Category: Electrical Engineering

Drake, an open-source model-based design and verification robotics simulator, helps verify Kurtz‘s models

Nimble and steady on their feet: next-generation legged robots

Could legged robots be used to find survivors after an earthquake or to fight forest fires? Answering that question is the goal of Vince Kurtz’s research. A graduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Kurtz recently received a three-year Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship …

Candles in the Grotto at the University of Notre Dame

In memoriam: Sergei Rouvimov

Sergei Rouvimov, associate research professor of electrical engineering and director of the Transmission Electron Microscopy Program for the Notre Dame Integrated Imaging Facility, passed away on May 29, 2020, after battling ALS for over a year. Sergei earned a Ph.D. in physics from A. F. Ioffe …

Congratulations EE 2020 Graduates

A Special Message to the Electrical Engineering Class of 2020

On behalf of the faculty and staff of the Department of Electrical Engineering, I would like to congratulate the graduates of the Class of 2020. I especially applaud you for your fortitude in making it through this last semester. No one will ever forget the Class of 2020. Stay healthy, and …

Roy Stillwell

Team led by EE Ph.D. candidate wins 2020 McCloskey New Venture Competition

NearWave, an entrepreneurial team led by Roy Stillwell, a Ph.D. candidate in electrical engineering, took four prizes in the 20th McCloskey New Venture Competition, held online on Friday, April 24. The team won the $50,000 McCloskey grand prize for teams led by Notre Dame students and alumni, the …

Mannam receives 2020 Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award

Varun Mannam, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Electrical Engineering, has received the 2020 Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award. Presented annually by Notre Dame Learning, the Graduate School, and the Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning, the award recognizes exceptional …

In Memoriam: Anthony N. Michel, dean emeritus of the College of Engineering

Anthony N. Michel, the Matthew H. McCloskey Dean Emeritus of the College of Engineering and the Frank M. Freimann Professor Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame, died Saturday, Feb. 1. He was 84. Michel was a leading expert in the qualitative analysis of dynamical systems with emphasis on …

Patricia Culligan appointed dean of Notre Dame’s College of Engineering

Patricia J. Culligan, currently the chair and Carleton Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at Columbia University, has been appointed the Matthew H. McCloskey Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame by University President Rev. John I. Jenkins, …