LehighWeek Volume 09, Issue 13

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Hologram of
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Sheridan
Tournament
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two titles as the team
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LEHIGHWEEK
Volume 9, Issue 13
For the Campus Community
December 5, 1995
Parking garage set to open
Rita Malone,
Writers' Group
The parking garage now
under construction next to
the Zoellner Arts Center is
scheduled to open by the end
of December, according to
Anthony Corallo, assistant
vice president for facilities
services. "All that is left to
do is some paving, some
painting, install lighting, and
get the necessary occupancy
approvals from the city (of
Bethlehem)," said Corallo.
"Barring unforeseen problems, it should definitely be
open before classes start in
January." The garage will be
used for faculty and staff
parking, according to Chris
Christian, director of
transportation services.
Corallo added construction
of the Zoellner Arts Center is
on schedule. The hope is to
finish enclosing the building
so interior work can continue
throughout the winter.
Work is also continuing in
Taylor Gym on locker rooms
and the basketball court,
which should be open by Jan.
15. The Hall of Fame and
sports medicine area renovations should be completed by
April.
Facilities Services is
working on a beautification
plan for the campus grounds,
which includes new landscaping and plazas by the UC and
Ulrich Student Center.
"We spent over $1 million
to stabilize the tower, repair
the roof and clean the stone of
the University Center," said
Corallo. "The north side of
the building had crumbling
old asphalt and no landscaping. It looked pretty bad.
The plaza will complement
the design of a beautiful
building. It will also provide
a place for students to gather
in warm weather, as well as
serve as a programmable
space for student and alumni
events."
Half of the cost of both
plazas was provided by
trustees. Eugene Mercy
'59, chairman of the Granite
Capital International Group,
New York, provided funding
for the UC plaza and .
Ronald Ulrich '66, president of Equinox Capital
Management, New York,
supported the plaza outside
the Ulrich Student Center.
The remaining funds came
from the campus maintenance and operational
accounts, which had available dollars due to the
relatively mild winter
weather last year.
"The campus is a major
asset in attracting students,'
continued Corallo. "A study
in Planning in Higher
Education reported that
more than 60 percent of
students choose a school on
All that's left to do is some
paving.
the way it looks when they
visit. That's why it's so
important to improve these
facilities. Both the UC and
Ulrich (Student Center) are
on the campus tour. The
outside of these buildings did
not look good and did not
reflect the excellent newly
renovated facilities inside.
But we never had the funding
to do these two plazas before
Gene Mercy and Ron Ulrich
stepped forward."
"Two very worthwhile
campus improvements have
been made possible by the
generosity of Gene Mercy and
Ron Ulrich," said Bill
Hittinger, chairman of
Lehigh's Board of Trustees.
"The outside of these two
buildings will now be a fitting
Please see Parking on page 2
John Kish IV
Michael Goldberg '97 talks with Joshua Molaver '95 and Jung
Hoon Kim '94 who both appear at the top left corner of the
computer screen, but are located at a conference center in Dallas,
Texas. The group is working simultanously on a circuit design,
which can be seen on computer screens at both locations.
CIM Lab's student entrepreneurs
are already wiring the world
by Kurt Pfitzer
Writers' Group
Show, don't tell. That advice, often given to
writers, is taken to heart by the student
entrepreneurs at Lehigh's Computer-Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) Laboratory.
Last week, asked to describe Pathfinder
2005, a research project funded by the U.S. Air
Force, Dev Chanchani '97 and Michael
Fiumano '97 responded by clicking a mouse
at a computer equipped with camera and
microphone.
In seconds, the face of Josh Molaver '95
appeared on the screen and began talking in a
voice almost as clear as the voices of those
physically present in the CIM Lab.
Molaver was at the Defense Manufacturing
Conference in Dallas, Texas, which attracted
military officials and companies that sell
computer hardware and software to the
military. Jung Hoon Kim '94 also attended
the conference.
Under the supervision of CIM director
Emory W. Zimmers and CIM consultant
Sekar Sundararajan, Chanchani, Fiumano,
Molaver and Kim use computers to speed the
process by which electronic circuit boards are
designed and manufactured for the
Tobyhanna Army Depot in Pennsylvania.
The students and professors are working
with experts at Arizona State University and
Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico
on Pathfinder 2005, a national program that
introduces agile manufacturing to defense
contractors.
Chanchani is a business management
major who founded his own company,
Internet Unlimited, one year ago to help
businesses advertise on the Internet.
Fiumano majors in electrical engineering,
while Kim has a B.S. in industrial engineering, is a CIM consultant. Molaver, who has a
Please see CIM on page 2
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