Program Description
In this 6-week, 6-credit program, you’ll live at Notre Dame’s Conway Hall and go to classes in Fischer Hall — the site of Notre Dame’s Global Gateway — just off the bustling Trafalgar Square in the heart of London.
In addition to classes in Notre Dame’s London Global Gateway, you’ll tour the Tower of London, ride the double-decker Red Bus, visit the British Museum, and attend several high-end theater productions.
This program is open to all engineering students.
The 2026 London 2 program will be led by Professor Nick Laneman.
Courses
All students enroll in both of the following courses for a total of 6 engineering credits.
- EGxxxxx: Understanding Wireless: Radio Technologies and Spectrum Policies that are Transforming Society
This course offers an opportunity to gain a basic understanding of the technical, regulatory, and economic aspects of the wireless revolution and its societal impact. The course is designed for engineering students from all disciplines, as these technologies and their related regulations are relevant to almost all engineered systems. Topics covered include how various societal applications—such as connectivity, energy, transportation, and public safety—use wireless technology. The course also delves into the basic elements of radio transmitters and receivers, the representation and transmission of information in electrical form, the physical propagation of radio signals, and the mechanisms for sharing a common medium.
Learning activities in the course will be diverse, featuring a mix of lectures on key technical, economic, and regulatory foundations, as well as discussions of assigned readings. Students will also participate in experiments and demonstrations, listen to invited speakers, and give presentations. The course requires students to complete a final paper and presentation as a team, exploring a topic of interest to them in greater depth. Past examples of topics have included the US National Spectrum Strategy and the development of low-earth orbit satellite constellations.
- HIST 34388: At Home with the Victorians
Everyone has a sense of home, and, to the British in the Victorian period, home developed into an obsession that continues today. This course looks at the everyday spaces inhabited by the Victorians in London and the surrounding provinces. “Home” to the Victorians came in many guises, both temporal and permanent, domestic and institutional, charitable and municipal, and the experience within varied significantly between the classes. Students will explore life behind closed doors using a range of primary sources alongside secondary reading. In taking this course, students will gain a nuanced understanding of domestic and institutional life through the spectrum of home and engage with the broader social, political, and economic developments in Victorian society.
Dates
July 1 – August 8, 2026
Housing
While in London, students live in Notre Dame’s Conway Hall, an historic building south of the River Thames, near Waterloo Station and King’s College London.
Conway Hall features modern dorm-apartment rooms.
Program Fee
The cost for the 2026 Summer Study Abroad Program is $9,500, plus a $200 University Study Abroad Administration Fee.
The program fee includes the cost of 6 Notre Dame credits; accommodations; program academic outings and field trips; on-site program support from Notre Dame faculty; and international health and emergency evacuation insurance.
It does not include the cost of airfare, meals, or airport transportation; passport/visa fee; or personal spending money.
All students are considered for a need-based engineering scholarship to defray the cost of the program.
Apply
Applications will be accepted between October 1 – November 3, 2025.
Program assignments and waitlist notifications occur before Christmas break.
Questions?
Feel free to contact:
Mike Kitz
Executive Director, Summer Engineering International Programs
mkitz@nd.edu
Todd Taylor
Director, Summer Engineering International Programs
ttaylo24@nd.edu