MFE Guest Speaker: Mehul Mehta from Charles Schwab

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This 30-min professional development series features Lehigh alumni of the MS in Financial Engineering program, senior executives, and project sponsors, who talk about jobs, opportunities, and networking.

Career Lab

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No appointment needed for Career Lab! Walk-in anytime, Monday - Friday, between 11 am - 4 pm, to talk with a member of our Career Team. This is a great opportunity to have a resume or cover letter reviewed, ask questions about your job or internships search, discuss networking steps, ask quick career questions, learn more about Handshake, or work on your career goals. All majors and class years welcome.

Hosted by: Center for Career & Professional Development

Additional Information can be found at: https://lehigh.campuslabs.com/engage/event/10293930

Fall Welcome Lunch

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Join us for free food, games, giveaways and more! This event is an opportunity for everyone in the Lehigh community to make new friends, reconnect with old friends and celebrate the start of the new academic year. We hope to see you there!

11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Monday, Aug. 26 at the Memorial Walkway below Williams Hall. In the event of rain, tent seating is available in Tamerler Courtyard.

Following lunch, students are encouraged to attend the Fall Club & Community Expo from 4-6 p.m. at the Clayton University Center at Packer Hall flagpole and Memorial Walkway. Hosted by the Office of Student Involvement, the expo is a chance for students to learn about Lehigh’s clubs and organizations, as well as community organizations.

Physics Colloquium: “Understanding how supercooled water droplets freeze”

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Dr. Claudiu Stan from Rutgers University will be presenting his lecture “Understanding how supercooled water droplets freeze.”Supercooled water drops are often used for studying supercooled water and ice nucleation They also occur naturally in clouds, where their freezing impacts the formation of precipitation and the radiative balance of Earth The freezing of supercooled water drops is a complex stochastic process including nucleation, dendritic ice growth, and shape changes As a result, no two droplets freeze the same To account for this randomness, we collected snapshot images and X ray diffraction from tens of thousands of drops freezing in vacuum after homogeneous ice nucleation near 3939°C Based on the drop images, we developed a seven stage model of freezing and determined average properties for all freezing stages.

Streamline Your Semester: A Syllabus Survival Guide

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Join the Center for Academic Success for a 5x10 event to help you take all your new syllabi and make a semester plan. Learn about the benefits and drawbacks of different time management systems, consider which system works best for you, and make a semester study schedule with help from the Center for Academic Success staff. Free school supplies and snacks provided!

Hosted by: Center for Academic Success, Office of First-Year Experience

Additional Information can be found at: https://lehigh.campuslabs.com/engage/event/10297579

ESE Fall Seminar Series: The Changing Energy Landscape

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Register today for the first seminar of Energy Systems Engineering Fall 2024 Seminar Series: The Janak Raj Lectures. This seminar is available only online via Zoom.

Presented by: Rudy Shankar, Ph.D., Director of Energy Systems Engineering, Lehigh University

REGISTER HERE

TIME: 12:00 PM Eastern Time
LOCATION - ZOOM MEETING link to be sent prior to the seminar date
CONTACT US: inesei@lehigh.edu

“The Changing Energy Landscape”

Abstract: Energy stakeholders have inarguably reached a consensus that the future of electricity and manufacturing industries will have a “net zero” value of their emissions, i.e. carbon-free or carbon-neutral to arrest climate change. Western nations are aspiring to reach this goal in the next 2 or 3 decades, while the developing nations in Asia are targeting the seventh or eighth decade. The period between today and when we achieve net-zero emissions is called the Energy Transition period. This presentation-- the first in the seminar series for fall 2024-- underlines the characteristics of the modern grid as it transitions to greener grid. The transition could be bumpy and wrenching for some nations with the constant struggle of balancing decarbonization efforts with assuring traditional grid reliability remains high, sometimes referred to as in the “triple 9” regime. And as expected the transition period will be accompanied with geopolitical tensions.

The Lehigh University Energy Systems Engineering under the ESE Seminar series in fall 2024 will host several talks that address Energy Transition. Two talks in September will address the efforts in Uruguay in transmission planning with high penetration of renewable and the early attempts in India which has set its net zero goals to latter part of this century. Uruguay has achieved 95+% of renewables on the grid in the last two decades. India a rapidly developing country has to balance the increasing demand with high reliability thus requiring continued use of central, fossil-fueled generation. Three talks in October and November will discuss progress in Europe and Australia, as well as the needs for full electrification of all sectors (i.e., net zero).

Come join us for this seminar!

Bio: Ramesh ("Rudy") Shankar is the Director of the Energy Systems Engineering program at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA,. The program supports the 10-month, 30-credit Master of Engineering (M. Eng.) in Energy. In this capacity, his responsibilities include development of course curriculum and industry projects.
He was previously the Vice President and Chief Technology Advisor for the Tennessee Valley Authority which managed more than 11 million customers in seven States. His duties included managing renewable energy technology, developing electric transportation & infrastructure, consumer innovation, technologies for power generation and power delivery. His previous appointments included: President/CEO of Signatech Systems and led the efforts to develop requirements for asset management and fleet-wide monitoring for a large Asian utility (30 GW capacity); consulted with the U.N. IAEA on nuclear power requirements for developing countries. He was a Program Manager for fossil- and nuclear-generation sectors for the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI),

Dr. Shankar completed his undergraduate work at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi; Ph.D. in Applied Sciences from the University of Delaware, and an MBA at Queens University in an Executive-sponsored Program. Dr Shankar has attended Leadership Development course at Eckerd College and project management training. He has conducted power industry-related training courses & workshops around the globe in Europe, Asia and the Americas.

Bethlehem Farmers' Market

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Join us on Thursdays between 11 AM - 3 PM April 25th through November 14th for our 17th season!

The Bethlehem Farmers' Market is Bethlehem's first and longest-running local, producer-only farmers market! The market's 15+ vendors offer fresh produce, lunch items, baked goods, natural goods, and more to the Bethlehem community and greater Lehigh Valley.

*Note there will not be a market on June 6th or July 4th.

Fall Club & Community Expo

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Come learn about Lehigh's vast and vibrant community of clubs and organizations and find the involvement experiences for you!

Hosted by: Office of Student Involvement

Additional Information can be found at: https://lehigh.campuslabs.com/engage/event/10187508