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Engineering
6.10.2025
Engineering Faculty Partner with UDRI Staff for Summer Research
Projects
University of Dayton faculty and University of Dayton Research Institute (UDRI) researchers collaborated on research projects this past summer. Two projects were completed by School of Engineering faculty members and were focused on self-healing polymers and lightweight composite aircraft.
Engineering
6.3.2025
UD Researchers to Develop First Pediatric-Specific AI Lung Nodule Detection
System
Dr. Russell Hardie has been awarded an NIH grant to harness AI to revolutionize the detection of metastatic lung disease in pediatric patients by identifying lung nodules in CT scans.
Engineering
5.30.2025
Graduate Student Sheilah Njoka Awarded SPIE Optics and Photonics Scholarship
Electro-optics and photonics graduate student Sheilah Njoka has been awarded a 2025 Optics and Photonics Scholarship by the Society for Optics & Photonics (SPIE), for potential contributions to optics, photonics or a related field.
Engineering
5.27.2025
Cultivating Curiosity and
Creativity
UD is a member of the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN), where engineering schools are dedicated to advancing the entrepreneurial. Through KEEN, the School of Engineering offered grant funding to expand entrepreneurial learning in courses.
5.23.2025
Living Right
Now
It’s the dream of most college students to graduate debt-free. But Aidan Garland ’25 walked across the stage at graduation owing close to $10 grand, and it’s all his fault.
Engineering
5.1.2025
AI Is upending higher ed. This professor sees a chance to reclaim what
matters.
Lecture halls. Credit hours. Rigid curricula. In his new book, University Revolution: Artificial Intelligence and the Transformation of Learning, University of Dayton professor Kevin Hallinan argues that AI isn’t just disrupting higher education — it’s creating space to rediscover its purpose.
4.9.2025
Powered in
Purpose
David Albrecht thought that as a future engineer his work would be technical and formulaic. Through his experiences at the University of Dayton, though, he discovered something more — the humanity of engineering in serving the common good.
3.24.2025
Community Creates
Opportunity
When Jalen Reed, a senior mechanical engineering major, speaks at high schools as a regional UD ambassador in his home city of Chicago, he’s honest that UD wasn’t his first choice. Now, thanks to the community he found, it’s his home away from home.
3.17.2025
Connections Lead to
Careers
When Michael Nguyen, a senior studying computer science, went to the Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers conference during the fall semester, he was hopeful he would walk away with job leads. He got one better — a job offer after graduation.
2.20.2025
Entrepreneurship in
Action
A football safety issue led Hank Veeneman to a game-changing solution. With help from Flyer Nest, UD’s new hands-on entrepreneurship capstone, he built a startup tackling head injuries—starting in the classroom and scaling to the market.