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#Hengineers Succeed

92%

of 2023 master’s degree graduates are employed or pursuing further education.

$79,500

Masters Degree
Median Salary

100%

of 2023 doctoral degree graduates are employed or pursuing further education.

$115,000

Doctoral Degree
Median Salary

#Hengineers Study with World-Class Faculty

Michelle Gee

My favorite instructors are also my thesis advisors, professors Abraham Lenhoff and the late Babatunde Ogunnaike. Both taught me skills I continue to use regularly throughout my research. I’ve had the opportunity to learn from their leadership styles and they inspire by emphasizing the growth of their students. 

Michelle Gee

Doctoral Candidate in Chemical Engineering

Aditya Kunjapur, a new assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been named to the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security’s Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Initiative fellowship program in 2019.  He works with graduate students Sabyasachi (Sunny) Sen and Morgan Sulzbach in his lab in Colburn using the latest pipette techniques with gels.
Joe Kuehl and graduate student Charles McMahon work with a rotating tank so help determine the ocean current loop in the Golf of Mexico and the South China Sea.
LaShanda Korley and Chase Thompson work together on bioinspired materials in her lab in Colburn Lab.
The College of Engineering's Jason Gleghorn, Biomechanical Engineering, has received a NSF Career Award for his work with lymph nodes and their ability to fight off infections. Jasmine Shirazi and Michael Donzanti are part of the Gleghorn group doing research.
Fabrizio Sergi, assistant professor of Biomedical Engineering and director of the Human Robotics (HuRo) lab, has received an NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award. Along with current Ph.D. students Andrea Zonnino and Andria Farrens, Sergio has been using robotics and haptic feedback systems with neuroimaging - particularly Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) - to study the neural substrates of motor control.
Mark Mirotznik and grad student Zachary Larimore work with the new 3-D printer in the Electrical & Computer Engineering Lab in Evans Hall, May 7th, 2018.
Dr. April Kloxin, associate professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. 

Pictured here with Chemical Engineering doctoral student Samantha Cassel.
Prof. Koffi Pierre Yao mentors doctoral candidate Rownak Jahan Mou as they work to create a better (and more affordable) lithium ion battery for electric vehicles.

#Hengineers Take Charge of Their Future

We are dedicated to equipping our graduate students and postdoc scholars with the skills and knowledge needed to succeed in the academic and professional world.

Skill-building workshops, advocacy training and mentoring help graduate students learn effective communication skills, conflict resolution, networking and accessing career services.

Lauren Mottel is the winner of the 2024 George W. Laird Merit Fellowship, which recognizes outstanding and well-rounded first-year graduate students in the College of Engineering. Lauren is a 2023 biomedical engineering alum who is now a first-year Ph.D. student and graduate research assistant in the lab of assistant professor Brian Kwee.
Dr. Susan Margulies, Assistant Director for Engineering of the U.S. National Science Foundation, discussed priorities and opportunities for engineering research and education at a reception & poster session in her honor on February 9th, 2024.
2023 Laird Fellowship recipient Abdulmalik Yusuf, a Ph.D. student and graduate research assistant in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The George W. Laird Merit Fellowship, which recognizes outstanding and well-rounded first-year graduate students in the College of Engineering
Emily Day and her graduate students Eric Sterin (purple shirt), Chitran Roy Chowdhury (blue shirt), George Kramarenko (gray t-shirt), Maneesha Sahni (floral shirt), Mackenzie Scully (gray glasses black top), and Elise Hoover (purple glasses, green stripes shirt) are working on nanotherapeutics for difficult-to-treat diseases with a focus on fundamental research. Her group is making strides in enabling high-precision drug delivery for diseases like breast cancer, brain tumors and blood disorders. Her group recently received a major R35 award from the National Institutes of Health which will support her group’s work broadly.

#Hengineers Team Up to Solve Problems

Adam Stager, a UD doctoral student in mechanical engineering, adjusts the ground robot before sending it into the field.

I heard that some of the stuff we were doing for the Department of Defense might actually be relevant in agriculture as well. So, we can build robots that drive underneath the canopy, and those robots can be very similar to robots that explore bombs and do a lot of the explosive ordnance disposal.

Adam Stager

Recent graduate of the Doctoral Program in Mechanical Engineering

#Hengineers Change the World

Babatunde Onase

I am grateful for being a part of the Hengineering community at the University of Delaware. Not only is it a very conducive environment for learning, but it’s also a place where I have been able to integrate my extracurricular activities and still maintain honors in my grade.

Babatunde Onase

Graduate Student in Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering