Fighting to cure brain cancer
To better understand glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer, Notre Dame Engineering’s Meenal Datta thought outside the box—and off planet Earth.
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All NewsCheers to Recipients of the College of Engineering Staff Excellence Awards (Fall 2025)
The Notre Dame College of Engineering is pleased to announce the Fall 2025 recipients of the Staff Excellence Awards, …
Inaugural Notre Dame bioengineering club wins gold at international iGEM competition
A team of five undergraduate researchers from the University of Notre Dame’s College of Science and College of …
Thomas Corke awarded the Dryden Lectureship in Research by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Thomas Corke, the Clark Equipment Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, …
Meenal Datta named the Jane Schoelch DeFlorio Collegiate Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Meenal Datta, assistant professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been …
Fighting to cure brain cancer
To better understand glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer, Meenal Datta, the Jane Schoelch DeFlorio Collegiate …
Meenal Datta receives the 2025 Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award from the Biomedical Engineering Society
Meenal Datta, assistant professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been …
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Facilities and Resources
Hessert Laboratory for Aerospace Research and Hessert Laboratory at White Field are among the world’s finest university-based aerospace research facilities. They feature 19 major high-speed wind tunnels that generate the near-flight conditions for groundbreaking work in aerospace engineering, as well as labs and equipment that support investigations in aero-acoustics, aero-optics, fluid-structure interactions, gas-turbine propulsion, general flow control, hypersonics, multi-phase flows, sensor and flow actuator development, and wind energy.
Undergraduate Programs
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering offers two undergraduate degree programs, one in Aerospace Engineering and one in Mechanical Engineering.
Clubs and community
Students contribute to campus life and the engineering profession through many clubs and organizations, including the Rocket Team, BajaSAE, NDSeed, Engineers without Borders, the marching band, glee club, liturgical choir, and many others.
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