This summer, select UC Davis engineering students spent eight weeks working with novel technologies and research, developing high-demand, hands-on skills, and gaining insight into unexpected career paths.
A team of UC Davis students looked beyond convention and imagined the future to conceptualize a hybrid-electric turboprop aircraft, earning them third place in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ national design competition.
Microfabrication is gaining more importance than ever in the US. Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Erkin Şeker and his lab believe video games may be the answer for training the growing workforce.
Balint Szigeti Csucs, a third-year computer science and engineering major originally from Hungary, spent the first two years of his undergraduate experience exploring opportunities and building community.
Four College of Engineering Ph.D. candidates are among the 20 UC Davis graduate students and postdoctoral scholars named as 2023-24 fellows in the Professors for the Future program.
During an internship in eastern Uganda in 2018, biosystems engineering Ph.D. candidate Ismael Mayanja first had the idea for what would become Badaye Technologies. This month, Badaye Technologies was recognized by Comstock's Magazine as its startup of the month.
Not long after Quarter at Aggie Square launched in fall 2020, students quickly found success through the immersive, undergraduate academic experience. Some participants were admitted to prestigious graduate programs and others earned competitive internship opportunities. This year, one team of undergraduates found success by creating not one, but two innovations as a result of their Experience last fall.
Biomedical engineering seniors at the University of California, Davis, have received the 2023 Sandia Engineering Design Award for a capstone project that may transform how doctors treat elevated intracranial pressure, a severe condition where pressure continues to develop in someone’s head due to a tumor, brain infection or neurological injury.
UC Davis doctoral graduate Abby Niesen, M.S. '21, Ph.D. '23 is arguably one of the most productive doctoral students in the history of the Department of Biomedical Engineering and quite possibly the College of Engineering, according to faculty who have been associated with UC Davis for nearly 50 years.
Ali J. Gangeh is pioneering UC Davis to the stars by leading the team building the university’s first liquid rocket engine. Gangeh is a sophomore undergraduate student studying mechanical engineering. Arriving at Davis, Gangeh expressed an interest in a variety of campus clubs but couldn’t find the perfect fit for his passions.