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Future makers start here.

The First-Year Rossin Experience (FYRE) reimagines the first year of engineering as a hands-on launch into discovery, creativity, and collaboration. From day one, students learn by doing in maker spaces, design labs, and collaborative studios where ideas become real. Grounded in the rigor of a Lehigh education, FYRE empowers future makers to explore their passions, build confidence, and form the connections that will shape their path as engineers and innovators.
First-year student project in soil sampling at 2025 FYRE Expo

Showcasing student creativity

Projects offer a glimpse into Lehigh’s reimagined first-year engineering experience

FYRE Social media influencer

In their own words

Follow FYRE’s influencers on Instagram, TikTok, and LinkedIn as they begin their engineering journeys

Prof Susan Perry during FYRE bootcamp, Summer 2025

Blazing a trail

Resolve® magazine on a summertime faculty test run—and a Fall semester with students in the hot seat

Eric Obeysekare and Christina Haden, Lehigh University

Lighting the way

Christina Haden, Eric Obeysekare step into leadership roles

The Latest at the Rossin College

Faculty & Programs

Frangopol earns third ASCE Wellington Prize for infrastructure resilience research

Fri, May 1, 2026

Award-winning study with international collaborators advances risk-based assessment of transportation network connectivity under natural hazards
Alumni Updates

Technical entrepreneurship master’s degree launches alum's career in AI product management

Tue, Apr 28, 2026

Kaja Skerlj ’21 ’22M.Eng., a former student-athlete, translates her interdisciplinary education into a product role at an innovative German tech startup
Resolve Article

The Aerospace Issue: Read the Spring 2026 issue of Resolve magazine

Mon, Apr 27, 2026

The Spring 2026 Resolve covers the new aerospace master's program, community-driven assistive technologies, first-year engineering, and Medical AI at Lehigh.
Faculty & Programs

Rethinking newborn screening for critical congenital heart disease

Thu, Apr 23, 2026

Bioengineer Amirtahà Taebi explores seismocardiography as a more accurate detection method that addresses key limitations of pulse oximetry
Faculty & Programs

Vermaak named Acta Materialia 2026 Mary Fortune Awardee

Wed, Apr 22, 2026

Natasha Vermaak, associate professor in the Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics Department, was named the 2026 Acta Materialia Mary Fortune Award winner.

The Mary Fortune Award honors demonstrated global...
Student Success

ECE Undergraduate Paper Contest WINNERS

Tue, Apr 21, 2026

Our First Place Winners have moved on to the 2026 IEEE Walter B Morton student paper contest that will take place on April 24th. 

More News

Graduate Student Spotlight

Leading beyond the lab

ChBE doctoral candidate Myeongyeon Lee, who served as chair of the department's annual Graduate Student Symposium, was recognized with the Lehigh Graduate Engineering Leadership and Service Award for his contributions to the engineering graduate student community. Lee is researching data-driven strategies for advancing high-performance organic field-effect transistors in the Reichmanis Group.

On a path to professorship

Qi Wang, a PhD student in Lehigh's ISE program, is making strides with guidance from the Future Academic Career Experiential Training (FACET) program, which offers seminars on topics such as applying for grants and teaching. Although she initially envisioned an industry career, Wang has shifted her goal to becoming a professor. She recently co-taught her first course and plans to apply for a postdoc.

Innovative algorithms for safer robot perception

Mechanical engineering PhD student Guangyi Liu, a member of Lehigh’s Autonomous and Intelligent Robotics Laboratory (AIR Lab), is developing a framework to improve the risk awareness of robotic systems. The framework, which can be applied to any robotic system, will allow the robot to act safely with uncertain perception measurements and inputs.

CONCISE Lab shines at World Environmental & Water Resources Congress

Papers by Nazia Raza and Saskia A. Putri won awards in the Graduate Student Technical Paper Competition at the annual ASCE-EWRI event. Both are PhD students in the InterCONnected Critical Infrastructure Systems Engineering Laboratory, led by CEE Assistant Professor Farrah Moazeni.

Engineering Departments

Bioengineering

Bioengineering focuses on advancing human health through bio inspired technologies and the development of new biomedical approaches and techniques.

Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

We offer an internationally recognized education and research focus areas in materials processing, environment and energy, bioengineering, and systems and information.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

We offer internationally recognized education and research programs in structural, environmental, geotechnical and water resources engineering.

Computer Science & Engineering

Computer Science and Engineering is at the core of the information age. To prepare our students for the tremendous opportunities in the field, the CSE Department is strongly committed to excellence in both education and research.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Research and educational programs are enhanced by strong interdisciplinary interactions with other departments in engineering, mathematics, and science.

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Thinking manufacturing? Think again, and think bigger. ISE is distinctive because its tools can be applied to any business in any setting, from production to services, in either the private or public sector.

Materials Science & Engineering

Accredited since 1936, the department offers one of the nation's leading materials science and engineering programs.

Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics

Mechanical engineering is one of the broadest engineering professions, dealing with the design, construction and operation of various types of machinery.

Interdisciplinary Research Institutes

  • Interdisciplinary Research Institutes
    IRI: Diverse disciplines powering progress
    We believe that interdisciplinary research is our best hope for addressing the complex challenges that lie ahead. Lehigh’s Interdisciplinary Research Institutes (IRIs) bring together leading faculty and graduate researchers from a variety of fields to focus on a specific challenge. This innovative approach allows these research teams to use their combined strengths to confront problems from every perspective and to develop multifaceted solutions.
    Interdisciplinary Research Institutes
  • Institute for Functional Materials and Devices
    I-FMD
    The Institute for Functional Materials and Devices (I-FMD) focuses on synthesis, fabrication, processing, and characterization of materials, devices and related systems. Existing research interests include photonics and electronics, metals, ceramics, biomaterials, polymers, and composites, and incorporate devices ranging in size from the nanometer and micrometer scales and beyond.
    Institute for Functional Materials and Devices
  • Institute for Data, Intelligent Systems, and Computation
    I-DISC
    The Institute for Data, Intelligent Systems, and Computation (I-DISC) is devoted to the study of problems that involve massive amounts of data and/or large-scale computations, and developing the science that enables the extraction of useful and actionable information across disciplines and research fields.
    Institute for Data, Intelligent Systems, and Computation
  • Institute for Cyber Physical Infrastructure and Energy
    I-CPIE
    Research within the Institute for Cyber Physical Infrastructure and Energy (I-CPIE) underpins all aspects of modern society. The demands and impacts of society’s reliance upon energy, communications, structural, and transportation systems requires a broad approach that’s focused not only on engineering systems, but on improving people’s lives.
    Institute for Cyber Physical Infrastructure and Energy