U.S.News & World Report ranks UDM’s undergraduate engineering programs among the top tier of Midwestern master’s universities for 2008.

The Colleges of Engineering & Science and Health Professions offer an accelerated Physican Assistant B.S./M.S. Program. The five-year program provides traditional classroom and laboratory learning with clinical experiences offered through emergency medical technician training and assignments.

For the second year in a row, UDM's team of mechanical and electrical engineering students placed third overall (among 38 teams from across the nation and around the world) at the 2007 Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition. UDM's mobile robot vehicle competed against such engineering schools as Georgia Tech and University of Wisconsin.

UDM student team placed third among 18 entries in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers‘ Student Design Competition. Each team designed and built a Human-Powered Water Still to address the growing world shortage of water. 

A team of three UDM chemistry sophomores won the undergraduate research poster at the Association of Analytical Chemistry meeting. Their research was in the area of environmental chemistry.

UDM is the lead institution of the Michigan Ohio University Transportation Center, a coalition of five universities established by the U.S. Department of Transportation to perform research, education and outreach in the areas of alternative fuels, transportation system efficiency and supply chains.

UDM's Mexican American Partnership program has become a national model for educating leaders for the Mexican/U.S. industrial partnership. Students also study in similar programs in Canada, China and Australia.

UDM has the only four-year engineering program in Michigan where all students obtain one full year of engineering experience prior to graduation. On graduation day 2006, 100% of UDM engineering graduates had either a position in their field or admission to excellent graduate schools.

The Tank Automotive Research, Engineering and Development Center awarded an $800,000 grant to UDM mechanical and electrical engineering faculty and students to perform research related to vehicle reliability and communication/control systems.

Professor of Chemistry/Biochemistry Shulamith Schlick received a Special Creativity Award from the National Science Foundation, Division of Materials Research, with renewed grant funding for polymer research Schlick is conducting under the auspices of the foundation.

For the third year in a row, UDM’s Chemistry Club was named “Outstanding” by the American Chemistry Society. This honor is bestowed on about 30 of the 900 chemistry clubs in the nation. The UDM Chemistry Club was also designated as a “Green Chemistry” chapter for 2006-2007—one of only ten chapters cited.