Facts and Figures

University of Delaware

• Founded as a small private academy in 1743; now a land-grant, sea-grant, space-grant university; Carnegie Research University; state-assisted, privately controlled
• Over 17,500 undergraduates; more than 3,700 graduate students
• Strategically located within the northeast corridor of the U.S. along I-95
• President- Dennis Assanis
• Provost- Dominico Grasso

UD College of Engineering

• One of seven UD colleges
• Research expenditures exceeding $50 million
• Approximately 2,243 undergraduates and 881 graduate students
• Seven departments, thirteen college-based research centers, eight university-based research centers
• Facilities—six  buildings with more than 280,000 square feet
• Dean – Babatunde A. Ogunnaike

UD Center for Composite Materials

• Founded in 1974
• Internationally recognized excellence
• Mission-conduct basic and applied research, educate scientists and engineers, and develop and transition technology
• Annual expenditures over $11.7 million
• Over 150 people

–   52 affiliated visiting faculty
–   30 research professionals
–   20 graduate students
–   14 visiting scholars
–   25 undergraduate research assistants
–   9 lab technicians
–   6-member administrative team

• Host to 6 NSF/DoD Centers of Excellence since 1986
• 57 members of the University-Industry Consortium
• More than 3,500 small, medium, and large companies have benefited from affiliation with CCM
• More than 2,000 alumni worldwide