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  • 2018 College of Engineering Outstanding Staff Award Winners

    By Bonnie Dickson DAVIS, Calif.; April 24, 2018 –The UC Davis College of Engineering is pleased to announce the recipients of the college’s second annual Outstanding Staff Awards. The awards recognize and honor staff whose performance demonstrates a strong commitment to the UC Davis Principles of Community, the mission and vision of the college, exemplary service ...

 

 

 

  • Erkin Şeker Named Bioengineering Young Innovator
    DAVIS, Calif.; August 2, 2016­­­­–Erkin Şeker, assistant professor in the UC Davis Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been named a 2016 Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE) Young Innovator. The Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) selected the 2016 Young Innovators and Şeker was one of 12 researchers to receive the honor. The society noted Şeker’s work ...
  • College of Engineering Announces 2016 Faculty Awards
    DAVIS, Calif.; June 20, 2016­–The UC Davis College of Engineering is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s Outstanding Faculty Awards. The recipients were nominated by their respective departments, and selected by the college’s Awards Committee of faculty members. The professors will receive the awards honoring their exceptional accomplishments at a special reception at ...
  • Srabanti Chowdhury Wins Young Scientist Award
    DAVIS, Calif.­­; July 5, 2016–The International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors (ISCS) has awarded its 2016 Young Scientist Award to Srabanti Chowdhury, an associate professor in UC Davis Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). Among the department’s newest faculty members, Chowdhury previously held an assistant professor position at Arizona State University’s School of Electrical, Computer and Energy ...
  • $1 million gift to create biomedical engineering professorship
    Retired faculty-staff couple gives $1 million to create professorship By Laura Pizzo, Senior Writer, Development and Alumni Relations, UC Davis DAVIS, Calif.; June 20, 2016—UC Davis has received a $1 million bequest from Distinguished Professor Emeritus Maury Hull and Karen Slakey Hull to endow a professorship in biomedical engineering with a research emphasis in orthopedics. The Maury ...
  • Prem Devanbu’s Research Team Wins Most Influential Paper Award
    DAVIS, Calif.­­­; June 9, 2016–At this year’s 13th International Conference on Mining and Software Repositories UC Davis Department of Computer Science Engineering Professor Prem Devanbu received a “10-Year Most Influential Paper Award.” The paper honored, “Mining Email Social Networks,” was presented in 2006 at the Mining Software Repositories (MSR) international workshop. The paper describes research done ...
  • Diane Bryant, Intel EVP and UC Davis Alumna, to Speak at Commencement
    DAVIS, Calif., June 3, 2016—Diane Bryant, executive vice president and general manager of the Data Center Group for Intel Corporation, will deliver the UC Davis College of Engineering’s commencement address on Sunday, June 12, 2016 3-5 p.m. at the Pavilion on the university campus. More than 700 students will receive their bachelor of science in ...
  • Jean VanderGheynst is Recipient of Postdoctoral Scholar Mentoring Award
    DAVIS, Calif.; May 26, 2016—Jean VanderGheynst, associate dean for research and graduate studies in the UC Davis College of Engineering, has received the 2016 Distinguished Postdoctoral Scholar Mentoring Award from the UC Davis Graduate Council’s Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Welfare Committee. In addition to serving as associate dean, VanderGheynst is a professor in the Department ...
  • Lauren Jabusch wins UC President’s Leadership Award
    DAVIS, Calif.; May 23, 2016—UC Davis Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering graduate student, Lauren Jabusch, received a UC President’s Award for Outstanding Student Leadership at a University of California Regents Meeting on May 11, 2016. Two of the three students from the entire system recognized by UC President Janet Napolitano study at UC Davis. For ...
  • Record Participation Slated for Design Showcase
    DAVIS, Calif.; May 18, 2016—This year’s UC Davis College of Engineering Design Showcase will be the largest in the school’s history with more than 170 student teams participating. Students present a range of projects from a parking enforcement drone to a scale that weighs bees to a water-conserving grape cleaning robot and DIY electric powered ...
