News & Highlights
News & Highlights
Srikanth Pilla Named Director of Center for Composite Materials
Leading expert in advanced lightweighting and sustainable composites will join UD August 1, 2023.
Activating fine-touch sensation
UD Engineering’s Laure Kayser received a Beckman Young Investigator award to support her research on assistive soft robotics and tactile displays.
How I Teach — Materials science and engineering
In introductory course, Professor Sheldon Hewlett’s students learn about history of materials and gain lab skills.
2023 College of Engineering faculty promotions
During the most recent UD Board of Trustees meeting, 11 COE faculty were promoted and 3 were awarded emeritus status.
Materials Science and Engineering: Evolution, Revolution or Back to the Future?
A Q&A with founding chair John Rabolt, founding chair and Karl W. and Renate Böer Professor, who played an instrumental role in establishing UD’s materials science and engineering department.
Undergraduate Curriculum Innovations
From creating lightweight yet durable prosthetics to designing new types of solar panels and batteries, materials engineers combine their expertise in physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering to help meet the needs of modern-day life.