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- Founded as a small private academy in 1743; now a land-grant, sea-grant,
space-grant university; state-assisted, privately controlled
- Over 15,000 undergraduates; more than 3,000 graduate students
- Strategically located within the northeast corridor of the U.S.
along I-95
- President--Patrick D. Harker
- Provost--Daniel Rich
- One of seven UD colleges
- Research expenditures close to $42 million
- Approximately 1,206 undergraduates and 490 graduate students
- Five departments, eight research
centers
- Facilities--six buildings with more than 280,000 square feet
- Interim Dean -- Michael J. Chajes
HISTORY
- Founded in 1974
- Internationally recognized excellence
- Mission-conduct basic and applied research, educate scientists and
engineers, and develop and transition technology
- Since 1985, designated "center of excellence" through
seven programs
- Alumni (approximately 2000)
- More than 30 have taught or are teaching at universities worldwide
- Approximately 150 PhDs and 200 Masters
CURRENT PROFILE
- More than 250 CCM-affiliated personnel
- 45 affiliated and 2 visiting faculty,
- 38 research professionals,
- 13 postdoctoral fellows,
- 32 visiting scholars, and
- 51 graduate and 63 undergraduate research assistants along with a 13-member administrative team
- Composites Manufacturing Science Lab--CCM's 34,000-sq.-ft. facility
occupied in 1988 and off-campus Applications and Technology Transfer Lab
- More than $9 million in annual expenditures
- More than 3500 small, medium, and large companies benefited from affiliation with CCM
- More than 2000 alumni worldwide
- Current Centers of Excellence
- ARL-CMR: Lightweight
multifunctional armor materials
- ARL-CMT: Applied
research on composite materials technology
- ONR-AMIPC plus national
testbed: VARTM processing
- FAA: Member of the Air Transportation
Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials
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