College of Engineering Content

New Microscope Offers Faster, High-Resolution Brain Imaging

Andy Fell — August 15, 2024 - 3:33pm

Researchers at ��ϲʿ��ͼ have developed a new microscope to capture high-speed images of brain cell activity with less harm to brain tissue. The new approach could be used in research with mice to provide a clearer view of how neurons communicate in real time, leading to new insights into brain function and neurological diseases.

Can Autonomous Vehicles Dream of Electric Traffic?

Andy Fell — August 08, 2024 - 2:10pm

An engineering professor at the University of California, Davis, is striving to make autonomous vehicles, or AVs, safer by changing how researchers train them.

According to Professor Junshan Zhang of the ��ϲʿ��ͼ Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, AVs struggle when confronted with unforeseen events, such as a car driving on the wrong side of the road.

Lake Tahoe Clarity Report Shows Highs and Lows of 2023

Katherine E Kerlin — July 30, 2024 - 10:07am

The clarity of Lake Tahoe’s famed blue waters in 2023 continued its years-long trend of improving during the winter and deteriorating during the summer. The annual clarity report, released today by the University of California, Davis – Tahoe Environmental Research Center, found that winter lake conditions were the clearest observed since 1983, with visibility of 91.9 feet under the surface, compared with 72.2 feet in 2022.

��ϲʿ��ͼ Coffee Center Opens

Andy Fell — May 07, 2024 - 2:39pm

The Coffee Center at the University of California, Davis, officially opened Friday, May 3. The Coffee Center is a center of excellence in the ��ϲʿ��ͼ College of Engineering and the first academic research and teaching facility in the U.S. entirely dedicated to the study of coffee.

Boosting Research for the Brain and Planet

Cody Kitaura — April 30, 2024 - 12:27pm

Donors are advancing the College of Engineering’s Next Level strategic vision to create a better world for all through socially responsible engineering, inspiring education and transformative research.

Alum Susan Ellis ’78 and her husband, Mark Linton, have given $1 million to the college to create graduate student fellowships at the Center for Neuroengineering and Medicine and for ��ϲʿ��ͼ’ Sustainable Cities, Sustainable Campuses initiative.

How Autocrats Control Internet Traffic Out of Sight

Andy Fell — April 10, 2024 - 12:00pm

Authoritarian regimes exert control over the internet through transit networks that operate largely out of public view, according to a recent study by researchers in the U.S. and Germany. The work, published in PNAS Nexus, also shows how more sophisticated authoritarian regimes extend their influence by providing network access in poorer but politically similar countries.

Wearable Technology Takes Center Stage at ��ϲʿ��ͼ

Andy Fell — March 26, 2024 - 4:38pm

Inside an L-shaped room in Cruess Hall, surrounded by workstations, 3D printers, sewing machines, tools and mannequins wearing prototypes, Gozde Goncu-Berk builds the future. It’s a future of many possibilities, but those possibilities share a common thread. They’re all based around humanity’s increasing use of wearable technology.

Unravelling AI Bias to Build Fair and Trustworthy Algorithms

Andy Fell — March 08, 2024 - 3:02pm

In 2017, Ian Davidson, a professor of computer science at ��ϲʿ��ͼ, was on sabbatical as a fellow of the Collegium de Lyon in France. The institute brings together intellectuals, philosophers, artists and academics from all over the world to live together for one year to "think about great things."

��ϲʿ��ͼ Establishes Bird Flight Research Center

Andy Fell — February 01, 2024 - 9:00am

By studying birds of prey in flight, a new lab at the ��ϲʿ��ͼ California Raptor Center will give insight into designing drones and treating injured birds.

Ultrafast Laser Pulses Could Lessen Data Storage Energy Needs

Andy Fell — January 16, 2024 - 11:27am

A discovery from an experiment with magnets and lasers could be a boon to energy-efficient data storage.

“We wanted to study the physics of light-magnet interaction,” said Rahul Jangid, who led the data analysis for the project while earning his Ph.D. in materials science and engineering at ��ϲʿ��ͼ under associate professor Roopali Kukreja. “What happens when you hit a magnetic domain with very short pulses of laser light?”