Category: Undergraduate Experience

Prof. Warren and the students take a selfie

Notre Dame Women in Engineering 2023 Sustainability Trip to Ireland

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 …

CEEES bridge builders standing on the completed bridge

Timber, steel, and teamwork: Engineering students build and deconstruct 80-ft truss bridge over water

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 …

Group photo of the 2023 Notre Dame ASCE champions on stage.

Notre Dame students named champions of 2023 ASCE Indiana-Kentucky Student Conference Symposium

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 …

Grand Challenges Scholars students

Twelve Notre Dame seniors complete Grand Challenges Scholars Program

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 …

Graduate students participating in an orientation event in front of Hesburgh Library

Notre Dame receives honorable mention in NSF Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Challenge focusing on STEM

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, …

Testing the Waters: Student engineers partner with rural community in Ecuador on clean water project

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 …

ND Rocketry group photo with their rocket

Notre Dame Rocketry Team takes second place in NASA 2022 Student Launch

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, …

Bridging theory and practice: Engineering students build 100-foot suspension bridge on campus

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

Programming a better world: Computer science prof and students share tech savvy with community

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, …

Notre Dame student team wins NASA research award for drone scoop and grab technology

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 …