Fall 2021, Volume 1
Rossin Connection
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We're back! A special message from Dean Steve DeWeerth |
As our beautiful campus springs back to life and Fall semester kicks into gear, we are especially thrilled to welcome the Lehigh Engineering community back home, a new university president to our campus, and the Class of 2025 to their alma mater.
Although the threat of COVID-19 is not yet fully behind us, we are confident that existing safety measures will allow an enthusiastic return to teaching, learning, and living at Lehigh. Our community weathered adversity during a year that brought “remote learning,” “social distancing,” and “Zoombombing” into the educational lexicon. Today, as I’m delighted to report here, we are clearly thriving in the pursuit of our educational and research missions. Read More
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LEHIGH WOMEN ENGINEERS
preLUsion 2021: Building bonds through shared experiences
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The Lehigh Women Engineers preLUsion pre-orientation experience returned to an in-person format this year. More than 20 first-years participated in hands-on activities—led by student mentors—that were designed to help them make friends, learn their way around campus, and gain exposure to various opportunities in engineering. Read More
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NSF CAREER SPOTLIGHT
Understanding catalytic transfer hydrogenation
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We continue to highlight the Rossin College's 2021 class of NSF CAREER award winners. Next up is assistant professor and computational chemical engineer Srinivas Rangarajan (ChBE). His research aims to advance fundamental understanding of a promising approach for safe, streamlined, and cost-effective biomass and carbon dioxide conversion. Read More
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BREAKING NEWS
Regional NSF hubs to accelerate tech, enhance diversity in startups
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“The innovation and entrepreneurship culture at Lehigh has always been strong, but being part of this multi-university team focused on more inclusive innovation will enable us to take it to a new level,” says John Coulter (MechE), the Rossin College's senior associate dean for research. Read More
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WELCOME ABOARD!
Announcing new engineering faculty
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The Rossin College welcomes an academically strong and diverse group of new engineering faculty members into its ranks. Read More
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BRONZE STATUS ACHIEVED
Lehigh receives ASEE diversity recognition
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The American Society for Engineering Education’s Diversity Recognition Program recognizes engineering and engineering technology colleges that make “significant, measurable progress in increasing the diversity, inclusion, and degree attainment outcomes of their programs.” Read More
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CHALLENGING ASSUMPTIONS
New study to examine college tenure, promotion process
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CEE professor and ADVANCE Center faculty director Kristen Jellison is among the Lehigh collaborators on a three-year, multi-institutional project, funded by the NSF, that seeks to shed new light on the role of research productivity and extraneous factors in determining who receives coveted tenure positions in academic STEM careers. Read More
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New Rossin Connection Podcast episode: Coffee and Cosmetics |
There’s a unique course available to all undergrads this fall. Coffee and Cosmetics: Engineering of Consumer Products was designed by students, for students. In our latest podcast episode, ChBE professor James Gilchrist shares the origin story of the class, and how for the first time in his teaching career, he wasn’t the expert in the room. Listen Now
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Engineering Events & Updates |
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Sept. 3: LTS virtual training: Research Computing Resources at Lehigh Read More
Sept. 3: Global Studies Collaboration, 5 x 10 Creative Curiosity (first-year and sophomore experience) Read More
Sept. 14: Spencer C. Schantz Technical Talk (ISE): Jorge Nocedal, "Constrained Optimization in the Presence of Noise" Read More
Sept. 15: "Thinking about Grad School?" Technical Entrepreneurship Open House Read More
Sept. 16: MS, Financial Engineering Information Session Read More
Organizing an event? Add it to the Lehigh Events Calendar! Visit eventscalendar.lehigh.edu and click the "submit an event" button.
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Lesley Chow (BioE/MSE) is a 2021 recipient of the Early-Career Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award presented by the Engineering Division of the Council on Undergraduate Research. The award recognizes her contributions as a mentor to undergraduate students “from a diverse range of backgrounds and identities” and her support of their efforts to share their work with the scholarly community. Read More
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ECE chair Chengshan Xiao has been elected as the Vice President for Publications of the IEEE Communications Society. Read More
PhD candidate Ankit Roy (MechE) was selected as a recipient of an Acta Student Award for his research on high-entropy alloys. Read More
Mooi Choo Chuah (CSE) was invited by the Institution of Engineers, Malaysia, and the University of Malaya’s Engineering Alumni Association to deliver the 31st Annual Professor Chin Fung Kee Memorial Lecture. Read More
PhD graduate Majid Jahani (ISE) received a 2021 IISE Doctoral Student Colloquium Best Presentation award for his work titled "Quasi-Newton Methods for Deep Learning." Read More
Computational materials theorist Jeffrey Rickman (MSE) has been named a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society. Read More
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