Tiffany Chan

Tiffany Chan

Former B.S. Student
Biomedical Engineering
03/2023-06/2026

Professional Quick Summary:
  • Joined lab: March 2023
  • Joined due to: Recruited from departmental committee
  • Member of American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE)
  • Cube³ publications: 10 (1 journal first author, 1 journal co-author, 3 conference first author, 5 conference co-author)
  • Cube³ presentations: 3 (BMES 2023, BMES 2024, URSCA at UC Davis 2024)
  • Awards: 7 (1 at regional level, 1 at campus level, 5 at departmental/college level)
Bio:

Tiffany Chan is a 1st year Master's student in biomedical engineering at UC Davis and the recipient of the 2024 ASEE-PSW Section Undergraduate Student Award. She was a graduate student researcher in the cube³ lab during 09/05-06/26 and an undergraduate student researcher 03/23-06/25. Her interests lie in community building and inclusive practices. Starting her career in engineering education by organizing the student-faculty lunches, she transitioned into improving our clinical immersion program, Quarter at Aggie Square, at Davis. She also served as a peer mentor (24-25) and a co-instructor (25-26) for the Gals and Pals Aggie Connection.

Education and Degree(s)
  • B.S. Biomedical Engineering, 2025
Honors and Awards
  • College of Engineering Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award, 2026
  • Outstanding Teaching Assistant, Biomedical Engineering, UC Davis, 2026
  • Hanson Family Undergraduate Research Publication Award, 2025
  • American Society of Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Section Undergraduate Student Award, 2024
  • Provost's Undergraduate Fellowship, UC Davis, 2023
  • Undergraduate Travel Award, UC Davis, 2023, 2024
Publications
  • A. M. Razavian, T. M. Chan, C. R. Calvin, A. W. Pang, and X. Wang. "Engineering Identity and Belonging: Qualitative Evaluation of a First-Year Learning Community for Women in Engineering," 2026 ASEE Zone IV Conference, 2026.
  • T. M. Chan, K. T. Wong, and X. Wang. "Toward Building a Clinical Immersion Program Incorporating Solution-Agnostic Needs Finding Practices," 2026 ASEE Zone IV Conference, 2026.
  • D. J. Melnichuk, A. A. Tamura, T. M. Chan, A. M. Razavian, C. R. Calvin, and X. Wang. "Gals and Pals in Engineering: A First-Year Learning Community’s Impact on Women’s Engineering Identity," 2026 AERA Annual Meeting, 2026.
  • X. Wang, T. M. Chan, and A. A. Tamura. "A Learning Module for Generative AI Literacy in a Biomedical Engineering Classroom," Frontiers in Education, vol. 10, 2025, doi: 10.3389/feduc.2025.1551385.
  • T. M. Chan, A. A. Tamura, and X. Wang, "Improving sense of belonging in biomedical engineering students through student-faculty lunches," Frontiers in Education, vol. 10, 2025, doi: 10.3389/feduc.2025.1510872.
  • T. M. Chan, S. Sachdeva, and X. Wang, "Enhancing Clinical Immersion Experience with Peer-Mentoring Support," 2025 ASEE PSW Conference.
  • X. Wang, V. Tran, G. M. Lee, S. J. Davis, M. Spooner, M. L. Chang, A. X. Stewart, C. J. Nitta, T. M. Chan, A. A. Tamura, G. G. Gurkoff, W. M. Joiner, E. Seker, and K. A. Moxon, "NeuralStorm: Training Graduate Students to Take Neuroengineering by Storm, " 2025 ASEE PSW Conference.
  • X. Wang, T. M. Chan, and A. A. Tamura, "Work in progress: Preparing Biomedical Engineers to Tackle Biases in Machine Learning," 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2025.
  • A. A. Tamura, T. M. Chan, and X. Wang, "Work in Progress: Fostering the Development of Engineering Identity in First-Year Women Engineering Students Through First-Year Seminars," 15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE) Proceedings, 2024, doi: 10.18260/1-2--48644.
  • T. M. Chan, T. L. Chatfield, and X. Wang, "Work in Progress: Investigation of Student-Faculty Micro-Interactions on Students’ Sense of Belonging through Organized Student-Faculty Lunches," 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2024, doi: 10.18260/1-2--48500.