Passionate Persistence and Reflective Growth to Deliver Service Trip

Passionate Persistence and Reflective Growth to Deliver Service Trip

Jaeah Yoo, Mechanical Engineering, Class of 2021, will be traveling to Puerto Rico with his registered student organization (RSO), People for Puerto Rico (PPR), to carry out a dream two years in the making. The PPR President and member of Blue Hen Leadership Program...
Teaching With Birdhouses

Teaching With Birdhouses

Early childhood education and engineering majors collaborate to build bird nesting boxes On a chilly morning recently at the University of Delaware’s Children’s Campus, a few dozen children — guided by undergraduates — took hold of screwdrivers to build nesting boxes...
Engineer, Golfer Takes Flight

Engineer, Golfer Takes Flight

The group held their collective breath. The remote control airplane they had built had a successful takeoff in its maiden flight, but it still had to land. As the wheels touched ground at Lums Pond State Park, Nick Vecellio and his classmates let out a roar....
Biomechanics Research Symposium

Biomechanics Research Symposium

Students show how their studies could make people healthier A University of Delaware graduate student develops pressure-detecting sensors that could help injured patients recover. Another student analyzes brain scans to understand balance in children with cerebral...
Rehabilitating Knees

Rehabilitating Knees

Buchanan Lab uses engineering science to improve rehabilitation A tear of the anterior cruciate ligament in a knee isn’t just painful in the moment — the injury also increases a patient’s risk of developing osteoarthritis later. At the University of Delaware, a...
Student Spotlight: Olivia Powell

Student Spotlight: Olivia Powell

This fourth-year mechanical engineering student excels in research and service As an undergraduate research assistant in the laboratory of Dr. Jason Gleghorn, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, Olivia Powell is developing a microfluidic storage platform to...