FALL 2019
Student Startup Center Inspiring undergraduate innovators
Chen-Nee Chuah: Improving healthcare with ‘smart’ tech
Space Engineering
Aggie Engineers Rise to the Top
YOU’RE INVITED College of Engineering Alumni Celebration Friday, November 22, 2019 • 6 p.m. UC Davis 2019 Distinguished Engineering Alumni Medal (DEAM) Recipients • • • • • • •
Kimberly Budil, M.S. ’88 and Ph.D. ’94, applied science Dennis Discher ’86, mechanical engineering Deborah Frincke, M.S. ’89 and Ph.D. ’92, computer science Michael Hurlston ’88, electrical engineering, and M.S. ’91, engineering Robert Kiss ’84, chemical engineering John Maroney ’75, mechanical engineering Shelten Yuen ’01, electrical engineering
Connect with your fellow College of Engineering alumni, engage with students and faculty and honor our 2019 Distinguished Engineering Alumni Medalists. Additional information: http://bit.ly/2019-deam
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Engineering Progress is published twice a year by the College of Engineering at UC Davis. Jennifer Sinclair Curtis Dean, College of Engineering Alyssa Panitch Executive Associate Dean, Academic Personnel and Planning Jessie Catacutan Executive Assistant Dean, Administration and Finance Ralph Aldredge Associate Dean, Undergraduate Studies Aditi Risbud Bartl Executive Director, Communications and Strategic Priorities Roland Faller Associate Dean, Facilities and Capital Planning Ricardo Castro Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Studies Leigh Ann Hartman Assistant Dean, Development and External Relations DEPARTMENT CHAIRS Bryan Jenkins Biological and Agricultural Engineering Steven George Biomedical Engineering Tonya Kuhl Chemical Engineering Amit Kanvinde Civil and Environmental Engineering Matthew Farrens Computer Science M. Saif Islam Electrical and Computer Engineering Jeff Gibeling Materials Science and Engineering Cristina Davis Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering ENGINEERING PROGRESS Rachel Furtado Communications Specialist Brady Oppenheim Contributor Noah Pflueger-Peters Contributor Rob Riedel, ATS Design Cover Photo by Sumit Basra/UC Davis
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Message from the Dean It’s been an exciting few months in the UC Davis College of Engineering! Earlier this summer, we received a $11M loan from campus leadership to launch the new Engineering Student Design Center (ESDC), which will be completed in fall 2022. The new space will include areas to accommodate instruction, student-client collaboration, rapid prototyping and more. We project groundbreaking for the center to occur in fall 2020 while we continue to fundraise. This expansion of the current space from 9,000 sq. ft. to 23,000 sq. ft. will allow many more of our outstanding students to learn engineering design and entrepreneurship in a revitalized space. The new ESDC will also house the Student Startup Center, which is accessible to student entrepreneurs throughout campus. When complete, the center will strengthen UC Davis’ position as a world leader in engineering design education. In this issue of Engineering Progress, you’ll read about our efforts to improve healthcare through “smart hospitals” and learn how our faculty are pushing the boundaries of space exploration. You’ll also hear about some of our accomplished alumni who are leaders in their fields. This fall, UC Davis was recognized as the most diverse large public university in the country based on data from the National Center for Education Statistics’ Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. In keeping with our commitment to diversity and inclusion, the College of Engineering has invested in efforts to increase the participation of women and underrepresented minorities in engineering and help them flourish. Based on these efforts, the college was recently honored with a Bronze Level recognition as part of the American Society of Engineering Education’s inaugural Diversity Recognition Program. In addition, the college was recognized and distinguished as exemplar for showing significant progress in increasing the diversity, inclusion and degree attainment among its students. We are proud to lead the way in preparing the next generation of engineering talent to succeed in a global environment. Go Aggie Engineers!
Jennifer Sinclair Curtis Dean, UC Davis College of Engineering
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Upcoming College Opportunities in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: an open forum with UC Davis Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Renetta Garrison Tull 1003 Kemper Hall October 28, 2019: 3-4 p.m.
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Distinguished Lecture Series WINTER “Breaking Rules for Cost-Effective Storage of Energy” Lynden A. Archer School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University
SPRING “Safe Machine Learning” Shafi Goldwasser Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, UC Berkeley
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2019 COMMENCEMENT
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Commencement Speaker Brian Underwood
By Aditi Risbud Bartl
More than 700 engineers received their degrees this spring at the College of Engineering’s undergraduate commencement ceremony on Friday, June 14. Family and friends, as well as faculty and staff from the college, cheered on the graduates, who received degrees in one or more of the college’s 11 majors. This year’s graduating class was also the first to feature students from the newly-created environmental engineering major. This year’s keynote address was delivered by Brian Underwood, a UC Davis engineering alumnus and co-founder of the company that developed the technology underlying high-definition video devices (HDMI) and digital visual interface (DVI). Underwood graduated from UC Davis with a master’s degree in materials science and engineering in 1991. He owns and manages Whaleback SBG, which invests in high-tech startups, real estate and agricultural development. His entrepreneurial career includes co-founding Silicon Image Inc., the company that invented HDMI and DVI; co-founding an internet travel search engine acquired by Kayak; and helping grow a speaker phone software startup acquired by Cisco Systems. Along with funding the Blacutt-Underwood Professorship in Materials Science, Underwood is also an active member of the College of Engineering’s Dean’s Executive Committee. “You leave UC Davis with a lot of confidence in knowing how to solve problems, break problems down and visualize a roadmap of technologies,” he said. EENNGGI INNEEEERRI INNGG PPRROOGGRREESSSS / / FFaal ll l 22001199 55
ALUMNI CIVIL ENGINEERING WAS ALWAYS IN HIS BLOOD: His grandfather was a UC Berkeley civil engineering graduate. But UC Davis ran in his family, too: As a little boy, Hoopes actually lived on the UC Davis campus with his family while his father pursued his Ph.D. in Russian history. After his dad’s hiring as the first professor at Eureka’s College of the Redwoods, Hoopes grew up in Humboldt County enjoying his math studies and participating in summertime survey-crew internships. “I always enjoyed the engineering side of things so, when it was my turn to go to college, I came back to UC Davis,” he said. “It was a great, low-key community where we always supported each other.” His first position right out of UC Davis was with Atkinson Construction, where he worked on San Francisco Bay’s Dunbarton Bridge doing field layout, surveying and more. And while with Atkinson, Hoopes was tapped for a unique project straight out of his civil engineering schooling.
