Category: Awards and Honors

Tom Pratt

Thomas Pratt named Collegiate Professor

Thomas Pratt, research professor of electrical engineering at the University of Notre Dame and affiliate member of the Wireless Institute and the Notre Dame Turbomachinery Laboratory, has been appointed Frank M. Freimann Collegiate Research Professor of Electrical Engineering, effective January …

John Howe

John Howe receives fellowship for semiconductor research

John Howe, a junior majoring in Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been awarded a 2024 fellowship from SUPREME (Superior Energy-Efficient Materials and Devices), Cornell University’s microelectronics research center.   The fellowship supports travel and …

Atefah Ghafari poses with her Women in Spectrum certificate

Atefeh Ghafari receives NSC Women in Spectrum Scholarship Award

Atefeh Ghafari, Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has received a National Spectrum Consortium (NSC) Women in Spectrum Scholarship Award. This award promotes the academic accomplishments of female students studying engineering at U.S. ABET-accredited …

Bingyan Lu

Lu Receives NSF SpectrumX Graduate Research Fellowship

Bingyan Lu, a Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has received the NSF SpectrumX Graduate Research Fellowship. The fellowship will support her work applying generative artificial intelligence tools to spectrum policy documents. She will also develop a …

Gregory Snider

Gregory Snider named Robert W. and Alice M. Bauchman Professor in Engineering

Gregory Snider, professor of electrical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been awarded an endowed professorship. He was named Notre Dame’s Robert W. and Alice M. Bauchman Professor in Engineering, effective July 1, 2024.  “Appointment to an endowed chair is a …

Rehan Younas

Rehan Younas receives Nicollian Best Presentation Award

Rehan Younas, who recently completed his doctorate in electrical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has won the 2023 Nicollian Award for Best Student Presentation of the 54th IEEE Semiconductor Interface Specialists Conference (SISC). The award was announced in April of this …

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Celebrating undergraduate excellence: 2024 awards from the Notre Dame College of Engineering

Notre Dame Engineering is pleased to announce the recipients of its annual college-wide awards to undergraduate students. Reverend Thomas A. Steiner, C.S.C. Award The Reverend Thomas A. Steiner, C.S.C. Award “for all around excellence as a graduating senior in the College of …

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Cheers to Recipients of the College of Engineering Staff Excellence Awards (Spring 2024)

The Notre Dame College of Engineering is pleased to announce the Spring 2024 recipients of the Staff Excellence Awards, which recognize staff members’ exemplary contributions above and beyond the scope of their standard job responsibilities. Award recipients are honored for having a …

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Robert Stevenson named 2024 Outstanding Teacher in Notre Dame College of Engineering

Robert Stevenson, professor of electrical engineering, associate chair, and director of undergraduate studies, is the recipient of the 2024 Outstanding Teacher Award in the Notre Dame College of Engineering. The award honors an engineering faculty member — selected each year by undergraduates …

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8 Engineering faculty win NSF CAREER awards in 2023-24

Between 2023-24, eight Notre Dame faculty in the College of Engineering received National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) awards in recognition of their potential as innovators, both in research and education. CAREER awards come with five years of …