  • College of Engineering Presents 2016 Scholar Awards
    The UC Davis College of Engineering will present its annual Scholar Awards during a recognition ceremony taking place from 3 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, May 31, in the AGR room of the campus’ Walter A. Buehler Alumni Center. A reception with college leadership, industry donors, family and friends will follow the presentations. This year’s ceremony will feature ...
  • Students Present Bio-fertilizer Research at National Design Expo
    DAVIS, Calif.; April 25, 2016—A UC Davis biological and agricultural engineering student team shared their research project at the 12th Annual People, Prosperity, and Planet (P3) National Sustainable Design Expo in Washington, DC this month. Their U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) grant-funded project aims to transform manure from the nation’s largest dairy producer, California, into renewable ...
  • Alexandra Navrotsky Wins Kingery Lifetime Achievement Award
    DAVIS, Calif.; April 21, 2016—The American Ceramic Society has selected Distinguished Professor Alexandra Navrotsky of the UC Davis Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science to receive the W. David Kingery Award. Currently the Interim Dean of the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis, Navrotsky also holds appointments as the Edward Roessler Chair in Mathematical ...
  • Croes Medal Awarded to UC Davis Research Team and Collaborators
    DAVIS, Calif.; April 16, 2016—The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has selected M. Levent Kavvas and his co-authors to receive the 2016 J. James R. Croes Medal. The award was given for their paper published in the Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, “Physically Based Estimation of Maximum Precipitation over Three Watersheds in Northern California: Atmospheric Boundary Condition Shifting.” Kavvas is the ...
  • Saman Ashkiani Awarded NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship
    DAVIS, Calif.; April 19, 2016—UC Davis College of Engineering graduate student, Saman Ashkiani, has been named one of ten students worldwide to the 2016-2017 NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program. Ashkiani is a graduate student in the UC Davis Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering working with Prof. John Owens. Ashkiani’s research, as outlined on NVIDIA’s website, “currently ...
  • Grad Student Pursues Greener Semiconductors
    Vincent Li Fabrication Engineer at Hihath Research Group 1) Where are you from? My family and I migrated from Hong Kong, and settled in San Francisco. 2) Why UC Davis? During my first visit on a hot summer day, after driving past mountains and large grassy fields, I found my heart: The campus landscape and its nature, and the youthful ...
  • Amit Kanvinde Receives 2016 Huber Research Prize
    DAVIS, CA; April 15, 2016—The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has awarded the 2016 Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize to Amit Kanvinde, professor and chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Davis. The ASCE recognized Kanvinde for “For significant contributions in modeling integrated with large-scale experiments to advance ...
  • Cristina Davis’ Startup Wins World Agri-Tech Investment Summit Competition
    DAVIS, Calif.; April 11, 2016—At this year’s World Agri-Tech Investment Summit, held March 16-17, 2016 in San Francisco, UC Davis Prof. Cristina Davis won the pitch fest competition’s “Best Newcomer” Award. Davis, a professor in the UC Davis Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, was invited to talk about the company she co-founded in 2016, XTB ...
  • Jeni Lee receives 2016 Zuhair A. Munir Award
    DAVIS, Calif.; April 7, 2016 – The College of Engineering’s Awards Committee has selected Jeni Lee as the winner of the 2016 Zuhair A. Munir Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation. Lee is being honored for her research entitled, “Bioactive and Mechanical Stimuli for Engineering Neocartilage with Native Tissue-like Tensile Properties.” Prof. Kyriacos Athanasiou was Lee’s mentor in ...
  • Lecture by Biomedical Engineering Pioneer Nicholas Peppas
    Pioneering biomedical and chemical engineer Nicholas A. Peppas spoke on Thursday, April 21, 2016 at the Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility at UC Davis. The Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, Peppas spoke on “Intelligent Nanoscale Biopolymers for Recognitive and Responsive Delivery of Drugs, Peptides and Proteins.” The ...