University of Notre Dame, Department of Electrical Engineering

The Office of Naval Research has selected Jonathan Chisum, associate professor of electrical engineering and affiliate of the Wireless Institute, to be a Summer Faculty Fellow at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Radar Division in Washington, D.C. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gwAercUm

Fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks bring users more rapid upload and download speeds, lower latency, and greater reliability on their mobile devices. But steep energy costs have accompanied 5G's rollout. In response, researchers at the University of Notre Dame are producing an antenna that can deliver 5G performance while using one-tenth of the energy of current systems. “Our initial idea was simple: What if we could design similar capabilities into just one very wideband antenna by letting the physics of materials do the work normally done by many power-hungry chips?” said team lead Jonathan Chisum, an associate professor in the University of Notre Dame, Department of Electrical Engineering and an affiliate of Notre Dame's Wireless Institute. Funding from the U.S. Army makes this innovation possible, and industry partnerships will transition this solution to field settings. Learn about the small, lightweight “5G-on-the-move” solution: https://lnkd.in/eFdXaQ6G Photos: Angelic Rose Hubert

IrishSat Update: IrishSAT was one of two teams, along with Purdue University to successfully deploy their high-altitude balloon hardware, IRIS, in Antarctica. Read more: https://lnkd.in/g8hUtfHq

Announcing the Provost Postdoctoral Fellowship in Engineering at the University of Notre Dame! We are looking for motivated and accomplished PhDs (recent and soon-to-be) who are committed to Notre Dame’s mission—to be a powerful force for good and to advance research solutions for the challenges facing society and our world. If this sounds like you, reach out to one of our prestigious Engineering faculty to discuss your application. These are 24-month fellowships that come with a competitive stipend and research/professional development allowance. Learn more below!? ?? Deadline to apply is April 6, 2025. ?? Please share widely! https://lnkd.in/gPHf-V93 #NDEE

Despite the chilly winter?weather,?we had an excellent?turnout for Junior Parents Weekend! Parents braved the cold to learn more about our Electrical Engineering program from our Chair, Greg Snider, and Associate Chair, Bob Stevenson.?Thank you to everyone who joined us—it was great to see so much enthusiasm and support for EE!

Congratulations to these amazing graduate students on another successful conference!

NDEE is making the front page! A photo from Mohammad Istiaque Rahaman's team of Notre Dame Electrical Engineers was featured on the cover of the November/December 2024 issue of the Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B (JVST-B). The image, sourced from an experimental study, showcases two single-electron transistors detecting unit charge transfer within a sub-20nm nanoscale dipole structure. This achievement highlights the cutting-edge research and innovation the Notre Dame Electrical Engineering Department strives for. Congratulations to the team for this well-deserved recognition!

Yasemin ?zkan-Ayd?n will give an invited talk at the Gordon Research Conference on Complex Active and Adaptive Material Systems in Ventura, CA, from January 26–31, 2025. Her talk, titled "Physical Embodiment in Soft-Bodied Autonomous Systems Through Adaptive Morphology," promises to be an exciting contribution to the conference.

This December, IrishSat headed somewhere even colder than South Bend! NASA’s Scientific Balloon program kicked off a few days ago in Antarctica, with the aim to launch two balloons and a total of nine missions to near space, including one of our own! As finalists of NASA’s FLOATing DRAGON balloon challenge, IrishSAT designed an autonomous aerial vehicle that can be dropped from a 120,000 foot altitude and target a specific landing point, keeping recorded data intact. Congratulations to IrishSAT on this amazing project!