Category: Awards and Honors

Joanna Santos

Santos wins Google Research Award

Joanna Cecilia da Silva Santos, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has received a Google Research Scholar Award for her project “Leveraging the Power of LLMs to Generate Security Tests for Mobile Apps.” The project’s goal is to make …

Meenal Datta

Meenal Datta receives 2024 Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Young Innovator Award

Meenal Datta, assistant professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering, has received a Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Young Innovator Award. The award, given by the journal of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), recognizes 12 “rising stars” in the field of biomedical …

Matthew Morrison

Matt Morrison recognized as champion for the advancement of women in the semiconductor industry

The Global Semiconductor Alliance Women's Leadership Initiative (WLI) recently recognized Matt Morrison, Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, with their Allyship Award. The Allyship Program recognizes and celebrates men who champion the advancement …

Sharon Hu

Sharon Hu named Leo E. and Patti Ruth Linbeck Professor of Engineering

Xiaobo Sharon Hu, professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been awarded an endowed chair—the highest honor a university can bestow upon faculty. Hu was named Notre Dame’s Leo E. and Patti Ruth Linbeck Professor of Engineering, effective July 1, …

Gregory Snider

Gregory Snider named Robert W. and Alice M. Bauchman Professor in Engineering

Gregory Snider, professor of electrical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been awarded an endowed professorship. He was named Notre Dame’s Robert W. and Alice M. Bauchman Professor in Engineering, effective July 1, 2024.  “Appointment to an endowed chair is a …

The 2024 Notre Dame Rocketry Team rocket launches from a field

Notre Dame Rocketry Team soars to victory

The University of Notre Dame’s Rocketry Team (NDRT) was declared the overall winner of NASA’s 2024 University Student Launch Initiative. “Notre Dame succeeded at every milestone, exhibiting discipline, and a commitment to quality that ultimately ended in a spectacular competition …

Michelle Murray and Kassie Spencer

Two staff members from Notre Dame Engineering honored with 2024 Presidential Awards

The University of Notre Dame annually recognizes staff members who exemplify the University’s core values of accountability, teamwork, integrity, and leadership, as well as those who make exceptional contributions. This year, two individuals from the College of Engineering were among the 13 …

2024 AIMM team trophies on a light gray background

Keeping an even keel: Notre Dame engineers take first place in AI-controlled boat competition

A team of seven Notre Dame Engineering students clinched the 2024 Overall Grand Champions title and took first place in the Course Challenge at the inaugural Artificial Intelligence Maritime Maneuver Indiana Collegiate Challenge (AIMM ICC). The event, a collaboration between Trine University …

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 …

The University seal on the south entrance to campus at the end of Notre Dame Avenue

Celebrating undergraduate excellence: 2024 awards from the Notre Dame College of Engineering

Notre Dame Engineering is pleased to announce the recipients of its annual college-wide awards to undergraduate students. Reverend Thomas A. Steiner, C.S.C. Award The Reverend Thomas A. Steiner, C.S.C. Award “for all around excellence as a graduating senior in the College of …