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On YouTube, you can find a video called “ Golden Gate Bridge: All Destruction Scenes.” Watch it, and you’ll see the famous suspension bridge destroyed in a variety of ways: taken down by a giant octopus, melted by a lack of magnetic force from the Earth’s core (shown in image), crumpled due to a major earthquake, wrecked by Godzilla, collapsed by an alien probe, and smashed by a Sharknado. While none of these events are...

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I-CPIE, as well as I-FMD and I-DISC and the Catastrophe Modeling Center, has functioned as an incubator of innovation. Read more.

If you are an undergraduate student studying in a STEM field and you’re interested in doing research (or you know someone who fits that description), this is the summer program for you. Lehigh University’s STEM-SI summer session pairs undergraduate students with research-active faculty members, giving students the opportunity to develop research skills during the 10-week summer program. Students also attend faculty seminars, learn about lab safety and ethics, and hone their writing and presentation skills...

An average human hair is, on average, about 100 microns in diameter. A semiconductor chip, such as those manufactured by Broadcom, in Breinigsville, Pennsylvania, measures about 25 microns–that’s pretty small and difficult to see. Every day, Broadcom makes tens of thousands of these tiny discs, which are used in electrical or photonic devices and circuits. And these infinitesimal items have a complex manufacturing procedure–they are built up in several layers via a sequential process. This...

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While it’s easy to recognize how infrastructures from roadways to cell towers support our lives, it’s just as easy to overlook how interconnected they are. Take water and energy, for example: while each system has its own requirements and benefits, they also work together to deliver services to our homes and offices—water pumps need power to work, for example. That interdependence offers engineers some opportunities—and some challenges. One engineer looking at these interconnected systems is...

If you’re a Lehigh University STEM professor interested in mentoring a Lehigh Valley student during the spring semester, we have the program for you: The Research Experience at Lehigh (RE@L) Scholars Program. Inspired by an initiative led by Lehigh chemistry graduate student Dane Santa as part of his National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship award, the program’s goal is to help Lehigh County Community College (LCC) honors students experience research in a lab with...