Jun 18, 2025
Inside the classroom: Systems course helps students visualize the world
A required course for an integrative engineering degree, this class is also popular among students from other majors.
Mechanical Engineering
Oct 3, 2023
Prof. Jenn Rossmann wins ASEE’s Sterling Olmsted award
Olmsted award recognizes Rossmann's many contributions to the development and teaching of liberal arts in engineering education
Sep 14, 2023
Prof. Christian Lopez receives NSF grant
Lafayette's Prof. Christian Lopez receives NSF grant to fund his research using gamification and machine learning to support STEM education.
Aug 31, 2023
Student-faculty research focuses on gamification as a teaching tool
Nathan Dinh ’25 and Prof. Christian Lopez explore how gamification can be used to teach programming.
Apr 28, 2023
Harmonizing inclusivity and sound, a new keyboard emerges
Manaka Gomi ’23 seeks a more accessible keyboard and reimagines its acoustical possibilities.
Apr 27, 2023
Students make their best pitches during Dyer’s Big Idea Competition
Six teams presented an array of creative entrepreneurial ideas for the sixth annual competition
Oct 11, 2022
Lafayette engineering trio wins Tau Beta Pi scholarships
Lafayette seniors Jed Alterman, Meg Dodge, and Danielle Lemisch are among the 254 engineering students from across the country to receive the competitive…
Aug 4, 2022
Prof. Alex Brown releases first commercial album
Brown, who sings and plays guitar, keyboard, saxophone, and trumpet, says there are many creative parallels between his work as an engineer and musician…
Apr 1, 2022
The peculiar physics of the Wiffle ball
Prof. Jenn Stroud Rossmann discusses the Whiffle ball on Short Wave, NPR's science-themed podcast.
Mar 28, 2022
Connecting across disciplines
Lafayette College mechanical and chemical engineering senior design teams collaborate on renewable energy research