Fighting to cure brain cancer
To better understand glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer, Notre Dame Engineering’s Meenal Datta thought outside the box—and off planet Earth.
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3D-bioprinted model offers new way to study and treat obesity-related heart disease
Heart disease is the leading cause of death among people with obesity, a condition affecting one in eight people …
Notre Dame Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering welcomes machine learning expert Shivam Barwey
During the spring semester, the University of Notre Dame’s College of Engineering welcomed Shivam Barwey as an …
Leading biomedical engineer John Fisher to direct Notre Dame’s Bioengineering & Life Sciences Initiative
Internationally recognized biomedical engineer John Fisher will join the University of Notre Dame as director of the …
Notre Dame Engineering faculty earn three consecutive CMBE Rising Star Awards (2024–26)
For three years in a row, a faculty member from the University of Notre Dame’s College of Engineering has won the …
Physical pressure on the brain triggers neurons’ self-destruction programming
To think, feel, talk and move, neurons send messages through electrical signals in the brain and spinal cord. This …
Closer to the stars: Notre Dame students design and build their own Dobsonian telescope
Galileo did not invent the telescope, but he did engineer it into a precise scientific instrument. By grinding and …
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Hessert Laboratory for Aerospace Research and Hessert Laboratory at White Field are among the world’s finest university-based aerospace research facilities. They feature 19 major high-speed wind tunnels that generate the near-flight conditions for groundbreaking work in aerospace engineering, as well as labs and equipment that support investigations in aero-acoustics, aero-optics, fluid-structure interactions, gas-turbine propulsion, general flow control, hypersonics, multi-phase flows, sensor and flow actuator development, and wind energy.
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Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering offers two undergraduate degree programs, one in Aerospace Engineering and one in Mechanical Engineering.
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Students contribute to campus life and the engineering profession through many clubs and organizations, including the Rocket Team, BajaSAE, NDSeed, Engineers without Borders, the marching band, glee club, liturgical choir, and many others.
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