Meet the engineering undergraduate students working at UC Davis Tech Foundry. In this Q&A, Allen Cooke, David Kou and Haelie Tweet share how they are gaining technical skills while helping transform ideas into real-world solutions. Together, their experiences reflect a new chapter for a space that is actively growing.
Through a capstone design project, students work alongside clinicians, engineers and business mentors to translate healthcare challenges into market-ready technologies, gaining experience in the clinical, regulatory and business aspects that underpin successful medical device development.
What if you could talk Shakespeare’s Macbeth out of violence? A new UC Davis-developed game lets players do just that, using AI to simulate dialogue and teach real-world conflict de-escalation skills through interactive storytelling rooted in some of the greatest dramas in the English language.
COFFEE is a student club that offers academic support, networking opportunities and community for electrical and computer engineering students. Since its founding in 2018, the club has grown from a small group to a cornerstone organization making visible, impactful enhancements to student life.
Through clinical shadowing, hands-on engineering and industry collaboration, two graduate students share how clinicians, engineers and industry professionals have equipped them with the necessary tools to take a medical device from idea to a clinical application advancing human health.
Visiting from RWTH Aachen University in Germany, Patricia Kuom spent two quarters at UC Davis exploring new perspectives in materials engineering, embracing hands-on industry preparation, and discovering what it means to be an Aggie Engineer.
At UC Davis, graduating seniors in materials science and engineering spend their final year solving real problems for professional sponsors, emerging with the hands-on skills, mentorship and workplace-ready experience that traditional coursework rarely provides.
From GLP-1 treatment to upcycling coffee and legume waste streams, students tackled real food-related issues with an entrepreneurial mindset in Innovation for Impact: Food Systems, colloquially called “Hacking 4 Food.” Instructor and facilitator Alice Dien, a Ph.D. candidate in biological systems engineering, shares her reflections.
There’s a new educational arm to PLASMA, the flagship entrepreneurship program of the Student Startup Center. The 12-week accelerator, which helps undergraduates launch a startup business, now features a track for students interested in medtech.
A team of development engineers at UC Davis Tech Foundry and medical professionals at UC Davis Health have developed a teaching model to train surgeons on fetoscopic repair of spina bifida, one of the most difficult fetal surgeries to perform.
Professor of Teaching Jason White is reimagining a chemical engineering course to create a classroom that is welcoming and accessible for neurodivergent learners. Discover how he is using Universal Design for Learning to make engineering education inclusive for all.
A UC Davis pre-college program helped Sofia Jordana discover her passion for chemical engineering. Now a second-year undergraduate, she’s all in, leading AIChE events and showing how enthusiasm and curiosity can shape an engineering journey.
As cybercrime surges, UC Davis computer scientist Matt Bishop aims to build a stronger frontline. His SWEEPS initiative trains developers to write secure, resilient software from day one — shifting cybersecurity from patching crises to proactively defending our digital lives.
The Student Startup Center in the UC Davis College of Engineering helps students turn ideas into companies through hands-on courses, daily programming and collaborative maker spaces. Open to all majors, the center focuses on real-world experience to help students engineer solutions to critical problems.
