Melanie Clague has been selected as the next executive assistant dean for administration and finance for the University of California, Davis, College of Engineering. She will begin her new role on August 1.
The Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering will be led by incoming chairs Sanjeevi Sivasankar and Vinod Narayanan, respectively.
The University of California, Davis, has been selected as a core member of the Pacific Intermountain Network for Education in Semiconductors, a regional node of the National Network for Microelectronics Education, or NNME, designed to strengthen and scale the semiconductor workforce across the western United States.
The Center for Animal Locomotion and Innovation hosted a grand opening ceremony at its UC Davis location in May. The afternoon event featured interactive research displays, technology demonstrations and meet-and-greets with experts (and their birds).
The UC Davis College of Engineering celebrates faculty members, graduate students and undergraduate students selected by the college's eight academic departments to receive Excellence in Teaching Awards, Outstanding Senior Awards and undergraduate student department citations.
UC Davis College of Engineering ranked No. 19 among public universities in the 2026 U.S. News Best Graduate Schools rankings, with three programs in the top 10 among publics and all programs in the top 25.
Babak Taheri, Ph.D. ’94, has helped shape the technologies behind smartphones, motion sensing and the Internet of Things. Now, he is investing in the next generation of UC Davis engineers by supporting the André Knoesen Teaching Lab in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
A dynamic digital twin designed by researchers at UC Davis was launched into Earth’s orbit on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The payload is expected to send data about the satellite’s state of health over the next month.
The Universities Space Research Association, or USRA, named Aidan Guerra, a fourth-year mechanical engineering and aerospace science and engineering double major at the University of California, Davis, to the class of 2025 Distinguished Undergraduate Award winners.
At the inaugural AI Innovation Showcase and Prem Jain Symposium, hosted by the UC Davis College of Engineering, faculty, students, alumni and industry partners explored cutting-edge research, startups and programs, emphasizing the importance of collaboration to advance AI.
