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More than 800 BCOE students belong to 22 campus organizations, including the Biomedical Engineering Society, which hosts a college dodge ball tournament.
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.
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.
Research and teaching excellence are hallmarks of the BCOE faculty. The average extramural research funding per faculty is more than $400,000.
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.
Chinese technology innovator Winston Chung's $10 million gift to the college will establish the Winston Chung Global Energy Center and two endowed professorships.
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.
College News
Davis 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.
SCAQMD 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.
Neamtiu 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."
Wang 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.
Balandin 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.
Gupta 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.
College 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.
NSBE 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.
Khitun 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.
Balandin 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 Spotlight
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 
Assistant Professor Elaine Haberer on Teaching About Solar Energy
Smartphone Tablet Integrated Nano Gas Sensor
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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