercury emissions from coal-fired boilers
A research team led by Carlos E. Romero, principal research scientist and associate director of Lehigh's Energy Research Center, has developed a cost-effective system for controlling mercury emissions in coal-fired power plants.
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Wojciech Misiolek (MS&E) forges partnerships during Australia sabbatical
Lehigh's ties to Australia and its neighbors got a boost last year when Wojciech Z. Misiolek, Loewy Chair and associate professor of materials science and engineering, completed a six-month sabbatical at the University of Queensland in Brisbane.David Wu named dean of engineering college
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Materials science students prepare to analyze debris recovered from the shuttle Columbia
Every year, seniors in the materials science and engineering department's Failure Analysis course peer through microscopes to learn the variety of ways in which different materials deform and crack.
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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.
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Lehigh software yields clues to welding of stainless steel
Software developed at Lehigh is helping researchers learn how to control the behavior of stainless steel when it is welded, Herman Nied, professor and chair of mechanical engineering and mechanics, said recently in an invited talk and power-point presentation in Canada.
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Nanogold does not glitter,but its future looks bright
All that glitters is not gold, goes the old adage. But the shrinking frontiers of science require a qualifier: Gold itself does not always glitter.
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Nano-supported metal-oxide catalysts display dramatically different behaviors
In a quarter-century of working with catalysts, Israel Wachs has achieved his share of breakthroughs.
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Prof. Jagota, cited for nanotube research, focuses on geckos' nano-adhesion
Jagota, the new director of Lehigh's new Bioengineering and Life Sciences Program and a professor of chemical engineering, holds a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Cornell. There he studied metal and ceramic powder deformation and sintering, and worked on the ultrasonic welding of polymers.
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Lehigh-OraSure collaboration seeks to refine ceramic nanoparticles
Shang Li lines up three small vials of ceramic powder on a table at OraSure Technologies Inc., a Bethlehem-based medical diagnostics company.
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Seeking a biomechanical solution to a major medical problem.
It will come as no surprise to parents that the most common illness among small children in America today is the middle-ear infection.
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IPD grad students join international team to fashion improvements for wheelchairs.
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Profs. Wei and Harlow analyze damage to aircraft stemming from corrosion.
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Microscopic cracks spoil the transparency of glass, researchers find
A fundamental discovery about the behavior of cooling glass could have a significant impact on the glass- and plastic-making industries.
Freshman filtration systems balance purity, quantity
Engineering solutions, says Prof. Kristen Jellison, need not always be expensive, high-tech, or even mysterious. Often, a simple, inexpensive material can solve a vexing problem.|
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New York City turns to engineers at ATLSS for help in evaluating suspension bridge cables
Engineers at Lehigh's ATLSS Research Center are lending their expertise to a study that is attempting to determine the remaining safe life of the cables in five New York City suspension bridges.
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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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Wi-Fi and UWB will open door for video streaming,smart buildings, faster LANS and more, says Prof. Hwang
Two of the most exciting developments in wireless communications, says James Hwang, are wireless fidelity - better known as "Wi-Fi" - and ultra-wide bandwidth, or "UWB."
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Hitched to polymers, optical fibers find applications in soil and water.
Geo-environmental engineers monitoring the distribution of water in landfills and structural engineers measuring a building's ability to withstand earthquakes may one day benefit from unique, interdisciplinary research projects led by Sibel Pamukcu.
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Development of "nano-dungeons" could speed testing of new drugs
Marvin White, the Sherman Fairchild Professor of Solid-State Studies, and his students are developing silicon wafers etched with tiny holes or "nano-dungeons" that could greatly speed patch-clamping, the process in which new drugs are tested on single cells.
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Prof. Tansu reports best threshold values for near-infrared range InGaAsN lasers.
The ink was hardly dry on his new contract as assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Lehigh, when Nelson Tansu announced a breakthrough in his research into high-performance lasers.
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Researchers use laser tweezers and sub-micron focus to pinpoint the rhythmic rigidity of cell skeletons.
