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...
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...
Engineering educator to speak Dec. 8 on using biomechanics to understand disease Thomas Buchanan, recipient of the University of Delaware’s 2022 Francis Alison Award, will present his Francis Alison lecture at 4 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 8, in the Audion at STAR Tower on...
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...
UD Professor Joe Kuehl seeks solutions to hypersonic travel challenges Imagine heading to the Philadelphia International Airport, hopping on a plane and landing in London 45 minutes later. In theory, this kind of high-speed hypersonic travel is possible. In reality,...
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...