UC Davis engineering projects fight COVID-19May 20, 2020 By Noah Pflueger-Peters With new seed grants from the UC Davis Office of Research’s COVID-19 Research Accelerator Funding Track (CRAFT), three teams of UC Davis engineers are applying their expertise toward the pandemic response to help people become safer, healthier and better-tested. Mechanical and aerospace engineering (MAE) professor and chair Cristina Davis and chemical engineering ...
How Fast Are Ice Shelves Really Melting?
February 22, 2019 By Kat Kerlin, originally posted on UC Davis News. A small group of scientists and doctoral students from the University of California, Davis, recently returned from Antarctica, where they became the first group to collect turbulence measurements from an underwater glider beneath an ice shelf. This multinational collaboration being led by the Korea Polar Research ...Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day 2019
February 21, 2019 By Noah Pflueger-Peters February 21 is “Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day,” also known as Girl Day. Part of National Engineers Week, the day encourages engineers to introduce their discipline to girls by promoting understanding of what engineers do and inspiring them to pursue engineering as a career. At UC Davis, we take pride in the ...UC Davis Engineering Week 2019
February 18-22 is National Engineers Week, or E-Week. Join the UC Davis College of Engineering and the UC Davis Engineering Joint Council (EJC) for the annual week-long celebration of engineering at UC Davis and around the world. The EJC is comprised of student representatives from each of the Engineering Student Organizations and professional society chapters at Davis, ...Engineering Alumni Spotlight: Adam Davis, ’04
February 14, 2019 By Bonnie Dickson Adam Davis graduated from UC Davis in 2004 with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering. He is a Principal Engineer at Weston & Associates Mechanical Engineers, Inc., a full-service design engineering firm providing mechanical engineering services to architects and owners for projects throughout California. Through his involvement with the American Society ...Carnegie Mellon’s David Dzombak continues 2018-19 distinguished lecture series with U.S. water, climate research
January 28, 2019 By Noah Pflueger-Peters Dr. David Dzombak, Hamerschlag Professor and Department Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University spoke at this quarter’s College of Engineering Distinguished Lecture on Thursday, January 24. He delivered his lecture in the Student Community Center to a full room of faculty, staff, undergraduates and graduate students all ...Engineering Staff Spotlight: CNM2 Research Administrator Paula Lee
January 17, 2019 By Bonnie Dickson The College of Engineering’s Center for Nano and Micro Manufacturing (CNM2) is a shared research facility that includes a roughly 10,000 square foot cleanroom for micro and nano-fabrication and novel, scalable research and technology development. The campus and College of Engineering have made significant investments in CNM2 in recent years and ...COSMOS aims to inspire future scientists, engineers
January 15, 2019 By Elizabeth Thomson A professor at UC San Diego and a UC Davis doctoral student in statistics – with a bachelor’s in math from UC Berkeley – are among the alumni of the California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science (COSMOS), a four-week statewide program for the most talented high-school students in the ...At the Interface Between Robots and Humans
January 15, 2019 By Elizabeth Thomson When Sarah O’Meara arrived at UC Davis she had little experience writing software and had never conducted an experiment involving human subjects. Now, the mechanical and aerospace engineering doctoral student has a passion for both and is on track for a career that combines them in her research on robots that ...Steven George Named Chair of UC Davis Biomedical Engineering
Renowned UC Davis M.D./Ph.D. to helm one of the nation’s top-ranked biomedical engineering departments January 09, 2019 By Brady Oppenheim The College of Engineering’s Department of Biomedical Engineering is pleased to announce biomedical engineering professor Steven George as the Department’s new chair effective Jan. 1, 2019. “I’m excited and quite energized by the opportunity to lead the UC Davis Biomedical Engineering ...Engineering Alumni Spotlight: Jose Velazquez, Toward a Future of Electric Cars
January 7, 2019 By Elizabeth Thomson Jose Velazquez was eight years old when he moved to the United States from Mexico. He has gone on to become the first in his immediate family to graduate from college, going on to earn a Ph.D. in mechanical and aeronautical engineering from UC Davis in 2017. Always obsessed with cars, ...Winter Distinguished Lecture: Interbasin Transfers and Water Risk in the U.S.
