Department: Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering In this conversation Emeritus Professor Warren H Giedt founding chair Of the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering discusses his career at the University of California at Davis, including important persons and events that shaped his interests and scholarship. How he came to the Davis campus and his experiences, relationships and accomplishments as a member of the University and the local community . Warren and his wife Leta were honored by the naming of the College of engineering's new teaching building. Warren was honored as a fellow Of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers As Well as many other honors.