Lehigh University will partner with three other East Coast universities to form the new Atlantic Marine Energy Center (AMEC), which has been awarded $9.7 million over four years from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The center will focus on research and development to address ongoing needs for sustainable renewable ocean energy. It will be one of only four National Marine Renewable Energy Centers (NMREC) in the country.
The seven Lehigh faculty members involved in AMEC are all part of Lehigh’s Institute for Cyber Physical Infrastructure and Energy (I-CPIE): Arindam Banerjee, Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics; Shalinee Kishore, Iacocca Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and I-CPIE Associate Director; Lawrence Snyder, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and I-DISC (Lehigh’s Institute for Data, Intelligent Systems, and Computation) co-director; and, from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering: Richard Sause, Joseph T. Stuart Professor of Structural Engineering, Director of the Advanced Technology for Large Structural Systems Engineering Research Center (ATLSS) and I-CPIE Director; Panos Diplas, Muhannad Suleiman and Paolo Bocchini.
