Category: Awards and Honors

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 …

Pinar Zorlutuna

Pinar Zorlutuna named National Academy of Sciences Kavli Fellow

Pinar Zorlutuna, professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, was named a National Academy of Sciences Kavli Fellow. Kavli fellows are selected from among early-career award winners in the U.S. and abroad. Zorlutuna investigates and develops micro and …

Maria Holland

Maria Holland receives NSF CAREER award to advance understanding of the role of mechanics in the human brain

Maria Holland, Clare Boothe Luce assistant professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering, has received the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award to advance her biomechanics-informed research on variations in cerebral cortex …

Fernando in front of LIDAR

Harindra Joseph Fernando elected as Fellow of the American Geophysical Union

Harindra Joseph Fernando, the Wayne and Diana Murdy Endowed Professor of Engineering and Geosciences, has been elected as a fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). He will be formally recognized with the 2021 Class of Fellows during the AGU Fall Meeting in December in New …

Pinar Zorlutuna

Zorlutuna named to Cellular and Molecular Technologies Study Section of NIH Center for Scientific Review

Pinar Zorlutuna, Sheehan Family Collegiate Professor of Engineering, has been named a member of the Cellular and Molecular Technologies Study Section of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Center for Scientific Review. Members are selected on the basis of “demonstrated competence and …

Jian-Xun Wang

Jian-Xun Wang receives 2021 NSF CAREER Award for data-augumented cardiovascular modeling

Jian-Xun Wang, assistant professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering, has received a 2021 National Science Foundation Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, one of the highest honors given by the U.S. government to young faculty members in engineering and science. Wang focuses on …

Prof. Donny Hanjaya-Putra

Donny Hanjaya-Putra receives National Science Foundation CAREER Award

Donny Hanjaya-Putra, assistant professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering, has received a National Science Foundation Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, one of the highest honors from the U.S. government to young faculty members in engineering and science. Hanjaya-Putra integrates …

Sacred Heart Jesus statue and Washington Hall

Celebrating Undergraduate Excellence: 2021 Steiner Award Recipients

The College of Engineering is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2021 Reverend Thomas A. Steiner, C.S.C., Award. These seniors, one in each major, have been selected for their high level of academic excellence as well as dedication to engineering and a commitment to the common good …

Yanliang Zhang

Yanliang Zhang receives International Thermoelectric Society 2020 Young Investigator Award

Yanliang Zhang, associate professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering, has been named the 2020 International Thermoelectric Society Young Investigator. The award recognizes his innovative work on additive manufacturing and scalable nanomanufacturing for flexible thermoelectric materials …

Matthew Zahr

Matthew Zahr receives Air Force Young Investigator award

Matthew J. Zahr, assistant professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering, has received a Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. The YIP Award was created to foster creative basic research in science and engineering, enhance early …