UC Davis undergraduate teams captured three of four major awards in the 2025-26 CITRIS Aviation Prize, developing innovative software and simulation tools to support California’s future advanced air mobility network and electric air taxi transportation systems.
Through leadership roles, entrepreneurship and direct experience in artificial intelligence, computer science and engineering major Senara Millawabandara found a strong sense of community and purpose at UC Davis — and a commitment to building solutions that improve people’s everyday lives.
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.
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has established the Ding Prize for Scholarly Excellence in Electrical and Computer Engineering to recognize the top graduating student in electrical or computer engineering. Vivian Nguyen, a computer engineering student, is the award’s first recipient.
At an upcoming UC Davis commencement ceremony, biological systems engineering major Atmaja Patil will speak on what she takes away from her education: “The confidence to question the status quo. To look at a problem and ask, ‘Why does it have to be this way?’”
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.
Inspired by her father's life-changing spinal cord injury, student athlete Lillie Vehling is pursuing mechanical and aerospace engineering to help others. Whether she's designing solutions at the Engineering Student Design Center or competing in Division I water polo, community remains at the center of her world.
A University of California, Davis mechanical engineering student has been named top graduating senior, earning the University Medal for academic excellence, leadership and impact in robotics, research and campus life.
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.
