Engineering Progress Magazine
Published twice a year by the UC Davis College of Engineering, Engineering Progress features the college's outstanding students, faculty, alumni and staff and highlights research achievements and college news.
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Spring 2020
- Advancing cancer research at UC Davis (Cover Story)
- Going viral
- EXPLORER scans cancer patients
- Securing and succeeding in an engineering job
- Solving agricultural challenges with engineering and robotics
- Faculty Spotlight: Mohamed Hafez
- The power of nighttime solar
Fall 2019
- Student Startup Center: inspiring undergraduate innovators (Cover Story)
- Improving healthcare with 'smart' tech
- Space Engineering at UC Davis
- Engineering Student Design Center
- Fluid Mechanics Pioneer: Professor Emeritus Stephen Whitaker
Winter 2019
- Gearing up for big changes (Cover Story)
- The science of Lake Tahoe
- UC Davis alumna Diane Bryant
- Human images from the world's first total-body scanner unveiled
- Supporting the next wave of water leaders
Summer 2018
- Karen Moxon: Decoding the Brain (Cover Story)
- Maureen Kinyua: Waste Not
- Matt Bishop and Sam King: Securing Cyberspace
- James and Penelope Shackelford: The Glass of Wine
- In Memoriam: John D. Kemper
- In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Bruce White
Winter 2018
- Engineering alums build new technology for sustainable plastics (Cover Story)
- High-frequency chip brings researchers closer to next-generation technology
- New cardiac catheter combines light and ultrasound to measure plaques
- College hosts National Academy of Engineering symposium
- Energy graduate group welcomes inaugural class
Spring 2017
- Record Number of New Faculty (Cover Story)
- Alumni Honored at College of Engineering Awards Dinner
- Faculty Elected to National Academy of Engineering
- Peet’s Coffee Pledges $250,000 to Advance Coffee Research
- Measuring and Optimizing Computer Networks
- Computer Model is ‘Crystal Ball’ for E. Coli
- Distinguished Lecture Series
- One Month in a Floating Village
Summer 2016
- New Approaches to Energy Conversion: Srabanti Chowdhury Joins UC Davis Faculty (Cover Story)
- Manufacturing the Future of Biomedical Engineering
- Retired Faculty-Staff Couple Gives $1 Million to Create Engineering Professorship
- UC Davis Scientists Demonstrate DNA-based Electrical Switch
- UC Davis Photonics Technology Helps Shrink Telescopes
- Generous Endowment Will Assist Engineering Undergrads
- Researchers Create World’s First 1,000-Processor Chip
- UC Davis researchers developing hand-held device to detect E. coli, other pathogens
Winter 2016
- Ready for her close-up: Jennifer Sinclair Curtis embraces her role as new dean (Cover Story)
- VIDEO: Meet Dean Jennifer Sinclair Curtis
- A Safe And Sturdy Infrastructure: Geotechnical engineer Jason Dejong explores “bio-soil” as a means of stabilizing future dams, bridges and buildings
- Helping Growers Optimize Irrigation
- UC Davis Receives $15.5 Million for Breakthrough PET Scanner
- Nanoporous Gold Sponge Makes Pathogen Detector