College of Engineering News
Top Stories
- Startup founded by Biomedical Engineering grad students wins BigBang! Competition
- Adam Steltzner Speaks at UC Davis on May 21
- 2013 Roboplay Competition Engages K-12 Students with STEM
- Brewing Future Engineers: Coffee lab seeks to attract students to engineering major
- UC Davis Students Top American Team at SAE Aero Design West
- Engineering Graduate Students Receive Awards
- Kenneth Loh Awarded Fulbright Scholarship
Faculty
Brewing Future Engineers: Coffee lab seeks to attract students to engineering major
With American universities growing increasingly concerned about the challenges of attracting qualified students into engineering majors, Professor William Ristenpart believes he may have an answer: Coffee.
Kenneth Loh Awarded Fulbright Scholarship
The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs has selected Kenneth Loh, an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Davis, as a 2013 Fulbright Scholar. The award will facilitate Loh's research efforts at the National Taiwan University in Taipei City, Taiwan.
Christina Davis earns NSF Grant
The National Science Foundation has granted a three-year, $185,000 award to UC Davis Professor Cristina Davis for research to more accurately measure volatile organic compounds (VOCs) to further enable plant science research.
Research
Startup founded by Biomedical Engineering grad students wins BigBang! Competition
ViVita Technologies, a team comprising a UC Davis veterinarian and three biomedical engineering doctoral students, took home a total of $12,000 in the 13th annual Big Bang! Business Plan Competition, run by MBA students in the UC Davis Graduate School of Management: $10,000 for first place, decided by a team of judges, and $2,000 for the People’s Choice award, decided by a vote of the approximately 150 people who attended the awards ceremony on May 16, 2013 at the UC Davis Conference Center.
Engineering Graduate Students Receive Awards
Five College of Engineering graduate students received awards at the 2013 Interdisciplinary Graduate and Professional Student Symposium (IGPS) at UC Davis. The symposium provides an opportunity for graduate and professional students to share their research, creative, and scholarly efforts with peers and the public.
UC Davis College of Engineering Maintains High Ranking
The UC Davis College of Engineering is ranked 33rd among engineering schools that grant doctoral degrees in the latest edition of America's Best Graduate School Rankings, released by U.S. News & World Report on March 12, 2013.
Awards
UC Davis Students Top American Team at SAE Aero Design West
The UC Davis Advanced Modeling Aeronautics Team (AMAT) was the top American team and second overall at the 2013 SAE Aero Design West competition held in April. The team was judged to have the best design report and second best oral presentation, and finished second in the world after a team from the Warsaw University of Technology.
UC Davis graduate student team finalists in national security competition
A team of graduate students from UC Davis have been selected as finalists for the seventh annual National Security Innovation Competition in Colorado Springs, Colorado on April 26.
Valeria LaSaponara shares NSF grant for polymer sandwich construction research
UC Davis professor Valeria LaSaponara received an NSF grant for the joint effort with Dr. Anastasia Muliana from Texas A&M, "Fatigue and Lifetime Performance of Polymer Sandwich Constructions-A Multi-Scale Experiment and Modeling Approach."
Students
2013 Roboplay Competition Engages K-12 Students with STEM
The UC Davis College of Engineering hosted 30 teams of local middle school and high school students Saturday, May 4, all of whom brought their best programming chops to the annual C-STEM Day Robo-Play and Math Programming Challenge.
STEM for Girls Day 2013 at UC Davis
Local girls spent a day immersed in the wonders of science when the UC Davis College of Engineering presented STEM for Girls 2013 (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 6, 2013.
Alumni
Adam Steltzner Speaks at UC Davis on May 21
NASA JPL engineer and UC Davis alumnus Adam Steltzner, who led the Entry, Descent and Landing (EDL) Team for the Mars Curiosity Rover, will speak at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 in Room 1065, Kemper Hall on the UC Davis campus.
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Announcements
UC Davis Professors Track Traffic, Earn Second NSF Grant
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a new grant to UC Davis Engineering professors Michael Zhang, Chen-Nee Chuah, and Dipak Ghosal, for their proposal "User-Centric Sensing And Distributed Control Of Corridor Transportation Networks."