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Dartmouth Engineering to Graduate First Online Master's Degree Program Cohort

At Commencement, 21 students will become members of the inaugural graduating cohort of Dartmouth's first fully online degree, with over half making the trip to celebrate in person.

Dartmouth Engineering Study Presents New Framework for Building More Resilient Power Grids

A study led by Professor Junbo Zhao presents a coordinated management framework that connects all aspects of an outage to optimize utility maintenance, improvements, and recovery.

The Optimizer: Using operations data to make the world run better

From airports to energy grids to hospital rooms, Professor Vikrant Vaze uses data to make the world run better—one complex problem at a time.

A Standout Year for Dartmouth NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

Eight engineering students and recent alumni earned the prestigious fellowship from the National Science Foundation this year, selected from a pool of nearly 14,000 applicants nationwide.

Math for America President Maria Klawe to Deliver Dartmouth Engineering Investiture Address

The mathematician, computer scientist, and champion for expanding access to STEM will deliver the keynote address at Thayer's 2026 Investiture ceremony.
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Program Areas

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Biomedical

Electrical/ Computer

Energy

Materials Science

Mechanical/ Operations/ Systems

Bachelor's Degrees

AB

Bachelor of Arts

Offers a unique undergraduate major in engineering sciences grounded in the liberal arts.

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BE

Bachelor of Engineering

Provides a professional accredited engineering degree in addition to the Bachelor of Arts.

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Dual

Dual-Degree Program

Gives students at partner schools a path to study engineering at Dartmouth.

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Master's Degrees

MEng

Master of Engineering

Provides specialized depth in your field of choice through either full-time or part-time coursework.

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MEM

Master of Engineering Management

Combines graduate level engineering courses with management classes at Tuck School of Business.

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MS

Master of Science

Emphasizes engineering research, applied mathematics skills, and depth with breadth across disciplines.

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Doctoral Degrees

PhD

Doctor of Philosophy

Offers flexibility within and across research/ program areas and prepares you for either a professional or academic position.

You'll gain depth in your chosen area of research and have the option to further customize your studies through special programs designed for industry, entrepreneurship, and clinical practice.

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Additional PhD Options

Research Quick Takes

PhD candidates Adelaide Cagle, Afton Limberg, Amritha Anup Th'23, and Aleyna La Croix.

Jun 04, 2026

More Ethical Research in Bone Tissue Engineering

PhD candidates Adelaide Cagle, Afton Limberg, Amritha Anup Th'23, and Aleyna La Croix, and Professor Katie Hixon co-authored "Advancing the 3Rs in bone tissue engineering: emerging in vitro, in silico, and refined in vivo strategies," an invited review published in Frontiers in Physiology. The article was for a special issue addressing the 3Rs approach—replace, reduce and refine animal models—to improve preclinical research. "This review summarizes recent progress in advanced in vitro platforms, including organoids, bioprinting, and organ-on-a-chip systems, as well as in silico modeling approaches designed to decrease reliance on animal experimentation," said Anup.

May 28, 2026

Presenting on More Sustainable Microchip Technologies

The Liu Research Group presented at the 2026 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, showcasing their latest research on next-generation semiconductor materials and processes for more sustainable microchip technologies. Presentations included: Professor Jifeng Liu on atomic ordering in semiconductor alloys as a new degree of freedom for performance-sustainability synergy; PhD student Shangda Li on defect mitigation in low-temperature Ge and GeSn heteroepitaxy on silicon using self-assembled nanoscale oxide templates; and PhD student Yicheng Wang on identifying atomic short-range order in SiGeSn alloys using atom probe tomography toward sustainable infrared semiconductors.

May 28, 2026

Environmental Impacts of NICUs and Their Alternatives

An undergraduate capstone project team—Will Clendenning Th'24, Chad Klaas '24 Th'25, Samantha Melgar '24, and Ismael Rosales-Albarran '24—along with co-author and CEDC Director Emily Monroe, published their project results titled, "Using Life Cycle Assessments to Measure the Environmental Impact of Alternative Care Models in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit" in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. The team compared traditional hospital NICUs against "Hope Grows at Home," a home-care model for premature infants. Although other evidence shows no difference in health outcomes, their assessment showed significant reductions in both carbon emissions and solid waste by shifting to the home-care model.

May 21, 2026

Reducing Glacier Mass Loss

Professor Colin Meyer and Research Scientist Aleah Sommers are co-authors of "A model of water extraction from the subglacial hydrologic system under idealized conditions" published in The Cryosphere. The study investigates how removing water from under the ice can moderately slow glaciers by lowering subglacial water pressure. "Our work improves understanding of glacier dynamics and suggests that studying water removal could enhance knowledge of subglacial systems and potentially slow glacier flow," said Meyer.

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Events

Jun

10

PhD Thesis Proposal: Baiheng Li

Jun

13

Thayer Investiture Ceremony

Jun

14

Dartmouth Commencement

Jun

15

PhD Thesis Proposal: Spencer Bertsch

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