UC Davis Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Emeritus Professor Izzat M. Idriss and his wife have presented the College of Engineering with a $100,000 gift, to establish the Mariam and Izzat M. Idriss Endowment Fund for Geotechnical Engineering Education.
The endowment will enrich the post-graduate experience in geotechnical engineering, through the support of graduate student ...
1) Where are you from?
I was born and raised in the Central Valley region of Merced, CA, after my parents immigrated to the U.S. from Mexico, in order to pursue a brighter future for the family.
2) Why UC Davis?
UC Davis has become one of the top research institutions in the field of computer graphics and ...
Following their first-place victory at a regional event held during spring quarter, the UC Davis Chem-E-Car team placed third overall at the annual American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AlChE) Student Conference Competition, which took place Nov. 8 at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The Aggie engineers competed against 33 other regional ...
DAVIS, CALIFORNIA, Nov. 10, 2015 — Jennifer Sinclair Curtis, who became Dean of the UC Davis College of Engineering on Oct. 19, has won the American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ (AlChE) F.J. & Dorothy Van Antwerpen Award, which recognizes outstanding technical and professional contributions to the field of chemical engineering.
Curtis was recognized formally during the ...
1) Where are you from?
I’m from Fairfield, CA. (I didn’t get too far from home!) I earned my BS in mechanical engineering from UC Davis in 2014.
2) Why UC Davis?
The Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and College of Engineering have been my No. 1 supporters, and that’s a big reason I chose UC Davis; ...
DAVIS, CALIFORNIA, Oct. 27, 2015—The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has presented a $1.8 million grant to a project headed by David Horsley, a professor in the UC Davis Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. The project, “Ultralow Power Microsystems Via an Integrated Piezoelectric MEMS-CMOS Platform,” includes the participation of co-PIs Xiaoguang “Leo” ...
The UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC) has launched a new smartphone app, “Citizen Science Tahoe,” that encourages beach-goers of all ages to tap in what they see at Lake Tahoe; creating crowd-sourced observational data that will be shared with the scientists to better understand conditions around the lake.
The app, available for download at ...
Two College of Engineering faculty members have received fellowships from UC Davis Graduate Studies’ Mentoring at Critical Transitions (MCT) program. The $10,000 grants, sponsored by the Wakeham Fund, have been presented to Gail Bornhorst, an assistant professor with joint appointments in the UC Davis Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, and Food Science and Technology; ...
The National Science Foundation’s Division of Undergraduate Education has awarded a two-year grant of $249,965.00 to Barbara Linke and Mohamed Hafez, professors in the UC Davis Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; and Lee Martin, an assistant professor in the UC Davis School of Education. Linke is the PI on their project, titled An Integrated ...
Leyuan Wang, a PhD student in the UC Davis Department of Computer Science, presented one of only two “Distinguished Papers” of the 51 accepted at Euro-Par 2015, which took place Aug. 24-28 at Austria’s Vienna University of Technology. Her paper, Fast Parallel Suffix Array on the GPU, is co-authored with her advisor, John Owens, a ...
Every day, in various classes, numerous students struggle with the material, desperately wishing for one-on-one assistance. Those same classes also contain plenty of people who thoroughly understand the subject matter … not to mention the hundreds of campus-wide students who sailed through such courses during previous quarters.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful, thought Ben Holmquist and Ben ...
Eduardo A. Silva, an assistant professor in the UC Davis Department of Biomedical Engineering, has received a fully paid invitation to attend the National Academy of Engineering‘s annual Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium. The event will take place Oct. 25-28 at the National Academies’ Beckman Center in Irvine, Calif.
All invited participants have been asked to ...
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) has just presented a prestigious award to Bahram Ravani, a professor in the UC Davis Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
The honor comes from the ASME Design Engineering Division’s Mechatronics and Embedded System and Applications (MESA) Technical Committee. Ravani has received this award, the highest given by a ...
UC Davis student engineering teams won three of the four possible trophies in the undergraduate division of this year’s U.S. University Design Challenge: All-Electric General Aviation Vehicle competition sponsored by NASA.
Team Bladessa won first place, with the honors shared by team leader Ethan Kellogg and members Geoffrey Christensen, Junette Hsin, Keshavan Kope, Ben Schellengberg and ...
The UC Davis College of Engineering has announced the recipients of its 2015 Faculty Awards. Four College of Engineering faculty members will be acknowledged at an event to be announced.
Matt Bishop, a professor in the Department of Computer Science, has won the Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award. Matt has been with us since 1994, and during ...
Bio-shock resistant: New center to apply biology to earthquakes, civil engineering
UC Davis, Arizona State University, New Mexico State University and the Georgia Institute of Technology have joined forces to create the Center for Bio-inspired and Bio-mediated Geotechnics (CBBG), to embrace and expand the rapidly emerging field of biogeotechnical engineering. The National Science Foundation (NSF) will ...