A BUILDING LEGACY Jeff Hoopes (Civil Engineering ’80), a 2013 College of Engineering Distinguished Engineering Alumni Medal honoree, has built a career – and a corporate legacy – out of civil engineering.
“At UC Davis, I was tasked to design a form system for a nuclear power containment facility,” he said. “I designed the project and did all the calculations. Then at Atkinson, I needed to design a nuclear power containment facility – a massive project. I used everything I learned on my school project and presented my plan to the federal government. The project was approved and took six months to complete, but I learned it all at UC Davis.” Hoopes returned to school at Brigham Young University for an MBA degree, and then joined commercial-construction company Swinterton, Inc., in 1984. Starting out as an assistant estimator to learn the business, he then moved up as project engineer. Now, nearly 36 years on, he is the company’s CEO and chair, and is enthusiastic about the company’s growth and accomplishments over the decades. “We took a small local business and expanded it across the United States,” he said, noting that current projects include the state-of-the-art, mixed-use $2.1-billion Oceanwide Center in San Francisco. “It’s been a lot of fun: I’ve never been bored a day in my life!” Hoopes continues to construct company success by hiring numerous civil engineers and construction managers just like himself. “Some people don’t look at construction as a career, but it’s exciting building massive projects and being a part of a team,” he said. “When I visit UC Davis, I tell the students to pick a career they’re passionate about: You can both build a business and impact lives.”
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SPOTLIGHT CONNECTIONS MATTER FOR LEYLA HASHEMI ’10. As R&D Engineering Manager at Keysight Technologies, Hashemi leads a diverse team of 12 scientists and engineers from 15 different universities, including UC Davis. Together, they develop hybrid microcircuits and microcircuit manufacturing processes for new products for RF, microwave, mmWave and 5G test and measurement solutions. “We deal with hundreds of semiconductor integrated circuits and thin film circuits per product, as well as the electromechanical components and printed circuit assemblies.” she said. “All of that needs to come together perfectly to make the finished microcircuit, which is then tested with Keysight hardware and software.” The team develops 30-40 new products at a time and works with different design and manufacturing units at company headquarters in Santa Rosa, Calif., as well as around the world. “My education prepared me to be an effective manufacturing engineer and manager and gave me the knowledge and passion to be able to build and lead such a diverse team,” she said. Hashemi came to the U.S. from Iran for her M.S. in materials science and engineering and found a home away from home at UC Davis. She fondly recalls the College of Engineering graduate student association’s social events and her helpful, patient and supportive labmates. “UC Davis was a very good choice for getting absorbed into the environment and the culture,” she said. “Just being on campus is a really enriching experience.” She gained a lot of experience not only in research, but in interpreting data, presenting that data and working with a diverse group of people. ”What prepared me most for the job was my research experience,” she said. “It gave me the background and appreciation for doing thorough research.” Hashemi is grateful for the opportunities she’s had and tries to pay it forward and connect with others in the same way her mentors did. She regularly returns to UC Davis as a recruiter for Keysight or as an adjunct lecturer for Department of Materials Science and Engineering’s senior design course. In the role, she engages students in real industry problems and brings them to Keysight to interact with the engineers and carry out their experiments. She also mentors the students on communicating data, writing reports and presenting their projects—skills that help them during the course and in their careers. “When I was a student, it was always really eye-opening when we had a professor or guest lecturer from industry because it gave a different perspective,” she said. “I accepted the lecturer position in hopes that I would be an influence in some way to the senior students.”
LEYLA HASHEMI As a master’s student at UC Davis, in her job at Keysight Technologies and as an adjunct lecturer, she strives to form connections between people, teams and institutions.
She is also an advocate for women in STEM as a member of the governing council for Keysight’s Society of Women Engineers Enterprise Program, which empowers women engineers in the company and supports internal programs for advancing their careers. She is also giving a Lightning Talk and will lead Keysight interviews at the Society for Women Engineers National Conference in November. E N G I N E E R I N G P R O G R E S S / Fall 2019 7
IMPROVING HEALTHCARE WITH ‘SMART’ TECH By Brady Oppenheim
CHEN-NEE CHUAH When you’re lying alone in a hospital room, or waiting in a doctor’s office, you’re not thinking about technology: You’re thinking about your health, your feelings and even your future. But technology under development by UC Davis electrical and computer engineering Professor Chen-Nee Chuah potentially can make a direct impact on patients by providing earlier detections, streamlined interventions and better prognoses for patients.
think of when you think about healthcare. But she uses these high-tech systems to improve medical services and decision supports as well as to provide better information-discovery tools to healthcare providers, all while upholding strict patient privacy and data security.
