Category: Academic and industry engagement

Meenal Datta, a woman with long black hair, wearing a blue blazer and patterned blouse, stands in a laboratory with scientific equipment and glassware in the background. She has a confident and professional expression.

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 commercial runway capable spaceplane. The launch will also be a momentous occasion for University of Notre Dame researcher Meenal Datta. Among the spaceplane’s cargo, contained within a …

Engineering Innovation Hub. (Photo by Barbara Johnston/University of Notre Dame)

Engineering Innovation Hub opens at Notre Dame

The University of Notre Dame’s Engineering Innovation Hub (EIH) has opened its doors to students and industry partners. The new 10,000-square-foot facility offers a state-of-the-art experiential learning and advanced manufacturing environment with first-rate resources for collaboration, …

Daryl Peterson

Daryl L. Peterson appointed Managing Director of Notre Dame’s Engineering Innovation Hub

Daryl L. Peterson, an engineer with more than two decades of experience in manufacturing at Deere & Company, has been appointed the first managing director of the University of Notre Dame’s Engineering Innovation Hub and a professor of the practice in the College of Engineering. The …