Nii O. Attoh-Okine Named ASCE Fellow

Nii O. Attoh-Okine Named ASCE Fellow

Civil engineering society gives this honor to just 3 percent of members Nii O. Attoh-Okine, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Delaware and interim academic director of the university’s Cybersecurity Initiative,...
James Kirby wins International Coastal Engineering Award

James Kirby wins International Coastal Engineering Award

Models of wave behavior have helped engineers protect people and coastlines When James Kirby vacations at the beach, he looks out at the water and thinks about what’s triggering the break of each wave. Unlike millions of other people who love to watch the surf, Kirby...
Gillespie Honored by Society of Plastic Engineers

Gillespie Honored by Society of Plastic Engineers

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...
Building the Future of Railroads

Building the Future of Railroads

Zarembski recognized for contributions to track engineering Allan M. Zarembski, Professor of Practice and Director of UD’s Railroad Engineering and Safety Program, has received the 2017 Fumio Tatsuoka Best Paper Award from the journal Transportation Infrastructure...
Meehan Named ASCE Fellow

Meehan Named ASCE Fellow

Three percent of the 150,000 members of the American Society of Civil Engineers are Fellows The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has named University of Delaware professor Christopher Meehan to its 2017 class of Fellows. This honor is given to ASCE members...
Safe and Sound

Safe and Sound

Delaware Center for Transportation engineers recognized for work to improve traffic safety Highway safety has become a complex issue in an era when roads built primarily for cars are now being shared by increasing numbers of pedestrians, cyclists, and skateboarders....