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Dr. C. Fred Higgs III Edison Lecture

C. Fred Higgs III to deliver ND Engineering Edison Lecture on Industry 4.0 and next-generation manufacturing

C. Fred Higgs III will deliver a Notre Dame Engineering Edison Lecture, “Industry 4.0 Design for Additive …

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Computer science and engineering researchers design more secure mobile contact tracing

For public health officials, contact tracing remains critical to managing the spread of the coronavirus — …

Danielle Merfeld

Danielle Merfeld (ND ’94) elected to National Academy of Engineering

Danielle W. Merfeld (ND ’94) vice president and chief technology officer, GE Renewable Energy, General Electric Co., …

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A powerful, pocket-sized optical imager, no longer science fiction

Before Wilhelm Röntgen, a mechanical engineer, discovered a new type of electromagnetic radiation in 1895, physicians …

Semiconducting oxide transistor

Electrical engineering team spotlighted for work developing a new kind of semiconductor memory

The work of a Notre Dame electrical engineering research team — including graduate students Wriddhi Chakraborty, …

David Burghoff

David Burghoff receives 2021 NSF Early Career Development Award

David Burghoff, assistant professor of electrical engineering, has received a 2021 National Science Foundation (NSF) …

Different colored samples in vials

New material shown to more efficiently desalinate water

By 2025, two-thirds of the world’s population could experience a freshwater shortage. To tackle this issue, …

Daryl Peterson

Daryl L. Peterson appointed Managing Director of Notre Dame’s Engineering Innovation Hub

Daryl L. Peterson, an engineer with more than two decades of experience in manufacturing at Deere & Company, has …

Gary Bernstein and Hsueh-Chia Chang

Engineers Bernstein and Chang elected Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors

Gary H. Bernstein, the Frank M. Freimann Professor of Electrical Engineering, and Hsueh-Chia Chang, the Bayer …

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Gift to Notre Dame Engineering to support diversity and equity

A gift from Lyndy (ND ’85) and Patrick Toole, Jr. (ND ’84) will establish the Lyndy and Patrick Toole, Jr., …