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Engineering Research at Dartmouth

Dartmouth engineering researchers work within an integrated community of experts in their fields, unencumbered by departmental divisions. Our faculty and students are versatile thinkers who can define a problem, place it within the broad social and economic contexts, and articulate a clear vision for a human-centered approach toward a solution.

Most research projects are collaborations that integrate one or more engineering disciplines with other sciences. Students working in these labs learn important lessons about the interconnectedness of the world and develop both depth and breadth that make them innovators and leaders in emerging technologies.

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Culture of Collaboration

Dartmouth Engineering is a close-knit community of scholars with a broad range of expertise. The culture of collaboration extends across the hall, across campus, and beyond. Many research projects engage colleagues from other institutions such as Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Geisel School of Medicine, Tuck School of Business, Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies, and CRREL, as well as industry—and offer numerous research opportunities for undergraduates.

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Dartmouth Engineering Research News

Sep 29, 2026

Dartmouth Engineering and Eversource selected for US DOE Award to Expand Grid Capacity

Sep 23, 2026

Dartmouth Startup Wins Phase II SBIR Grant to Develop Next-Generation Surgical Navigation Systems

From left, Professor of Engineering Peter Chin, Professor of International Economics Emily Blanchard, and Professor of Government Dean Lacy

Sep 16, 2026 | Dartmouth News

Dartmouth Receives DARPA Award to Develop Geoeconomics

Sep 09, 2026 | Irving Institute

Dartmouth Students Tackle Energy Transition Questions

Research Quick Takes

Map of part of the network of regional airline Mesa and mainline carrier United Airlines.

Oct 29, 2026

Optimizing Regional Airlines

Professor Vikrant Vaze is co-author of "Integrated Schedule Planning for Regional Airlines Using Column Generation" published in Transportation Science. "Where, how often, when, and with what aircraft an airline operates its flights decides passenger demand and costs. Ours is the first study to jointly optimize all these decisions by developing a new algorithm resulting in significant profit improvements and better ability to serve small and rural communities with connections to larger hub airports," said Vaze.

Peter Bertone presenting at the ARMI summit

Oct 29, 2026

ARMI Breakthrough Technology Award

PhD Innovation Program Fellow Peter Bertone, co-founder and CEO of GyroGel, presented his company's patient-specific facial bone graft substitute at the Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI) Investment Summit, and received their 2026 Breakthrough Technology Award. "As part of the award, GyroGel will be automatically enrolled in BioFab Startup Lab Cohort 5 and receive commercialization support to help advance the technology toward scalable manufacturing." wrote ARMI.

Yuanhao Chen presenting at the ACM conference.

Oct 22, 2026

Best Paper: Speech Neuroprosthesis

PhD student Yuanhao Chen '25 received the Best Paper Award at the Association for Computing Machinery's International Conference on Multimodal Interaction in Napoli, Italy. The paper, co-authored with Professor Peter Chin, is titled, "MoDAl: Self-Supervised Neural Modality Discovery via Decorrelation for Speech Neuroprosthesis." Said Chen, "Professor Chin and I developed a multimodal LLM-based system that converts the brain activity of a speech-impaired person with bulbar-onset ALS, recorded by implanted electrodes as they try to speak, directly into text. While earlier systems discarded signals from Broca’s area due to degraded performance, our system learns to extract complementary information from Broca's area, and it makes about 18% fewer word errors than the best previous system that decodes end-to-end, in a single step."

Oct 22, 2026

Paper of the Year Award

Professor Vikrant Vaze is co-author of "Multimodal Transportation Pricing Alliance Design: Large-Scale Optimization for Rapid Gains" selected by the Transportation Science editorial board to receive one of the journal's Paper of the Year Awards for 2025. "We show that innovative pricing optimization algorithms and mechanism design can incentivize collaboration between public transit agencies and private on-demand operators to simultaneously benefit passengers, increase provider profits, reduce emissions and improve equity—a rare win-win-win-win opportunity," said Vaze.

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