Category: Awards and Honors

Downspout on the side of Cushing Hall of Engineering

Cheers to recipients of the 2023 College of Engineering Staff Excellence Awards

The Notre Dame College of Engineering is pleased to announce the recipients of the newly established Staff Excellence Awards, which recognize the exemplary contributions of staff members above and beyond the scope of their standard job responsibilities. Award recipients are honored for having a …

Monica C. Regalbuto honored with 2023 Notre Dame Distinguished Graduate Alumni Award

Monica C. Regalbuto, ND Ph.D. ’89 (chemical engineering) will receive the 2023 Notre Dame Distinguished Graduate Alumni Award, an award given annually to a graduate alumnus or alumna who has contributed significantly to scholarship, research or society.  She will be formally …

Laura M. Alderfer wins Notre Dame’s Shaheen Graduate Student Award

Laura M. Alderfer, Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate Program in Bioengineering, is the 2023 recipient of Notre Dame’s Eli J. and Helen Shaheen Graduate Student Award. She will be formally recognized for her achievements at the Graduate School Commencement Ceremony to be held at Notre …

Howard G. Adams, GEM inaugural executive director, to receive honorary doctorate from Notre Dame

Howard G. Adams, a leading expert on developing individuals through mentoring and strategic career and life planning, will be awarded an honorary doctor of science degree from the University of Notre Dame at the University’s 178th University Commencement Ceremony on May …

Brian Smith

Brian Smith named 2023 Outstanding Teacher in the Notre Dame College of Engineering

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 …

Matthew Webber

Matthew J. Webber named Fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering

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 …

Brad Weldon

Brad Weldon named Henry Massman Teaching Professor of Civil Engineering

Brad Weldon, teaching professor and director of undergraduate studies for Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences (CEEES), has been awarded a named professorship. He is now the Henry Massman Teaching Professor of Civil Engineering at Notre Dame. “Brad has been tremendous in …

Yih-Fang Huang and Ahsan Kareem

Two Notre Dame Engineering profs elected as AAAS lifetime fellows

Yih-Fang Huang, professor of electrical engineering and senior associate dean for education and undergraduate programs, and Ahsan Kareem, the Robert M. Moran Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, have been elected by the American Association for the Advancement of …

Pinar Zorlutuna

Pinar Zorlutuna named Roth-Gibson Professor of Bioengineering

Pinar Zorlutuna, professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been awarded an endowed professorship. She was named Notre Dame’s Roth-Gibson Professor of Bioengineering, effective January 1, 2023. “Appointment to an endowed chair is one of the …

Nitesh Chawla

Nitesh Chawla named fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for outstanding contributions in machine learning

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, has named Nitesh Chawla, Frank M. Freimann Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, a fellow. Chawla, an expert in machine learning, …