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. …
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 …
Six seniors in the College of Engineering have completed the Notre Dame Grand Challenges Scholars Program (GCSP). This program, inspired by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), equips students with the skills and knowledge necessary to find innovative solutions for society’s …
Professor Maria Warren led the Women in Engineering Sustainability Trip over spring break this year, exploring sustainability, policy and leadership with undergraduate students. The group travelled to two different regions of Ireland — Dublin and Kylemore Abbey in Connemara. They toured …
Wearing hip-waders and carrying drills, Notre Dame engineering students built an 80-ft wooden truss bridge over a narrow waterway, connecting the main campus to the quarter-acre Duck Island on St. Joseph’s Lake. The bridge project is the centerpiece of the civil …
The Notre Dame student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) received top honors at the 2023 ASCE Indiana-Kentucky Student Conference Symposium. Hosted this year by Western Kentucky University, the competitions took place the weekend of April 13-15 and featured 12 student …
Safe water is unavailable to one in ten globally, and people living in poverty are disproportionally affected. Students in Notre Dame’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB-ND) are working in the remote village of San Pedro de Suma in Ecuador to assess the effectiveness of a water treatment …
Notre Dame students gathered on campus before dawn to do what so many great engineers have done before them: build a bridge. https://youtu.be/c92VmQtojbM Prof. Luis Fargier-Gabaldón, who joined the faculty in fall 2021, is an expert in bridge design The students, …