UC Davis engineers are innovating at high and low temperatures to enable travel at hypersonic speeds and sustainably keep food safe and fresh, respectively.
Biological Systems Engineering Ph.D. student Alice Dien won first place at UC Davis Grad Slam on April 6. Her winning research presentation “Cooling Down with the New Hot Air: The Future of Drying in Agriculture” earned her a $2,500 prize, and she will be competing for the top prize at the University of California Grad Slam Finals against winners from the other nine UC campuses on Friday, May 6.
Have you ever stopped to think about how much energy it takes to dry the coffee beans in your coffee? Or the corn in the tortilla chip you’re crunching? Or the rice in your sushi roll? Probably not — you might lose your appetite. Biological Systems Engineering Ph.D. student Alice Dien has thought about it a lot and come up with an intriguing solution: Desiccation.
Biological and Agricultural Engineering Adjunct Professor Zhongli Pan received the 2022 International Food Engineering Award from the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE). The ASABE major award recognizes significant engineering contributions in research, development or the design of food processes. The award also recognizes outstanding leadership, management and education in the food engineering profession.
Fourth-year Biological and Agricultural Engineering Ph.D. student Alex Hitomi received a highly-competitive UC National Lab In-Residence Graduate Fellowship to study ways to improve biofuel production.
Clinical Veterinarian and Assistant ProfessorUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jessica graduated from UC Davis in 2013 with a B.S. in Biological Systems Engineering. After completing veterinary school at Texas A&M in 2017, and a post-doctoral fellowship (residency) in laboratory animal medicine at the University of Michigan in 2020, she recently started a position as a clinical veterinarian and assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).
Right of Way ConsultantAssociated Right of Way Services, Inc.
Chadwick Wyler 2011 B.S., SR/WA is a UC Davis EBS Grad and Senior Right of Way Professional working as a Right of Way Consultant. He utilizes his degree on a daily basis to both understand and explain public agency infrastructure projects to commercial, residential, and agricultural property owners and tenants.
Field EngineerNatural Resources Conservation Service
My name is Bradley Soares and I graduated with a B.S. in Biological Systems Engineering from UC Davis in 2019. I found myself in BSE because I combined my two hobbies; learning how engineered systems function and ethnobotany. Currently, as a NRCS Field Engineer, I am able to work both indoors and outdoors, which was my number one job searching criterium. I work with private land owners to develop systems that target natural resource conservation (Soil, Water, Air, Plants, Animals, and Humans).
Construction Stormwater Permitting - Lead StaffCalifornia State Water Resources Control Board
Brandon joined public service as a Water Resource Control Engineer in 2018, following a 1.5 year stint as an environmental consultant in the Bay Area. In his current position, Brandon is responsible for reissuing and implementing a statewide permit that regulates the water quality of stormwater runoff from over 10,000 construction projects.
