Internationally recognized biomedical engineer John P. Fisher will join the University of Notre Dame as the Sabey Family Director of the campus-wide Bioengineering & Life Sciences Initiative (BELS) and Arthur J. Schmitt Professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical …
Cave entrances often appear black and forbidding. Light enters, but little escapes, absorbed as it “bounces around” the interior. To trap light in much the same way, engineers at the University of Notre Dame have devised a superblack material from a matrix of microscopic, …
Airborne hazardous chemicals can be dilute, mobile, and hard to trap. Yet accurately measuring these chemicals is critical in protecting human health and the environment. Now, a new, small, low-cost device, nicknamed ABLE, could make the collection and detection of airborne hazards much …
Mars is cold, dusty, and full of radiation—too dangerous, too far away, and too expensive for astronauts. But rovers—smart, mobile robots—can move like mini explorers across the Red Planet’s surface, taking pictures, analyzing soil samples, and studying the atmosphere. Building a …
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 …
Power plants, factories, car engines—everything that consumes energy produces heat, much of which is wasted. Thermoelectric devices could capture this wasted heat and convert it into electricity, but their production has been prohibitively costly and complex. Yanliang Zhang, Advanced …
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, 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, 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 …
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 …