UC Davis College of Engineering

University of California, Davis, College of Engineering
Established 1962
Type Public
Dean Enrique J. Lavernia
Academic staff
 211 [1]
Undergraduates 3,250
Postgraduates 1,200
Location Davis, California, USA
Website engineering.ucdavis.edu

The UC Davis College of Engineering is one of four undergraduate colleges on the campus of the University of California, Davis. One of the largest engineering programs in the U.S., the UC Davis College of Engineering has the most ABET-accredited undergraduate engineering majors (13) in the University of California system. The college offers majors from a broad scope of engineering disciplines, including aerospace science, biochemical, biological systems, biomedical, chemical, civil, computer science, electrical, electronic materials, materials science, mechanical and optical science.

The college attracted more than $73 million in research grants in fiscal year 2009-10.

Departments

The college is organized into seven departments, which offer various programs of study:

Biotechnology Engineering
Agricultural and Natural Resources Engineering
Food Engineering [2]
Biomechanics
Cellular and Tissue
Imaging
Medical Devices
Systems & Synthetic Biology
Pre-medical [3]
Biochemical Engineering [4]
Chemical Engineering [5]
Chemical Engineering/Materials Science [6]
Materials Science and Engineering [7]
Electronic Materials Engineering [8]
Environmental Engineering[9]
Geotechnical Engineering[10]
Structural Engineering & Mechanics [11]
Transportation Engineering [12]
Water Resources Engineering[13]
Computer Science (College of Letters & Science)
Computer Science and Engineering (College of Engineering)[14]
Electrical Engineering
Computer Science[15]
Mechanical Engineering
Aerospace Science and Engineering
Mechanical Engineering / Materials Science and Engineering [16]

Notable alumni

Notable alumni of the College of Engineering include: Adam Steltzner NASA JPL Lead Engineer; Diane Bryant, Senior Vice President at Intel, General Manager, Datacenter and Connected Systems Group;[17] Mike Child,[18] Senior Adviser of TA Associates, for whom the Child Family Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship is named;[19] Alfred Chuang, former CEO and president of BEA Systems, founder and current CEO of Magnet Systems; David Kappos, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) from 2009 to 2013; Steve Robinson NASA astronaut.[20]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "About:College of Engineering:UC Davis". Retrieved 2007-06-27.
  2. ↑ http://bae.engineering.ucdavis.edu/pages/undergraduate/areas_of_specialization.html
  3. ↑ http://www.bme.ucdavis.edu/undergrad/
  4. ↑ http://chms.engineering.ucdavis.edu/undergraduates/biochemical_engineering/
  5. ↑ http://chms.engineering.ucdavis.edu/undergraduates/chemical_engineering/
  6. ↑ http://chms.engineering.ucdavis.edu/undergraduates/chemical_materials/
  7. ↑ http://chms.engineering.ucdavis.edu/undergraduates/materials_science/
  8. ↑ http://chms.engineering.ucdavis.edu/undergraduates/electronic_materials/
  9. ↑ http://cee.engr.ucdavis.edu/Research/Environmental.htm
  10. ↑ http://cee.engr.ucdavis.edu/Research/Geotechnical.htm
  11. ↑ http://cee.engr.ucdavis.edu/Research/Structures.htm
  12. ↑ http://cee.engr.ucdavis.edu/Research/transportation.htm
  13. ↑ http://cee.engr.ucdavis.edu/Research/Water.htm
  14. ↑ http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/undergrad/index.html
  15. ↑ http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/undergraduate/
  16. ↑ http://mae.ucdavis.edu/programs/u_studies/
  17. ↑ Intel Executive Biography
  18. ↑ http://www.ta.com/Our-Team/Team-Members/Child.aspx?r=1
  19. ↑ http://entrepreneurship.ucdavis.edu/
  20. ↑ http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/robinson.html