Department News and Events

3/3/2008 Professor Sashi Kunnath and Erol Kalkan, A.M. ASCE Receive the 2008 Raymond C. Reese Research Prize
1/2008 Professor Jason DeJong receives ASCE's Arthur Casagrande Professional Development Award for 2008
12/10/2007 Professor Daniel Sperling among this year's Nobel Laureates
11/1/2007

Soil Interactions Laboratory and Professor DeJong - One of Time Magazine's Top Inventions of 2007

9/2007 CEE Welcomes New Faculty Kendall and Cappa
2007 UC Experts Detail New Standard for Cleaner Transportation Fuels
8/2007 State of the Lake 2007 - UC Davis Tahoe Research Center Report on Lake Tahoe
7/2007 Chrome Ollie Earns 2nd Place Overall at the 2007 NSSBC
2007 Professor Jay Lund Awarded ASCE Service-to-the-Profession Award
2007 Bacteria Could Steady Buildings Against Earthquakes
2007 UC Davis calls for action on deteriorating Delta
2/2007 Bacteria Could Steady Buildings Against Earthquakes
2/2007 UC Davis calls for action on deteriorating Delta
2/2007 Transportation expert named to state air board
12/2006 Boulanger, Kutter, Malvick and Kulasingam Awarded Norman Medal
7/2006 The 2nd Ishihara Lecture will be delivered by Professor Izzat M. Idriss
6/2006 John Bolander Awarded for Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award

5/3/2006

New Class Examines California Infrastructure Plans
6/20/2006 UC Davis Earns 9th Place Overall at 2006 National Student Steel Bridge Competition
6/14/2006 How California Water Supply Could Survive Warming, Growth
6/14/2006 Experimental Tundra Toilets Head for Remote Alaska Community
6/16/2006 John Bolander Awarded College of Engineering Outstanding Teaching Award
5/27/2006 UC Davis Steel Bridge Won MidPac in Berkeley for the 3rd Consecutive Year
3/14/2006

Dan Chang Wins Lyman A. Ripperton Environmental Educator Award

12/15/2005 Dr. Sangho Choo Wins Wootan Award for Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation in Policy and Planning
11/2005 Professor Deb Niemeier Awarded 2005 Leopold Leadership Fellow, Stanford Institute for the Environment
10/14/2005 Masoud Kayhanian Outstanding Alumnus Award
9/13/2005 Professor Stefan Wuertz publishes NATURE review on gene transfer in the environment.
5/31/2005 The UC Davis Steelbridge team wins first place at National Steelbridge Competition at University of Florida, Orlando
5/2005 Steel Bridge Team 2005 1st Place at Mid-Pacific Regional Competition
4/30/2005 UC Davis had 2 teams attend the 2005 PEER Undergraduate Seismic Design Competition, held on April 30th, 2005 at the University of California, Berkeley
4/5/2005 CALVIN Model of Hetch Hetchy by Sarah Null advised by Jay Lund Provides Data for Pulitzer Prize Winning Editorial by Tom Philp of The Sacramento Bee.
10/2004

Jeannie Darby Wins the College of Engineering Dean's Award for Outstanding Faculty Teaching

8/2004 First Director Named to Lead UC Davis Tahoe Research Center Professor Geoffrey Schladow
8/2004
6/2004 Professor Dan Chang, wins the ASUCD Excellence in Education Award in Engineering
6/1/2004 UC Davis Steel Bridge Team took 5th place overall at the National Student Steel Bridge Competition
4/24/2004

UC Davis Wins 1st place at Mid-Pac Steel Bridge Competition in Reno.   Concrete Canoe Teams wins 3rd.

4/19/2004

Professor Leonard Herrmann Wins 2004 Engineering Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award

2/17/2004
2/2004

Stefan Wuertz interviewed in Water21 February 2004

7/22/2003

Professor Yannis F. Dafalias has been invited by the Dean Bunzo TSUJI, of the Graduate School of Engineering of Kyoto University, Japan, to join as Guest Scholar for about two weeks in the Fall 2003 the aforementioned School in order to deliver lectures in and collaborate on the fields of Continuum and Soil Mechanics. The travel has been sponsored by the Foreign Scholars Invitation Program of Kajima Foundation

2003

Professor S. Kunnath nominated to position of Editor, ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering.(Appointment to become effective Fall 2003).

