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Photo of robot arm in the UCR Mechanical Engineering Design and Development Lab

Revved Up on Robots

Brandon Marcus's robotics and artificial intelligence research and recent co-authorship of a major paper accepted to the 2025 CASE conference mark a few of his successes as the second BCOE student to graduate with a bachelor's degree in robotics.
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Photo of eight participants of the UC Riverside Engineering FAME workshop with BCOE Dean Chris Lynch in the center of the photo.

Fostering Future Faculty

Graduate students and postdoctoral researchers from across the country found the support and guidance through a new FAME program geared to recruit and mentor future faculty mentors.
| Engineering

Banking on the Future

BCOE alum Shrina Kurani (BS, Mechanical Engineering, ’13) was appointed as the deputy director of venture capital for the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank, and will lead a program that promotes investments across the state, with a focus on underrepresented entrepreneurs and fund managers, underinvested regions, and climate equity and justice
| Engineering

Ready to Launch

The IGNITE Student Professional Conference provided students with inspiration, learning, and networking during a professional development event that featured breakout sessions, an alumni panel, a career exhibition, and mock interviews.
| Engineering
Winston Chung Global Energy Center

Winston Chung Global Energy Center announces new directors

BCOE faculty members Juchen Guo and Hamed Mohsenian-Rad are the new co-directors of the Winston Chung Global Energy Center.
| Engineering
Highlander Combat Robotics

Machine-Based Learning

Highlander Combat Robotics — a project of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers — provides students the opportunity to build and battle their bots against each other, an fun experience that also serves as a “a gateway to practical learning"
Mechanical Engineering assistant professor Kaveh Laksari conducting brain-trauma research in his lab.

Saving the Brain

Mechanical Engineering's Kaveh Laksari has pioneered technology that help improve outcomes for patients suffering from strokes, concussions, and other examples of brain trauma.
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Match challenge students with car

Engineering student professional organizations soar to success

Financial support from October’s annual BCOE Match Challenge helped drum up donations for student professional organizations, totaling the most donors in the challenge’s six-year history.

Engineering students receiving a total of $46,000 in scholarships were encouraged to connect outside the classroom

Our scholars got dollars. Nearly 40 future engineers received financial support this past academic year in the form of scholarship awards ranging largely between $1,000 and $2,500. While this financial support assists Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering (BCOE) students in covering some of the costs of their education, the scholarship-application process is meant...

Senior Design allows future engineers to get hands-on learning and tackle industry problems

Projects are highlighted on campus with public displays, poster presentations, and special events, such as department open houses and the Bioengineering and Materials Science Senior Design Showcase held on May 12 and the Mechanical Engineering Senior Design Poster Exhibition on June 5.
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