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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

Apr 20, 2026

Dartmouth Engineering Professor Mattias Fitzpatrick Wins NSF CAREER Award

Mar 29, 2026 | Irving Institute

Wildfire Risk and Grid Resilience

Mar 28, 2026 | Irving Institute

How an AI Human Simulator Can Help Build Smarter, More Reliable Power Systems

Mar 05, 2026

Dartmouth Engineering Study Presents Simple, Affordable Tool to Measure Tissue Oxygen and Health

Research Quick Takes

Apr 23, 2026

Can Oxygen Heal Tendons?

PhD candidate Afton Limberg attended this year's Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS) Annual Meeting in Charlotte, NC, where she was chosen as a finalist in the Tendon Section Elevator Pitch Competition. Her pitch was titled, "Can Oxygen Heal Tendons? Investigating Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Tendon Repair." Limberg also presented her poster, "Hyperoxia-Driven Modulation of Tendon Healing: Insights from In Vitro and In Vivo Models," based on her PhD research thesis.

Apr 16, 2026

Revolutionizing Computing Hardware

Professor Jifeng Liu authored "Atomic Ordering as a New Degree of Freedom for Semiconductor Device Engineering" published in Computer. The paper makes the case for engineering the atomic neighborhood in semiconductor alloys as a way to "leap beyond CMOS" for a new generation of computing hardware. "It is my great honor to introduce our latest research on harnessing atomic ordering in semiconductors to the computer science community. As Jensen Huang pointed out, 'the next wave of AI is physical AI,' and hardware revolutions will play a critical role there," said Liu.

Apr 09, 2026

Top Influencer in AI Energy

Professor Junbo Zhao earned the Top Influencers in AI Energy Award at the AI x Energy Summit in San Diego for his "outstanding leadership and influence" in advancing research in AI energy-related fields.

Headshots of the four Dartmouth-affiliated authors.

Mar 26, 2026

Custom Crystallization for Flexible Transparent Electronics

PhD students Samuel Ong and Simon Agnew '22, Md Saifur Rahman Th'25, and Professor Will Scheideler—with NIST physicist Lee Richter—co-authored "Tailoring Solid Phase Crystallization for Tunable Electronic Transport in Liquid Metal Printed 2D Oxides" published in Advanced Materials Technologies. The study showed highly-aligned, single-orientation grains which yield high-mobility devices, outperforming almost all other vacuum-free metal-oxide semiconductors reported to date. "We've always seen unique grain morphologies in our liquid metal printed metal oxides, so we probed the solid phase crystallization through highly-sensitive x-ray scattering techniques thanks to our collaborator, Dr. Richter. These results mark a critical step towards scalable manufacturing of transparent, high-performance electronics for next-generation flexible displays and sensors," said Ong.

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