Civil and environmental engineering alum Sumeet Kumar Sinha, M.S. '17, Ph.D. '22 receives the annual Zuhair A. Munir Award for dissertation research on liquefaction-induced downdrag in deep foundations.
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 the efforts of graduate students who make outstanding contributions in areas like research and safety.
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.
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.
The Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate Student Association encourages community, collaboration and enrichment among ECE students through events and programs. Its latest mentorship project takes this to another level by seeking to bridge the gap between graduate and undergraduate students in the department.
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.
