Jumping into two Mountaintop projects this summer, Bryan Berger is hoping that the students he is mentoring will not only get the experience of working on diverse, cross-disciplinary teams, but that they will also find feasibility in their projects and continue their research into the academic year.

John Spletzer, associate professor of computer science and engineering, discusses how he combined his recent NSF grant award with the Mountaintop student research program to mentor two teams at Lehigh in Summer 2014.

Michael Spear, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at Lehigh, is one of the professors mentoring students on the various projects that fall under Smart Spaces. Here, he tells us why he got involved, what his students are learning and why BIG — is definitely better — at Mountaintop.

A team of students at Mountaintop is building an aquaponics system that they hope will be one to model.