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?’”
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.
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.
In the UC Davis College of Engineering course "Hacking 4 Climate," teams of students tackle real-world environmental issues, from soil health to wildfires to solar energy for all, with an entrepreneurial angle, aiming to find impactful business-based solutions to global problems.
Computer science and engineering student Gautham Pandian is using his experience in software development and artificial intelligence to help educators grade more quickly and students learn more efficiently with a web-based app.
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.
At the Student Startup Center in the UC Davis College of Engineering, three students formed Build Black at UC Davis — a social venture studio that creates solutions for obstacles faced by Black students.
PLASMA is a competitive, twelve-week program for students to grow their technology startups at the University of California, Davis. Biomedical engineering undergraduates made up the majority of its 2023 cohort, with one of their teams winning second place for its business idea.
