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Dan M. Frangopol, the inaugural Fazlur R. Khan Endowed Chair of Structural Engineering and Architecture at Lehigh University, has been elected into the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) as an International Fellow. Per the citation, Frangopol was honored for “the creation, development, and application of life-cycle engineering under uncertainty—a major contribution to the knowledge base with a significant impact on civil engineering design, teaching, and practice—and world leadership and service in promoting international cooperation in

The offshore wind multidirectional soil-foundation interaction testing facility the team has been building within Lehigh’s ATLSS Engineering Research Center is now complete. Improvements to the structure came via a 2019 DOE award meant to advance wind energy nationwide. Six projects, including Lehigh’s, received a total of $7 million for testing and upgrades to facilities to conduct innovative offshore wind energy R&D.

Paolo Bocchini, Daniel Conus, Brian Davison and their colleagues leverage their collaborative experience in probabilistic modeling to sharpen their focus on catastrophe modeling, a discipline not traditionally explored in academia. Led by Bocchini, the university’s Probabilistic Modeling Group has built momentum in its work, developed relationships with collaborators in industry and academia, and secured funding for a variety of projects. Eventually, the group began receiving grants for applications of probabilistic modeling to catastrophe modeling. This