Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

The Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science is a highly interdisciplinary environment in which five undergraduate majors are offered in a combination unique in California and the nation:

Our faculty of 34 full-time professors forms the cornerstone of this education and research mission, preparing students for careers in fields that have tremendous impact on key areas of modern life: energy, biotechnology and nanotechnology.

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Link to article César Vigo awarded travel award
César Vigo, an undergraduate researcher in the Ristenpart Research Group, has been awarded a $500 travel grant from the American Physical Society to attend the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics. César, who is majoring in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Mathematics, will give a presentation on his research titled "Aggregation and Coalescence of Emulsion Droplets via Electrohydrodynamic Flows."
Link to article Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Receives GAANN Fellowship Funding
The Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science has received a U.S. Department of Education GAANN Award to enhance graduate education. The award provides fellowships totaling $174,208 a year for 3 years, with a match of an additional 25 percent of the total from UC Davis.
Link to article Schoenung Appointed to
Julie Schoenung, professor of chemical engineering and materials science, has been selected to serve on an advisory panel that will help guide the state of California toward adoption of a "green chemistry" program.
Link to article Dynamic Changes In Iridium Catalysts
Identifying the molecular structure of the active phase of a solid catalyst — and the changes such catalysts undergo during reactions — is notoriously challenging. Yet that’s exactly what University of California, Davis, chemical engineers Alper Uzun and Bruce C. Gates have done in a study of iridium complexes that catalyze ethene hydrogenation.
Link to article Chemical engineer graduate offers alternative energy future.
Steven Selverston talks about what he is doing after his Spring ‘09 graduation and job possibilities for future and current chemical engineers. “The geothermal power industry is rich with complexity and loaded with chemical engineering problems that have yet to be solved. From theoretical modeling of reactive, multi-component and multi-phase geothermal mixtures to specialized high-temperature instrumentation, there is plenty of work to be done.” says Steven.

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