SMART HOSPITALS, SMARTER HEALTHCARE
A large part of Chuah’s current research embraces the concept of “smart hospitals:” a data-driven, real-time, wraparound approach to healthcare facilities and services. She envisions a
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“smart hospital” as a learning clinical environment that forges innovative collaboration between healthcare professionals, data scientists, health informatics and information-technology professionals to improve health diagnosis, prognosis and treatment for acute and chronic diseases. To make “smart hospitals” happen, she’s harnessing smartdevice technologies – such as non-invasive and wearable sensors, data science and machine learning methods – to enable real-time analytic platforms and AI-assisted clinicaldecision support systems across the spectrum of care delivery. TECHNOLOGY TOOLS FOR DIRECT PATIENT IMPACT Chuah’s current “smart hospital” projects seek to develop analytic pipelines and incorporate machine-learning models into clinical decision support systems. These smart systems swiftly gather and process a vast array of data including time-series physiological signals from wearable sensors or medical devices, laboratory information, medical images, video and numerous features from electronic health records to provide the most accurate all-around picture of each patient’s unique needs. HER MULTI-PRONGED RESEARCH EFFORTS INCLUDE: ■■
A machine learning clinical decision support system that analyzes waveform data from multiple physiologic sensors to detect life-threatening clinical events such as tension pneumothorax – trapped air in lungs’ pleural cavities that harms heart activity – plus automated diagnosis and prognosis of acute conditions like acute respiratory distress syndrome – fluid in lungs’ air sacs. This project will be funded by the U.S. Department of Defense.
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Personalized and adaptive therapy for trauma patients, namely a novel resuscitation platform harnessing the power of endovascular devices like catheters with AI-assisted fluid and medication delivery. This research also is funded by the U.S. Department of Defense and is being performed in collaboration with Wake Forest School of Medicine, the U.S. Air Force and the Naval Medical Research Center.
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Leveraging the “internet of things” – the connection of devices to the internet – to collect real-time sensor data and develop machine-learning-based algorithms to detect critical congenital heart defects. This research is supported by the National Institutes of Health.
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In collaboration with the UC Davis MIND Institute, applying computer vision and machine-learning techniques to a learning model for autism spectrum disorder recognition. This project also is supported by the National Institutes of Health.
These high-tech research resources don’t eliminate the need for human healthcare professionals; rather, they assist providers to help the patients in their care. “The goal is to leverage data-science techniques to quickly and intelligently digest huge amounts of multi-modality data and signals in the hospital or intensive-care units, transforming them into information such as risk prediction that can aid providers in patient diagnosis and treatment,” she said.
“THE POTENTIAL TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN A PATIENT’S LIFE, IN TERMS OF OUTCOME OR QUALITY OF CARE, IS VERY REWARDING TO ME.” – CHEN-NEE CHUAH
HIGH-TECH WITH A HUMAN TOUCH Chuah’s “smart” research could mean major impacts on everyone involved in the healthcare field: for hospital patients, for people needing critical care in medically underserved areas such as military field hospitals and rural communities, and for medical professionals and administrators. And, while Chuah enjoys her high-tech research as well as working with interdisciplinary teams including UC Davis Schools of Medicine and Public Health, for this renowned technology expert, it’s all about the human side of things. “The potential to make a difference in a patient’s life, in terms of outcome or quality of care, is very rewarding to me,” she said.
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Fluid Fluid Mechanics Mechanics Pioneer Pioneer PROFESSOR EMERITUS
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GROWING UP IN CALIFORNIA’S CARMEL WOODS , near Carmel-by-the-Sea, chemical engineering emeritus professor Stephen Whitaker began his path toward UC Davis as a chemistry major at UC Berkeley in the 1950s. He switched majors to chemical engineering in his sophomore year and was inspired by a new course on unit operations. Whitaker was intrigued by the principle of ‘lost work,’ in fluid mechanics a scenario in which “everyone knows what it is, but nobody knows how to prove it,” said Whitaker. “I began to think there might be a place for me in the academic world, because I didn’t understand ‘lost work’.” After graduate studies at the University of Delaware, Whitaker joined the Experimental Research Laboratory at DuPont. As a chemical engineer, he was expected to work in the mass transfer and reactor design area, but he was far more interested in fluid mechanics despite having never taken a course in the subject.
Stephen Whitaker dressed to receive an honorary doctorate from the Universidad de Salamanca in 2011.
“The folks at DuPont thought that was kind of ridiculous, but I persisted and eventually they gave in,” said Whitaker. He split his days between working in the fluid mechanics group and reading about the topic in the company library. After working at Northwestern University, Whitaker came to UC Davis in 1964 just as the College of Engineering was being formed.
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“I BEGAN TO THINK THERE MIGHT BE A PLACE FOR ME IN THE ACADEMIC WORLD, BECAUSE I DIDN’T UNDERSTAND ‘LOST WORK’.” A pioneer in the development of volume averaging theories for flow and transport in porous media, Whitaker wrote a seminal textbook called “The Method of Volume Averaging,” that was published in 1999 and is still used widely today. Whitaker based the textbook on his lectures for UC Davis chemical engineering graduate students, who he taught from 1976 to 2001. He retired in 2003 and now lives on the Mendocino Coast with his wife, Su. “What stands out for me is my experience working with young engineers,” said Whitaker. “Our graduates should have the same avenues open to them that I did—to be able to attack problems on their own, to be able to advance their own understanding and to make progress that’s beyond what is handed to them in an operations manual. I’ve tried to provide a framework for young engineers to function by themselves.” This article is based on a video interview conducted by Professor Brian Wood of Oregon State University. Watch the full interview here https://youtu.be/kM0HsdTS-Ug E N G I N E E R I N G P R O G R E S S / F a l l 2 0 1 9 11
Student Startup Center Inspiring undergraduate innovators By Rachel Furtado
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networking, bringing students together and we’ve grown to the point where if someone comes in and says they need help with something we are able to point them in the right direction immediately,” said Tang.
