Researchers at the UC Davis Coffee Center have collected years’ worth of data to update the decades-old Brewing Control Chart. The new Sensory and Consumer Brewing Control Chart combines new coffee science with consumer research and a more user-friendly approach.
Biological systems engineering master's student Willian Klippel-Huber hopes to take what he learns in his research at the UC Davis Coffee Center back to help his home community in Brazil, where he grew up on a coffee farm.
Watch Jerry Baldwin in conversation with Bill Ristenpart, professor of chemical engineering and director of the UC Davis Coffee Center. Baldwin reflects on his professional journey, the evolution of the coffee industry and his hopes for the future of coffee.
As a multidisciplinary hub for innovative research and unique educational experiences, the Coffee Center in the College of Engineering collaborates with the $28 billion U.S. coffee industry to tackle key challenges in sustainable farming, roasting, brewing and more.
The biological and agricultural engineering researcher speaks with International Comunicaffe about the role of technologies like AI and sensors in revolutionizing coffee research, enhancing sustainability and addressing global challenges in coffee production and processing.
The professor of chemical engineering at UC Davis has been elected to the 2024 class of APS Fellows, an honor that recognizes outstanding contributions to advancing the field of physics.
How do you precisely roast beans? What to do with coffee's waste byproducts? The UC Davis Coffee Center is designed to test such questions and other deep, dark coffee mysteries. Between running tests, teaching chemical engineering and sipping black coffee, Professor Bill Ristenpart talks about the college's groundbreaking research center.
A UC Davis study analyzes roasting techniques to provide key insights into the acidity of coffee beans, paving the way for coffee roasters to better control the quality and flavor of their coffee.
The Coffee Center at the University of California, Davis, officially opened Friday, May 3. The Coffee Center is a center of excellence in the UC Davis College of Engineering and the first academic research and teaching facility in the U.S. entirely dedicated to the study of coffee.
We developed The Design of Coffee as a freshman seminar for 18 students in 2013, and, since then, the course has grown to over 2,000 general education students per year at the University of California, Davis.
