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Engineering in Photos: May 2025

Every month, our college photographer is out and about capturing the energy, creativity, and everyday moments across Notre Dame Engineering. This photo collection highlights just some of what they saw in May 2025—from senior design projects and research presentations to student awards, …

Sharon Hu

Sharon Hu receives IEEE 2024 Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award 

Xiaobo Sharon Hu, Leo E. and Patti Ruth Linbeck Professor of Engineering in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has received the 2024 Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award from IEEE’s Technical Community on Real-Time Systems …

Anatomical model of vertebrae with an artificial spinal disc implant.

Finding fusion: an engineer and neurosurgeon unite to improve spinal surgery

It is the summer of 2023, and Dr. Stephen Smith sits face-to-face with a model skeleton in the Engineering North building on the University of Notre Dame campus. Smith is a neurosurgeon at Beacon Health System’s Memorial Hospital in downtown South Bend, Indiana, about a mile southwest of the …

Clive Neal seated in his office at Notre Dame, with a lunar surface image on the computer monitor behind him and shelves of research materials above.

Clive Neal represents the United States at United Nations Committee on Outer Space

Clive Neal, professor of civil and environmental engineering and earth sciences at the University of Notre Dame, was a private sector delegate to the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN-COPUOS) on May 6 in Vienna, Austria. He delivered a technical presentation on the …

A machine to detect certain molecules in air samples. The machine consists of a glass box connected with various wires, with a green air pump on one side.

Airborne disease detection made easier with new, low-cost device

Airborne hazardous chemicals can be dilute, mobile, and hard to trap. Yet accurately measuring these chemicals is critical in protecting human health and the environment.  Now, a new, small, low-cost device, nicknamed ABLE, could make the collection and detection of airborne hazards much …

A doctor in blue scrubs holds a red stethoscope, looking down at a newborn lying in a hospital bassinet. A young woman in a yellow Notre Dame sweatshirt stands next to the bassinet.

A better start for NICU families: Notre Dame leads the way in neonatal intensive care

In this episode of the Notre Dame Stories podcast, Kathleen Kolberg, Ph.D., Associate Dean, College of Science, Office …

Meenal Datta, a woman with long black hair, wearing a blue blazer and patterned blouse, stands in a laboratory with scientific equipment and glassware in the background. She has a confident and professional expression.

Notre Dame’s Meenal Datta launches cancer research — and students’ careers — through space industry partnerships

With its first voyage, planned for later this year, the Dream Chaser will make history as the only …

A group of students wearing navy zip up jackets stand together near a sculpture.

Record number of Notre Dame seniors in Class of 2025 complete Grand Challenges Scholars Program

The College of Engineering announces its largest class of graduates from the Notre Dame Grand Challenges Scholars …

Luke Horwath and his mom, Anne, pose in matching red shirts.

Big builds, little pieces: ND senior Luke Horwath competes on TV show LEGO Masters

Luke Horwath, a senior mechanical engineering major at the University of Notre Dame, is competing on the American …

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Engineering in Photos: April 2025

Every month, our college photographer is out and about capturing the energy, creativity, and everyday moments across …