Third-year bioengineering student of the Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering (BCOE) Etchi Ako is making a big impact beyond BCOE engineering classrooms and labs. This past month, Ako secured first place at the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) Region 6 virtual Fall Regional Conference in the Technical Research Exhibition for a project...
As of December 1, 2020, the UCR Academic Senate unanimously endorsed a proposal submitted by BCOE to establish a new Master of Science Degree in Robotics.
On Tuesday, December 1, Giving Tuesday, BCOE exceeded its $55 million campaign goal for Living the Promise, UC Riverside’s first comprehensive fundraising campaign.
The Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering (BCOE) is on the rise – and two BCOE faculty have recently broken new records at the college. Alexander Balandin, distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering and founding chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, has recently surpassed 50,000 citations of his research publications...
The third annual BCOE Match Challenge at the Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering (BCOE) raised $78,000 for the Dean’s Innovation Fund, which will provide direct support for 14 of the college’s professional student organizations.
Through novel research methods, the project will apply retrospective as well as interactive analyses on data collected from social networks, online communities, autonomous vehicles, smart-home devices, and wearable sensors.
UCR has launched a new Data Science major, an intercollegiate partnership between the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in the Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering and the Department of Statistics in the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences.
Basilard BioTech has provided an initial $7,500 gift to support the research of Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Masa Rao at the Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering at University of California, Riverside. Basilard is actively commercializing a disruptive nanomechanical gene delivery technology platform (which the company has branded as SoloPore) originally pioneered in...
Quynh Nguyen, a ’18 computer science alumna, is now a cloud services engineer at Adobe. At BCOE, she was actively involved on campus and served as an officer for Gamespawn and Student Homeless Aid Relief Project (S.H.A.R.P.). In this summer edition of the Career Corner Q&A, Nguyen shares advice for what engineering students should be...
The University of California, Riverside’s Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering (BCOE) hosted its fourth annual CS4ALL CODE CAMP, a free intensive program that teaches high school students computer coding skills and introduces them to career possibilities in computer science. UCR computer science experts, lecturer Kelley Downey and assistant professor Mariam Salloum, created the...
Kandis Leslie Abdul-Aziz, chemical and environmental engineering assistant professor at the Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering (BCOE), was awarded the 2020-2021 Hellman Fellowship for her research “Sustainable Chemical Recycling Technology for the Upcycling of Plastic Waste into Fungible Fuels.” The fellowship, in the amount of $30,000, will support research conducted by Abdul-Aziz to...
Ruperd Wilson II, an electrical engineering alumnus from the Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering (BCOE) Class of 2019, is one of many engineering students who has grappled with the balance between academic success in one of the toughest disciplines with a healthy personal life. Searching for answers, Wilson turned to his peers at...
Bhargav Rallabandi , mechanical engineering assistant professor at the Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering (BCOE), was awarded the 2020-2021 Hellman Fellowship for his research “Multiscale modeling of sea-ice: linking ice floe dynamics to climate.” Rallabandi received the maximum fellowship support amount of $30,000. The fellowship will support research conducted at the FlowLab...
Sohail Nadimi was among the first cohort of doctoral students in Computer Science (CS) at BCOE. After earning his PhD, Nadimi continued at UC Riverside as a post-doctoral researcher. Since then, he has worked as a Senior Systems Design Engineer at KLA+, an international semiconductor manufacturing company headquartered in Milpitas, Calif. In this latest Career...
To our BCOE Community: The Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering at UC Riverside stands in solidarity with our students, staff, and faculty community against social injustice and acts of racism. The violence that has recently taken the lives of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Nina Pop, and countless others, are just the...
A UCR alumnus of the School of Business, Darin Anderson has remained closely involved with the Highlander community ever since. He served as chair of the advisory board for the School of Business, chair of the UCR Foundation Board of Trustees and is a Regent Emeritus of the University of California. Today, he leads Salas...
International master's students looking to join the UCR engineering community now have more time to apply. The application deadline has been extended to August 1. Interested master's students are encouraged to visit the department website for which they plan to apply, become familiar with the applications requirements, and contact the program's graduate student advisor to...
How do you set yourself apart when interviewing in the current job climate? What skills are most valuable? How can BCOE prepare you for your future? Campos EPC Engineer and 2019 BCOE Chemical Engineering alumna Vanessa Coria helps set you up for success in this edition of the Career Corner Q&A. 1) How did BCOE...
As we continue to provide additional support for our students during COVID-19, we recently caught up with '18 computer engineering alumnus and transfer student from Mt. San Jacinto College, Sammy Macaluso. Macaluso is now a software integration engineer at Tesla, and he shared his advice on professional development with our current BCOE students. 1. How...
Last year 356 undergraduate students at the Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering applied for college-based scholarships. This year the number increased to 620, nearly doubling the ranks of hopeful student applicants. Financial impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic, an extended scholarship application period, increased student enrollments, and a more concerted effort to promote...
With the COVID-19 pandemic interrupting internships and career searches for students throughout the world, we asked Eric Villanueva, operations manager at NAVSEA's Corona Division and '06 mechanical engineering alumnus, what advice he has for current BCOE students. What do you look for when hiring engineers? NSWC Corona looks for engineers who have taken advantage of...
Life-long energy innovation leader Neal Richter’s legacy will live on through the G. Neal Richter Energy Innovation Scholarship. The scholarship established at the College of Engineering Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT) at UC Riverside will provide financial assistance to undergraduate or graduate students studying alternative energies at CE-CERT. Dr. Richter spent his life...
Nora Hackett, a member of the UC Riverside Board of Trustees and Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering Council of Advisors, has established an endowment in the amount of $500,000. The Nora A. Hackett Instructional Equipment Endowed Fund will benefit engineering instructional labs, funding the purchase of new equipment and ensuring students are best...
Last fall, B&K Precision Corporation donated 48 instruments valued at nearly $30,000 to the departments of electrical and computer engineering and bioengineering to upgrade their instructional labs. With this new contribution, B&K Precision Corporation has given more than $150,000 to support BCOE in the past five years. Victor Tolan, president of B&K Precision Corporation, serves...
Improving natural gas efficiency provides an economic benefit, while also increasing sustainability and reducing climate change. UC Riverside’s Power Plant currently uses a $50,000 machine to analyze the energy content of natural gas. Winston Chung Global Energy Center researcher Chan Seung Park and Partho Roy along with their research team developed a $100 sensor to...
The online master’s degree at UC Riverside has moved up to No. 29 in U.S. News & World Report’s 2020 rankings of online engineering master’s degree programs. The program, which began enrolling students in 2016 and was ranked No. 56 in 2018, had risen to No. 33 by 2019. The rapid rise reflects a curriculum...
Two electrical and computer engineering professors have been named Fellows in recognition of their contributions and remarkable achievements to advancing engineering and invention. Professor Mihri Ozkan has been named as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and associate professor Hamed Mohsenian-Rad was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics...
