Professor Maria Warren led the Women in Engineering Sustainability Trip over spring break this year, exploring sustainability, policy and leadership with undergraduate students. The group travelled to two different regions of Ireland — Dublin and Kylemore Abbey in Connemara. They toured …
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 …
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 …
The University of Notre Dame received an honorable mention from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the Taking Action: COVID-19 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Challenge. The challenge was designed to encourage institutions of higher education to “think deeply about the long-term, …
Safe water is unavailable to one in ten globally, and people living in poverty are disproportionally affected. Students in Notre Dame’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB-ND) are working in the remote village of San Pedro de Suma in Ecuador to assess the effectiveness of a water treatment …
The Notre Dame Rocketry Team (NDRT) marked its ten-year anniversary with its most successful performance to date, placing second overall in NASA’s 2022 Student Launch competition. Results were announced on June 2 and take into consideration the team’s performance in areas such as altitude, …
Notre Dame students gathered on campus before dawn to do what so many great engineers have done before them: build a bridge. https://youtu.be/c92VmQtojbM Prof. Luis Fargier-Gabaldón, who joined the faculty in fall 2021, is an expert in bridge design The students, …
Shreya Kumar, assistant teaching professor in Computer Science and Engineering, is a software engineer with a special interest in sharing computer know-how to make the world a better place. Her class, CSE Service Projects, delivers technology-based solutions—websites, apps, …
A team of Notre Dame undergraduate students has been selected to participate in the 2021 NASA University Student Research Challenge. Their project, Dronehook, is a fixed-wing package retrieval system that can pick up items from remote locations in a simple and energy-efficient fashion. The …