THE UC DAVIS STUDENT STARTUP CENTER (SSC) is designed to provide all UC Davis students with an opportunity to experience the entrepreneurial process while developing, refining and prototyping their ideas for technology startups. The center was established by the UC Davis College of Engineering but is open to all majors, students and faculty. The SSC’s primary focus is on undergraduate students and aims to make the world a better place through innovative startups. The center provides resources, programs, coursework and networking to support their needs. “When I came here there were other entrepreneurial groups on campus but historically, those organizations were focused on graduate students and faculty. We saw a gap in services provided to a core group of entrepreneurs here - undergrads. There are 30,000 of them on campus, they have the freshest perspective and are most likely to come up with creative solutions. Our focus is providing resources to those students,” said Liz Tang, Director of the Student Startup Center. The SSC also differentiates itself from other entrepreneurial places on campus with the physical space that is available to all students and student teams to work on their projects. They have open hours where all of their prototyping equipment, including 3D printers, a CNC machine, a 3D laser printer, electronics kits, virtual and augmented reality headsets and more are available at no cost. One of the main components of the SSC is its in-class curriculum. Because there is no business major or entrepreneurship minor on campus for undergraduate students, the SSC offers a certificate in entrepreneurship for students who complete the two courses taught by the center’s directors, some additional elective courses and a practicum experience. “The interest in the SSC may have always been there, but over the years the quality of the teams has improved because we are doing a better job of
Aside from offering curriculum, space and the different prototyping tools, the SSC hosts pitches and popcorn nights every week, which is open to all students to come and evaluate different pitches. They also offer PLASMA, a 12-week accelerator program for students who have found product-market fit and want to pursue their startup. Ten top teams with undergraduate founders are chosen for this selective program. The teams work through 12 weeks of intense mentorship as a cohort. At the end of the program, real investors are invited to learn about those teams’ products in their early stages at Demo Day. “We want to always have something going on, so that students are coming in and meeting other founders or even a potential co-founder for their startup,” said Tang. This year the SSC plans to offer an additional course and provide more mentor engagement by bringing someone in each week to engage with the students. The SSC also wants to attract even more undergraduate students from across all disciplines and see more teams applying to PLASMA, so they are going to start a mini challenge series where they partner with clubs and other departments on campus and give them the resources to help their students form teams and solve problems using design thinking in a way that is marketable in the world. “One of our most exciting teams, JAPA, came from my first class in 2016. It started with six guys who didn’t know each other, but quickly formed a team and decided that they all hated campus parking. At the end of the course they knew they wanted to take it further and continued working with the Student Startup Center. Three years later they have an extremely robust data system for parking lot managers that recently launched at UC Berkeley and have started their expansion to other UCs,” said Tang. “This is just one example of student success that comes from this center.” “The Student Startup Center is JAPA’s first home. Not only did we start our company there, but we leveraged the Center’s resources to further our business and get exposed to a larger audience. If it wasn’t for the SSC, we never would have been able to turn our idea into a real business so quickly,” added Mat Magno, founder of JAPA.
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ENGINEERING By Noah Pflueger-Peters
If space is the final frontier, UC Davis is taking giant leaps to reach it. With expertise in human-machine cooperation, control systems and materials under extreme conditions, the university aims to make itself a rising star in space engineering and play a crucial role in the next generation of space exploration.
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“We humans are just taking baby steps in the space world,”
said mechanical and aerospace engineering (MAE) professor Stephen K. Robinson, a former astronaut and alumnus. “Research is the enabler for moving beyond the baby steps. That’s why we’re so passionate about it.” Engineering for space requires collaboration at every step. Researchers work with neuroscientists, medical doctors, psychologists, computer scientists, physiologists and other engineers to design the tools that then need to work in sync with humans to keep missions afloat and people alive in the solar system’s most uninhabitable places. “The notion of working together is ingrained in the philosophy of UC Davis,” said MAE professor Sanjay Joshi. “In space engineering, nothing is completely independent—all of the subsystems of the spacecraft have to be designed concurrently, so you have to work in interdisciplinary groups to solve problems.” The best example of this is the recently-formed HOME Habitats Optimized for Missions of Exploration (HOME) Space Technology Research Institute, a NASA-funded multi-institution project to develop technology for human habitats in deep space.
The institute began as a collaboration in the MAE department, when Robinson recruited his faculty colleagues Joshi, Zhaodan Kong, Bahram Ravani and Xinfan Lin. From there, the team recruited collaborators from across the country and hammered out the proposal, which NASA awarded $15 million. “There are two important problems that you need to solve,” explained Kong. “When there are no humans in the habitat, how can we make the habitat intelligent enough to sustain itself? And when there are humans, how can we make them and the habitat, enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) and automation, work together?”
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Human-Machine Teamwork Robinson’s Human/Robotics/Vehicle Integration Performance Lab (HVRIP) works on projects ranging from human-machine collaboration to small satellites to atmospheric entry vehicles to get people to work seamlessly with engineering systems and each other. Collaborative teams of graduate and undergraduate researchers work on every project. One example is a small device that fits atop any NASA helmet that reads and displays radiation information for astronauts to protect them from hazardous radiation in space. The device, Robinson’s contribution to NASA’s $5.5 million Radiation Effects on Volatiles and Exploration of Asteroids and Lunar Surfaces (REVEALS) project led by Georgia Tech, will be tested at NASA’s underwater training facility at the Johnson Space Center in Houston later this year. Another is a space ambulance—a repurposed Air Force unmanned spacecraft that fits a pilot, a medic and a patient. The ambulance can leave the International Space Station, survive atmospheric entry and land like an aircraft at any regulation airport to get the patient the care they need. “This kind of thing has never existed and I think it should exist,” he said. “Much of what we’re interested 16 U C D AV I S C O L L E G E O F E N G I N E E R I N G
in has never been done before.” The HOME Institute’s mission plays into Robinson’s philosophy and Zhaodan Kong’s interest in cyberhuman-physical systems—systems featuring cooperation between software, hardware and humans. His lab combines motion-capture cameras, EEG headsets and gaze-tracking glasses that “read” humans to figure out how much they should do to keep a habitat properly functioning. “If a human is distracted or tired, we can either alert them or allocate some more of the tasks to the AIs,” he explained.
