Xaviera Azodoh '25, an undergraduate in the University of California, Davis Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is focused on blazing a trail for those who will follow her through involvement in organizations like Ujima Girls in a Robotics Leadership Project.
Akanksha Rawat '24 is a third-year electrical engineering major who is a College of Engineering Peer Advisor, an Engineering Ambassador and who serves on the board of both the Club of Future Female Electrical Engineers (COFFEE) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) at UC Davis.
Electrical and Computer Engineering graduate student Micah Karahadian has been admitted into the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program, or GRFP, the organization announced.
Melissa Poncini, a third-year electrical engineering major at UC Davis joined the Club of Future Female Electrical Engineers at UC Davis, or COFFEE, during her second year of college and made meaningful connections with other students who could offer support and advice. Now, she sits as chair of the club.
Built in the lab of Soheil Ghiasi, professor of electrical and computer engineering, the invention is called a transabdominal fetal pulse oximeter (TFO) and can measure a baby’s blood oxygen saturation levels. It can also help prevent unnecessary Caesarean sections.
For the first time on a commercial scale, researchers from UC Davis have controlled the redox potential during a wine fermentation, an important step in making winemaking more efficient and reproducible and paving the way for a new generation of experiments in viticulture, microbiology and fermentation.
Luqi Wang has been awarded a 2022 Quantum Technologies Initiative Scholarship from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Antennas and Propagation Society, or IEEE AP-S. The $5,000 award from the AP-S Graduate Fellowship Program recognizes Wang’s demonstrated promise and interest in engineering electromagnetics with a focus on quantum technologies.
UC Davis College of Engineering double major, fourth-year student Sabrina Yarzada has been named a 2022 Universities Space Research Association (USRA) Distinguished Undergraduate Award recipient—making her the first person from UC Davis to win this prestigious international award.
As a first-generation college student, Man Yu, a graduating senior in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, or ECE, knew he had to do something incredible to make his family proud. When he was in high school weighing his career pathway options, his parents encouraged him to choose ECE.
Quantum Computing at Davis (QCD) is a student research group that aims to educate undergraduate and graduate students in quantum information sciences by providing them with hands-on projects and workshops. They foster the quantum community at UC Davis through collaborations between faculty and students and facilitating the transition from top-quality coursework to publishable work.
Regardless of their senior design project focus–whether it was on plants, self-driving cars, robots or flying cows–this year’s group of electrical and computer engineering seniors said perseverance, problem solving, project management skills and teamwork were the most valuable takeaways they experienced as part of this year’s senior design projects.
Melisa Ekin Gulseren has been awarded a 2022 Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, for her potential contributions to the field of optics, photonics or related field.
