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Engineering in Photos: March 2025

Every month, our college photographer is out and about capturing the energy, creativity, and everyday moments across Notre Dame Engineering. This photo collection highlights just some of what they saw in March 2025—from classroom projects and research breakthroughs to awards, events, and campus life. It’s not everything that happened, but it’s a glimpse into a few of the things that made the month memorable.

2025 Women in Engineering Impact Award

On a basketball court, Dean Patricia Culligan, wearing a green jacket, presents the 2025 Catherine F. Pieronek ND Women in Engineering Impact Award to Prof. Todd Taylor, who is dressed in a green polo shirt. They are flanked by two members of Catherine Pieronek’s family, both clapping. The background shows a crowd and a scoreboard indicating a Notre Dame game against Louisville.
A young girl pedals a stationary bike that powers a blender, making a smoothie. A Notre Dame engineering student in a sweatshirt and gloves monitors the blender. Other students stand behind a table with supplies, engaging with the activity.
A group of young children in Notre Dame-themed clothing gathers around a table, participating in a STEM activity to make stress balls. Three engineering students pour and mix ingredients while an older woman in a Notre Dame sweatshirt observes. The background features informational displays.
A group of eleven women, many wearing Notre Dame Engineering or Society of Women Engineers shirts, poses with a navy and gold "ND Engineering" banner. They stand and kneel in a well-lit room with sports memorabilia in the background.

Todd Taylor, associate teaching professor, receives the 2025 Catherine F. Pieronek Women in Engineering Impact Award, at a women’s basketball game. Society of Women Engineers (SWE) organized engineering activities for children attending the game, including a bike-powered blender that makes strawberry smoothies.

CEEES Students Build Mechanical Fish

Two female students closely inspect a small robotic fish while discussing its design.
Diogo Bolster, chair of the CEEES department, examines a robotic fish prototype with two female students in a workshop setting.
Three male students examine their mechanical fish design before testing it in a wooden tank that’s half water and half corn syrup, simulating different fluid conditions.
A female student lowers a mechanical fish into a long testing tank, preparing to evaluate its performance in a fluid.

In this civil engineering class, Build, Break, Perfect, students apply physics concepts to design and build a mechanical fish capable of swimming in water and a more viscous fluid—corn syrup.

EE’s Study Diode Signal Modeling

A female student sits at a workstation taking handwritten notes while classmates work with lab equipment in the background.
Two male students reach toward electronic lab equipment while taking notes, participating in a diode signal modeling experiment.
A female student focuses on calculations using a scientific calculator at a desk with electronic components. A male student in the background reads from a sheet of paper on the tabletop.
A female student in the foreground uses an oscilloscope and signal generator to examine waveform outputs during a diode signal modeling lab. Two male students in the background work with similar equipment.

Electrical engineering sophomores in Devices and Systems working on lab experiments to better understand small and large diode signal modeling.

Understanding Light in Optical Fibers

Close-up of students' hands adjusting an optical component while aligning a red laser beam on a laboratory optical table.
An instructor gestures while explaining equipment to a student in a lab setting focused on optical fiber experiments.
Two students work together in a lab to align an optical fiber setup using equipment on a long lab bench, with a red laser beam visible on a screen.
Close-up of students observing a digital display on a lab device.

Students studying how light is launched and guided by optical fibers, the backbone of today’s high-speed data communications networks. They learn to prepare, align—with the assistance of a red helium-neon (HeNe) laser beam—and splice optical fibers.

Stretchable Bioelectronics Research

Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering’s Yanliang Zhang and postdoctoral researcher Kaidong Song examine their fully printed novel health monitoring device in a research lab filled with technical equipment and machines.
A thin, stretchable bioelectronic device adhered to a wrist, featuring intricate black circuitry patterns on a transparent film.

Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering’s Yanliang Zhang and postdoctoral research associate Kaidong Song, together with colleagues at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Purdue University, have created a stretchable bioelectronics material that seamlessly transitions between soft tissues and stiff electronics.

Staff Engagement – Watercolor Painting

Close-up of a person’s hands painting pink and yellow tulips with watercolor on white paper, surrounded by a brush, pencil, color wheel, and palette.
Two staff members sit side by side at a table, concentrating on their watercolor painting projects with palettes and supplies laid out in front of them.
Three women staff members are in the foreground with other staff and the instructor in the background. They all are painting on an instruction sheet.
Two women staff members work on painting different colored tulips on a practice sheet

Members of the College of Engineering staff took part in a spring flowers watercolor class sponsored by the Staff Engagement and Culture Committee.

Engineers Wear Green Pop-Up Shop

Four students wearing green ND Engineering beanies stand next to a sign promoting the "ND Engineering Pop-Up Shop." The sign mentions the event date, time, and that the beanies are free in limited quantities. The students are smiling, and the background includes bicycles and Fitzpatrick Hall of Engineering.
A busy outdoor event outside Fitzpatrick Hall of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame shows students walking past a pop-up stand handing out green beanies and stickers for St. Patrick’s Day. A long line of students waits near the building, while others move past, appearing blurred due to motion. The stand has shelves stocked with green beanies and a blue backdrop with the Notre Dame Engineering logo.
Three students wearing green Notre Dame beanies smile while holding up ND-themed stickers outside Fitzpatrick Hall of Engineering during the pop-up shop event.
A GrubHub Starship robot with a green ND Engineering beanie on, next to students waiting in line.

