Wade Zeno, Ph.D. ’16 always knew he wanted to be a professor — to have his own research lab and to teach. Ever since he was a child, Zeno has enjoyed the classroom setting and as an undergraduate student, he often worked as a tutor, which only solidified his desire to pursue a career in academia.
UC Davis engineering alumna Kim Budil, M.S. ’88, Ph.D. ’94 was named the 13th director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the first woman director in the lab’s 69-year history.
Michelle Bryden ‘92 is always learning. From her days as a chemical engineering undergraduate at UC Davis, she has been eager to learn and try new things so she can easily move between different projects and fields in a quest to solve problems. As a research and development engineer at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab (APL), she plays an important role in developing technology for the Navy to process signals more effectively and help them better find targets under the sea with sonar and radar.
Chemical engineering alumnus John Wasson ’84 was named CEO of the global consulting firm ICF on October 1. Being named CEO is the next step in Wasson’s long and successful career at ICF.
My favorite part of Davis was the sense of community: The whole university, and even the whole city, really feels like one team working together, trying to make the world a better place.
Chemical engineering alumnus Wade Zeno ’16 has accepted an assistant professorship in the Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Southern California.
College of Engineering alumna Cynthia Murphy-Ortega was recognized for her contribution to enhancing and inspiring the career success of women in STEM with this year’s Industry Trailblazer Award from Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN).
UC Davis Chemical Engineering alumnus Robert Kiss was elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) this February, one of the academy’s 86 new members.
The College is pleased to name Cynthia Murphy-Ortega (Chemical Engineering, ’91), Ken Ouimet (Chemical Engineering, ’90) and JoeBen Bevirt (Mechanical Engineering, ’95) as its 2018 Distinguished Engineering Alumni Medal (DEAM) recipients.
