Category: Undergraduate Experience

Testing the Waters: Student engineers partner with rural community in Ecuador on clean water project

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 …

Bridging theory and practice: Engineering students build 100-foot suspension bridge on campus

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, …