UC Davis College of Engineering

06/01/2026

Today we celebrate our outstanding community who help take the UC Davis College of Engineering to the next level. 👏

From Outstanding Faculty and Staff Award recipients to our Ghausi Medalist, these honorees represent engineering excellence in research, teaching, service and leadership. We’re proud to recognize their impact at this year’s Awards Celebration tonight.

Meet awardees, explore our awards-related news: https://ow.ly/of5T50Z6iNP



Image description: A collage of 15 people, all standing outdoors. In the bottom right, a logo reads 2026 Awardees.

05/29/2026

Join us in recognizing faculty and staff excellence across the College of Engineering.

This year’s Outstanding Faculty and Staff Award recipients exemplify the impact, innovation and dedication that drive our community forward.

Outstanding Faculty Awards recognize excellence in research across career stages and a deep commitment to student success. Learn more: https://ow.ly/GQm450Z5PKX

Outstanding Staff Awards celebrate individuals who demonstrate exceptional service, innovation, community engagement and commitment to our core values. Learn more: https://ow.ly/BQ7M50Z5PKV

We’re proud to celebrate these outstanding members of our community and the meaningful contributions they make every day. Awardees will be honored at the College of Engineering Awards Celebration on June 1.



Video description: Faculty and staff honorees stand outdoors. They look directly in the camera and talk about how it feels to have been selected for these awards.

05/29/2026

A team of biological and agricultural engineering students from UC Davis won the Western Growers Award for Excellence in Specialty Crops during the 2026 Farm Robotics Challenge!

The prizewinning project, named Aggie Aerial-Ground Robotics, uses artificial intelligence to combine aerial images of orchards with on-the-ground images of trees captured by a robot. Judges praised the design for its ability to equip farmers with useful insights about pollination, nitrogen and optimal yield-potential decisions.

Join us in congratulating these Aggie Engineers. 👏

Read more: https://ow.ly/FtwL50Z5Ii4



Image description: The team in UC Davis shirts posing outdoors with a large four-wheeled agricultural robot in a tree-lined field.

05/29/2026

Eating healthier meals can start with one simple ingredient swap. 🥗

A new UC Davis study from Ph.D. student Trevor Chan and Professor of Computer Science Ilias Tagkopoulos shows that a generative AI model trained on thousands of meals can suggest one to three ingredient swaps that make common American dishes both more nutritious and less expensive.

Read more: https://ow.ly/mC2N50Z5uQl



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05/29/2026

05/28/2026

An honor reserved for the world’s top scientists, engineers and technologists, The Royal Society has elected Simon Cherry as a fellow in recognition of a career defined by innovations pushing the medical imaging field forward.

Among the Distinguished Professor Emeritus of biomedical engineering and radiology’s many accomplishments stands EXPLORER, the world’s first total-body PET scanner. The total-body approach allows imaging to be tailored to the needs of specific patients, such as detecting small tumors, imaging quickly in patients with claustrophobia or who are in pain and imaging children and adolescents at much lower radiation doses than traditional PET scanners.

“I am incredibly honored to receive this recognition from one of the world's most prestigious and famous scientific institutions,” he said. “I feel very fortunate to have such a wonderful career, doing things that I love and surrounded by so many bright and generous people. I’d like to thank all my laboratory members and my collaborators across the world, without whom none of this would have happened.”

Congratulations to Simon Cherry on this extraordinary honor and his outstanding accomplishments in the field of nuclear medicine! 👏

Learn more: https://engineering.ucdavis.edu/news/uc-davis-medical-imaging-expert-elected-fellow-royal-society

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Image description: Simon Cherry sits at the opening of EXPLORER, a large medical imaging device with an open tunnel in its center.

05/28/2026

Just an average day for an Aggie Engineer 🙂‍↕️



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1: Close-up of a machine in the ESDC with text that reads UC Davis College of Engineering Emoji Edition
2: Person winding up their gyroscope with a spinning emoji
3: The interior of the ESDC as students work with a gear emoji
4: Students stand near their projects at Design Showcase with a handshake emoji
5: Dean Richard Corsi shows off the Corsi-Rosenthal Box as a tissue floats above the box fan, with a soap emoji
6: A researcher in full PPE operates equipment in CNM2 with a microscope emoji
7: Student steaming milk using a professional espresso machine with a cup of coffee emoji
8: Student next to a submersible during E Week, with a celebration emoji
9: Three members of the all engineering faculty/staff band The Technically Hip, with a guitar emoji

05/27/2026

We invite industry, alumni, faculty, staff and graduate students to serve as evaluators at the ENG 3 Intro to Engineering Design Spring Showcase!

📅 Monday, June 8, 2026
🕕 6–8 p.m.
📍 Kemper Hall, UC Davis

Student teams will present their physical prototypes and evaluators will play a key role in providing feedback on design thinking and communication skills. This is a great opportunity to engage with student innovation, share your expertise and contribute to the learning experience.

👉 Register to volunteer as an evaluator: https://ow.ly/8o3w50Z4Po8



Image description: A student shows off a cardboard and electrical prototype while an evaluator with a clipboard watches the presentation.

05/27/2026