Environmental / Energy Engineering

Expertise in the field of Environmental / Energy Engineering has never been more crucial than it is today; engineers in this area seek ways to improve the effectiveness and ecological implications of the materials and processes used to fuel the global economy.


The Lehigh University "Students for Sustainable Development" team – an offshoot of the international “Engineers Without Borders” program -- recently celebrated completion of a water treatment system that it had designed, funded, tested, and deployed for the residents of Pueblo Nuevo, Honduras. Pueblo is a small rural community devastated by Hurricane Mitch in the late 1990s. More...


While he may not yet have found secret of transforming water into fuel-ready hydrogen, Chris Keturakis '09 has been recognized by the American Institute of Chemical Engineersfor his work in the field, and his Lehigh research led him to a summer program, funded by the National Science Foundation, at the Université de Caen Basse-Normandie in Caen, France.More...



Kimberly Molnar '11 , studies civil engineering at Lehigh University during the year, but over the summer she interns at the MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, working on energy options for jet fuel. More...






Arup SenGupta is the P.C. Rossin Professor of civil engineering and a professor of Chemical Engineering at Lehigh. Over the past twelve years, he has been installing arsenic-removal units in remote villages of eastern India bordering Bangladesh to provide clean water for the people who live there. More...


Ann Murtlow '82 , is president and CEO of Indianapolis Power and Light Company, is looking to make the coal-powered company go “green” with wind energy. More...






Nelson Tansu, P.C. Rossin assistant professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, insists that LEDs can outshine fluorescent lights and he is working towards improving the efficiency of white LEDs so that his statement can come true. More...





In 2009, 12 Lehigh students participated in the Mid-Atlantic regional Chem-E-Car competition in New York City. The contest, hosted by The American Institute of Chemical Engineers, leads up to a national-level competition to creatively engineer small vehicles with amazing abilities. More...



Wei-xian Zhang is a professor Civil & Environmental Engineering. He and his colleagues at Tongji University in Shanghai have found a way to use cheap scrap metal to help detoxify pollutants in industrial wastewater in poor and underdeveloped areas. More...



Sudhakar Neti, a professor of Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics and four other professors from the Chemical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering departments are finding a way to trap the energy produced by sunlight. More...




Eugenio Schuster, assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics and recipient of an NSF CAREER Award, can look at any type of system and visualize how it is being controlled. More...






Lehigh Ph.D. students, Yongsheng Ou, Chao Xu, and Lixian "Eric" Luo, won first and second prize in the Energy and Environment poster category at the National Academy of Engineering’s “Grand Challenges Summit” out of more than sixty entries.

     

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