Author: College of Engineering

The 2024 Notre Dame Rocketry Team rocket launches from a field

Notre Dame Rocketry Team soars to victory

The University of Notre Dame’s Rocketry Team (NDRT) was declared the overall winner of NASA’s 2024 University Student Launch Initiative. “Notre Dame succeeded at every milestone, exhibiting discipline, and a commitment to quality that ultimately ended in a spectacular competition …

Thomas J. Mueller

Thomas J. Mueller, professor emeritus of aerospace and mechanical engineering

Thomas J. Mueller, professor emeritus of aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Notre Dame and a leading authority on aerodynamics, died Sunday (Dec. 4). He was 88.  A Chicago native, Mueller joined Notre Dame’s Department of Aerospace and Mechanical …

Maria Holland

Maria Holland receives Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) from NIH

Maria Holland, assistant professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has received the Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), part of the National Institutes of Health. The award, …

Tengfei Luo

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 endowed professorship. He was named Notre Dame’s Dorini Family Professor of Energy Studies on July 1, 2022. Appointment to an endowed chair is one of the highest honors in the …

Maria Warren and Craig Goehler

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 Warren, assistant teaching professor, has a background in the experimental mechanics of impulsively loaded structures and computational modeling of porous materials. Her areas of …