Featured courses

Lab Leadership and Management
Equip yourself with practical techniques, tools and tips to manage dynamic environments and lead your teams to success. This course is essential for anyone who faces the challenges of leading and managing large, multidisciplinary teams of scientists and technicians in a laboratory setting.

Introduction to Energy Resource Management
Learn the basics of auditing and economic analysis, management control and maintenance systems, sustainability and high performance green buildings, lighting and electrical management, natural gas purchasing, codes and standards, utility deregulation and energy systems outsourcing, and energy security risk analysis methods.

Energy Resource Management: Leadership
Examine the leadership issues involved in managing energy from organizational behavior and change management to project management and communication skills. Gain insight into how to develop your own leadership style.

Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Energy Systems: Overview
Work through an overview of the theory, technologies, applications, issues and benefits of solar energy at the consumer and local levels. Gain useful background information about the solar resources in California and the various federal and state government initiatives to promote solar energy as a mainstream power source, including the latest policies and legislation.

Featured Certificate Program

Advanced Chemical Engineering Certificate Program
An innovative program for chemical engineers and other professionals seeking advanced training in chemical engineering and an accelerated pathway to graduate-degree programs. Chemical engineers and professionals in related fields obtain fundamental knowledge and in-depth training in UC Davis graduate-level courses in chemical engineering during the course of two academic quarters (six months).