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Dodgeball participants.

More than 800 BCOE students belong to 22 campus organizations, including the Biomedical Engineering Society, which hosts a college dodge ball tournament.

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Grad student Desalegne Teweldebrhan.

70 percent of BCOE grads have jobs within six months of graduation. Desalegne Teweldebrhan, M.S. MSE ’11, Ph.D. EE ’11, is now employed at Intel.

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Students in laser lab.

The National Research Council ranked BCOE’s doctorate programs in the top quartile in the nation. Undergraduate research opportunities abound at the college as well.

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Researchers in lab.

Research and teaching excellence are hallmarks of the BCOE faculty. The average extramural research funding per faculty is more than $400,000.

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Children participating in Space Science and Engineering Day.

Organized by BCOE’s chapter of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), Bourns Space Science and Engineering Day draws more than 500 local children and their families to campus.

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Dean Abbaschian shakes Winston Chung's hand.

Chinese technology innovator Winston Chung's $10 million gift to the college will establish the Winston Chung Global Energy Center and two endowed professorships.

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Researchers inside the atmospheric chamber at CE-CERT.

The Center for Environmental Research and Technology is one of six research centers at BCOE and the site of the world’s largest atmospheric chamber.

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College News

Nicole DavisDavis Named CE-CERT Deputy Director

Bourns College of Engineering alumna Nicole Davis has been named deputy director of the College of Engineering-Center for Environmental Research and Technology, it was announced recently. Prior to her appointment, she served as vice president for the International Sustainable Systems Research Center and as a consultant to the Air Quality Research Program at the California Energy Commission.

Matthew BarthSCAQMD Awards $2M Grant to CE-CERT for Clean Energy Project

The College of Engineering-Center for Environmental Research and Technology and a number of public and private partners have been awarded a $2-million grant by the South Coast Air Quality Management District to develop a clean energy transportation system that will integrate solar energy generation, battery storage, and electric vehicle charging stations on campus and in the City of Riverside.

Assistant Professor NeamtiuNeamtiu Earns Prestigious NSF CAREER Award

Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Iulian Neamtiu has been awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER award for his research project titled, "Differential Types and Declarative Hypothesis Testing for Software Evolution."

Albert WangWang Named President-Elect of IEEE Electron Devices Society

Professor of Electrical Engineering Albert Wang has been elected president-elect of IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS). His two-year term as president will begin January 1, 2014.

Professor BalandinBalandin Elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics

Alexander A. Balandin, professor of electrical engineering and founding chair of the Materials Science and Engineering Program at the Bourns College of Engineering, was elected fellow of the Institute of Physics, United Kingdom, it was announced earlier this month.

Rajiv GuptaGupta Elected Fellow of AAAS

Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Rajiv Gupta has been elected to the rank of AAAS Fellow for his contributions to computer architecture and optimizing compilers.

Portrait of Marlan and Rosemary BournsCollege Honors Bourns Family at Portrait Dedication

Marlan and Rosemary Bourns, for whom the Bourns College of Engineering was named in 1994, returned to campus December 8, 2011, for the unveiling of a portrait that was a gift to the college from their children.

NSBENSBE Chapter Earns Regional Awards

The student chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) at Bourns College of Engineering earned two awards at the Fall Regional Conference on November 16-18, 2011. The chapter earned a $600 Chapter Relief Adward for fulfilling more than 10 active chapter requirements for the 2011-12 term.

Professor KhitunKhitun is Co-PI on $1.55M NSF Award-Winning Team

Electrical Engineering Research Adjunct Professor Alexander G. Khitun is co-principle investigator on the new four-year $1.55-million National Science Foundation project on Hybrid Spintronics and Straintronics: A New Technology for Ultra-Low Energy Computing and Signal Processing Beyond the Year 2020.

BalandinBalandin Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society

Alexander Balandin, professor of electrical engineering and founding chair of the Materials Science and Engineering Program, has been elected fellow of the American Physical Society (APS).

In the Headlines

The Riverside Press-Enterprise published a story about the $2-million grant by the South Coast Air Quality Management District to the College of Engineering-Center for Environmental Research and Technology by to develop a clean energy transportation system that will integrate solar energy generation, battery storage, and electric vehicle charging stations on campus and in the City of Riverside.

A UCR news release titled “Keeping Electronics Cool” about the research being done on graphene by Professor of Electrical Engineering Alexander Balandin resulted in coverage in the publications NanoWerk and IEEE Spectrum.

Alfredo Martinez-Morales, managing director of the Southern California Research Initiative for Solar Energy at CE-CERT was quoted in a story that ran in the San Bernardino Sun and Silicon Valley Mercury News about Southern California Edison’s program to install solar panels on the roofs of warehouses in San Bernardino County.

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General Campus Information

University of California, Riverside
900 University Ave.
Riverside, CA 92521
Tel: (951) 827-1012

College Information

Bourns College of Engineering
446 Winston Chung Hall

Tel: (951) 827-5190
Fax: (951) 827-3188
E-mail: collegeinfo@engr.ucr.edu

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