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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
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
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...
New Engineering Major
An undergraduate program in construction engineering and management has been approved to start Fall 2017.
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....
Dual Doctoral Program
Agreement promotes collaboration with National Chung Hsing University in Taiwan On April 25, Fuh-Sheng Shieu, president of the National Chung Hsing University in Taiwan, visited the University of Delaware to sign an agreement for a cooperative program that encompasses...
Rapid Replacement
Novel technology applied to replace aging bridge merica’s bridges received a grade of C+ on the 2017 Infrastructure Report Card, put out by the American Society of...
Building Security with Resilience
International 'Resilience Week' Conference puts focus on cybersecurity, controls, grids, human dynamics You remember those roly-poly dolls -- Weebles were a popular type some years back -- designed with a center of gravity that keeps them bouncing back no matter how...
Lifetime Achievement Award
Huang honored for contributions to environmental engineering education and research Chin-Pao Huang, Donald C. Philips Professor and Francis Alison Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Delaware, has been teaching and...
Kerr Lecture 2017
Expert to address global engineering for a small planet in Kerr Lecture Bernard Amadei, professor at the University of Colorado, will deliver the 2017 Arnold D. Kerr Lecture in Engineering Mechanics and Design at the University of Delaware on April 20. The lecture,...
New Pathway for Microbially Minded
Emerging graduate program adds extra buzz to microbiology symposium You just never know what will happen at a research symposium – what new data you'll see, what sort of questions will arise or where connections will be made that produce new studies and new knowledge....
RR Big Data
Conference addresses big data in railroad maintenance planning More than 150 representatives of the railway and academic communities turned out for the 2016 Big Data in Railroad Maintenance Planning Conference at the University of Delaware on Dec. 15-16. The third...