This month’s Face to Face With Chancellor May features Splash Tech, a forward-thinking startup tackling one of the most overlooked problems in home maintenance: swimming pool chemical management. The company grew out of a senior design project from electrical and computer engineering students at UC Davis.
Thirteen student teams pitched their innovative start-up ideas — from accessible dishware to an on-the-go centrifuge and an app that identifies invasive fire-spreading plant species — to investors at PLASMA Demo Day, the culmination of the Student Startup Center's capstone 12-week accelerator program.
Five student-led startups earned over $25,000 in prizes at PLASMA Demo Day, the culminating event for UC Davis Student Startup Center’s 12-week early-stage cohort accelerator for undergraduate entrepreneurs.
PLASMA Demo Day, organized by the UC Davis Student Startup Center, will showcase students' innovative startups and entrepreneurial ventures as they pitch their companies to industry experts.
Three UC Davis graduates form their own company to produce 3D Organic Polymer Silk, a surgical glue modeled after spider silk to be used primarily in bone fracture surgeries.
The Department of Biomedical Engineering redesigns its Quarter at Aggie Square program to offer a robust toolkit for students interested in the biomedical device industry. Students now take manufacturing and entrepreneurial classes alongside clinical immersion opportunities.
During the 2021-22 fiscal year, 13 startup companies executed agreements to access foundational intellectual property and commercialize new technologies developed at the University of California, Davis.
Electrical and computer engineering students swept this year’s Big Bang! and Little Bang! competitions designed to drive innovation and help budding entrepreneurs bring their new ideas to market.
Davis-based Storx Technologies has developed a noninvasive device that accurately determines a baby’s well-being in the womb — and helps doctors decide whether the baby can be delivered naturally, avoiding an unnecessary cesarian section. The innovation was developed in electrical and computer engineering professor Soheil Ghiasi’s UC Davis lab after Ghiasi’s wife experienced a C-section.
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies in the College of Engineering and Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UC Davis, Ralph Aldredge, received a Course & Program Grant from the VentureWell Foundation. The grant will support targeted outreach to introduce underrepresented undergraduate students to entrepreneurship at the Student Startup Center.
