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Dr. Dava Newman

Exploration for All: The Infinite to Spaceship Earth – An Edison Lecture at Notre Dame by Dava Newman ‘86 (ND) Ph.D. ‘92 (MIT)

Please join us for this capstone event celebrating 150 Years of Engineering at Notre Dame. December 7, 2023 at 1 p.m. Patricia George Decio Theatre, DeBartolo Performing Arts CenterUniversity of Notre Dame This is an un-ticketed event, and all are welcome. For those who are unable …

Matthew Zahr

Matthew Zahr receives NSF CAREER award to improve simulation of shock-dominated turbulent flow

Matthew Zahr, assistant professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award. The award recognizes early career excellence in STEM research and education. Zahr’s CAREER research project focuses on …

Wired for Success: Notre Dame Robotic Football team storms 2023 Fall Combine Competition

Notre Dame’s Robotic Football team emerged triumphant from the 2023 Fall Combine Competition, placing first overall and winning best quarterback, center and kicker. Their performance makes them top seed for the Robotic Football Tournament in April. The combine, held this year at Notre …

Build-a-boards

Electrical engineering students create circuit boards in inaugural “Build-a-Board” workshop

First-year electrical engineering students learned the fundamentals of electronic design by fabricating their own circuit boards at the inaugural “Build-a-Board” workshop. The event was hosted by the Engineering Innovation Hub (EIH), an experiential learning space with resources for …

Notre Dame Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) team

Summer REU team, including six Notre Dame Engineering staff and faculty affiliates, recognized with Presidential Team Irish Award

The Notre Dame Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) team, which organizes immersive research programs each summer for more than 300 undergraduate students from around the world, received the Presidential Team Irish Award. Six of the 18 members of the team are affiliated with the …

In Memoriam

In memoriam: Robert Nelson, former chair and professor emeritus of aerospace and mechanical engineering

Robert C. Nelson, professor emeritus of aerospace and mechanical engineering, passed away October 19. He was 81. …

James Schmiedeler

James Schmiedeler named Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Diversity in Notre Dame Engineering

James Schmiedeler, professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering, has been appointed Associate Dean of …

Pinar Zorlutuna featured left center among a collage of Notre Dame bioengineering images

Pinar Zorlutuna appointed Director of the Bioengineering Program at the University of Notre Dame

Pinar Zorlutuna, Roth-Gibson Professor of Bioengineering, has been appointed Director of the Bioengineering …

6 Notre Dame Faculty who were recently awarded NIH MIRAs.

Notre Dame engineering faculty win NIH MIRA awards to support biomedical research

In less than a year, three faculty in the College of Engineering were awarded the Maximizing Investigators’ Research …

Patrick Wensing

Patrick Wensing receives IROS Toshio Fukuda Young Professional Award for contributions in robotics

Patrick Wensing, Wanzek Family Collegiate Associate Professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical …