On the rise with IrishSat

The first high-altitude balloon launched by IrishSat, a student-run satellite development group, rose about 115,000 feet in the air — until the balloon burst and the payload drifted safely to the ground on a parachute.

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Wei Wang receives IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Doctoral Research Grant

Wei Wang, a Ph.D. student in electrical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been awarded an IEEE Antennas …

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Notre Dame IrishSat high-altitude balloon selected as finalist for NASA challenge

IrishSat’s high-altitude balloon project, IRIS v3, was just selected by NASA as one of six finalists in the NASA …

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Two Notre Dame Engineering profs elected as AAAS lifetime fellows

Yih-Fang Huang, professor of electrical engineering and senior associate dean for education and undergraduate …

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Patrick Fay named Stinson Professor of Nanotechnology

Patrick Fay, professor of electrical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been awarded an endowed …

Electrical engineers devise first high-performance optical microresonator at long wavelengths

Harnessing the power of long wavelength light is key to the next generation of sensing and imaging devices for …

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David Burghoff named 2022 Moore Inventor Fellow

David Burghoff, assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been named a 2022 …

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Image-Driven Machine Learning for Improved Diagnostic Healthcare

Adam Alessio, Michigan State University
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Point Defects in Crystals: Trapped Atoms for Quantum Technologies

Kai-Mei Fu, University of Washington
11:30 a.m., March 31, 2023

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This teaching and research Clean Room in Stinson-Remick Hall of Engineering features powerful, industry-grade tools for design and fabrication of integrated circuits and medical devices with nanometer-sized features.

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Fighting for the Dignity of Independence

Inspired by his dad’s ALS diagnosis, electrical engineering major John Sexton is working to better equip people confined to a powerchair.

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