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Hsueh-Chia Chang, Jennifer Schaefer, and Jim Schmiedeler

Three engineering faculty win University awards in 2024

Three Notre Dame engineering professors have been honored with University awards for excellence in research, teaching and leadership. Hsueh-Chia Chang, Bayer Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, was the recipient of Notre Dame's Research Achievement Award. The award recognizes …

Taeho Jung

Taeho Jung receives NSF CAREER award to improve cybersecurity

Taeho Jung, assistant professor of computer science and 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. Jung’s research focuses on enhancing data security …

CEEES bridge builders standing on the completed bridge

Fluid force: Engineering students use pontoons to build 86-foot cable-stayed bridge

As the sun rose over Notre Dame’s Golden Dome, two engineering students adjusted their hip-waders and stepped into the cold water of Saint Joseph’s Lake, pushing pontoons loaded with aluminum beams. Their classmates on land dragged cables, tested power tools, and organized decking materials. …

Jeremiah Zartman holds a sample of fruit flies in his lab.

Fruit fly model identifies key regulators behind organ development

A new computational model simulating fruit fly wing development has enabled researchers to identify previously hidden mechanisms behind organ generation. Since organs develop in remarkably similar ways in fruit flies and people, biological insights from this model can be used to inform the …

A group photo of the students who participated in the 2024 ASCE competitions pose in front of their concrete canoe.

Notre Dame students receive 7 podium finishes in the 2024 ASCE Indiana-Kentucky Student Conference Symposium

The Notre Dame student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) received seven podium finishes at the 2024 ASCE Indiana-Kentucky Student Conference Symposium. Hosted this year by Purdue Northwest University, the competitions took place the weekend of April 11-13 and featured 12 …

Bill Phillip and Ryan Posh

Engineering professor and Ph.D. candidate honored with 2024 Notre Dame Graduate School awards

A faculty member and a Ph.D. candidate in Notre Dame’s College of Engineering have been honored with 2024 Notre Dame Graduate School awards for contributions to graduate education and research. William A. Phillip, Rooney Family Collegiate Chair of Engineering and professor in Chemical and …

Main Building framed by Notre Dame Avenue trees. Photo by Matt Cashore/University of Notre Dame.

Notre Dame engineers awarded 2024 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

Four Notre Dame Engineering students and recent graduates have been awarded 2024 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships and five have received an honorable mention. The fellowship program supports outstanding students (undergraduate and graduate) pursuing full-time …

Peter C Burns

Peter Burns elected as fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Peter Burns, the Henry Massman Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and director of Notre Dame’s Center for Sustainable Energy (ND Energy), has been elected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) as a lifetime fellow. AAAS is one of the world’s largest …

Nitesh Chawla wearing a navy jacket and blue striped tie on a gray background

Nitesh Chawla elected as fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Nitesh Chawla, Frank M. Freimann Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame and director of the Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society, has been elected as a fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The AAAS is …

An image of the JOIDES research vessel with a stormy sky in the background

Sea-going expedition unearths clues to ancient climate

Millions of years ago, cataclysmic tectonic events closed the passageway between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, triggering profound changes in ocean circulation, temperature and salinity.  The JOIDES Resolution, a 470-ft research vessel capable of drilling cores three miles below …