Engineering students celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with free gear at a College-sponsored, pop-up shop.

CSE Robotics Studio

Two female students work together at a classroom table to assemble and wire a three-wheeled robot, with a laptop open beside them.
A male student wearing a green shirt uses a screwdriver to adjust components on a small robotic vehicle at a classroom table.
A female student sits at a table with a laptop, working on code or control systems for a three-wheeled robot placed nearby.

Computer Science students designing and constructing a full motion, three-wheeled robot, using CAD, 3D printing, motion control systems, electrical circuits, sound and lighting systems, video processing, communication protocols, and Raspberry Pi computers.

Mechanical Engineering Senior Design

Two students work with wiring and electronic components at a shared workstation, assembling part of a robotics or control system.
Two students sit at a table examining small components and electronics, surrounded by circuit boards, tools, and packaging.
Two students collaborate on a robotics project at a table, surrounded by laptops, cables, and parts, with one student holding a small motor or sensor.
Neetu, AME Electronic Design and Support Technician, stands with a male student examining a device closely and discussing its features, while other students work on similar projects in the background of a busy lab.

Students work on the “brain and nervous system” of their Mobile Construction Assistants—mechatronic systems that transport and deliver materials to a construction zone and assemble a small structure.

Aerospace Engineering Senior Design

A group of five students, two female and three male, collaboratively assembles a large wooden wing structure for a radio-controlled airplane on a classroom workbench.
One male and one female student work together to glue and align parts of a wooden aircraft frame on a shared tabletop workspace.
Three students, one male and two female, work on a purple airplane
A male student in a white t-shirt concentrates on wiring components into a wooden aircraft fuselage during airplane construction.
Three students, two female and one male, work on a blue airplane
A male student holds up a wooden component, inspecting its alignment and connections in a busy design lab.
Two female students work on the body of a green airplane

Teams of students in Aero Senior Design build radio-controlled airplanes, making sure their designs are flight-ready and able to complete their assigned missions.

CBE Students Study Temperature, Pressure and Thermodynamic Cycle

A male chemical engineering student in safety goggles adjusts valves and tubing on lab equipment used for thermodynamic experiments.
Two students work together at a control panel; one adjusts lab equipment while the other types on a laptop to collect data.
A female student in a blue lab coat and goggles uses a pressure gauge to examine a large stainless steel tank in a chemical engineering lab.
A male student in a blue lab coat observes and adjusts a series of valves and pipes connected to a thermodynamic testing station.
Two female students at a lab bench as they examine sensors and measurements on a data sheet next to complex machinery.
A male student in goggles peers into the opening of a large insulated metal tank, possibly checking fluid levels or internal components.

In the Schleckser Lab, juniors in chemical and biomolecular engineering examine how the temperature of a solid changes when subjected to increases or decreases in surface temperature. Others examine pressure drop/flow rate relationships for various pipes and fittings and examine a standard thermodynamic cycle to generate electricity from heat.

You Got the Job—Now What?

Around a conference table, students listen to recent ND Engineering grads now working at Apple, who are joined remotely over Zoom, during the “You Got the Job, Now What?” event.

Recent ND graduates now working for Apple shared their experiences navigating internships and professional positions with Engineering students. 

Mechanical Engineering Careers Course Alumni Panel

Students attend a biomedical alumni panel in a classroom setting as part of the Mechanical Engineering Careers Course. Panelists speak at the front while students listen and take notes in tiered seating.

Engineering students attend a biomedical alumni panel, part of the Mechanical Engineering Careers Course, featuring guest speakers from a wide-range of professions plus workshops on developing job-focused skills such as resume and cover letter writing, interviewing and networking.

CBE Food Science Class: Making Pasta

A female student in an apron smiles while wearing a playful pink fake mustache and kneading pasta dough during a food science lab.
Two students, one male and one female, use a pasta roller to flatten dough onto a tray, concentrating on the food preparation process.
Two students, one male and one female, wearing aprons operate a hand-crank pasta machine, feeding dough through rollers.
Five female students wearing aprons gather around a classroom table, preparing ingredients and mixing dough as part of a pasta-making activity.
Three students, one male and two female, in aprons collaborate at a lab station, portioning pasta and using utensils near a hot plate or cooking setup.
A female student lifts freshly cut pasta to examine its texture while another watches nearby, both wearing aprons and working at a lab table.
A female student carefully places strands of fresh pasta onto a drying rack in the classroom lab environment.

In an application of chemical engineering concepts and processes to food processing, students in this class make, roll, and extrude pasta.

This photo collection was produced by the Notre Dame Engineering Communications and Marketing team. Photos by Wes Evard, Notre Dame Engineering