Category: Awards and Honors

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Notre Dame Awards Prestigious Engineering Postdoctoral Fellowships for 2025

This fall, the College of Engineering welcomes seven new postdoctoral fellows through the Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program and the Bioengineering and Life Sciences (BELS) initiative. Six of the fellows will join as part of the Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, a …

Ahsan Kareem

Notre Dame expert in resilient infrastructure elected to the European Academy of Sciences 

Ahsan Kareem, the Robert M. Moran Professor of Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences (CEEES) at the University of Notre Dame, has been elected to the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc). The honor recognizes his work advancing the safety and …

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Grace Pepperman ND ’25 likens civil engineers to Spider-Man in award-winning essay

What do civil engineers and Spider-Man have in common? “A lot,” maintains Grace Pepperman, a 2025 graduate of the University of Notre Dame’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, and second-place winner of the ASCE Daniel W. Mead Prize for her paper on …

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Seven engineering faculty named collegiate professors

Seven faculty members in the Notre Dame College of Engineering have been named collegiate professors—a prestigious title awarded by the university and college in recognition of excellence in research, teaching and service. The designation may be conferred on faculty at the assistant, associate …

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

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

Joannes Westerink

Joannes Westerink Awarded the 2025 International Coastal Engineering Award

Joannes Westerink, Joseph and Nona Ahearn Professor in Computational Science and Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences (CEEES) at the University of Notre Dame, and Richard Luettich, Jr., Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina at …

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Four Notre Dame Engineers recognized among 2025 Graduate School award winners

Four members of the Notre Dame engineering community have been named 2025 award recipients by the Graduate School, in recognition of their outstanding contributions to graduate education and research. The honorees include two faculty members and two doctoral students whose achievements reflect …

Ahsan Kareem

Ahsan Kareem Elected to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

Ahsan Kareem, the Robert M. Moran Professor of Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences (CEEES) at the University of Notre Dame, has been elected to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He will join the Academy’s division of Technical and …

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Ashley Thrall named Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors

The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has named Notre Dame faculty member Ashley Thrall, Myron and Rosemary Noble Collegiate Professor of Structural Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, to its 2024 class of Fellows. Election as an Academy …

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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 …