Controlling Spacecraft Human-machine cooperation goes both ways, so making spacecraft easier for humans to control is equally important. Robinson and Joshi work with 10 cm3 satellites known as CubeSats, which are popular because they can be launched into orbit as cargo and deployed directly from space. Robinson focuses on building CubeSats that can search for defects or leaks and monitor existing problems, which is critical to the integrity of the craft and the
safety of the crew. These satellites make inspection easier, faster and safer, as it puts fewer astronauts in harm’s way on spacewalks. Though their size makes CubeSats much less expensive than traditional satellites, miniaturizing and controlling the technology aboard can be challenging. Joshi, a former NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory employee, tackles this with research on spacecraft control systems. “The major challenge is how to point a spacecraft very accurately in the presence of disturbances while using different sensors that might have varying degrees of accuracy,” he said.
Materials for Space In space, conditions include extreme heat and cold, high radiation and charged plasma. It’s therefore important to discover or synthesize materials and build structures that can withstand these extreme environments to keep astronauts safe. Materials science and engineering assistant professor Scott McCormack works on the ground level of this process. His lab develops or analyzes materials, studies their atomic structure and properties and tests them using computer models. He’ll send the space-ready materials to a mechanical or aerospace engineer, who will try to build structures with it. “Mankind has this desire for extreme speed and energy and that’s where you need materials systems we don’t currently have to achieve this,” he said. Mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Valeria La Saponara focuses on shielding humans from radiation as a co-investigator on the REVEALS project. Her role is developing safe, recyclable, nontoxic and non-melting materials that can be 3D-printed in space.
team uses electrically conductive nanomaterials to develop polyethylene-based nanocomposites that are safer, stronger and radiation-resistant. “Essentially, we’re using the stiffer version of a trash bag to protect people in space,” she said.
Groundwork for Success The diversity of research at UC Davis leads to an excellent track record of graduates in the space industry. Matt Sorgenfrei ’13,an alumnus from Joshi’s lab, was a catalyst in creating NASA Ames Research Center’s CubeSat test bed facility, and Sarah D’Souza ’13 is a project manager there who is involved in multiple collaborations with the university. Many more have joined the industry at companies and organizations across the country. “Every time you do something this complex, you increase technical knowledge,” said La Saponara. “It’s an exciting time to be in the space industry and a good time to be an engineer.” For all involved, the future for space engineering at UC Davis looks bright. Funding for the HOME Institute began this September, and Robinson and Kong recently announced the establishment of the Center for Spaceflight Research. In addition, the MAE department is expanding its space engineering course offerings and plans to create a space engineering option for the department’s senior design course. “The West Coast has traditionally had a lot of aerospace innovation and we feel like we’re continuing that tradition,” said Robinson. “UC Davis is an excellent place to develop teams and to push the boundaries of space research.”
“You might be able to make a material, but can you monitor damage? Can you maintain it? Can you do multiple things with it? I try to look at these different aspects,” she said. That might seem like a tall order, but polyethylene, the material used to make trash bags, largely fits the bill. Because the material does not have good mechanical properties and, as insulator, cannot protect against plasma charges, the E N G I N E E R I N G P R O G R E S S / F a l l 2 0 1 9 17
RISE TO THE TOP
AGGIE ENGINEERS
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John Wasson ’84 named CEO of ICF Chemical engineering alumnus John Wasson ’84 was named CEO of the global consulting firm ICF on October 1. ICF, based in Fairfax, VA, provides consulting services for industries such as energy, education, health, social programs, education, environment, international development and transportation. The company emphasizes investing in people, supporting important causes and minimizing impact on the planet. Wasson succeeds Sudhakar Kesavan, who had been CEO since 1999. Being named CEO is the next step in Wasson’s long and successful career at ICF. He joined the organization as an associate and has worked his way up, leading client work in the fields of energy, environment, public health and disaster recovery along the way. He had been the company’s chief operating officer since 2003 and president since 2010. “I am honored to have the opportunity to lead the talented and committed people who make up ICF during this exciting growth period,” Wasson told the media team at ICF. Wasson received his B.S. in chemical engineering in 1984 from UC Davis, where he was actively involved with the engineering honor society Tau Beta Pi. He then went to MIT for his M.S. in technology and policy before joining ICF in 1987. Wasson is one of the College of Engineering’s most active alumni. Since 2017, he has been the chair of the College of Engineering’s Dean’s Executive Committee, a board of executive-level leaders that works closely with leadership, faculty and staff to assist and advise the college with advocacy, fundraising, strategic plans and programs. He is also a member of the Department of Chemical Engineering Advisory Board, which serves a similar function for the CHE department. He received the college’s Distinguished Alumni Medal in 2014.
Michael Hurlston ’88, M.B.A. ’90, M.S. ’91 appointed to President and CEO of Synaptics Incorporated UC Davis College of Engineering alumnus Michael Hurlston ’88, M.B.A. ’90, M.S. ’91 was appointed to president and chief executive officer of Synaptics Incorporated in August and has joined their board of directors. Hurlston received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in electrical engineering in addition to a M.B.A from the UC Davis Graduate School of Management (GSM). Since graduating, Hurlston continues to be involved with UC Davis both philanthropically and by volunteering with the two colleges he spent his time in. He is currently a member of the GSM’s Dean’s Advisory Council and the College of Engineering’s Dean’s Executive Committee.
