“I called the UC Davis admissions office and told them that I really wanted to come to Davis,” he recalled during a visit to campus last Friday (Feb. The latter accepted him immediately, but Davis turned him down. In 1988, he applied to UC Davis (his preferred choice) and UC Irvine. Twenty-five Kuang patents are in active production, including key components of Ford’s power-split architecture system found on vehicles like the all-new Fusion hybrid, which, according to Ford, will get 47 miles per gallon, the most for any nonrechargeable sedan in the country.Īnd, to think, Kuang almost never got in to UC Davis! He completed his undergraduate degree and the first two years of a master’s program at the South China University of Technology, then joined relatives in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1986, and elected to make California his home. His name is on 40 hybrid patents, and Ford credits him with boosting the automaker’s portfolio of hybrid patents from 10 to 461 since the year 2000. Kuang works in Ford’s Electrification Research and Advanced Engineering unit, as technical leader in vehicle controls. Robert Arneson: Serious Ideas Behind that Humorīesides being the “father of the plug-in hybrid,” Professor Andy Frank is the “father” of a new generation of engineers in the hybrid vehicle field - people like Ming Kuang, who, armed with a master’s degree from UC Davis, has gone on to stardom at Ford Motor Co.Graduate School of Management Events Calendar.College of Letters and Science Events Calendar.College of Biological Sciences Events Calendar.College of Agricultural and Environmental Studies.Commencement Schedule and Graduation Celebrations.Building Community to Benefit Physics Students.Battling Barriers, Bias to Retain and Recruit STEM Talent.
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