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Research Centers, Labs & Institutes

Lehigh's renowned faculty, exciting research programs and state-of-the-art laboratories, institutes and research centers are among the world's best. The interdisciplinary nature of the research conducted in the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science, and within our affiliated research centers, has enabled us to make significant advances in several fields, such as optoelectronics, biotechnology, environmental engineering, information technology and other emerging fields that require diverse contributions.

Materials and Nanotechnology

• Center for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
• Center for Photonics and Nanoelectronics
• Emulsion Polymers Institute
• International Materials Institute for New Functionality in Glass
• Center for Polymer Science and Engineering
• Institute for Metal Forming

Infrastructural Systems

• Engineering Research Center for Advanced Technology and Large Structural Systems (ATLSS)
• George E. Brown Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES)

Applied Life Science and Bioengineering

• Bioengineering Program
• Center for Photonics and Nanoelectronics

Energy and the Environment

• Energy Systems Engineering Institute
• Energy Research Center
• Center for Photonics and Nanoelectronics
• STEPS Initiative
• Environmental Initiative

Complex Engineering Systems

• Enterprise Systems Center
• Center for Manufacturing Systems Engineering
• Chemical Process Modeling and Control Research Center
• Center for Value Chain Research (CVCR)
• Baker Institute for Entrepreneurship, Creativity and Innovation

Research Center Highlight

CENTER FOR ADVANCED MATERIALS AND NANOTECHNOLOGY

Lehigh has acquired funding for several new instruments that will improve re- searchers' ability to investigate and control the nanoworld. One of the new instruments, shown here, is the HS-LEIS, the world's most sensitive spectrometer for identifying surface atoms. It offers a 3,000-fold improvement in sensitivity over con- ventional spectrometers and also allows for elemental 2-D surface mapping.
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