UC Davis ECE is devoted to providing an inclusive STEM education. We recognize that women are an underrepresented group in STEM, and our goal is to provide women engineers strong support networks in order for them to feel like they are part of an inclusive community. Research shows that offering students the opportunity to conduct meaningful engineering activities with role models, can engage their interest and enthusiasm.

A story originally published by MathWorks, where Professors Marina Radulaski and André Knoesen detail the use of project-based learning in Engineering Problem Solving (ENG6), an introductory programming class.

Wayne Current, professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering, passed away on February 8th, one day after his 72nd birthday. Current received his bachelor's, master's, and then in 1974, his Ph.D.

Prof. Putnam is developing high-speed optical detectors that could revolutionize infrared spectroscopy

William Putnam, an assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). This CAREER award will support his proposal entitled, “Chip-Scale, Field-Resolved Detection of Mid-Infrared Light”.

Originally posted by Dana Topousis in University

We congratulate Chancellor Gary S. May for receiving the 2021 Lifetime Mentor Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science in honor of the impact of his work creating programs and mentoring students. 

Originally posted by Constanze Ditterich

Prof. Radulaski is developing quantum nanophotonic devices to enable the next generation of quantum hardware

Marina Radulaski, assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has received a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER award for the project entitled Scalable Quantum Photonics based on Color Center Integration with Angle-etched Silicon Carbide Devices.

Dr. John Owens, Child Family Professor of Engineering and Entrepreneurship, has been named an IEEE Fellow in recognition of his contributions to heterogeneous parallel computing. The IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the IEEE Board of Directors upon a person with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. The total number selected in any one year cannot exceed 0.1% of the total voting membership.

Please join us in congratulating Professor Houman Homayoun and his collaborators at George Mason University for receiving the Best Paper Award at the 14th IEEE Dallas Circuits and Systems (DCAS 2020) Conference.

Professor Houman Homayoun and his team from UC Davis, along with Professor Sai Manoj’s team from George Mason University developed an online application to better visualize and monitor the current COVID19 pandemic in response to public policy guidelines and restrictions.

Dr. John Owens, Child Family Professor of Engineering and Entrepreneurship, has been elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). This distinction rewards Prof. Owens for fundamental contributions to commodity parallel computing, particularly in the development of GPU algorithms, data structures, and applications.

“I am delighted to join such an illustrious group of scientists and engineers, including many of my most respected and accomplished colleagues at UC Davis,” said Owens.

Dr. Zhi Ding, Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has just received the 2020 IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Education Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions to education and mentorship for the advancement of telecommunication engineering.   

Professor Chen-Nee Chuah has been awarded the Child Family Endowed Professorship in recognition of developing state-of-the-art technology and products with commercial value to society and her distinguished nationally recognized scholarship.

Originally posted by Aditi Risbud Bartl

Richard C. “Dick” Dorf, professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering and of the Graduate School of Management, passed away on October 22, 2020. He was 86 and is survived by his wife Joy.

Dorf joined UC Davis as a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1971. He was appointed dean of Extended Learning in 1972 and led the program until 1982. In 1981, he became a founding faculty member of the Graduate School of Management’s predecessor, the Graduate School of Administration.

By Rachel Steere

Assistant Professor William “Billy” Putnam joined the UC Davis Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in November 2018. His area of research is in optics and photonics. Specifically, he works on understanding and controlling electron and photon interactions at ultrafast timescales and ultrasmall spatial dimensions.