Finding fusion: an engineer and neurosurgeon unite to improve spinal surgery
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Finding fusion: an engineer and neurosurgeon unite to improve spinal surgery
It is the summer of 2023, and Dr. Stephen Smith sits face-to-face with a model skeleton in the Engineering North …
Airborne disease detection made easier with new, low-cost device
Airborne hazardous chemicals can be dilute, mobile, and hard to trap. Yet accurately measuring these chemicals is …
Notre Dame’s Meenal Datta launches cancer research — and students’ careers — through space industry partnerships
With its first voyage, planned for later this year, the Dream Chaser will make history as the only …
Big builds, little pieces: ND senior Luke Horwath competes on TV show LEGO Masters
Luke Horwath, a senior mechanical engineering major at the University of Notre Dame, is competing on the American …
Notre Dame announces 2025 Strategic Framework Grant recipients
The University of Notre Dame has announced the awardees of its 2025 Strategic Framework Grant (SFG) …
Gaining traction: Domer Rover sets sights on 2026 Mars Society competition
Mars is cold, dusty, and full of radiation—too dangerous, too far away, and too expensive for astronauts. But …
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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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