Category: Awards and Honors

Jing Wang

Jing Wang named 2026 Outstanding Teacher in Notre Dame College of Engineering

Jing Wang, associate teaching professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, has won the 2026 Outstanding Teaching Award in the Notre Dame College of Engineering.  The award honors an engineering faculty member — selected each year by undergraduates in engineering — …

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Four Notre Dame Engineers among 2026 Graduate School award recipients

The Graduate School is pleased to announce its annual award winners for the 2025–2026 academic year. These awards include: the Distinguished Graduate Alumni Award; the Rev. James A. Burns, C.S.C., Awards; the Dick and Peggy Notebaert Award; the Eli J. and Helen Shaheen Graduate School Awards; …

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Brian Blagg Receives Top Honor; Engineering’s Moon and Pratt Earn Second and Third as Notre Dame and 1st Source Honor Faculty Innovation at Commercialization Awards Dinner

On Tuesday, March 24, University leaders, faculty members, and community partners gathered in downtown South Bend to celebrate research and innovation at the 1st Source Faculty Commercialization Award dinner. This event honors faculty researchers at the University of Notre Dame and Indiana …

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Notre Dame ranks among top 100 US universities granted utility patents for third straight year

The University of Notre Dame has earned a spot on the Top 100 U.S. Universities Granted Utility Patents in 2025, a list published annually by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). The Top 100 U.S. Universities ranking highlights and celebrates U.S. academic institutions that play a …

Meenal Datta, Yichun Wang, and Donny Hanjaya-Putra

Notre Dame Engineering faculty earn three consecutive CMBE Rising Star Awards (2024–26)

For three years in a row, a faculty member from the University of Notre Dame’s College of Engineering has won the prestigious CMBE Rising Star Award given by the Biomedical Engineering Society’s (BMES) Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Special Interest Group (CMBE-SIG). CMBE-SIG …

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Cheers to Recipients of the College of Engineering Staff Excellence Awards (Fall 2025)

The Notre Dame College of Engineering is pleased to announce the Fall 2025 recipients of the Staff Excellence Awards, which recognize staff members’ exemplary contributions above and beyond the scope of their standard job responsibilities. Award recipients are honored for having a substantial …

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Thomas Corke awarded the Dryden Lectureship in Research by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Thomas Corke, the Clark Equipment Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been selected by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) for its distinguished Dryden Lectureship in Research.  Corke will deliver his lecture, …

Meenal Datta

Meenal Datta named the Jane Schoelch DeFlorio Collegiate Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering 

Meenal Datta, assistant professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been named the inaugural Jane Schoelch DeFlorio Collegiate Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. “Professor Datta’s pioneering work brings to bear mechanical …

Meenal Datta

Meenal Datta receives the 2025 Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award from the Biomedical Engineering Society

Meenal Datta, the Jane Schoelch DeFlorio Collegiate Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been selected by the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) to receive its 2025 Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award. This single-recipient award is BMES’s …

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Pinar Zorlutuna elected to the Biomedical Engineering Society’s 2025 Class 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 Biomedical Engineering Society’s (BMES) 2025 Class of Fellows. Fellows are selected on the basis of their “exceptional achievements …