Mar 18, 2021 | Dept-CEE, Faculty Honors, Feature Story, Featured, News, Research
Professor receives NSF CAREER Award for structural engineering research A University of Delaware professor is drawing inspiration from shellfish to develop resilient adhesives for affordable housing and next-generation infrastructure. Jovan Tatar, an assistant...
Mar 10, 2021 | Dept-CEE, Dept-ME, Dept-MSEG, Feature Story, Featured, News, Research
Uses for UD-developed material to include flying taxis Believe it or not, fighter jets, flying cars, natural gas pipelines and plastic bottles may be more alike than you think. So, what’s the common thread? They might one day be made with TuFF — a high-performance...
Feb 1, 2021 | Feature Story, News, Research, Students
UD researchers study climate change impacts on soils at military installations We walk over it, drive over it and build on it. Yet, it is probably safe to say, most of us rarely think about the ground beneath our feet. Underneath the grass, concrete, asphalt and other...
Dec 29, 2020 | Engineering, Feature Story, Featured, News, Research, Students, Undergraduate Students
UD and Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control collaborate Tires catapult our cars and trucks down the highway at speeds greater than 70 miles per hour, typically for at least 50,000 miles. They must grip the road even in wet and icy conditions. No...
Dec 8, 2020 | Coastal & Environmental Engineering Sciences, Featured, Research
UD coastal engineer Jack Puleo helps develop technology to find sunken munitions More than 70 years after the end of World War II, there are still thousands of tons of unexploded bombs across Europe. Some are underwater, like the one that detonated earlier this fall,...
Jul 21, 2020 | Feature Story, News, Research
Center for Autonomous and Robotic Systems to galvanize robotics research at UD The University of Delaware is becoming a leading destination for cutting-edge robotics and autonomy research, thanks in part to the new Center for Autonomous and Robotics Systems (CARS),...