Before Judy Chang was overseeing the country's energy transmission as the first Asian American woman Commissioner on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, she was an undergraduate engineer walking through Kemper Hall. She talks about laying the groundwork for her career in energy policy and how her love of electronic music brought her to UC Davis.
Erik Contreras, a UC Davis mechanical engineering graduate student, paused their degree to pursue a Master of Fine Arts in Design. In this Q&A, Contreras discusses their interdisciplinary journey, creative hacking and their work on autonomous vehicles.
Zeynep Gulerce's career has been shaped by earthquakes. She was a young civil-engineer-in-training in Türkiye when a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck the Kocaeli Province of the country. It lasted 37 seconds and claimed more than 18,000 lives and injured tens of thousands of people. Hundreds of thousands lost their homes and businesses.
More than 7,500 miles separate Nepal and the University of California, Davis. That distance becomes imperceptible in a lab at Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu, the country's capital.
Diana Gamzina '08, M.S. '12, Ph.D. '16 recently spoke with Microwave Product Digest to discuss the innovations she’s made in millimeter-wave power amplifiers as well as current hurdles and future accomplishments she hopes to make with her company Elve.
New UC Davis alum Hannah Darr is ready for the next step in her journey in sustainable energy sources, thanks to the support and guidance she found in the materials science and engineering community.
After a decade in the film industry, Zachary White, a new alum of the UC Davis College of Engineering, talks about returning to school to pursue his lifelong dream of becoming an engineer.
A College of Engineering tradition began when students stepped into their canoe floating on a lake in southern Sacramento County on a chilly March afternoon in 1975. It was the first time its students had competed in the Concrete Canoe Competition.
On the eve before Picnic Day, the UC Davis College of Engineering Class of 1969 witnessed the unveiling of a new pillar at the Engineering Student Design Center that symbolizes the group’s pivotal support to the college.
Alumna Anna Shelyug studies materials from a thermodynamic perspective, a pursuit that was strengthened during her time conducting research at the University of California, Davis. Once curious about the workings of the world as a child, now she uncovers answers for herself.