2003

Professor T. Ginn Invited speaker at the 7th SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences, held March 17-20, 2003 in Austin, Texas

2003

Professor Daniel P.Y. Chang named Ray B. Krone Professor of Environmental Engineering

2003

Professor Takashi Asano appointed a regular member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

7/ 1/ 2003

Professor Stefan Wuertz is named editor of the Research Journal Water Research.

6/13/2003

Rachel Terpstra and Todd Steissberg are among this year's recipients of the Achievement Reward for College Scientist's Scholarships. The $5000. Awards are made possible by a gift from the Northern California Chapter of the ARCS Foundation.

6/7/2003

Matthew Davie receives the highest award given a student-athlete; the WP Lindley Award is our scholar/athlete of the year

4/2003

Professor George Tchobanoglous, has been named the 2003 recipient of the Clarke Prize, given by the National Water Research Institute.

2003

Adjunct Professor Takashi Asano creates the Takashi and Holly Asano Graduate Fellowships in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering

3/26/2002

Professor Gerald T. Orlob received the Hugo B. Fisher Award of Bay-Delta Modeling Forum.

2002

Professor Ross Boulanger receives the 2002 Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize from ASCE.

2002

Friends and relative of the late Professor Ray B. Krone contribute an endow professorship in his honor

2002

Professor Gerald T. Orlob to endow a professorship in memory of his late wife Lillian Orlob.

4/10/02

Professor Melvin Ramey is the recipient of the 2002 Engineering Alumni Distinguished Teaching

2002

Professor Miguel A. Marino received the 2002 Warren A. Hall medal for the Universities Council on Water Resources for distinguished achievements in the field of water resources.

2002

Professor Deb Niemeier has been named as one of the ten Chancellor's Fellows.

2002

Professor Melvin Ramey to serve as Associate Dean of Students in the Office of Graduate Studies.

2002

Professor Dan Sperling received the Carl Moyer Award for the Coalition for Clean Air.

12/15/2002

Congratulations to our Dec grads!

3/29/2002

Text Interview with Michael Kleeman on Program "Living on Earth"

2/20/2002

Building A Bridge: Article on San Francisco Bay Bridge with Brian Maroney and Roy Imbsen

2/17/2002

Professor Jay R. Lund joins The International Water Academy

2002

Professor Emeritus Chih-Kang Shen received the 2001 ASCE Thomas A. Middlebrooks Award

2001

Professor Emeritus Chih-Kang Shen has been awarded the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers' Transactions Prize.

2001

Takashi Asano Wins Stockholm Water Prize

2001

Professor Ross Boulanger receives the 2001 Shamsher Prakash Research Award for Excellence in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering.

2001

Professor Jeannie Darby received the 2001 Professional Engineers in Education/Sustaining University Program Engineering Education Excellence Award from the National Society of Professional Engineers.

2001

Professor M. Levant Kavvas has received the Arid Lands Hydraulic Engineering Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers

2001

Professor Daniel P.Y. Chang receives donation from CH2m Hill Foundation to support his research and that of Professor Edward Schroeder to advance the
field of air pollution control.

2001

Professor Jeannie Darby awarded National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) Engineering Education Excellence Award

2001

Professor Jeannie Darby awarded American Society of Engineering Educators (ASEE) Sharon Keillor Award for Education

2001

Professor Sashi Kunnath was the 2001 recipient of the American Concrete Institute's Structural Research Award for his work on seismic damage of circular bridge columns

2001

Professor Anthony Wexler appointed Associate Editor, Aerosol Science and Technology

2000

Chancellor's Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award for Professor Jeannie Darby

2000

Professor Jay Lund has been named to the California Water Plan of Water Resources.

2000

NFS Award for Darby, Niemeier and Holmen