Chemical engineering

UC Davis Coffee Center Opens

The Coffee Center at the University of California, Davis, officially opened Friday, May 3. The Coffee Center is a center of excellence in the UC Davis College of Engineering and the first academic research and teaching facility in the U.S. entirely dedicated to the study of coffee.

Catalyzing Possibilities

Each month, UC Davis will profile faculty members in their Among the Academies series to honor their contributions to scientific research and knowledge. This month, they featured Bruce Gates, professor of chemical engineering, who has been with UC Davis Since 1992.

AIChE: More than Just a Chemical Engineering Club

From career advancement to unique social events to their revered presence at Picnic Day, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers at the University of California, Davis, has something to offer every engineering student. 

App for Coffee Quality Assurance Engineered at UC Davis

Researchers at the UC Davis Coffee Center in the College of Engineering, through a partnership with cloud service provider Fabscale, have engineered a new way to analyze coffee for quality control, at a low cost. Their new photo-based app Roastpic is launching on April 12 to give anyone with a smartphone a better picture of the quality of their coffee beans. 

How Curious!

Weijing Wang, Transportation Technology and Policy

Presenting: Car or No Car? Toward Equity-Centered Clean Transportation

Randi Swanson, Chemical Engineering

Presenting: Structural Characterization of Ultra-High Temperature Ceramics in Three Dimensions

Hyehyun Kim, Biomedical Engineering

Presenting: Rat primary cortical cell tri-culture to study microglia function under amyloid-beta exposure and electrical stimulation

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