Undergraduate

2024 ECE Undergraduate Student Awards

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering celebrated electrical and computer engineering students with its annual Undergraduate Awards Ceremony on June 7.

Outstanding Senior Spotlight: Noah Wagner

After taking an AP physics course in high school, Noah Wagner was inspired to pursue electrical engineering. It is no surprise, then, that Wagner has created a body of work at the University of California, Davis, with a strong gravitational pull.

Outstanding Senior Spotlight: Jackson Vaughn

During his time as a computer engineering student, Jackson Vaughn relished the opportunity to study under world-class professors who encouraged students to ask questions and engage with their curriculum.

ECExpo 2024

Join us for ECExpo 2024 on April 5, 10am-6:30pm

Come learn about the exciting new developments in education and research in ECE at UC Davis! An agenda for the event is included below.

Event registration is now closed. Please email Rebecca Bailey (rbailey@ucdavis.edu), if you missed the RSVP deadline but would still like to participate!

The Nexus of Learnings

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.

Enabling Student Success in ECE Courses During the COVID-19 Pandemic

By Jocelyn Park

At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and in response to California’s social distancing guidelines, the UC Davis Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) had less than two weeks to make an abrupt transition from in-person instruction to remote instruction. This shift to virtual instruction came with numerous challenges, especially in laboratory-based courses.