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9.8.2025
Integrating Sustainability and Engineering in Partnership with Hanley Sustainability Institute
Through opportunities offered by the Hanley Sustainability Institute and sustainable engineering programs, students contribute to UD’s commitment to environmental stewardship.
6.24.2025
7 Questions with Dr. Bear
Jiang
We sat down with Dr. Bear Jiang, post-doc to tenure track fellow in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, to learn more about his career and research.
6.17.2025
Engineering the Magic through Internship with Walt Disney
World
Second-year industrial engineering technology student Olivia Hooten got to experience how the Walt Disney Company magic is made through an industrial engineering internship in the fall of 2024.
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.
6.9.2025
Neuroscientist awarded $413K to study brain disorders, mentor student
research
The NIH funding will support one doctoral student and seven undergraduate students.
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.
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.
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.
5.1.2025
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.
4.29.2025
Thinking about the moral implications of using AI in today's world
AI might offer tools to help us, but if it’s being powered by unsustainable systems, then the solution becomes part of the problem.