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More than 800 BCOE students belong to 22 campus organizations, including the National Society of Black Engineers, whose student leadership team is shown here at the NSBE national convention.
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.
Chinese technology innovator Winston Chung's $10 million gift to the college established the Winston Chung Global Energy Center and two endowed professorships.
Seventy 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.
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.
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.
Research and teaching excellence are hallmarks of the BCOE faculty. The average extramural research funding per faculty is more than $400,000.
College News
Verizon Foundation Grant Funds MESA Summer Camp
Thanks to a generous grant from the Verizon Foundation, the Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement (MESA) program at UCR is giving highly motivated seventh- and eighth-grade students an opportunity to experience engineering during a two-week summer camp Project EASE (Engineering & Applied Science Experiences) June 19-29 at the Bourns College of Engineering.
CEC Awards $2.6M to CE-CERT for Alternative Fuels Research
Grants totaling $2.6 million from the California Energy Commission's Public Interest Energy Research program have been awarded to the College of Engineering-Center for Environmental Research and Technology to develop technologies which reduce greenhouse gas through the use of alternative transportation fuels.
CE-CERT Celebrates 20 Years of Research Achievement in 2012
Founded in 1992, the College of Engineering-Center for Environmental Research and Technology is an internationally recognized leader in the study of atmospheric processes, emissions and fuels, sustainable energy, and transportation systems.
Engineers Flip the Switch to Battery Power at Winston Chung Hall
The first floor of Winston Chung Hall at the Bourns College of Engineering is now being powered by a 1.1-megawatt hour bank of rare earth lithium-ion batteries, which is one of the largest storage battery installations at a university in the world. The installation was made possible by researchers at CE-CERT and teams from Balqon Corporation and UC Riverside's Department of Physical Plant.
Tsutsui Awarded Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Exploration Grant
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Hideaki Tsutsui has been awarded a Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to pursue an innovative global health and development research project titled, "A Biotic Stress Sensor Printed on Maize Leaves."
BCOE to Showcase Research at 26th International Electric Vehicle Symposium
The Bourns College of Engineering will showcase its energy related research at the 26th International Electric Vehicle Symposium (EVS 26) at the Los Angeles Convention Center May 6-9, 2012.
Gupta Earns 2012 Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentor Award
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Rajiv Gupta has been selected by the UCR Graduate Council and Graduate Division as co-recipient of the 2012 Doctoral Advisor/Mentor Award.
Image Analysis Meets Art History
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury is part of a faculty team including professors Conrad Rudolph and Jeanette Kohl of the UCR Department of Art History which has received an initial grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for studying the application of facial recognition techniques in identifying unknown subjects in centuries-old sculptures and portraits.
BCOE Team Wins EPA P3 Competition
A team of BCOE graduates has been awarded a $90,000 first-place grant from the EPA's People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) Student Design Competition for Sustainability it was announced yesterday in Washington, D.C. The grant will help them continue to work on a system they designed that eliminates the need for a clothes dryer and could save a homeowner nearly $6,500 over 20 years.
BCOE Team Wins WERC Design Competition
A team of BCOE students won the top award at the international environmental design competition at WERC: A Consortium for Environmental Education and Technology Development in Las Cruces, N.M., earlier this month. They earned the 2012 Intel Environmental Innovation Award for developing a reusable storm drain oil filter made from 100 percent recycled materials.
In the Spotlight
VIEW PHOTOS FROM THE INAUGURAL ALUMNI-FACULTY BASKETBALL GAME AT HOMECOMING 2012
DEAN ABBASCHIAN FEATURED IN ARTS AND INNOVATION VIDEO
View the video of the Winston Chung Hall naming ceremony 
BCOE faculty featured in UCR magazine story, “Unlocking the Mysteries of the Brain”
BCOE Researcher Kent Johnson Featured on Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters 
In the Headlines
Jesse Lozano represented a team of fellow BCOE grads and the organization Engineers Without Borders in describing to KABC-TV the system they designed that eliminates the need for a clothes dryer and could save a homeowner nearly $6,500 during a 20-year period.
A Press-Enterprise story described the research of Nosang Myung, professor and chair of the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, in developing sensors for smart phones that can detect hazardous chemicals in the air. The story also describes Myungs's collaboration with Innovation Economy Corporation, which licenses the technology he has developed.
A Forbes magazine story described the research of Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Vagelis Hristidis and a group of collaborators who have developed a model that uses data from Twitter to help predict the traded volume and value of a stock the following day.
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