Preparing for their first international competition in August 2024, Cyclone RoboSub explains why designing an autonomous underwater vehicle is such an impactful and collaborative opportunity for Aggie Engineers.
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.
The first-ever UC Davis branch of Students for the Exploration and Development of Space kicks off its first year by submitting innovations like an inflatable emergency habitat and fuel recovery technology to NASA challenges.
UC Davis chemical engineering students get an up-close look at the processes of pharmaceutical manufacturing during a tour of AMPAC Fine Chemicals, turning theory into reality and giving a glimpse of what a day in the life of a career in chemical engineering could look like.
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.
As Duha Bader, chair of the University of California, Davis, chapter of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, or AIAA, weaved her way through the roughly 160 attendees of her first-ever AIAA Student Region VI Conference, she smiled proudly.
OneLoop, a student design team at UC Davis, is currently manufacturing and rigorously testing subcomponents for a hyperloop pod that might revolutionize transportation by providing a faster and cleaner mode of travel.
Melissa Poncini, a third-year electrical engineering major at UC Davis joined the Club of Future Female Electrical Engineers at UC Davis, or COFFEE, during her second year of college and made meaningful connections with other students who could offer support and advice. Now, she sits as chair of the club.
A group of UC Davis students carpooled to Nevada last month to compete in the Associated Schools of Construction, or ASC, 2023 Student Competition and Construction Management Conference and came back with a second-place win in the sustainable building competition.
Over the next four years, UC Davis students will be designing the car of the future as part of the EcoCAR Electric Vehicle (EV) Challenge. The competition challenges students to convert a Cadillac LYRIQ EV into an autonomous, next-generation battery-electric vehicle with vehicle-to everything connectivity so it can interact with devices and the environment.
