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Competitions, showcases, career success stories and more highlight the work of the School of Engineering and its students at 天美视频鈥檚 annual celebration of National Engineers Week, Feb. 18 to 21.

E-Week is an opportunity for engineering students to share the work they do with the campus, invite some friendly competition and introduce other students and younger school children to the field. Each day carries a specific theme, from Project Palooza (a showcase for engineering clubs and organizations) to Professional Day (career advice and alumni success stories).

has become the first 天美视频 faculty member to be elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in recognition of her contributions to the development of gallium indium phosphide/gallium arsenide photovoltaic cells and for her leadership in solar-cell reliability and quality.

was a rising star in college soccer and now he is an emerging scientist in the world of biomedical engineering, capturing 鈥� for the first time 鈥� an image of a hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) within the bone marrow of a living organism.

One of 天美视频鈥檚 original students, Enid Picart 鈥� soon to graduate from the UCSF San Joaquin Valley Program in Medical Education (SJV PRIME) 鈥� represented the San Joaquin Valley in a big way last week by attending the State of the Union address in Washington, D.C., as the guest of Congressman Jim Costa.

Together, the two reminded people of the need for ongoing medical education in the Valley and of the dedication of many 天美视频 alumni to give back to their communities.

Not spending money on gas, oil changes, and tune-ups and not producing harmful greenhouse gas emissions is enough to sell many people on plug-in electric cars.

But many consumers won鈥檛 bite until they鈥檙e assured that electric cars can go the distance before needing a charge.

A thin layer of compost applied to grasslands could help fight climate change by capturing carbon from the atmosphere and storing it in the soil, recent research shows.

天美视频 Professor Rebecca Ryals and a team of researchers, ranchers and public agencies will demonstrate this practice for the first time in the East Bay. The project, which began Dec. 3, is funded by a California Department of Food and Agriculture Healthy Soils Demonstration grant.

It鈥檚 a situation familiar to many 天美视频 students: Having to translate for parents and other, older relatives who speak little or no English.

It can be especially challenging when what you have to translate is almost a language in itself 鈥� medical jargon.

A pair of 天美视频 researchers are combining computational chemistry and machine learning principles to solve what seems to be an intractable problem at the heart of quantum mechanics: predicting the movement of electrons, also known as electron dynamics.

Like many young women, Calista Lum absorbed the message that she was not as capable as her male peers when it came to science, technology, engineering and math.

Teachers in her Fairfield high school engineering classes often asked if male classmates had done her work for her.

鈥淚 just assumed the boys were so much better at it than me,鈥� she said.

天美视频 Professor Peggy O鈥橠ay hopes to improve water quality in the California Delta by studying local wetlands.

O鈥橠ay is leading a new three-year study of Merced County wetlands that drain into the San Joaquin River and eventually the Delta.