The time-honored Edisonian trial-and-error process of discovery is slow and labor-intensive. This hampers the development of urgently needed new technologies for clean energy and environmental sustainability, as well as for electronics and biomedical devices. “It usually takes 10 to 20 years …
Wearing hip-waders and carrying drills, Notre Dame engineering students built an 80-ft wooden truss bridge over a narrow waterway, connecting the main campus to the quarter-acre Duck Island on St. Joseph’s Lake. The bridge project is the centerpiece of the civil …
The Notre Dame student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) received top honors at the 2023 ASCE Indiana-Kentucky Student Conference Symposium. Hosted this year by Western Kentucky University, the competitions took place the weekend of April 13-15 and featured 12 student …
University of Notre Dame Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Michael M. Stanisic (right), a beloved teacher known for his wit and generous spirit, passed away unexpectedly on April 11. He was 65 years old. Stanisic joined the Notre Dame faculty in 1988 after earning bachelor’s, …
Brian Smith, teaching professor of civil and environmental engineering and earth sciences, is the recipient of the Notre Dame College of Engineering’s 2023 Outstanding Teacher Award. The award honors an engineering faculty member, selected each year by undergraduates in engineering, for …
Eleven Notre Dame engineering students and alums have been awarded 2023 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships, and one has received an honorable mention. The fellowship program supports outstanding students (undergraduate seniors and early-career graduate students) …
Twelve seniors in the College of Engineering have completed the Notre Dame Grand Challenges Scholars Program (GCSP). This program, inspired by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), equips students with the skills and knowledge necessary to find innovative solutions for society’s …
Rapid advances in computing require teachers to stay ahead of the technological curve, but who will teach the teachers? For the past seven summers, up to a dozen local area high-school STEM teachers have come to campus for research experiences through the National Science Foundation (NSF) …
Matthew J. Webber, Keating-Crawford Collegiate Professor of Engineering and associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been inducted as a fellow into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Election to …
With NASA funding, Notre Dame will lead a multi-institution, multi-million-dollar project to ensure safer skies Drones flying at low altitude are increasingly being used to support activities ranging from emergency response to package delivery to agricultural surveillance. How can we ensure …