Leprechauns are small, bearded tricksters known for making shoes and mischief. Not anymore. Today’s Notre Dame leprechauns are more likely to be working with Navier-stokes equations and coding with C++ than cobbling shoes. Two women engineers portray the Notre Dame leprechaun this year: …
Meenal Datta, assistant professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering, has received a Young Investigator Program (YIP) award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). The AFOSR YIP is one of the nation’s most selective research early-career awards in science and …
Vital sign monitors are essential both in clinical settings and, increasingly, at home. But even state-of-the-art monitors can produce inaccurate readings, mistaking irrelevant, motion-related signals for critical patient data. The underlying cause of these inaccuracies is often the significant …
Notre Dame’s Bioengineering & Life Sciences Initiative has announced significant investments aimed at enhancing and growing biomedical research at the University. These include funding of four new cross-disciplinary faculty research teams and a milestone instrument acquisition that will …
A faculty member and a Ph.D. candidate in Notre Dame’s College of Engineering have been honored with College of Engineering Outstanding Research Mentoring Awards for contributions to undergraduate education and research. The awards were based on nominations from undergraduate students who …
Tengfei Luo and Matthew J. Webber have been named Senior Members by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), making …
The phrase “robotic exosuit” likely calls to mind something metallic, rigid, and hinged. We might think of Iron …
The lymphatic system plays a vital role in many health issues, such as heart disease, neurodegenerative conditions, …
Wind spirals and swirls around wind turbines in complex, chaotic patterns that are difficult to predict. Accurately …
Joseph M. Powers, professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been named a …