Alumna Ruby Chen Designs and Constructs Mobile Coop for UC Davis Pasture Poultry Farm

Ruby Chen is a recent graduate of the UC Davis civil and environmental engineering program.

Alumni

Maureen Kinyua: Waste Not

As an undergraduate physics major, Maureen Kinyua discovered her passion for science—combined with a sincere interest in helping others—could lead to a fruitful career in engineering.

Faculty

Michele Barbato, Ph.D., Joins Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty

Dr. Michele Barbato is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at the University of California, Davis.

Faculty

Daniel Sperling Receives TRB’s 2018 Roy W. Crum Award

Please join us in congratulating Professor Dan Sperling, who has received the Roy W. Crum Award from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Transportation Research Board (TRB).

Faculty

UC Davis Chancellor May Tours Center for Geotechnical Modeling

Professor Ross Boulanger and the rest of the team at the CGM were thrilled to have UC Davis Chancellor Gary May tour the Center for Geotechnical Modeling.

Research

I.M. Idriss Awarded George W. Housner Medal

Professor Emeritus at the UC Davis Civil and Environmental Engineering Department Ed Idriss received the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute’s (EERI) 2018 George W. Housner Medal at the 11th US National Conference on Earthquake Engineering (11NCEE) in Los Angeles last month.

Faculty

UC Pavement Research Center Postdoc Mohamed Elkashef Earns Mistletoe Fellowship

Mohamed Elkashef, a postdoc working with Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor John Harvey and University of California Pavement Research Center Associate Director David Jones, recently received a 2018-2019 Mistletoe Research Fellowship.

Research

UC Davis Solar Decathlon Team Receives Excellence in Structural Engineering Award

On June 12, the UC Davis Solar Decathlon team, led by Professor Frank Loge in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, received the Excellence in Structural Engineering Award from the Structural Engineers Association of Central California for their work designing and building OurH2Ouse for the 2017 U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon competition.

Research

CEE Ph.D. Student Alex Sturm Honored with Graduate Student Teaching Award

CEE Ph.D. student Alex Sturm earned a 2017-2018 Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award from UC Davis Graduate Studies.

Students

Ph.D. Student Hannah Safford Featured on Al Jazeera

CEE Ph.D. student Hannah Safford was featured on Al Jazeera’s NewsGrid April 15.

Students

Master’s Student Maritza Flores Marquez Wins Best Paper Award

CEE Master’s Student Maritza Flores Marquez was named a finalist for the 2018 Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education (JCWRE) Paper of the Year Award.

Students

CEE’s Alex Forrest Chosen as a UC Davis Hellman Fellow

Assistant Professor Alex Forrest was one of three junior faculty members chosen from the UC Davis College of Engineering as 2017-2018 UC Davis Hellman Fellows.

Faculty

GATEways Outreach Co-Coordinator Vivian Le Honored with UC Davis Arboretum’s 2018 Pinkerton Prize

Vivian Le, who is completing her fourth year and majoring in civil engineering, was honored by the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden for dedicating three years to the arboretum’s GATEways Outreach Program.

Students

CEE Grad Student Daniela Peguero Selected for Fulbright Award to South Africa

UC Davis CEE graduate student student Daniela Peguero was selected for a Fulbright Award to South Africa.

Students

ASCE Brings Back Several Awards from 2018 Midpac

ASCE at UC Davis put in a strong performance at this year’s Mid-Pacific Conference event.

Students

CEE Alumni Spotlight: Water Pioneer Jeffery Szytel

Jeffery Szytel (’98, civil and environmental engineering), is founder and CEO of Water Systems Consulting, Inc. (WSC), a full service civil and environmental engineering consulting firm that specializes in providing innovative One Water solutions to public agency clients throughout the western United States.

Alumni

Alex San Pablo: Using STEM to Improve Lives

Alex San Pablo ’18 has found a support structure at UC Davis that sustains her in uncertain times, just like the structures she hopes to build one day as a civil engineer.

Students

Student Spotlight: Ann Willis

Ann Willis, a first-year Ph.D. student in civil and environmental engineering, recently achieved a milestone typically reserved for a senior researcher or faculty member: she secured a $492,000 grant through the state of California Wildlife Conservation Board for studying reconciliation ecology.

Students