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From Steam Engines to Cybersecurity

From Steam Engines to Cybersecurity

Departments of mechanical and electrical & computer engineering celebrate 125-year anniversaries The year is 1891, and America is marching resolutely along the path laid by the Industrial Revolution. In a small wood-framed building in a quiet corner of a growing...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

Twelve UD students, alumni win prestigious research support A dozen University of Delaware students (undergraduate and graduate) and alumni have won National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships as the prestigious competition marks its 65th year. Fourteen...

Sparking Innovation For 125 Years

Sparking Innovation For 125 Years

Electrical and Computer Engineering plans weekend of celebration to mark anniversary The University of Delaware’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is celebrating its 125th anniversary in 2017. The milestone will be marked by a celebration weekend...

Industry Partners Day

Industry Partners Day

Gore CEO Terri Kelly shares lessons learned during successful career Terri Kelly, president and CEO of W.L. Gore and Associates, shared some of her three decades of career wisdom with an audience of more than 150 students, faculty, alumni, and representatives of...

Alumni Honors

Rakesh Agrawal has won the 2016 American Chemical Society Award in Separations Science and Technology. Rakesh Agrawal, who earned a master’s degree in chemical engineering in 1977, has won the 2016 American Chemical Society Award in Separations Science and Technology....

Alumni Honor

Michael Strano elected to the National Academy of Engineering. February 10, 2017 - Michael Strano, who earned his doctorate at the University of Delaware in 2001, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Currently the Carbon P. Dubbs Professor of...

Cabinet Appointment

Dr. Kara Odom Walker chosen to run the state’s Department of Health and Social Services. Dr. Kara Odom Walker, an honors graduate with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering, has been chosen by Delaware governor-elect John Carney to run the state’s Department of...

A Player of Many Passions

A Player of Many Passions

She’s a mechanical engineering major who writes poetry but dreams of being a physician. She calls Canada home, but is fulfilling her NCAA dreams 1,798 miles away in Newark, Delaware. She’s the latest in a long line of family basketball standouts, but dabbled in...

Wartime Adventures Live Again

Wartime Adventures Live Again

For 73 years, the wartime memories of Jack Harrison, EG49, were his alone. He always held them in his mind, treasuring their still-crisp presence, but not yet seeing how he could share them with the world. And at the back of his closet in the dark quiet of long-closed...

An Electronic Detective Goes Back to School

An Electronic Detective Goes Back to School

Teddy Katayama, EG15, has spent more than a decade gaining the experience and education to enter the increasingly emerging field of cybersecurity. Now, the 2015 computer engineering graduate is one of the first students to enroll in UD’s new cybersecurity master’s...

Alumni Lead Emergency Repair on I-495

Alumni Lead Emergency Repair on I-495

During a late-night brainstorming session in June 2014 to determine the safest, fastest way to repair and re-open a heavily traveled bridge over the Christina River on I-495 in Wilmington, Del., Robert McCleary, EG87, chief engineer with the Delaware Department of...

Raising Cain

Raising Cain

Family represents nine decades of electrical engineering at UD When Eugene Cain graduated from the University of Delawarewith an electrical engineering degree during the Great Depression in 1932, close to 15 million people in the United States were unemployed. One...