Babak Taheri ’94 named Silvaco CEO Silvaco, Inc., named Babak Taheri as its chief executive officer and board member. A 1994 biomedical engineering Ph.D. graduate majoring in both EECS and neuroscience, Taheri previously served as Silvaco’s chief technical officer and executive vicepresident of products. The company is a leading EDA tools and semiconductor IP provider used for process and device development for advanced semiconductors, power IC, display and memory design. “I look forward to leading the team at Silvaco as their chief executive to continue our growth trajectory,” he said. “Silvaco’s DNA is a compelling combination of ground-breaking software solutions, global reach, and talented employees that form a strong foundation for industry leadership and success. My focus will be to drive innovation, business execution and growth. I look forward to working with a very talented team to advance our technology leadership.”
Hurlston has had a successful career as an electrical engineer and as a business leader. Before starting his new role at Synaptics, he was the CEO at Finisar Corporation and prior to that he served as senior vice president and general manager of Broadcom’s mobile connectivity and products division. Before joining Broadcom, Hurlston held senior marketing and engineering positions at Oren Semiconductor, Inc., Avasem, Integrated Circuit Systems, Micro Power Systems, Exar and IC Works.
Taheri has more than three decades of engineering and executive experience. He held executive positions in engineering, research and development, and corporate management at leading technology firms including Freescale Semiconductor (now NXP), Cypress Semiconductor Corporation, Apple, Invensense, and SRI International. He holds 28 issued patents and author of over 20 published articles.
Synaptics is the leading developer of human interface solutions, bringing innovative and intuitive user experiences to intelligent devices. With solutions designed for mobile, PC, smart home, and automotive industries, Synaptics combines ease of use, functionality and aesthetics to enable products that help make our digital lives more productive, secure and enjoyable.
His continued UC Davis engagement includes active involvement with the Robert Mondavi Institute Winery, leading the industry and faculty team that developed sensor-laden wine barrels. He also serves as an advisory board member for the UC Davis Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
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Photos by Reeta Asmai/UC Davis
Engineering Student
DESIGNCENTER By Rachel Furtado
THE ENGINEERING STUDENT DESIGN CENTER (ESDC) is a facility within the UC Davis College of Engineering that provides manufacturing education, resources and support for students of every engineering discipline, faculty and staff. The facilities include the student machine shop and the Specialty CNC machine shop. These spaces offer a wide range of resources including a machine shop, electronics lab, wood shop, additive manufacturing space and many tools such as laser cutters and 3D printers. The space is a safe, supervised environment for students and staff to learn, practice and master hands-on manufacturing and fabrication techniques relevant to their engineering education. “Engineers need to be able to bridge the idea of something that’s on paper into something that is going to be tangible later. They have to be the kind of person that can see the forward vision and if they haven’t had the hands-on experience, the 20 U C D AV I S C O L L E G E O F E N G I N E E R I N G
ability for them to come into a space like this is invaluable,” said Sherry Batin, ESDC development engineer. The ESDC is beneficial to all of the departments of engineering, as many students from all majors use the facilities for class projects, research, independent study and design competitions with their clubs or organizations. “We have all kinds of resources, so someone can come in and see that there are other ways to make and design things differently than how they were taught in their particular discipline. I think all majors need that experience to realize they don’t have to just think in the ways they were taught, they can see other options that will help them achieve the same goal,” said Batin. Many successful UC Davis design teams and clubs have relied on the ESDC for its space, resources and materials to work
on their projects before the competition. For instance, UC Davis Oneloop, a team founded in 2016 by a group of engineering students at UC Davis in response to SpaceX’s announcement of its annual international Hyperloop Competition. Every year the team fully designs, builds and tests a brand new hyperloop pod for entry into the international Space X competition. This past year was Oneloop’s best year yet. After passing the first few phases of the competition, Oneloop was one of 50 teams invited to do a final design review, which is a 145 page extensive document on the whole design of the pod. This was the first year they completed that phase, were accepted into the top 20 and built a fully functional pod that passed over half of the functional testing at Space X. UC Davis Oneloop is comprised of students studying mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, electrical and computer engineering, materials science engineering, chemical engineering, biomedical engineering, and other majors outside of the college. “I think in Engineering when you are trying to make something that hasn’t been made before, a big part of it is finding solutions that don’t already exist in the world,” said Austin Gonzalez, past UC Davis Oneloop captain. “People have already solved a lot of different problems, but they might have been solved in the world of aerospace, but not in the world of chemistry. Getting insight from the students and their professors with different backgrounds is a huge part of our success,”
The ESDC was valuable to Oneloop for prototyping, creating mock ups and creating parts using the 3D printers. It was also a space for Oneloop to collaborate and meet at until they were able to get lab space of their own. “The ESDC staff are very helpful and always willing to answer our questions. The students and faculty are very knowledgeable and their doors are always open,” said Gonzalez. The ESDC has three full time staff and 18 student assistants. They assist students and give them the help and advice when needed. “We get a variety of students in here. Some are pretty independent and others need more guidance. Some are timid and you can tell they know the analytics of what they need to make, but they’ve never had a chance to work hands-on before. We help them break their shell. Everyone comes from different backgrounds and we understand that everyone is learning, so we always give advice in a positive light,” said Batin. Another successful UC Davis design team that frequents the ESDC is UC Davis Formula Racing, an engineering student-led research team that is challenged with designing, building and racing a high-performance electric vehicle that complies with the rules annually released through Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) to compete in the annual Formula SAE Electric competition. The team is composed of students from a wide ranges of majors including mechanical, aerospace, electrical, computer science and materials engineers.
