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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 and Propagation Society (AP-S) Doctoral Research Grant. The grant will support Wang’s work on the design, fabrication, and testing of millimeter wave antennas for …

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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 FLOATing DRAGON design competition! Teams compete to design a system that can deploy a node from 120,000 feet and autonomously steer it to a safe waypoint on the ground. Notre …

Yih-Fang Huang and Ahsan Kareem

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 programs, and Ahsan Kareem, the Robert M. Moran Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, have been elected by the American Association for the Advancement of …

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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 professorship. He was named Notre Dame’s Stinson Professor of Nanotechnology, effective September 1, 2022. “Appointment to an endowed chair is one of the highest honors in the …

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 environmental monitoring, explosive detection, and biomedicine. Currently, however, the systems emitting such light are large and low-powered. In a new study published in Nature …

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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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Tom O’Sullivan receives teaching award from IEEE-HKN honor society

Thomas O’Sullivan, associate professor of electrical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been awarded …

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Following the sun: IrishSat launches IRIS 2.0 to collect solar data

Notre Dame’s new satellite club IrishSat launched this year's high-altitude balloon, IRIS 2.0, into the cloudless, …

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Ready for launch: New imaging device for breast cancer detection and monitoring goes from idea to prototype

When electrical engineering Ph.D. students Roy Stillwell and Vince Kitsmiller were writing mock grant proposals for …

Vijay Gupta

Professor Gupta elected to the IEEE Fellows Class of 2022

Professor of Electrical Engineering Vijay Gupta is one of the newly elevated 2022 IEEE Fellows for his contributions …