Each year, the College of Engineering celebrates outstanding faculty with awards that recognize their dedication to ensuring the future of engineering through teaching and research.
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Yayoi Takamura joins a multi-campus, national lab collaboration to advance microelectronics using antiferromagnetic spintronics. Backed by a $4 million UC grant, the project explores energy-efficient memory and computing technologies that could revolutionize next-generation devices
Associate Professor of Teaching Susan Gentry receives the 2025 Distinguished Teaching Award for Undergraduate Teaching from the UC Davis Academic Senate.
The professor of materials science and engineering has been recognized for her contributions to the field of optics and photonics, specifically in transient photonics and optical properties of metal alloys.
SPIE, an international society that brings academics and business professionals together to advance light-based science and technology, recognizes the professor of materials science and engineering for her outstanding scientific and technical achievements.
The materials science and engineering researcher and an interdisciplinary team formed at the Research Corporation for Science Advancement's Scialog have received funding to investigate water-free mining of valuable metals like iron and lithium.
Mingwei Zhang, assistant professor of materials science and engineering at UC Davis, has been awarded nearly $1 million for groundbreaking research on refractory complex concentrated alloys as next-generation structural materials for ultra-high-temperature applications.
The American Ceramic Society has honored the Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Materials Science and Engineering with the 2025 James I. Mueller Award for his 50-plus years of service to the organization and his contributions to the international ceramics community.
Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Dean Emeritus Zuhair A. Munir, has been named a Distinguished Life Member by the American Ceramic Society. Munir is recognized for his pioneering work on the use of electromagnetic fields in the synthesis and processing of materials.
New UC Davis alum Hannah Darr is ready for the next step in her journey in sustainable energy sources, thanks to the support and guidance she found in the materials science and engineering community.
UC Davis Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Klaus van Benthem has been recognized for his research in studying ceramic microstructures and his dedication to perpetuating the scholarship and field of ceramics by the American Ceramic Society.
Thanks to a foundation of community formed at UC Davis, graduating materials science and engineering student Jared Ura is following in the footsteps of his engineer grandfather, aiming to dig deep and understand topics in their entirety.
The Dr. Andy Nieto Memorial Excellence Scholarship has been established at UC Davis to honor the late Andy Nieto and support first-generation undergraduate students pursuing materials science and engineering education.
The UC Davis College of Engineering's Jeffery C. Gibeling Master's Thesis Excellence Award is going to Margaret Duncan, who earned her master's degree in materials science and engineering in 2023 and whose research characterizes the optical properties of refractory materials in extremely high temperatures.
Tanaya Sahoo, a second-year international graduate student in the materials science and engineering master's program, aims to deploy advanced, sustainable technologies to solve real-world problems.
Two Ph.D. candidates in materials science and engineering at UC Davis will reside at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to conduct research as part of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program.
Equatic, co-founded by UC Davis materials science engineer Erika La Plante, was recognized for its cutting-edge technology that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and creates hydrogen, a clean energy alternative.
"I find Professor Mukherjee's legacy to be very inspirational," said Ph.D. student Hudson Shih, who was recently honored as the first-ever recipient of the Amiya Mukherjee Memorial Fellowship, named for the late Distinguished Professor who paved the path for materials scientists at UC Davis.
It is with great sadness that the Department of Materials Science and Engineering announces the passing of Distinguished Professor Emeritus Subhash Mahajan. He is remembered in the community as a gifted mentor and generous friend and colleague.
Mahajan was considered one of the foremost experts on electronic materials and slip and twinning phenomena. His research focused on understanding the interrelationship between structure properties in semiconductors and the deformation behavior of solids.
Terry Lowe '78 credits his UC Davis education with shaping his life. His thoughtful approach to mentorship and pioneering achievements in materials science and engineering led him to receive a 2023 Distinguished Engineering Alumni Medal.
Amir Saeidi, assistant professor of teaching in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, was selected as one of eight Public Scholarship Faculty Fellows the University of California, Davis Office of Public Scholarship and Engagement announced the 2023-24 cohort on Tuesday.
Robert Caligiuri '73, who has been named a 2023 Distinguished Engineering Alumni Medal winner, would not be where he is today without the late Distinguished Professor of the University of California, Davis, Department of Materials Science and Engineering Amiya Mukherjee.
For fourth-year materials science and engineering Ph.D. candidate Peifen Lyu, the decision to attend UC Davis is a personal one. Lyu works in the field of photonics, but has seen the effects of marble mining firsthand in her hometown.
Materials science and engineering Ph.D. candidate Cassondra Brayfield is on track to finish her degree in August, but she is quick to acknowledge that the road to success has been bumpy.
