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- Alum & Researcher Hank Childs Wins DOE Early Career Award
- College Distinguished Lecturer: James Plummer
- Engineering Connections 2012 & Design Day
- Campus tech incubator ETTC graduates first tenant company
- Family Gifts a Surprising Tribute to Retiring Professor Karnopp
- George Tchobanoglous Receives AAEE Environmental Education Award
- Steve Wozniak in Conversation at Mondavi Center
- UC Davis College of Engineering Maintains High Ranking
- Jerry Woodall Joins UC Davis Engineering Faculty
- UC Davis College of Engineering Celebrates 50th Anniversary
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Steve Wozniak in Conversation at Mondavi Center
UC Davis College of Engineering sponsors Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, in conversation with Dean Enrique J. Lavernia, on Monday, October 29, 2012, as part of the college's 50th Anniversary celebration.
UC Davis College of Engineering Celebrates 50th Anniversary
Full year of activities to mark history, anticipate future. The UC Davis College of Engineering celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2012 with an entire year of special events, exhibitions, noted guest speakers and much more.
Faculty
Campus tech incubator ETTC graduates first tenant company
Dysonics, a startup based on audio technology research conducted at the University of California, Davis, is the first company to "graduate" from the UC Davis College of Engineering's fledgling high-tech business incubator, the Engineering Translational Technology Center, also known as ETTC. After less than a year of incubation, Dysonics secured $750,000 in funding from angel investors, enough to set out on its own.
Family Gifts a Surprising Tribute to Retiring Professor Karnopp
Glenn and Bettina Duval of Santa Monica decided to surprise Professor Dean Karnopp at his retirement party. They made a gift of $100,000 to endow a graduate fellowship in his name, and made a surprise announcement in front of family and friends.
George Tchobanoglous Receives AAEE Environmental Education Award
George Tchobanoglous, a professor emeritus in the UC Davis Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, is the first recipient of the AAEE Excellence in Environmental Engineering Education Award.
Research
Alum & Researcher Hank Childs Wins DOE Early Career Award
Hank Childs of the LBNL Computational Research Division’s Visualization Group has been honored with a 2012 DOE Early Career Award. This is the third year of the Early Career Research Program managed by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, and Childs is one of four researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) who were honored. In total, there were 68 award recipients from 47 institutions.
UC Davis College of Engineering Maintains High Ranking
The 2013 edition of America's Best Graduate School Rankings was released by US News & World Report on March 13, 2012. Among engineering schools, the College of Engineering remained in a tie for 31st for the second straight year, ranking in the top quintile of the 194 programs granting doctorates.
Jerry Woodall Joins UC Davis Engineering Faculty
The UC Davis College of Engineering has appointed Dr. Jerry Woodall a distinguished professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. A National Medal of Technology Laureate, Woodall has collected 85 U.S. patents, and his work is cited in more than 350 publications.
Awards
UC Davis Steel Bridge Team Competes in National ASCE Event
UC Davis’ Team Chrome Ollie, a group of nearly 20 Civil and Mechanical Engineering students, won second out of 11 entries in the Mid-Pacific region of the ASCE Steel Bridge competition hosted at UC Berkeley on the weekend of March 23-25.
Laura Marcu Elected SPIE Fellow
SPIE has promoted Laura Marcu as a new Fellow of the Society. Marcu, a professor of biomedical engineering at the College of Engineering at UC Davis, was recognized for achievements in biomedical optics, fluorescence lifetime spectroscopy, and imaging.
ASCE Awards Newmark Medal to Yannis F. Dafalias
The American Society of Civil Engineers has awarded the 2012 Nathan M. Newmark Medal to Yannis F. Dafalias, a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Davis. The award honors Dafalias’s research in plasticity of metals and soils, finite elastic-plastic deformations, inherent and evolving anisotropy, and structural optimization.
Students
Engineering Connections 2012 & Design Day
Join us for Engineering Connections on June 7, 2012, at the UC Davis Conference Center to learn about the latest advances from the College of Engineering. For the first time in more than 25 years, the college is organizing this one-day symposium to highlight our research and teaching mission as well as provide networking opportunities and information on our commitment to collaborations with industry. This is your chance to learn about programs taking place in our seven departments within the college, engage with world-class researchers in developing innovative technology, and meet the students who will be part of tomorrow’s engineering workforce.
Alumni
Engineering Class Notes
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Announcements
College Distinguished Lecturer: James Plummer
Dr. James Plummer, Dean of Engineering at Stanford University, will lecture about Educating Engineers for the 21st Century on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 from 11 a.m. -12 p.m. in Kemper Hall 1065.
UC Davis College of Engineering Fosters Diversity
The College of Engineering at UC Davis continues to make strides in fostering a diverse, multicultural learning environment.