Electrical Engineering Content

Campus Jobs Lead to Career Opportunities After Graduation

Anonymous — June 25, 2018 - 11:00am

Here at �ٺ��Ƶ, thousands of students are employed in positions across campus in dozens of departments. For example, �ٺ��Ƶ Continuing and Professional Education employs around 60 students during the school year and up to 90 over the summer. While many students take campus jobs to earn some income and experience, sometimes student assistant positions can open doors to career opportunities after graduation.

High-Frequency Chip Brings Researchers Closer to Next Generation Technology

Andy Fell — August 24, 2017 - 10:37am

A novel, high-frequency electronic chip potentially capable of transmitting tens of gigabits of data per second — a rate that is orders of magnitude above the fastest internet speeds available today — has been developed by engineers at the University of California, Davis.

Entomologists, Engineers Work Together to Weigh a Bee

Andy Fell — July 06, 2016 - 4:48pm

How to weigh an individual bee is the problem that brought together insect specialists at UC Davis and two teams of �ٺ��Ƶ engineering students this year. By understanding everything they can about a bumblebee colony, researchers hope to understand how California’s native bumblebees respond to changes in the environment and the availability of flowers, and how we can protect these insects that are so vital to both agriculture and wild plants.

4 Innovative Women Engineers Tell Their Stories

Susanne Rockwell — June 22, 2016 - 11:36am

Four women faculty from the �ٺ��Ƶ College of Engineering, which ranks third in the nation for percentage of female professors, tell their academic story.

World’s First 1,000-Processor Chip

Andy Fell — June 17, 2016 - 10:30am

A microchip containing one thousand independent programmable processors has been designed by a team at the �ٺ��Ƶ Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The energy-efficient “KiloCore” chip has a maximum computation rate of 1.78 trillion instructions per second and contains 621 million transistors.