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Fluid force: Engineering students use pontoons to build 86-foot cable-stayed bridge

As the sun rose over Notre Dame’s Golden Dome, two engineering students adjusted their hip-waders and stepped into the cold water of Saint Joseph’s Lake, pushing pontoons loaded with aluminum beams. Their classmates on land dragged cables, tested power tools, and organized decking materials. …

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Notre Dame students receive 7 podium finishes in the 2024 ASCE Indiana-Kentucky Student Conference Symposium

The Notre Dame student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) received seven podium finishes at the 2024 ASCE Indiana-Kentucky Student Conference Symposium. Hosted this year by Purdue Northwest University, the competitions took place the weekend of April 11-13 and featured 12 …

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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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Cheers to Recipients of the College of Engineering Staff Excellence Awards (Spring 2024)

The Notre Dame College of Engineering is pleased to announce the Spring 2024 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 …

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Peter Burns elected as fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Peter Burns, the Henry Massman Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and director of Notre Dame’s Center for Sustainable Energy (ND Energy), has been elected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) as a lifetime fellow. AAAS is one of the world’s largest …

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Sea-going expedition unearths clues to ancient climate

Millions of years ago, cataclysmic tectonic events closed the passageway between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, …

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Six Notre Dame seniors complete Grand Challenges Scholars Program

Six seniors in the College of Engineering have completed the Notre Dame Grand Challenges Scholars …

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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) …

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Architect builds for planet and people: Prof. Ming Hu

When Ming Hu talks about engineering and architecture, two fields merge into one. Combining analytical and …

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Doubling the Capacity of the Panama Canal: How this colossal global engineering project was achieved—and how it is changing the world

Please join us for this Edison Lecture featuring Raul Romero, ND ’75, ’77 (Civil Engineering). April 18, 2024 …