Aug 29, 2017
First Day of Class
By Bryan Hay 7:45 a.m. You can almost feel the curiosity, maybe a little anxiety, in Room 115 at Hugel Science Center. It’s Aug. 28, the first day of…
Engineering
Aug 17, 2017
19 Students Present Findings at National Conference on Undergraduate Research
Tawiq Alhamedi ’17 is among 19 Lafayette students who presented their findings at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research. Sharing his findings…
Aug 14, 2017
Civil Engineering Majors Know How to Win
By Heather Morton Travis Shoemaker ’18 was confident that his research presentation went over well with the judges when they asked, “Are you a master’s…
Jun 20, 2017
Searching for Patterns in Chaos
By Mark Eyerly Noah Steinberg ’17 traces his fascination with the brain to a seventh-grade biology class, in which a substitute teacher showed a movie…
Jun 13, 2017
Students Synthesize Spirited Sounds
More than a dozen students from majors as diverse as music and electrical engineering worked together to create Spirit Guide, an interface to enable a…
May 9, 2017
China Bound
Stacey-Ann Pearson ’15 is the recipient of a prestigious Schwarzman Scholarship for graduate study at a leading university in China known for its scientific…
Mar 28, 2017
Managing the Nitrogen Cycle
An interdisciplinary group of students researching the nitrogen cycle is considering composting as a way to relieve the effects of excess nitrogen on campus…
Mar 3, 2017
Students Learn and Have Fun During National Engineers Week
National Engineers Week gave students the opportunity to learn more, teach others, and have fun with engineering. Throughout the week, students took part…
Jan 24, 2017
Going with the Flow
In a room on the bottom floor of Acopian Engineering Center, students cluster in the slim space around what looks like a mammoth fish tank draped in electronics…
Dec 7, 2016
Empowering Women Engineers
Emily Maj ’18 (Staten Island, N.Y.) used to dread someone asking her why she decided to major in civil engineering. But over the last 10 weeks – “junior…