Endothelial cells, which line the body's blood vessels and regulate the exchange of material between the blood stream and surrounding tissue, are one of the most closely studied types of cell in the body.
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Prof. Ooi seeks new applications for photonic integrated circuits.
Across the world, only three companies - one in Scotland, one in Singapore and one in California - have made photonic integrated circuits (PICs) for optoelectronic devices by using a new technique called quantum well intermixing.
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Koch sees bright future for optics at Lehigh.
Until recently, Tom Koch was still dialing into the Internet from his home computer using a 56K modem.
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Profs. Dierolf and Cargill use gallium-nitride to develop light-emitting semiconductors.
One of the goals of the optics revolution is to develop all-optical networks that use light waves, not electronic components, to transmit light signals, switch the signals on and off, and amplify them.
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Prof. Ding hones radiation source for THz devices so the frequency range can achieve its potential.
A world that consumes information in gigabytes may one day find terahertz-sized solutions for some of its most pressing problems.
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Lehigh-Unilever study sheds light on mystery of cloudy wineglasses,
Is there a cloudy ring around your wineglass that seems to get worse, not better, the more times you wash the glass in the dishwasher?
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Veteran researchers hit their stride with help from ATLSS and friends
Robert Stout and John Gross have spent more than a half-century apiece studying the high-strength steels used in ship hulls, bridge girders, nuclear-energy pressure vessels and a variety of other applications.
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Lehigh fields two genuine legends in survey of structural engineers.
America's youth - and Americans in general - need to choose their role models and legends from a wider base than the pool of sports and entertainment personalities usually offered up by Hollywood, Richard Weingardt believes.
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CAMN to hold networking forum on Oct. 20.
Lehigh's Center for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology (CAMN) will hold "NanoForum 2003" on Monday, Oct. 20, to outline ideas for a regional nanotechnology network focused on nanosynthesis and characterization and to promote awareness and interaction in nanotechnology research and development.
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Blum is guest editor for IEEE journal devoted to MIMO wireless challenges.
Rick Blum, professor of electrical and computer engineering, has served as one of five guest editors of a special issue of the journal IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.
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New aberration-corrected microscopes will improve electronic vision to 20:20.
Just as the Hubble space telescope is discovering giant galaxies at the edges of the universe, a revolution in electron microscopy at Lehigh promises to shed light on the atoms of the nano-world that play a disproportionate role in the efficiency and safety of everyday materials.
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Kiely directs Faraday discussions.
Chris Kiely, professor of materials science and engineering, was invited to make the concluding remarks at the prestigious 125th Faraday Discussion Meeting on "Nanoparticle Assemblies" held recently at Liverpool University in England.
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Conference on new standard descriptive language to be held Oct. 22-23.
Five members of the computer science and engineering faculty will hold a panel discussion on data integration when the Electronic Commerce Code Management Association (ECCMA) holds its Fourth Annual Conference on Oct. 22-23 at Iacocca Hall.
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Prof. SenGupta delivers invited lectures.
Arup K. SenGupta, professor and chair of civil and environmental engineering, gave an invited keynote lecture at the 3rd International Conference on Ion Exchange (ICIE'03) held at the Kanazawa Institute of Technology in Japan in July.
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CPSE faculty, graduate students shine at polymer conference.
Faculty, staff and graduate students in Lehigh's Center for Polymer Science and Engineering (CPSE) played key roles at the recent Fifth National Graduate Research Polymer conference held here.
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ATLSS researchers, students active at ASCE's London conference.
Researchers with the ATLSS (Advanced Technology for Large Structural Systems) Research Center played key roles last month at the American Society of Civil Engineers' Structural Faults and Repair 2003 Conference in London. The event marked ASCE's the 10th biennial international conference.
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Prof. Rockwell delivers keynote at symposium on shallow flows.
Donald Rockwell, the Paul B. Reinhold Professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics, gave the keynote address at the International Symposium on Shallow Flows held recently at Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands.
