Jun 14, 2018 | Engineering, Research, Students
Blue Hen Racing team heads to DC festival with UD-built Formula car As a little kid, maybe 2 or 3 years old, Sean Nelan carried a socket wrench wherever he went. Cars were his thing. So when he was a high school student touring the University of Delaware campus and...
Jun 14, 2018 | Clean Energy-Environment, Energy, Research
Mechanical Engineering Professor Bingqing Wei leads team to curb formation of harmful dendrites in lithium metal batteries From smartphones to electric vehicles, many of today’s technologies run on lithium ion batteries. That means that consumers have to keep their...
Jun 6, 2018 | Biomechanical, Research
UD research team solves mathematical discrepancy in biomechanics Every engineer knows that the two sides of any equation should be equal. But when you are dealing with experimental data, sometimes the numbers don’t match up. When Anahid Ebrahimi, who recently earned a...
Mar 1, 2018 | Design, Students
UD engineering students build, fly a radio-controlled aircraft 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....
Feb 21, 2018 | Faculty, Research
Awards provide traction for promising research Five University of Delaware professors have won support for promising early-phase research projects in widely diverse areas. The new awards from the University of Delaware Research Foundation – give researchers...
Feb 1, 2018 | Composites, Faculty, News
Gillespie is director of UD’s world-renowned Center for Composite Materials The University of Delaware’s John W. (Jack) Gillespie Jr. has been named a Fellow of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE). Since 1984, just 334 of the society’s 22,500-plus members have...
Jan 8, 2018 | Biomechanical, Students
The award recognizes future leaders of higher education Anahid Ebrahimi, a doctoral candidate in mechanical engineering at the University of Delaware, is a recipient of this year’s K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award from the Association of American Colleges &...
Dec 7, 2017 | Faculty, Honors, Robotics
Fewer than 3 percent of society members earn this status Andreas Malikopoulos, an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). While ASME has more than 130,000 members...
