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.
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Kari Watkins leads a project to turn the UC Davis campus into the world’s premier living-learning lab for researching bike and bus infrastructure.
UC Davis has more than 50 faculty members who belong to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, a recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in research. Each month, Dateline UC Davis will profile one of these faculty members in their Among the Academies series to honor their contributions to scientific research and knowledge.
Four outstanding staff will receive awards for consistent above-and-beyond job performance and commitment to the College of Engineering's mission and vision.
Civil and environmental engineering alum Sumeet Kumar Sinha, M.S. '17, Ph.D. '22 receives the annual Zuhair A. Munir Award for dissertation research on liquefaction-induced downdrag in deep foundations.