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Bioengineering the best path to this student's passion.
Before Jatin Gupta completed half his three-month internship through Lehigh's new bioengineering program, he had observed three dozen heart-bypass operations and a half-dozen heart-valve replacements. He had viewed cardiac catheterizations and cardiac occlusions, and he had learned how to suture an incision and how to tell the difference between a diseased artery and a healthy one.
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Prof. Jain's work with chalcogenide glasses featured in NSLS newsletter
An article co-authored by Himanshu Jain, the Diamond Chair Professor in the department of materials science and engineering, and Gang Chen, Ph.D. candidate in the department, has been published as the cover story of the June 30 newsletter of the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) and the lead story on that organization's web site.
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Blum's research group has developed new image-fusion algorithms.
Rick Blum, professor of electrical and computer engineering, hopes to equip soldiers and security guards with a device that can win them a few potentially life-saving seconds in the search for concealed weapons.
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New optics center featured at international symposium.
James Hwang, professor of electrical and computer engineering, was a member of the steering committee that organized this year's International Microwave Symposium in Philadelphia from June 8-13.
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PMC members active at American Control Conference.
Members of the Chemical Process Modeling and Control Research Center (PMC) played active roles at the 2003 American Control Conference held recently in Denver. Leonidas Bleris, a graduate student in electrical engineering, gave a paper titled "Model based control of temperature distribution in integrated microchemical systems." Bleris works with Mayuresh Kothare, P.C. Rossin Assistant Professor of chemical engineering and PMC co-director.
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International exposure for Wachs group's work in catalysis.
Members of the research group of Israel Wachs, professor of chemical engineering, have spent a busy six weeks, much of it sharing the results of their catalysis research with Spanish-speaking peers.
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A rave review from Materials World for Benscoter's Metallographer's Guide.
Metallographer's Guide: Practices and Procedures for Irons and Steels, a book co-written by Arlan Benscoter, research engineer in the materials science and engineering department, received a highly favorable review in the May 2003 issue of Materials World.
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Wei-xian Zhang featured in WSJ Online, MIT journal.
Wei-xian Zhang, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, was featured in an article titled "Nanotech Cleans Up" that was published June 18 in Technology Review, a journal of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The article was re-printed June 20 in the online version of The Wall Street Journal.
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Wilbur Powerhouse is dedicated as new home for IPD, IBE, IDAI. The Wilbur Powerhouse, which supplied the university with heat for a century and housed its theatre department for two decades, was dedicated April 30 as the $5.2-million new home of three of Lehigh's most innovative academic programs.
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MatPaC confers material benefits on far-flung engineering students. Soon after she began doing research into polymer-lithium batteries, Susan Fullerton realized she needed to become more well-versed in nanotechnology.
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ME student proves his mettle designing novel brake caliper. Although serendipity has led to more than one invention, Michael Koerner has learned that persistence is often a more reliable facilitator.
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Kothare, Pattekar present chip-scale hydrogen production findings at the Knowledge Foundation's Small Fuel Cells 2003 Conference.
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Manoj K. Chaudhury, quoted in an article in Science News on two new promising finds in the world of waterproofing.
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ATLSS engineers examine strands to check Whitman's cables for fatigue. The Walt Whitman Bridge was built in the mid-1950s, but for the first five decades of its life no one monitored its suspension cables to measure how they were weathering the stress imposed daily by thousands of cars and trucks. ATLSS is working on a contract to help evaluate the main cables.
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A web-based tour of the "Innovations in Advanced Materials Exhibition, currently on display in Packard Laboratory, is now available. Eight departments and two Centers contributed to the Exhibit.
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SenGupta and student receive patent for sludge-recovery technique. Arup K. SenGupta, professor and chair of the department of civil and environmental engineering, and Prakhar Prakash, a Ph.D. candidate in environmental engineering, have been awarded U.S. patent 6,495,047 for a “Process for selective coagulant recovery from water treatment plant sludge.?nbsp;
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Announcing a New Center For Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology. The newly designated center will replace the existing Materials Research Center (MRC).
