Notre Dame’s Student Union Board handed out t-shirts for the kick off of AnTostal

From Kittyhawk to micro air vehicles, aerospace engineers – like the students in the senior design course – have been the dreamers and doers who have shaped the future of flight. But before these Notre Dame students get a crack at the aerospace industry, they have to pass the aerospace engineering senior design course – the culmination of all that they have learned over the course of their four years in the College of Engineering. As in past years, their task is to design, build, and test a remote piloted aircraft.

The solar panel array that sits on top of Notre Dame’s new Stinson-Remick Hall of Engineering was donated by General Electric. Rated at 50kW, it is expected to provide an estimated 55,000 kilowatt-hours of carbon-free electricity annually to the structure. Students in the building’s McCourtney Learning Center are able to track the energy being generated. .

Steve Hayman, Apple national consulting engineer, spoke to a group on campus about developing applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch

Workers perform routine maintenance on the Hesburgh Library’s “the Word of Life” mural.

A Kellogg Institute-sponsored roundtable titled “Latin American Democracy: Under Fire?” featured (from left to right) Allert Brown-Gort, Kellogg faculty fellow and associate director of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino 91��Ƶ; Scott Mainwaring, director of the Kellogg Institute; Daniel Brinks, associate professor of political science and Kellogg fellow; Luis Cosenza, Kellogg’s Hewlett Visiting Fellow for Public Policy and former minister of the presidency in Honduras; and Luis Ernesto Derbez Bautista, president of the University of the Americas in Puebla, Mexico, and the country’s former minister of the economy.

Archbishop Nikola Eterović, general secretary of the Synod of Catholic Bishops, Vatican City, delivered an address titled “Benedict XVI’s Thinking on the Bible in Light of the Synod” during the conference “Camino a Emaús: The Word of God and Latino Catholics.” The event was sponsored by the American Bible Society and Notre Dame’s Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism.

The College of Engineering’s 2009 Rev. Thomas A. Steiner, C.S.C., Award recipients with Matthew H. McCloskey Dean Peter Kilpatrick. (From left to right) Kilpatrick; Timothy Politano, chemical and biomolecular engineering; Jessica Winschel, civil engineering and geological sciences; Angela Comana, electrical engineering; Christopher Fallin, computer science and engineering; and Sarah Lane, aerospace engineering. Claire VerHulst, mechanical engineering, is not pictured. The Steiner Award, named for a former dean of engineering, honors students for dedication to their fields of study in engineering, outstanding leadership abilities and commitment to the values of Notre Dame.