The University of Delaware has a great tradition of excellence, from our roots extending back to a small private academy started in 1743, to the research-intensive, technologically advanced institution of today. Read more about UD here.
The Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) was founded in 1891. We have been innovators in science and technology to serve society through research, education, and entrepreneurship. Our research activities led by world-class faculty span from fundamentals in science, to exciting multidisciplinary initiatives.
The ECE department features 40,000 sq. ft. of department, laboratory, and clean room facilities, a $2M collaborative student space (Innovation Suite or iSuite) encompassing Cyber Range, Maker Space & Collaboration Hub. REU participants will have access to world-class facilities, including the Maker Gym and the $15 million Nanofabrication Facility, a 6,500-square-foot multi-user environment with 8,500 square feet of ultra clean fabrication space and the remainder dedicated for support logistics.
iSuite Laboratories:
The iSuite houses a “live-fire” cyber range—a virtual environment for cyber-warfare training—as well as a collaboration hub and project-oriented makerspace for students in electrical and computer engineering.
Maker Gym:
UD recently completed a 6,700-square-foot maker space called MakerGym, which is an interdisciplinary design and fabrication studio, focused on student empowerment and collaboration. This space features an array of 3D printers (eight Ultimaker S5 FDM and one MarkForged X7 CFF) and other state-of-the-art tools, a modern woodshop and an advanced manufacturing research center. The Maker Gym facility is open to all UD students, faculty and staff, and is a major hub for UD’s MakerNetwork that includes over a dozen makerspaces developing across the UD campus.
Nanofabrication Facility:
The UD Nanofabrication Facility (UDNF) enables researchers to create devices smaller than a human hair, supporting scientific advances in fields ranging from biomedical diagnostics, to photonic devices, environmental sensing, to solar energy harvesting. It features an 8,500-square-foot clean room, and has world-class capabilities in the areas of lithography, deposition, etch, thermal processing, characterization, and device packaging.
Supercomputing Research Laboratories:
ECE Supercomputing Research Laboratories (SRL) is a center where cutting-edge research in high-performance computing is conducted. Unique, state-of-the-art equipment and facilities are available for students to conduct their experimentation as listed below:
- A supercomputer emulation engine – each unit is itself a supercomputer consisting of 30 state-of-the-art FPGA chips and associated storage and other resources. When operating at full speed, eacg unit can emulate – at gate-level – a 160-core IBM Cyclops-64 chip (which is close to ½ billion transistors on chip) at 1,000,000 cycles per second! This unprecedented power is expected to have a great impact in the chip design methodology.
- An advanced experimental facility for reconfigurable supercomputing. This includes two State-of-the-Art FPGA based research workstations from the leading industry vendors in this field: the XD1000 from XtremeData Incorporated and the DS1000 from DRC Computer. Researchers and students at ECE are making record-breaking speedup on key applications in the field of bioinformatics.