Michael Hurlston, B.S. '88, M.S. '91 in electrical and computer engineering, received the Cal Aggie Alumni Association Outstanding Alumnus Award the organization announced on March 2. This year is the 50th anniversary of the Cal Aggie Alumni Association, or CAAA, honoring the achievements and impact of outstanding alumni and friends of UC Davis.
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.
A retired AT&T executive who has committed nearly a decade of his life to mentoring UC Davis students is receiving this year’s Outstanding Alumni Mentor Award from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE).
A Google executive passionate about helping women in STEM is the recipient of this year's Award for Alumni Leadership in Promoting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at UC Davis.
Associate Professor Omeed Momeni from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering was honored with a Graduate Program Advising and Mentoring Award from UC Davis Graduate Studies. In being nominated, Momeni was applauded for the extra effort he demonstrated in mentoring students during the pandemic.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Jeremy Munday recently received a $2.2 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to deepen our understanding of the quantum forces at work in nanotechnology.
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.