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Tengfei Luo named Dorini Family Professor of Energy Studies
Tengfei Luo, professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been awarded an …
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering welcomes new teaching faculty
The Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering is pleased to welcome two new members of the faculty. Maria …
Mobile assist: ROAM engineering lab developing powered prosthesis to aid natural movement
Grasping the railing of a stopped treadmill in the basement of Fitzpatrick Hall of Engineering, Laura Light broke into …
Engineering bioactive nanoparticles to restore damaged stem cells
Within a newborn’s umbilical cord lie potentially life-saving stem cells that can be used to fight diseases like …
Notre Dame Rocketry Team takes second place in NASA 2022 Student Launch
The Notre Dame Rocketry Team (NDRT) marked its ten-year anniversary with its most successful performance to date, …
Senior design airplanes take flight
On April 26, seniors in the aerospace capstone course brought their remote-controlled planes to the South Bend Radio …
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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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Spotlight on Research in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Fighting to go faster and farther than ever thought possible
Prof. Tom Juliano works at the next frontier of aerospace research, using the Mach-6 wind tunnel in the Hessert Laboratory for Aerospace Research to solve complex issues in high-speed flight. Plans are underway for a Mach-10 quiet tunnel that will extend research in this area to yet higher speeds.
