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David B. Go, professor and chair of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, has been awarded an endowed professorship. He will become Notre Dame’s Viola D. Hank Professor in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, effective January 1, 2022.

“Appointment to an endowed...

Yanliang Zhang, associate professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering, and Ph.D. student Yipu Du have created an innovative hybrid printing method — combining multi-material aerosol jet printing and extrusion printing — that integrates both functional and structural materials into a...

There’s nothing like the smell of freshly brewed coffee in the morning. But how does one measure that smell?

Reconstructing the entire spectrum of light from complex sources is vital for a number of applications — from medical imaging and drug development to national security.

David Burghoff, assistant professor of electrical engineering, and his team have...

Professor Schaefer's National Science Foundation funded project, “Engineering All-Solid Metal-Sulfur Batteries: Transport, Speciation, and Kinetics in Sulfur Copolymer Composite Cathodes,” explores the fundamental knowledge needed to develop new batteries based on sustainable materials that offer improved safety and lighter weight.

Ruilan Guo, the Frank M. Freimann Associate Professor of Engineering, will join the editorial board of Polymer, an interdisciplinary journal dedicated to publishing innovative and significant advances in polymer physics, chemistry, and technology. Her term begins August 1, 2021.

Notre Dame students and faculty gathered on May 11 for the first high-altitude balloon launch by IrishSat, a new student-run satellite development group.

David Burghoff, assistant professor of electrical engineering, has received the Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) award from the Office of Naval Research for his project “Frequency comb ptychoscopy: Imaging beyond the resolution-delay limit.”…

The human body is an incredibly designed machine, and mechanical processes such as those in the lymphatic system play major roles in maintaining healthy tissue and organs.

Before Wilhelm Röntgen, a mechanical engineer, discovered a new type of electromagnetic radiation in 1895, physicians could only dream of being able to see inside the body. Within a year of Röntgen’s discovery,...

The award is one of the NSF’s highest honors given in support of young faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in education and research.

A frequency comb is a laser with a twist that emits many uniformly spaced optical wavelengths. The regularity of the spacing between lines — the comb’s teeth — serves as a ruler for measuring light frequencies.

David Burghoff, assistant...

Election to NAI Fellow is the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors.

One of the greatest challenges in treating disease is developing better ways to direct drugs only to those sites where drug activity is desired. Many drugs act indiscriminately on tissues throughout the body, leading to side effects that render them...

A team from Notre Dame in collaboration with researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, Cornell University, and the University of Massachusetts at Lowell has shown how the optical properties of epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) materials can be engineered to improve...

The Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering is pleased to announce faculty promotions and new hires for the 2020 academic year.

David B. Go has been selected to chair the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering beginning November 1, 2020.

A team led by Professor Tengfei Luo is developing novel materials for use in thermoelectric generators. These generators are used in industry to capture the largely untapped energy in heat “wasted” in many manufacturing applications.

Notre Dame researchers will use data from the new high-speed light detectors to determine the temperature of the sun’s lower atmosphere, measure the spectrum of solar flares and gain a better understanding of the role magnetic fields play in solar flare...

A team of engineers, including two AME undergraduates and a Ph.D. student in mechanical engineering, have published research that explores making plasma devices that can be operated without electrical power — they need only human or mechanical energy.

Jennifer L. Schaefer and Matthew J. Webber have been named 2020 Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering oung Investigators by the PSME Division of the American Chemical Society.

Yanliang Zhang has been named the 2020 International Thermoelectric Society Young Investigator. The award recognizes his innovative work on additive manufacturing and scalable nanomanufacturing for flexible thermoelectric materials and devices.

The purpose of the project, “Dissipative non-equilibrium supramolecular hydrogels using fuels,” is to create a new material paradigm at the intersection of supramolecular chemistry and soft materials. He and his team will be studying materials and systems that exhibit transient states and enable...

Sangpil Yoon, assistant professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and an NDnano affiliated faculty member, received the 2020 National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Development (CAREER) Award.

Alexander W. Dowling, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has received a 2020 National Science Foundation Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, the highest honor given by the U.S. government to young faculty members in engineering and science.

Thomas O’Sullivan, assistant professor of electrical engineering, is leading a team to develop the first “smart” breast clip, a device that could revolutionize breast cancer treatment.

Researchers at Notre Dame have demonstrated a novel one-shot learning method that allows computers to draw upon already learned patterns more quickly and efficiently and using less energy than currently possible, while adapting to new tasks and previously unseen data.

The Air Force Office of Scientific Research has recognized David Burghoff, assistant professor of electrical engineering, with a Young Investigator Research Program award.

Assistant Professor Yanliang Zhang’s work on additive manufacturing for functional materials and devices was featured in a recent themed issue of the Journal of Materials Chemistry A titled Emerging Investigators 2019.

Casey O’Brien, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Notre Dame, and his team have developed a novel method to see and measure carbon dioxide (CO₂) on the molecular level,...