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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...

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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...

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A paper written by Safwan Al-Subaihawi, James M. Ricles, Spencer Quiel, Thomas Marullo, and Malik Faisal Nissar, all affiliated with Advanced Technology for Large Structural Systems (ATLSS) engineering research center and the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure Experimental Facility (NHERI EF) on Lehigh University’s Mountaintop Campus, was recently recognized as the 2025 Top Viewed Article in Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, published by Wiley. The paper, titled “Real-time Hybrid Simulation of Structural Systems with Soil-Foundation...

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I-CPIE faculty member Arindam Banerjee recently appeared as a guest on the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)'s Insights podcast. Listen for his thoughts on training the future generation of engineers at this link to ASME's podcast feed.