January 8, 2019 By Noah Pflueger-Peters The College of Engineering will welcome Carnegie Mellon University’s David Dzombak as its winter 2019 distinguished lecturer. Dzombak will deliver his lecture, “Interbasin Transfers and Water Risk in the United States,” at 4 p.m. on January 24 at the UC Davis Student Community Center. Interbasin transfer (IBT) are manmade systems that transport water ...Alyssa Panitch Joins College of Engineering Leadership Team
January 4, 2019 By Bonnie Dickson The UC Davis College of Engineering is pleased to announce Alyssa Panitch as the College’s Executive Associate Dean and Associate Dean of Academic Personnel and Planning. Her appointment was effective December 1, 2018. As a member of the College’s leadership team, Panitch will work closely with Dean Jennifer Curtis and other college ...Rich Terrazas ’93: Following the Flow of Water
November 30, 2018 By Noah Pflueger-Peters Rich Terrazas (’93) graduated from UC Davis with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering. Though he had a background in structural engineering, he soon found himself working in the water industry. As Director of the Project Management Office at the environmental engineering firm Brown and Caldwell, Rich uses his engineering design ...UC Davis Wins Amazon’s 2018 Alexa Artificial Intelligence Challenge
November 27, 2018 By Bonnie Dickson UC Davis Team Gunrock won the global 2018 Amazon Alexa Prize for creating the best conversational chatbot and advancing modern artificial intelligence. The announcement of this $500,000 prize was made yesterday at the annual Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. Zhou Yu, an assistant professor in the College of Engineering’s ...Human Images from World’s 1st Total-Body Scanner Unveiled
November 19, 2018 By Dorsey Griffith EXPLORER, the world’s first medical imaging scanner that can capture a 3D picture of the whole human body at once, has produced its first scans. The brainchild of UC Davis scientists Simon Cherry and Ramsey Badawi, EXPLORER is a combined positron emission tomography (PET) and X-ray computed tomography (CT) scanner that can ...Engineering Graduate Students Travel to Germany for Biophotonics Exchange Program
November 13, 2018 By Noah Pflueger-Peters Six UC Davis Ph.D. students from the Biomedical Engineering Graduate Group traveled to Jena, Germany this September for a weeklong summer school on clinical biophotonics. These students attended lectures, visited cutting-edge research labs and presented their research to their German peers and leading experts in the field while immersing themselves in ...Detecting E.coli strains using molecular electronics
November 5, 2018 By Aditi Risbud Bartl Finding a fast and inexpensive way to detect specific strains of bacteria and viruses is critical to food safety, water quality, environmental protection and human health. However, current methods for detecting illness-causing strains of bacteria such as E. coli require either time-intensive biological cell cultures or DNA amplification approaches that ...UC Davis Engineering Dean and Alumna Invited to Speak at Women in Chemical Engineering Event
Oct. 29, 2018 By Noah Pflueger-Peters College of Engineering Dean Jennifer Sinclair Curtis and distinguished alumna and Dean’s Executive Committee member Cynthia Murphy-Ortega (’91) have been invited to speak at the annual meeting of chemical engineers (AIChE) on October 30 as part of a Women in Chemical Engineering symposium. The AIChE’s Women’s Initiative Committee (WIC), which is celebrating ...Engineering Staff Spotlight: Steven Lucero, TEAM Lab Prototyper and Maker Space Guru
October 26, 2018 By Bonnie Dickson The Department of Biomedical Engineering’s Translating Engineering Advances to Medicine (TEAM) Lab, supports roughly 1,200 faculty, student and client projects each year. From 3D-printed body parts to the fabrication of electrical-mechanical devices for pathogen detection, the TEAM Lab – and its staff – help its users bring their research to life. One ...Matt Bishop and Sam King: Securing Cyberspace
October 10, 2018 By Aditi Risbud Bartl Networks of electronic information are embedded in nearly every aspect of our daily lives. From transportation and utility systems to telecommunication, everything from personal privacy to national security depends on maintaining the integrity of information in cyberspace. In addition to our smartphones and laptops, an increasing number of smart objects are ...