Chris Carpenter, P.E. has 22 years of geotechnical engineering experience with Cornforth Consultants, Inc.-Landslide Technology working in the Pacific Northwest, Mountain West, and Alaska. His areas of expertise include design of landslide stabilization measures, dam safety evaluations, seismic site response, slope stability and deformation analyses.
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.
The new center, led by Associate Professor Kari Watkins, will contribute to advancing the nation's transportation decarbonization and resilient infrastructure goals.
In an effort to support community resilience goals, the concept of improving post-earthquake functional recovery time of buildings through development of better building codes has received significant attention in the last 5 years in particular, but the work to enable these discussions has been ongoing for the last 10-20 years if not more.
The ongoing California Department of General Services (DGS) Resources Building Renovation (RBR) Project is an ongoing seismic retrofit and modernization of the 17-story and 657,000 GSF structure located at 1416 Ninth Street, Sacramento, utilizing the Progressive Design-Build project delivery method.
With a Seed Grant for International Activities from UC Davis Global Affairs, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Yayoi Takamura is collaborating with researchers from Chile to use plasma-enhanced pulsed laser deposition to synthesize and characterize thin films for sustainable energy technologies.
Boundary Element Methods based on the discretization of boundary integral equations have been shown to be very well-suited to model waves in unbounded domains.
The current state‐of‐the‐art for entry control systems is rooted in heritage entry, descent, and landing (EDL) systems such as Apollo and Mars Science Laboratory.