Someday we won’t need curtains or blinds on our windows, and we will be able to block out light-or let it in-with just the press of a button. At least that’s what these two UD engineers hope.
Ready for takeoff
Kyle Panariello, a senior mechanical engineering student at the University of Delaware, was in the middle of a final exam in December when he saw a sign pressed against the door that read: WE’RE FLYING.
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.
For The Record
Jack Puleo, professor of civil and environmental engineering, has received a highly competitive short-term research grant from DAAD, the German Academic Exchange Service.
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.
Feb 18 to 24: Engineers Week
UD will join organizations across the country in celebrating the wonders of engineering during National Engineers Week.
Building the Future of Railroads
Allan M. Zarembski has received the 2017 Fumio Tatsuoka Best Paper Award from the journal Transportation Infrastructure Geotechnology for his contributions to track engineering.
Discovering How Cells Divide
UD professor part of a new three-year, $675,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to understand cell-size control in the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Chlamydomonas).
In Memoriam: Bobby F. Caviness
Influential computer science chair and professor who taught at UD for nearly a quarter-century, died Jan. 11, 2018, at the age of 77.
UD student named 2018 Cross Scholar
Anahid Ebrahimi is one of seven graduate students nationwide, and the only engineering student, to be named a Cross Scholar this year. The award recognizes future leaders of higher education.
UD Engineering’s Best of 2017
The University of Delaware’s College of Engineering celebrated plenty of good news in 2017. Here are our top 10 developments of the year.
In Memoriam: George E. Collins
George E. Collins, a Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Delaware from 1985-86 and 1995-2002, died Nov. 21, 2017. He was 89.