Summer Undergraduate Research

Announcing three Research Opportunities for 2021!
- Conduct research at UD-CCM.
- Apprenticeships at UD-CCM sponsored by the Army Educational Outreach Program
- Virtual Externships at NASA for undergraduate and graduate students.

36th Annual ASC Conference

Abstract Deadline: February 15, 2021

Virtual Conference Dates: September 19-21, 2021

Additive Manufacturing at UD-CCM

CCM Assoc. Director & ECE Prof. Mark Mirotznik and alum Soumitra Biswas devised a way to make a novel lens using additive manufacturing, a group of technologies designed to build #3D objects by laying down layer after layer of material.

UD-CCM receives $2.7M NASA award

The collaborative xEMU spacesuit program will design, manufacture, and test composite components, as well as, develop impact and damage resistant lightweight composite designs and fabricate flight quality composite hardware for verification testing.

Watch SAMPE 2020 Virtual Awards Ceremony

UD-CCM team accepts Delmonte Award (9:20). Prof. Kun Fu, UD-CCM joint faculty of Mechanical Engineering and CCM-MSEG alumna Dr. Danning Zhang, accept the 2020 Young Professionals Emerging Leadership Award (23:14)

Do you have a PhD in engineering and authorized to work in the U.S.?

The University of Delaware Center for Composite Materials is hiring postdoctoral researchers with expertise in any one of the Center’s research areas.

$13.6M received from Army Research Lab

Program to create new composite materials, processing & manufacturing methods and/or use existing materials & manufacturing methods in novel ways to achieve new levels of lightweight, affordable, durable & multi-functional composites

U.S. Dept. of Energy awards UD-CCM $2.5M

UD-CCM project “Circular Economy of Composites enabled by TUFF Technology” selected to tackle challenges in plastic waste - Bio-Optimized Technologies to keep Thermoplastics out of Landfills.

Additive Manufacturing at UD-CCM

Services for our Manufacturing and Composites Industry Partners: process development and optimization, materials development & characterization, mechanical & impact testing and product design & development.

Materials in Extreme Dynamic Environments Awards UD-CCM $1.9M for 2020-2021

NASA-ULI Awards UD-CCM $5.9M

Using newly developed TuFF material to address technology barriers in manufacturing of complex geometry composite parts for Urban Air Mobility (UAM) and commercial air platforms, meeting aerospace performance at automotive-like production rates, and to transition technology to our industrial partner followed the US industrial by base.

UD-CCM wins $5.9M ARPA-e program

UD-CCM research teams have created the “TuFF internal WRAP for Rapid Pipeline Repair” (TuFF iWRAP) program, establishing a novel composite material feedstock and robotic placement process to fabricate stand-alone structural pipe within existing pipelines.

UD-CCM partners with Mikrosam

Great things happening in Automated Composite Manufacturing at the University of Delaware Center for Composite Materials! We’ve selected Mikrosam & their US representative Composite Automation LLC to deliver an integrated ATP machine for automatic placement of dry, thermoset and thermoplastic tape.

TuFF Material

World’s strongest short fiber composite material for metal replacement achieves aerospace properties, metal-like formability in zero-waste, fiber-to-parts pilot plant.