LehighWeek Volume 13, Issue 14

              The Final Curtain
Another exciting season at
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Volume 13, Issue 14
Lehig hWeek
The campus digest for innovation, news and events
South Mountaineer
A season of success:
Fall 1999 in review
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December 7,1999
Hap Wagner to
address January
commencement
Harold A. "Hap" Wagner,
chairman of the board and chief
executive officer of Air Products
and Chemicals Inc., will give the
main address at Lehigh's Commencement
exercises on
Sunday,
Jan. 9,
2000, at
2:30 p.m. in
Stabler
Arena. His
selection as
speaker
was       an- Wagner
nounced by President Gregory
C. Farrington.
The January ceremony is for
students who have completed
their bachelor's, master's or doctoral degree requirements during the previous summer or fall
semester. About 400 students
are expected to graduate this
January.
Wagner received an honorary
Doctor of Engineering degree
from Lehigh at the May 1998
commencement. He has served
as a member of Lehigh's board
of trustees since 1994 and currently is a member of its executive, student affairs and public
affairs committees.
Wagner has been part of Air
Products for more than 30 years,
beginning in the company's applied research and development
department. He rose to president of Air Products Europe in
1988 and to executive vice president of world gases and equipment in 1990.
In 1991, Wagner was elected
to Air Products' board of directors, and later that year became
president and chief operating
officer. He was named chairman
in 1992.
Under Wagner's leadership,
Air Products has grown to more
than 16,000 employees worldwide with operations in 30 countries and annual sales approaching $5 billion.
In addition to serving on
Lehigh's board of trustees,
Wagner also serves on the board
of directors of CIGNA Corporation, PACCAR, United Technologies Corporation and Daido-
Hoxan, Japan's second-largest
industrial gas company. He is a
member of the policy committee
of the national Business
Roundtable, a member of the executive committee of the Pennsylvania Business Roundtable,
a member of the Business Council, ancl on the board of Eisenhower
Exchange Fellowships.
Locally, Wagner is active in
the KidsPeace National Council
for Kids. He also is chairman of
The Dorothy Rider Pool Health
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Lehigh IPD program receives
$600,000 federal award
Photo by Rob Upton
Lehigh Provost Nelson Markley presents a Lehigh sweatshirt to U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, R-
Pa. Don Follett, chairman of Follett Corp., Easton, and a member of the IPD Industrial Advisory Board is in background.
Lehigh's IPD (integrated product
development) program has received many kudos for its attempts to prepare students for
careers in industry by training
them — in groups — to design,
engineer and market products for
companies.
Last week, with assistance
from U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum,
R-Pa., IPD received a $600,000
award from the U.S. Department
of Labor.
"Today's graduates must be
prepared to excel in a highly com-
petitive global market that rewards innovation and efficiency,"
Santorum said at a press conference in the Alumni Memorial
Building on Thursday, Dec. 2.
"By integrating students from
a variety of disciplines including
arts and sciences, engineering,
architecture, finance and business, Lehigh's IPD program prepares America's top students to
successfully design, manufacture
I products in our global
economy. This... is currently the
only program of its kind in the
nation."
Provost Nelson Markley said
the award would be applied towards the $4-million renovation
of Wilbur Workhshop, the former
powerhouse and site of Lehigh's
theatre department which will
Please See IPD AWARD, Page 6
Lehigh researchers lead way in
microreaction engineering
On July 14, 1999, the one-year
anniversary of his appointment
as an assistant professor of
chemical engineering,
Mayuresh Kothare arrived at
his office in lacocca Hall and
paused to think back on his first
year at Lehigh.
He had barely begun his reflections when the phone rang
with good news: The National
Science Foundation had decided
to fund "An Integrated Chemical
Reforming Microplant for Fuel
Cell Applications," an interdisciplinary research project at
Lehigh for which Kothare is the
principal investigator.
NSF had received 350 responses to a request for pre-pro-
posals in a national initiative
called "Engineering
Microsystems: XYZ on a Chip."
It had asked for more detailed
proposals from 75 applicants
and approved 20 for funding.
Of those 20, an NSF program
coordinator told Kothare, NSF
had rated Lehigh's proposal
highest, ahead of proposals from
such powerhouse institutions as
UCLA, Stanford, Princeton,
Carnegie-Mellon and Georgia
Tech.
"The good feeling lasted about
15 minutes," says Kothare. "Then
came the realization: 'I have the
money; now comes the responsibility."'
Kothare, an expert in con
strained process control, now has
a new mission: To help extend the
revolution in microelectronic
technology to non-electronic applications, or, in NSF's words, to
"put XYZ on a chip," where "XYZ"
refers to biology, genomics, chemistry, optics, mechanics, sensors,
actuators and other non-electronic phenomena.
Kothare's specific goal is to
design and produce a prototype
miniature fuel processor for
microfabricated miniature fuel
cells that run on hydrogen, and
to fit this prototype on a standard, 2-centimeter silicon chip.
Normal (full-size) fuel cells
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Good Scholars
raise $60,000
The 10th annual Good Scholar
Election sponsored by Zeta Psi
fraternity brought in a record
$60,000, bringing the fund drive's
10-year total to nearly a quarter
of a million dollars, the fraternity announced at an awards ceremony last week.
All money raised has been
given to the Lehigh Valley Chapter of the American Cancer Society for use in research.
Janice Keat, field representative for the Lehigh Valley chapter of the American Cancer Society, said the Lehigh fund drive is
the largest ever for a local college or university and has become
the fourth largest fund drive of
the year for the local unit, behind
its Daffodil Days, Relay for Life
and Perimeter Bike Ride.
Jean Farrington, director for
staff and resource development
for information resources and
honorary chairperson of this
year's election, said, "this effort
represents a phenomenal pulling together of students from all
across campus for a truly worthwhile cause! The election showcases some of the best aspects of
our Lehigh students."
Jeremy Corkhill '00, coordinator of the event for Zeta Psi,
said the total was nearly double
last year's total of $33,000, which
lie believed could be one of the
nation's largest fund-raisers per
student.
First place went to Rees
Hawkins '02 of Zeta Psi, who
raised $8,367. Because Zeta Psi,
as sponsoring organization, is
not allowed to receive individual
prizes, the first-place prize of a
USAirways ticket to anywhere in
the continental U.S. went to
Jamie Abt '00, of Alpha Phi sorority. Abt finished second in
fund-raising, collecting $7,219.
Third^ place went to Gail
Freeston '00 of the Panhellenic
Council, who raised $7,078 and
received the second prize, dinner
for four at the Manor House Inn.
Fourth went to Shannon Long
'02,representing athletics, who
raised $6,578 and received the
University Bookstore gift certificate given as third prize.
"Candidates" for the election
raise money by soliciting "votes,"
in the form of cash donations,
from friends, family and members of the Lehigh community.
The election was founded by
Alvin Cohen, professor emeritus of economics and former faculty adviser to Zeta Psi, who ran
as a candidate in the election.
Zeta Psi won the $1,000 first
prize given to the organization
with the most cash votes and donated it to the Lehigh Valley
ACS. Alpha Phi and Panhellenic
Council received awards of $500
and $250 for their organizations'
finishes.    '
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