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This past year, the team’s racecar, FE6, placed second in endurance, second in cost and fourth overall out of 30 teams at this year’s Formula SAE Electric international competition. The team feels fortunate to have such an expansive resource accessible to them and is grateful for the ESDC and the staff’s support, helpful manufacturing insights and assistance to keep things moving smoothly whenever they can. “During the year, it would be much, much more difficult to fabricate our cars without the ability to work between classes and on weekends next door to our lab. Testing time later in the year is critical for success at competition and replacement parts can be made more quickly in the ESDC than practically anywhere else. This allows us to identify problems and fix them without significant downtime,” said Colton Miles, the team manager. UC Davis Chem-E-Car also takes advantage of the ESDC’s resources. They are similar to a robotics team, but instead of a mechanically/electrically based system, their small, shoe-box sized cars are both fueled and stopped by chemical reactions. Chem-E-Car competes in regional competitions once a year, where they are given a target distance one hour before competition time. In this hour, they modify the specific power and stopping reactions in hopes of getting as close to the target distance as possible in two minutes or less.
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“The ESDC has been essential in allowing us to fabricate our car chassis,” said Brandon Burgin, one of the team’s advisors. The chassis team works once a week in the ESDC and their time there often increases when testing multiple different proposed designs. One of the most rewarding parts about working in the ESDC for the staff is seeing the end result of a student’s project. They see bits and pieces of the project along the way and have to imagine what the end result is going to be. They also learn from the students as they see what worked and what didn’t work and enjoy helping them come up with different solutions. “Without the ESDC, our team would be extremely limited in terms of manufacturing and educational ability. The ESDC allows us to quickly and economically build our cars, all while teaching future engineers about translating engineering design into practical manufacturing. Opportunities to gain manufacturing knowledge and skills are rare, and something we are thankful the ESDC supports,” said Miles.
The new Engineering Student Design Center will be completed in Fall 2022, with new space to accommodate instruction, studentclient collaboration, rapid prototyping and more. For more information on naming opportunities and ways to partner, contact Leigh Ann Hartman, lahartman@ucdavis.edu
IN MEMORIAM:
Don Brush
By Aditi Risbud Bartl
DON ORR BRUSH, THE FIRST CHAIR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING, passed away on August 16. Founded in 1965, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is one of the original departments of the College of Engineering at UC Davis. “Don’s dedication to the welfare and education of our students, and the example that he set for our young faculty rooted the department’s culture and character right at its inception. Even today, we find Don’s generosity, humility, compassion and dedication guiding us in our decisions,” said Amit Kanvinde, chair of the civil and environmental engineering department, on behalf of his colleagues. “We owe our success as a department in large part to Don’s wisdom and efforts. We will miss him tremendously.” Brush was born in Birmingham, Ala., in 1923. He began college there as the first in the family to go to college but was drafted in his junior year. In the U.S. Army, he was a company commander in an engineering construction battalion on Luzon in the Philippines. Following the army, he went to the University of Illinois on the GI Bill and completed undergraduate and graduate degrees in engineering, where he met his beloved wife, Ann. Prior to appointment as professor of engineering at UC Davis in 1964, he was a senior staff scientist with Lockheed Missiles and Space Company’s research labs in Palo Alto. Along with his tenure as department chair, Brush served as an associate dean in the College of Engineering. He was a recipient of the Magnar Ronning Award for Teaching Excellence. Following retirement, he served as a volunteer helping people with tax returns at the Davis Senior Center for 15 years. Ann and he loved the Sierra and, over the years with Ann and with others, he made dozens of backpack trips in the Sierra backcountry. He was predeceased by Ann and is survived by daughter Lisa Pacifico, son Mike Brush, daughter Nickie Bigenho, seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Memorial donations may be made to Yolo Hospice, P.O. Box 1014, Davis, CA 95618.
“We owe our success as a department in large part to Don’s wisdom and efforts. We will miss him tremendously.” – Amit Kanvinde, chair of the civil and environmental engineering department
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College of Engineering
FACULTY
Our college is pleased to honor the following faculty who received major national and international awards, fellowships and appointments, as well as the most prestigious college and university awards from September 1, 2018 – August 15, 2019.
