Category: Awards and Honors

Meenal Datta

Meenal Datta receives 2024 Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Young Innovator Award

Meenal Datta, assistant professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering, has received a Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Young Innovator Award. The award, given by the journal of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), recognizes 12 “rising stars” in the field of biomedical …

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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 …

Michelle Murray and Kassie Spencer

Two staff members from Notre Dame Engineering honored with 2024 Presidential Awards

The University of Notre Dame annually recognizes staff members who exemplify the University’s core values of accountability, teamwork, integrity, and leadership, as well as those who make exceptional contributions. This year, two individuals from the College of Engineering were among the 13 …

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Keeping an even keel: Notre Dame engineers take first place in AI-controlled boat competition

A team of seven Notre Dame Engineering students clinched the 2024 Overall Grand Champions title and took first place in the Course Challenge at the inaugural Artificial Intelligence Maritime Maneuver Indiana Collegiate Challenge (AIMM ICC). The event, a collaboration between Trine University …

Hsueh-Chia Chang, Jennifer Schaefer, and Jim Schmiedeler

Three engineering faculty win University awards in 2024

Three Notre Dame engineering professors have been honored with University awards for excellence in research, teaching and leadership. Hsueh-Chia Chang, Bayer Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, was the recipient of Notre Dame's Research Achievement Award. The award recognizes …

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Celebrating undergraduate excellence: 2024 awards from the Notre Dame College of Engineering

Notre Dame Engineering is pleased to announce the recipients of its annual college-wide awards to undergraduate students. Reverend Thomas A. Steiner, C.S.C. Award The Reverend Thomas A. Steiner, C.S.C. Award “for all around excellence as a graduating senior in the College of …

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Notre Dame engineers awarded 2024 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

Four Notre Dame Engineering students and recent graduates have been awarded 2024 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships and five have received an honorable mention. The fellowship program supports outstanding students (undergraduate and graduate) pursuing full-time …

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8 Engineering faculty win NSF CAREER awards in 2023-24

Between 2023-24, eight Notre Dame faculty in the College of Engineering received National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) awards in recognition of their potential as innovators, both in research and education. CAREER awards come with five years of …

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Pinar Zorlutuna elected to American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows

Pinar Zorlutuna, Roth-Gibson Professor of Bioengineering and Director of the Bioengineering Program at the University of Notre Dame, has been elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) 2024 College of Fellows. AIMBE Fellows represent the top two percent of …

Matthew Rosenberger

Matthew Rosenberger receives NSF CAREER award to improve nanoscale imaging techniques

Matthew Rosenberger, assistant professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award, one of the most prestigious honors awarded to early-career faculty.  Rosenberger’s research focuses on the …