http://www.engr.ucr.edu/ News from the UC Riverside Bourns College of Engineering en-us © Copyright 2011 Regents of the University of California Fri, 17 May 2013 14:27:24 -0700 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss OmniUpdate (OU Publish) 60 http://www.ucr.edu/images/design6/ucr_monogram.gif 55 53 http://www.ucr.edu/ Saturday Sunday http://www.engr.ucr.edu/news/2013/2013-05-17.html The annual rankings by Leiden University in the Netherlands ranked UC Riverside's programs in engineering and natural sciences 10th in the world, ahead of institutions such as Princeton, Yale, and Caltech. The Leiden rankings objectively measure scientific impact based on research citations and collaboration worldwide. Don Davidson <don.davidson@ucr.edu> Fri, 17 May 2013 10:45:15 -0700 Leiden University logo BCOE http://www.engr.ucr.edu/news/2013/2013-05-14a.html Three BCOE computer science majors and two local community college students who will transfer to BCOE next fall teamed up to win the Riverside Startup Weekend competition for their smartphone application Fetchit. The event was held at the Culver Center in downtown Riverside May 3-5, 2013. Mohammad Akbar <makba002@ucr.edu> Tue, 14 May 2013 15:11:12 -0700 smartphone application Fetchit BCOE http://www.engr.ucr.edu/news/2013/2013-05-10.html The team of BCOE students recently won two first place environmental design awards at the WERC: A Consortium for Environmental Education and Technology Development competition in Las Cruces, N.M. They developed a device that replaces a lawnmower's muffler and reduces carbon monoxide by 87 percent, nitrogen oxides by 67 percent, and particulate matter by 44 percent. Don Davidson <don.davidson@ucr.edu> Fri, 10 May 2013 13:07:51 -0700 Lawnmower device BCOE http://www.engr.ucr.edu/news/2013/2013-05-06.html Assistant Professor David Kisailus and his students will share lessons learned from nature about the design of the next generation of materials during a special program at the Riverside Metropolitan Museum Saturday, May 18, from 1-4 p.m. Don Davidson <don.davidson@ucr.edu> Mon, 06 May 2013 16:50:37 -0700 Design by Nature BCOE http://www.engr.ucr.edu/news/2013/2013-05-03a.html The Bourns College of Engineering-Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT) is scheduled to receive more than $3 million in funding for biofuels research, the U.S. Department of Energy announced recently. Mohammad Akbar <makba002@ucr.edu> Fri, 03 May 2013 09:54:24 -0700 Wyman BCOE http://www.engr.ucr.edu/news/2013/2013-05-02.html The Bourns College of Engineering had the highest participation rate (21 percent) in faculty-mentored undergraduate research during the 2011-12 academic year, according to a recent study released by the Office of Undergraduate Education. Overall, 12 percent of UCR undergrads participated in research programs. Don Davidson <don.davidson@ucr.edu> Thu, 02 May 2013 16:57:12 -0700 Research at BCOE BCOE http://www.engr.ucr.edu/news/2013/2013-05-01a.html BCOE bioengineering students Tyler Backman, Leo Green, Elbert Mai, Maricela Maldorado, and Thanh Yen Nguygen were recently honored by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program with four fellowships and an honorable mention. Mohammad Akbar <makba002@ucr.edu> Wed, 01 May 2013 11:35:22 -0700 NSF Logo BCOE http://www.engr.ucr.edu/news/2013/2013-04-25.html More than 100 educators from the Pacific Southwest Section of the American Society for Engineering Education gathered at the Bourns College of Engineering at UC Riverside April 18-20, 2013, to share innovative approaches to recruiting, retaining and educating students in engineering. Don Davidson <don.davidson@ucr.edu> Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:01:08 -0700 Reza Abbaschian addresses ASEE-PSW conference BCOE http://www.engr.ucr.edu/news/2013/2013-04-17.html The City of Riverside recognized Professor Matthew Barth, director of the College of Engineering-Center for Environmental Research and Technology, as the Mayor's Innovation Honoree at the meeting of the City Council on April 9, 2013. Don Davidson <don.davidson@ucr.edu> Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:09:03 -0700 Professor Matthew Barth BCOE http://www.engr.ucr.edu/news/2013/2013-04-16.html The Bourns College of Engineering at UC Riverside will host the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Section Conference "Engineering Education in a Global Context" to be held Thursday, April 18 through Saturday, April 20. Don Davidson <don.davidson@ucr.edu> Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:58:58 -0700 ASEE logo BCOE http://www.engr.ucr.edu/news/2013/2013-04-11.html A delegation of students from