Author: College of Engineering

Alexander Dowling

Alexander Dowling receives AIChE Outstanding Young Researcher Award

Alexander Dowling, the Tony and Sarah Earley Collegiate Associate Professor of Energy and the Environment, has won the Outstanding Young Researcher Award from the Computing and Systems Technology (CAST) Division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). The award recognizes his …

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Notre Dame doctoral student wins first-place Judges’ Award in Three Minutes Thesis (3MT) competition

Shammah Lilonfe, a doctoral student in the University of Notre Dame’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, won the first-place Judges’ Award at the 2025 American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition during the organization’s annual …

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Notre Dame Awards Prestigious Engineering Postdoctoral Fellowships for 2025

This fall, the College of Engineering welcomes seven new postdoctoral fellows through the Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program and the Bioengineering and Life Sciences (BELS) initiative. Six of the fellows will join as part of the Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, a …

David Leighton

New book from ND chemical engineering professor offers engaging classroom demos

Understanding transport phenomena—how ions, molecules, and charges move through materials—is essential to many fields in engineering. Yet the concepts can be difficult to grasp. In “A Teacher’s Guide to Classroom Demonstrations in Transport Phenomena,” David Leighton, professor of …

Matthew Webber

Matthew Webber receives 2024 ASEE Curtis W. McGraw Research Award

Matthew Webber, Keating-Crawford Collegiate Professor of Engineering and associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been honored with the 2024 Curtis W. McGraw Research Award by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). The …

Alexander Dowling

Alexander Dowling awarded IChemE’s Junior Sargent Medal for pushing boundaries in chemical engineering, applied math, and computational science

Alexander Dowling, assistant professor, chemical and biomolecular engineering, has been awarded the Junior Sargent Medal by the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE). The Junior Sargent Medal recognizes a major contribution to computer-aided product and process engineering research by an …