Category: Undergraduate Innovation

A student kneels near her team's red and blue plane on the airstrip

Ideas with wings, and tails

When the farm fields surrounding the airstrip in Bremen, Indiana, were still untouched by green, Notre Dame seniors in Aerospace Design awaited their turn to subject their carefully crafted radio-control planes to the relentless force of gravity and the capricious winds of spring.  Each of …

Sarah and Patrick posing with the deployment subsystem after attachment to NASA's gondola.

Notre Dame’s IrishSat passes high-altitude NASA test in New Mexico desert

IrishSat’s payload guidance and recovery system, Iris, was one of two undergraduate projects selected by NASA for a test flight aboard its balloon-borne astronomical observatory. On August 19, Iris ascended 120,000 feet above the New Mexico desert — a milestone in the development of IrishSat's …

Sky’s the limit for Senior Design radio-controlled airplanes

For migrating birds and students taking Aerospace Senior Design, spring is a time for flight. In this two-semester capstone class, students design and build a wide array of radio-controlled airplanes. Securing the internal components before test flight of fiber-glass fuselage and foam wing …

IrishSat logo

Notre Dame IrishSat high-altitude balloon selected as finalist for NASA challenge

IrishSat's high-altitude balloon project, IRIS v3, was just selected by NASA as one of six finalists in the NASA FLOATing DRAGON design competition! Teams compete to design a system that can deploy a node from 120,000 feet and autonomously steer it to a safe waypoint on the ground. Notre …

IrishSAT students prepping to release the inflated balloon

Following the sun: IrishSat launches IRIS 2.0 to collect solar data

Notre Dame’s new satellite club IrishSat launched this year's high-altitude balloon, IRIS 2.0, into the cloudless, blue sky above White Field near campus. The club, which was established last year, will use launch data to apply for membership in NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI). CSLI …

2021 Innovate-O-Thon participants

Three cheers for the 2021 ND Engineering Innovate-O-Thon!

Forty-five students from across campus came together to compete in the 2021 Notre Dame Engineering Innovate-O-Thon, an 18-hour innovation challenge sponsored by Marmon Holdings, Inc., a global industrial organization based in Chicago. Nine teams strategized, conceptualized, and presented a …

Innovate-o-thon sponsored by Marmon Holdings and the Notre Dame Engineering Innovation Hub

Ready. Set. Innovate.

Like working in a team to find solutions to real-world problems? Then sign up for the College of Engineering’s 2021 Innovate-o-Thon, sponsored by Marmon Holdings. You’ll have 18 hours to work with your team to solve the mystery engineering challenge proposed by Marmon Holdings company …

DeLive Student Co-founders Zachary Kousens ’20 and Nathaniel Hanson ’20 with a drone and aev with the Golden Dome in background

Defibrillators by drone

A class project in Computer Science and Engineering is going beyond the classroom as a prospective new student startup company. The project, called DeLive, is designed to deliver defibrillators by drone to emergencies so bystanders can save lives before rescue workers arrive. Notre Dame …