the Bourns College of Engineering earned honors and awards for service and leadership at the national convention of the National Society for Black Engineers (NSBE) in Indianapolis, Ind., March 27-31. Don Davidson <don.davidson@ucr.edu> Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:56:03 -0700 NSBE logo BCOE http://www.engr.ucr.edu/news/2013/2013-04-09a.html BCOE student Justin Bautista has sat in NASA's Mission Control Center, had dinner with astronauts, and conducted research on the next generation of manned spacecraft. Those experiences were all made possible through an internship at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, where Bautista will return in June. Don Davidson <don.davidson@ucr.edu> Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:54:53 -0700 Justin Bautista BCOE http://www.engr.ucr.edu/news/2013/2013-04-09.html More than 600 students from throughout the Inland Empire and Orange County participated in the 10th annual Bourns Engineering Day, hosted April 6 by UCR's chapter of the Society of Women Engineers. The all-day event had the theme "Innovation for the Earth" and was packed with hands-on activities, lab tours, and speakers. Don Davidson <don.davidson@ucr.edu> Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:36:29 -0700 Bourns Engineering Day BCOE http://www.engr.ucr.edu/news/2013/2013-04-03.html Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Anastasios Mourikis has been awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER award for his research project entitled "Resource-adaptive distributed estimation for teams of micro aerial vehicles." Don Davidson <don.davidson@ucr.edu> Wed, 03 Apr 2013 16:33:09 -0700 Anastasios Mourikis BCOE http://www.engr.ucr.edu/news/2013/2013-03-12a.html The Bourns College of Engineering at UC Riverside has established the Suresh Kumar Memorial Fund in Electrical Engineering to honor the late Ph.D. student Suresh Kumar Ramachandran Nair, who died June 27, 2012. The memorial fund will provide opportunities for international graduate students who share his passion for research in intelligent systems. Mohammad Akbar <makba002@ucr.edu> Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:40:05 -0700 Suresh Kumar BCOE http://www.engr.ucr.edu/news/2013/2013-03-07.html A team lead by Professor of Electrical Engineering Alexander A. Balandin has published a paper that shows how they solved a century-old problem with low-frequency electronic 1/f noise. Their findings could help downscale the size of electronic devices. Mohammad Akbar <makba002@ucr.edu> Thu, 07 Mar 2013 14:35:32 -0800 Alexander A. Balandin BCOE http://www.engr.ucr.edu/news/2013/2013-02-27a.html Professor and Chair of Bioengineering Victor G. J. Rodgers, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Anastasios Mourikis, and bioengineering Ph.D. student Devin McBride have been recognized by the Orange County Engineering Council with the organization's 2013 Distinguished Engineering Educator and Outstanding Engineering Student awards. Mohammad Akbar <makba002@ucr.edu> Wed, 27 Feb 2013 11:40:24 -0800 Devin McBride BCOE http://www.engr.ucr.edu/news/2013/2013-02-25.html Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Marko Princevac is a coauthor of a new research paper that states hovering hummingbirds produce two trails of vortices that help generate the aerodynamic forces required to power and control its flight. The results of the study could find wide application in aerospace technology and the development of unmanned vehicles for medical surveillance after natural disasters. Mohammad Akbar <makba002@ucr.edu> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 12:46:50 -0800 Marko Princevac (left) is seen here in his office with his former graduate student Sam Pournazeri. BCOE http://www.engr.ucr.edu/news/2013/2013-02-08a.html Six hundred local middle and high school students will come to campus Feb. 16 to compete at Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement (MESA) Day. The MESA program, which is housed at BCOE, serves 24 schools in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties. Mohammad Akbar <makba002@ucr.edu> Fri, 08 Feb 2013 11:18:25 -0800 MESA BCOE http://www.engr.ucr.edu/news/2013/2013-02-04a.html BCOE faculty members Alexander A. Balandin, Alexander Khitun, Jianlin Liu, and Roger Lake are part of the new $35-million Center for Function Accelerated nanoMaterial Engineering (FAME) research center funded by the Semiconductor Research Corporation and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Mohammad Akbar <makba002@ucr.edu> Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:00:28 -0800 Microelectronics Research Center BCOE