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A national survey of engineering deans and associate deans was conducted by the College of Engineering in Fall, 2002. The purpose of the survey was to determine what factors were most important to engineering deans as they evaluated programs at their own and other institutions. A summary of the findings is now online.
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John M. Linebarger, a Ph.D. candidate in computer science, has created a software tool called Shared Simple Virtual Environment (SSVE).
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Arup SenGupta,professor and chair of the civil and environmental engineering department at Lehigh, believes he and his students and their counterparts in Bengal Engineering College in India have developed an effective solution to widespread arsenic poisoning from wellwater in Bengal, India, in the form of a cheap, simple well-head unit that removes arsenic from water wells.
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Donald Hillman leads the way in streamlining online catalogs. Browsing the Internet to buy goods and services promises to become a more efficient process thanks to a collaboration between Lehigh’s department of computer science and engineering and two Pennsylvania information technology firms.
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When Brian Newbury does research, he plants one foot in the 21st century and the other in the Middle Ages. A Ph.D. candidate in materials science and engineering, Newbury uses synchrotron radiation, an intense beam of light one trillion times brighter than conventional x-rays, to study astrolabes, a medieval instrument used to map the movement of the stars.
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Gang Chen, a Ph.D. candidate in materials science and engineering at Lehigh, travels seven or eight times a year to Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y., to conduct research using the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS). He is investigating the anisotropic effect of polarized light on chalcogenide glasses which could lead to advances in the fabrication and operation of integrated optical devices.
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Energy Research Center experiments suggest brighter future for high-moisture coals. Inside the Fluidized Bed Lab in Lehigh’s Energy Research Center, researchers are seeking the most effective way to thermally dry lignite and other high-moisture coals so they can be burned more efficiently and cleanly in the nation’s power plants.
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The GuardianWATCH Surveillance system licensed by Computer Science & Engineering's Terry Boult. Software developed by a Lehigh engineering professor that provides round-the-clock, all-weather, 360-degree security surveillance is one step closer to being used at military bases, nuclear power plants and other potential targets of terrorism.
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This glue responds smartly to temperature
Two Lehigh scientists have developed a “smart glue??a polymer-aluminum interface whose adhesiveness can be controlled with temperature.
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IPD update: sandals go on sale at local mall?
Three years after students in the Integrated Product Development program helped him design a more durable sole and scope out the competition, a local entrepreneur has begun selling his patented leather sandals in the Lehigh Valley.
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Sixth-Annual Micro Aerial Vehicle (MAV) Competition
It takes special qualifications to build an airplane that scans the ground like an eagle but weighs less than a wristwatch. You need a working knowledge of lightweight materials and ready access to the best cutting tools.
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MS&E exchange program links students from Lehigh and London
Amy Fiore and Amie Carbone, seniors majoring in materials science and engineering, traveled to London this past summer to spend eight weeks doing research at Imperial College (University of London), while Imperial students Sarah Freeman and Kartik Rao came to Lehigh to do research here.
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Harnessing optical fibers for a smarter environment
Optical fibers are well-known for their essential role in the communications revolution and in medical technology advances. Sylvain Texier, a graduate student in civil engineering, is attempting to harness the fibers for new causes ?cleaner water, cleaner soil and sturdier dams.
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Waterjet cutter helps Grenestedt spread composites gospel
It delivers 55,000 psi of water pressure through a hole as narrow as 0.2 mm, and it can cut metals into complex shapes in just a fraction of the time required by traditional milling machines. And, as if true to its name, the Calypso WaterJet System acquired recently by Joachim Grenestedt, associate professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics, has livened things up in the department’s composite materials lab.
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Richard B. Garlock,who earned an M.S. in civil engineering from Lehigh in 1993, has spent much of the past six months evaluating "Ground Zero," the site of the destruction of the World Trade Center towers by the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
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