I-CPIE is developing and promoting a community of successful interdisciplinary research teams working in the area of cyber physical infrastructure and energy systems, which are the interdependent and increasingly adaptive systems that underpin all aspects of our society and economy.
I-CPIE in the News
June 18, 2026
Rodrigo Manzano Researches through an Interdisciplinary Lens at Lehigh University
Lehigh University doctoral student Rodrigo Manzano has a degree in advanced solid mechanics, or the science of figuring out how materials react to being placed under stress. They might bend, deform in different ways, or even break, and a single material might react differently under different conditions. At Lehigh, he is focussing his research on auxetic materials, which he describes as a “special kind of metamaterial [an artificially engineered material] that, when you stretch it...
June 9, 2026
National Defense Program Selects Lehigh Engineering Professor Keith Moored
Read more at this link to the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science.
June 8, 2026
Spencer Quiel Joins I-CPIE Leadership Team
Effective March 1, 2026, Spencer Quiel, Professor of Structural Engineering, has been named Co-Associate Director of the Institute for Cyber Physical Infrastructure and Energy (I-CPIE) at Lehigh University. He was recently the Associate Chair of Lehigh’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Quiel specializes in extreme loads for structures and works in the areas of resilient physical infrastructure (e.g., buildings, bridges, tunnels) pertaining to events like fire, blast, and progressive collapse. Quiel succeeds Alberto Lamadrid...