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Arindam Banerjee, Paul B. Reinhold Professor and Department Chair, Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics (MEM) at Lehigh University, heads the Turbulent Flow Lab, which occupies part of a lower floor in Packard Lab on Lehigh’s main campus. During the summer of 2026, it’s the research home of undergraduate mechanical engineering student Miriam Heter, who will be a senior at the University of Rochester in New York in the fall and is part of the summer 2026...

Academic research teams are often led by a single researcher. This principal investigator (PI)’s name usually becomes the name of the lab, it’s listed on published papers from the lab members, and their students become part of their academic lineage. But these labs contain other researchers, from fellow faculty to postdocs to graduate students and even undergraduates. They all contribute to the research process and product. At Lehigh University, the lab of Dr. Claudia Reis...

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Read more about Dan Frangopol's lastest honor on the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science website.

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...

Read about the volume here, on the webpage of the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science.

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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