NRC recognizes Lehigh ChE among top graduate programs

NRC.jpgThe National Research Council's report on graduate programs ranks Lehigh Chemical Engineering from 14-34 with 90% certainty, ranking our program as 22nd overall according to phds.org.

Lehigh Among Best in North East Catalysis Graduate Student Poster Competition

On March 20, 2013, the Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York held its 2013 Spring Symposium at Princeton University. The symposium is the premier catalysis meeting in the northeast.

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Endowed Faculty Chair in the Energy Sciences

The Department of Chemical Engineering at Lehigh University seeks nominations and applications for the Anderson Endowed Faculty Chair position in the broad field of Energy Sciences that includes, but is not restricted to, the general areas of Energy Systems, Chemical Processing, Optimization, Reaction Engineering, Separation Science, Biocatalysis, Photovoltaics, Biofuels and the Environment. Nominees / applicants should have an exceptional record of achievements in research, teaching, supervision and service.

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Wednesday, April 24, 2013: Spring Seminar Series - Professor James Ferri

The Department of Chemical Engineering is proud to announce the twelfth in its series of Seminars for the Spring 2013 Semester: “Engineering Programmable Thermoresponsive Interfaces”

Professor James K. Ferri, Professor and Head, Department of Chemical Engineering
Lafayette College

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Dr. Bryan Berger's technology selected as a 2013 TechConnect National Innovation Awardee

The selected technology is entitled "Scalable Biosurfactant Synthesis" with inventors. TechConnect Innovation Awards selects the top early-stage innovations from around the world through an industry-review process of the top 20% of annually submitted technologies into the TechConnect Innovation Summit. Rankings are based on the potential positive impact the submitted technology will have on a specific industry sector.

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Lehigh's AIChE Student Chapter meets 8th grade students in Broughal Middle School to discuss careers in Chemical Engineering

Chemical Engineering majors from Lehigh's student chapter of the AIChE recently visited Broughal Middle School in Bethlehem to demonstrate chemical engineering experiments to four classes of 8th grade students. Broughal%20trip%202013.jpg

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CHE seniors Rebecca Masel and Dalton Smith publish a paper in Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. with Professor William Luyben

In the March 2013 issue of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research Journal, a publication of the American Chemical Society, CHE seniors Rebecca Masel and Dalton Smith have co-authored a paper with Professor Bill Lubyen entitled "Use of Two Distillation Columns in Systems with Maximum Temperature Limitations".

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CHE sophomores inducted as Rossin Junior fellows at a special ceremony on Friday, April 12, 2013

Qian (Olivia) Yang and Nicolette Drescher, both currently sophomores in Chemical Engineering were recently inducted as Rossin Junior fellows on April 12, 2013 at a special ceremony hosted by the P. C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

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