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Ken Giles, National Academy of Inventors Fellow
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David Slaughter, Cyrus Hall McCormickJerome Increase Case Gold Medal (American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers)
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Zhongli Pan, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers Fellow, AE50 Award (American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engnieers)
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Michele Barbato, American Society of Civil Engineers Structural Engineering Institute Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers Mechanics Institute Fellow
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Miguel Jaller, Council of University Transportation Centers New Faculty Award
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Ross Boulanger, Shamsher Prakash Prize for Excellence in Geotechnical Engineering (Indian Society of Earthquake Technology)
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John Harvey, Frank M. Masters Transportation Engineering Award (American Society of Civil Engineers)
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Stavros Vougioukas, IEEE Senior Member
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R. Paul Singh, Honorary Doctorate (University of Guelph), Food and Nutrition Board Nomination
Heather Bischel, Pathogen Monitoring Prize (U.S. Bureau of Reclamation)
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Holly Oldroyd, National Science Foundation Early CAREER Award
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Veronica Morales, National Science Foundation Early CAREER Award, UC Davis Hellman Fellowship
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Lev Kavvas, American Society of Civil Engineers Distinguished Membership
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Jonathan Herman, UC Davis Hellman Fellowship
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Cheemeng Tan, Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Young Inventor, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioimaging Trailblazer Award
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Jamal Lewis, 2019 Regenerative Medicine Workshop Young Investigator
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Julie Sutcliffe, UC Davis Health Dean’s Excellence Award
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John Boone, William D. Coolidge Gold Medal (American Association of Physicists in Medicine)
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Eduardo Silva, American Heart Association Innovative Project Award
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Katerina Ziotopoulou, UC Davis Wakeham Mentoring Fellowship
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Ahmet Palazoglu, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research Excellence in Review Award
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Jennifer Sinclair Curtis, Lifetime Achievement Award for Particle Technology, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and Distinguished Engineering Alumna Award, Purdue University
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Prem Devanbu, ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference Test of Time Award, Association for Computing Machinery Fellow, 10-Year Most Influential Paper Award (Mining Software Repositories 2019) Vladimir Filkov, ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference Test of Time Award Xin Liu, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow, Mozilla Responsible Computer Science Challenge
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Shu Lin, Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
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John Owens, Test-of-Time Award (2019 High Performance Graphics Forum)
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Bahram Ravani, Mechanisms and Robotics Award (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)
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Ron Hess, deFlorez Award for Flight Simulation (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics)
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Zhou Yu, Amazon Alexa Prize AI Challenge
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David Doty, National Science Foundation Early CAREER Award
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Valeria La Saponara, American Society of Mechanical Engineers Fellow
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Biswanath Mukherjee, UC Davis Faculty Distinguished Research Award
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Cindy Rubio-Gonzalez, Department of Energy Early Career Award
Cristina Davis, UC Davis Academic Senate Scholarly Public Service Award, 2018 Commander’s Public Service Award (Department of the Air Force)
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Raissa D’Souza, ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference Test of Time Award, Euler Award (Network Science Society), Network Science Society Fellow
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Maury Hull, Paolo Aglietti Award (International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine)
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Kazuo Yamazaki, Takagi Award (Japan Society of Precision Engineering)
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Saif Islam, Optial Society Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
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Roopali Kukreja, U.S. Air Force Office of Science Research Young Investigator Award
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Susan Gentry, New Educator Award (American Society of Engineering Education Materials Division), Bradley Stoughton Award for Young Teachers (ASM International)
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Shuguang Cui, Clarivate Analytics’ 2018 Highly Cited Researchers list
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Jonathan Heritage, Member of the National Academy of Engineering
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Weijian Yang, National Science Foundation Early CAREER Award
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Ricardo Castro, American Ceramic Society Fellow
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Hooman Rashtian, Associated Students of UC Davis Academic Excellence in Education Award
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James Shackelford, Albert Easton White Distinguished Teaching Award (ASM International)
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Subhash Risbud, Distinguished Engineering Educator (The Engineer’s Council)
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Class of 1969
UC Davis College of Engineering
By Rachel Furtado
Photo courtesy of Brady Oppenheim/ UC Davis
THE UC DAVIS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING CLASS OF 1969 WAS A DYNAMIC CLASS of tight-knit engineers and several of them have stayed in contact since graduating nearly 50 years ago. Since graduating UC Davis, Laird Parry, B.S., mechanical engineering, ‘69, “followed his nose” when it came to his career and pursued the opportunities that were presented to him. After he was drafted and served in the military, he worked a variety of jobs that included designing fishing boats for an architecture firm, researching for multiple organizations, working with an energy conservation group and more. Eventually, one of Parry’s past professors asked him to join him at FlowMole Corporation. They needed an engineer’s point of view to help develop a device that could install electric and telephone cables without digging a trench. Parry joined the company and was involved with the engineering development and commercialization of the FlowMole system that is now used worldwide. Parry stayed with them for about 10 years and then moved on to OMAX Corporation to help develop the OMAX water jet machining system, which is used in the Engineering Student Design Center today. “An engineering degree teaches you how to think, analyze a situation and the best ways to reach a solution,” said Parry. “I used that my entire life. I think having that technical background and the ability to think and solve problems is a great universal degree to have.” John Baum, B.S, aerospace engineering, ‘69, also enjoyed his UC Davis experience. “I had a phenomenal experience at UC Davis. Coming from Southern California to this smaller college town where the school and town were so connected gave me a great feeling of community,” said Baum. “It was a wonderful education and a great environment to be in. It wasn’t just a classroom experience, we had the ability to physically build something and put our ideas into practice and then back in the classroom it had so much more meaning.” Baum spent a lot of time at the university airport pursuing his flight training while studying at UC Davis. He knew exactly what he wanted to do when he graduated from UC Davis and had an invitation to interview with United Airlines on the day of graduation. He spent the first six months after graduation as a flight test engineer at Lockheed and then spent 37 years at his dream job flying commercial planes for United. Baum has been back to the university multiple times to visit, has enjoyed the College of Engineering Alumni Celebration events and has happily given back to the college. Parry and Baum have nothing but fond memories of their experiences at UC Davis and both mentioned how their other classmates went on to do great things as well. “We were taught by all of the professors that now have buildings named after them,” said Parry. “We felt like we were getting a very good education, while having a good time. There was a lot of hands on work, which was a great thing for us engineers. Everyone who got out did okay. Davis was just the right size and we really became a close knit community.”
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Student Organizations • American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) • Black Engineers Association (BEA) • Chicano and Latino Engineers and Scientists Society (CALESS) • Pilipinx Americans in Science and Engineering (PASE) • Out in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (OSTEM) • Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
Percent of Women Faculty Among Top 50 Engineering Programs
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Departments • Biological & Agricultural • Biomedical • Chemical • Civil & Environmental • Computer Science • Electrical & Computer • Materials Science • Mechanical & Aerospace
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Undergraduate Students
Members of the National Academies
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$92.6 million
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466 M.S. 723 Ph.D.
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Best Value College for Women in STEM (U.S.) – Forbes ENGINEERING
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