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Design / Manufacturing

Engineers in the broad area of Design / Manufacturing invent, design, and bring to life new processes, better systems, and innovative products and structures.  Prototype development, manufacturing and construction processes, and systems design are important asepcts of this field.


imageAn honor-roll student in Lehigh’s Mechanical Engineering program, Daniela Molina '07 represented her home country in the 2007 World Cup and was an All-Patriot League striker for the Lehigh women’s soccer team. More...






imageTwo Lehigh Engineering students have teamed up to mount a quest: to break the current world’s land-speed record for a vehicle powered solely by wind. Want to be part of history? More...






imageKim Gagnon '09 , understands both the design and the construction side of buildings because of her dual majors in civil engineering and architecture through the Arts and Engineering Program. More...






imageChristy Smith '08 says that balancing her academic and athletic life at Lehigh was simply a matter of "a little time management." More...







imageAs part of a contest, Doug Wright '09 designed a hole for a golf course. His winning entry will actually be a part of the Westhaven Golf Course in Franklin, Tennessee. More...






imageAutumn Bayles '92 is senior VP for strategic operations at Tasty Baking Company, the makers of Tastykakes. She runs the operations, manufacturing, and supply-chain functions at Tasty Baking, while overseeing the construction of the company’s new bakery and location for corporate headquarters. More...





imageJoachim Grenestedt, professor of Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics at Lehigh, designs incredibly fast, lightweight vehicles from composite materials. His most recent projects include a 20-foot model of a new hybrid ship hull, a Go Kart, and a “streamliner” motorcycle. More...





imageMark Sarkisian '85G has recently designed a cathedral of wood and glass on a fault line in San Francisco, with plans that it could survive a massive earthquake. More...






imageTim Marks '04 and Pat Clasen '04 have come full circle with Lehigh University's Integrated Product Development (IPD) program. In the house they rented as undergrads, Marks and Clasen run EcoTech Marine LLC, an international aquarium equipment company that was their IPD project in 2003. And these days, Marks, Clasen and their business partner, Justin Lawyer, have taken six current Lehigh IPD students under their wing. More...


imageFour Lehigh students designed the strongest concrete beam in a national design competition sponsored by the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute, and along with other prizes took home $2,000. More...






imageA team of seniors have re-envisioned a filtration device originally designed to improve kidney dialysis as a manner of drawing the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) from the blood of infected individuals. More...