“We are thrilled to welcome this outstanding group of new faculty to the College of Engineering,” said Patricia J. Culligan, Matthew H. McCloskey Dean of Notre Dame’s College of Engineering. “Their wide-ranging expertise and innovative research will help shape the future of engineering, strengthen our academic community, and provide transformative opportunities for our students to learn, lead, and make a difference in our world.”
Nine new faculty members will join the College of Engineer this fall, including several who had deferred their start dates.
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Dasha Gloutak
Assistant Professor
Experimental fluid mechanics including aerodynamics, unsteady flows, and compressible flows
Madeline Peck
Assistant Professor
Boundary layers transition from laminar to turbulent flow in hypersonic regimes
Megan Prygoski
Assistant Teaching Professor
Focuses on teaching methodologies that develop confident, adaptable problem solvers.
Adrienne Scott
Assistant Professor
Biomechanics and tissue remodeling during pregnancy that influence cellular behavior.
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Joule Bergerson
Richard and Ellen Stanley Professor of Energy Systems Engineering
Director, ND Energy
Develops tools to assess the economic and environmental impacts of emerging energy technologies, helping stakeholders evaluate trade-offs and advance strategies to more aggressively reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.
Computer Science and Engineering
Tingyu Cheng
Assistant Professor
Human-computing interaction, sustainable computing and soft robotics.
Paul “Will” McBurney
Associate Teaching Professor
Software engineering, program comprehension, source code analysis, information retrieval, repository mining, software evolution and maintenance, and traceability.
Electrical Engineering
Toros Arikan
Assistant Professor
Signal processing for remote sensing problems, including new localization, environment mapping, and tracking methods for underwater acoustic and indoor radio frequency applications
Steven Koester
Frank M. Freimann Professor of Microelectronics
Director, NDnano
Novel electronic, photonic, spintronic, and sensing device concepts, particularly those using 2D materials and wide bandgap semiconductors
— Karla Cruise, Notre Dame Engineering