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UD Engineering’s Best of 2017

UD Engineering’s Best of 2017

Top 10 UD engineering developments of the year The University of Delaware’s College of Engineering celebrated plenty of good news this year. We welcomed 16 new faculty members and two members of the dean’s team. Our scholars are publishing breakthroughs in top...

Theory and Practice Converge at ‘Smart Cities’ Symposium

Theory and Practice Converge at ‘Smart Cities’ Symposium

Two-day gathering looks at issues of justice, sustainability in urban development Phil Barnes looked around the Trabant Center Theater during a break and saw exactly what he hoped to see at the University of Delaware's two-day Smart Cities and Sustainable Energy...

Winners at AIChE Annual Meeting

Winners at AIChE Annual Meeting

Students Victoria Muir, Trent Simonetti and Rob Cipolla earned awards at the 2017 AIChE annual meeting University of Delaware students, faculty and alumni won awards at the 2017 American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) annual meeting, which ran from Oct. 29 to...

UD’s Epps Named American Physical Society Fellow

UD’s Epps Named American Physical Society Fellow

Chemical engineering and materials science professor joins the top 0.5 percent of society members Thomas H. Epps, III, the Thomas & Kipp Gutshall Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and a Professor in the Department of Materials...

Materials Science Department Chair Earns Pair of Honors

Materials Science Department Chair Earns Pair of Honors

UD’s Darrin Pochan was recently elected chair of the APS Division of Polymer Physics and editor-in-chief of the research journal Soft Matter For Darrin Pochan, the semester is off to a particularly productive start. Pochan is chair of the Department of Materials...

Modeling New Materials

Modeling New Materials

UD engineer Arthi Jayaraman uncovers molecular mysteries When scientists develop brand new materials, they must precisely determine the ingredients, quantities, and processing methods to use. It’s kind of like creating a recipe. Before spending time and money to test...