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Four materials researchers earn promotions and university honors
Four CCM faculty earned academic promotions and university honors, including tenure advancements and a named professorship recommendation from the Board of Trustees.
Lighter, Stronger Materials
UD’s Kun Fu discovers new way to make 3D carbon nanotube components.
Celebrating 50 Years
Tsu-Wei Chou is among the longest-serving professors in the College of Engineering.
Materials Of The Future
At UD, materials science and engineering has a storied past and bright future.
Alumni spotlight: Amod Ogale
Amod Ogale, the Dow Chemical Professor of Chemical Engineering at Clemson University and Director of the Center for Advanced Engineering Fibers and Films (CAEFF), got his start in composites research when he was a graduate student at the University of Delaware.
Using Sensors to Spot Infrastructure Damage
An entrepreneurial team based at the University of Delaware is working to commercialize a system that could make infrastructure such as bridges and pipelines safer.
Novel Sensors Could Enable Smarter Textiles
Delaware engineers are using flexible carbon nanotube composite coatings to create next-generation smart textiles with the ability to measure a wide range of pressures.
Mechanical engineers share composites expertise
The University of Delaware’s Tsu-Wei Chou and Suresh Advani gave talks at the 18th European Conference on Composite Materials.
Driving High-Speed Innovation
Blue Hen Racing team heads to DC festival with UD-built Formula car. The students designed the car by applying what they have learned in their engineering studies, working in groups focused on aerodynamics, chassis, suspension, ergonomics, and drivetrain.
Jack Gillespie honored by Society of Plastics Engineers
The director of UD’s world-renowned Center for Composite Materials has been named a Fellow of SPE. Since 1984, just 334 of the society’s 22,500-plus members have achieved Fellow status.
Feb 20: Graduate Engineering Career Panel
STEM panel will spark conversations about how to create inclusive work environments that support underrepresented groups in those fields.
Nov. 15: The rise of 3D printing
Expert, UD alumnus to speak on campus about the changes in the field If you’ve only seen 3D printing on TV, you might think it’s just for making action figures or forks. In reality, it’s serious business. “Everybody knows about 3D printing because of the maker...
Safer, Tougher Spacesuits
NASA supports UD technology that protects spacesuits from punctures, projectiles Astronauts are a smart, courageous and resilient lot, no doubt about that. But when they go out for a walk in space - in environments none of us could survive on our own - they need a lot...