Points of Excellence
Largest research enterprise at UD
Research and innovation has many facets and can be measured in many ways. It can be achieved by launching new thriving laboratories, leading the discoveries in technological frontiers, and educating the visionaries of tomorrow. At the University of Delaware, innovation in Electrical and Computer Engineering is fueled by $15 Million in annual research expenditures --- this level of productivity ranks our faculty among those in top ten engineering departments in the nation. It also places our department first at the University of Delaware in this metric of success.
Our sponsors include the National Science Foundation; the Department of Defense through the Army (ARL &ARO), ONR, Air Force (AFOSR), DARPA; the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Energy (NREL), the State of Delaware, and numerous industrial collaborators. Our faculty lead and participate in large, multi-disciplinary, industry-academia consortia solving important problems for the nation in diverse technological areas including, energy, computation, telecommunications, security, and nanotechnology.
