Jan 25, 2023 | Dept-ME, Feature Story, Featured, News, Research
UD Prof. Andreas Malikopoulos’ ‘Scaled Smart City’ bridges the gap between driving simulations and real-world tests On the second floor of the University of Delaware’s Spencer Lab, a 20×20 foot model city — complete with tree-lined roundabouts and brightly-colored...
Dec 9, 2022 | Advanced Manufacturing & Materials, Composites, Entrepreneurship, Feature Story, Featured, News, Research
UD researchers tackle new task in making complex material more viable for building aircraft TuFF — Tailored Universal Feedstock for Forming — is a strong, highly aligned, short-fiber composite material that can be made from many fiber and resin combinations. Created...
Nov 1, 2022 | Dept-ME, Faculty, Feature Story, Featured, News, Research
UD mechanical engineer reports capacitor advance, which could help electronic device components In the 1960s, mainframe computers took up entire rooms. By the 1980s, there were individual workstations and just a few decades later, laptops and smartphones became...
Oct 4, 2022 | Dept-ME, Engineering, Feature Story, Featured, News
UD hosts North American Wind Energy Academy’s international conference With a wind turbine at the Hugh R. Sharp Campus in Lewes — which has been in operation since 2010 and supplies all of the energy for the campus — as well as being home to the Center for Research in...
Sep 26, 2022 | Composites, Dept-ME, Engineering, Faculty, Faculty Honors, Feature Story, Featured, Honors, News
Mechanical engineering’s longest-serving faculty member receives ASME’s highest honor There’s a lot of research that can be done in half a century, and the University of Delaware’s Tsu-Wei Chou has wasted no time doing just that. During his 53-year career, which makes...
Sep 1, 2022 | Dept-ME, Design, Engineering, Feature Story, Featured, News, Students, Undergraduate Students
UD engineering students develop zero-gravity turbulence experiment bound for the ISS The International Space Station isn’t just for astronauts exploring the great beyond. It also offers an opportunity for scientists of all ages and disciplines to test the limits of...