Jan 12, 2016
Jenn Rossmann Discusses Technological Citizenship in Public Books
Mechanical engineering professor Jenn Rossmann discusses the connections between the liberal arts and engineering in literature in her essay published…
Engineering
Dec 21, 2015
It’s Race Time!
Student teams from the Manufacturing and Design course competed in a year-end drag race. The project challenges mechanical engineering students to design…
Dec 3, 2015
The Science of Preserving Art
Through the IDEAL Center’s Cultural Conservation and Nanotechnology program, students learn to apply innovative methods to preserve art and cultural…
Dec 3, 2015
100 Years of Chemical Engineering
In the 1880s, decades before he started the chemical engineering program at Lafayette, Edward Hart was already at work building what would become its educational…
Nov 25, 2015
Liberal Arts Make Angela Wnek ’13 a More Confident Engineer
It can be intimidating for a young professional starting her career to speak up and express her ideas to management. But Angela Wnek ’13 brings a lot…
Nov 25, 2015
Fueling the Future
Biofuels – fuels derived from biological sources such as plants or algae – have a lot going for them, most notably their environmental friendliness…
Oct 20, 2015
A Life that Mattered
If George Bailey, the kind-hearted but frustrated savings-and-loan manager, had never been born, his hometown of Bedford Falls would have fallen into the…
Aug 6, 2015
STEAM Campers Create & Innovate
Camp leaders Marlin, film & media studies and English, and Meng, civil engineering, personify the synergy of incorporating arts into science/engineering…
Aug 6, 2015
Increasing Perspectives
A liberal education introduces a wide range of methods of inquiry: “ways of knowing” the human condition and the world. These methods include, for…
Jun 23, 2015
Brian Manning ’96 Turns Traditional Businesses into Digital Leaders
When the digital revolution began in the late ’90s, Brian Manning ’96 recognized the rumblings. He was project manager for the launch of Barnes & Noble’s…