Our Mission
BCOE prepares engineers to solve complex challenges with technical excellence, creativity, and purpose. Through rigorous academics, hands-on discovery, and collaborative research, students gain the skills to lead in rapidly evolving industries while improving lives and strengthening communities. As a public research institution, BCOE expands access to engineering education and serves as a catalyst for innovation, opportunity, and social mobility across California’s Inland Empire.
BCOE at a Glance
4000+
Undergraduate Students
900+
Graduate Students
150+
Award-Winning Faculty
75+
Fellows of Professional Societies
58
NSF CAREER Awards
25+
Engineering Degree Programs
12
Research Centers
12
Areas of Impact
Research Excellence
BCOE research connects discovery with real-world impact.
Students and faculty work together to address challenges involving clean energy, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, air quality, robotics, human health, and more. In laboratories and research centers across the college, ideas are tested, refined, and applied to problems affecting everyday life.
Students gain direct experience with the tools, methods, and persistence required to move engineering forward.
Engineering Impact
Engineering at BCOE is not only about discovery. It is also about opportunity.
As part of UC Riverside, BCOE connects public research with workforce development, industry collaboration, and expanded access to engineering education. Many students are the first in their families to pursue engineering or attend college, bringing new perspectives to the future of the field.
The work happening at BCOE reaches far beyond campus. Through research, partnership, and community engagement, the college helps strengthen the Inland Empire while preparing graduates to make an impact wherever they go.
World-Class Faculty
BCOE faculty are researchers, educators, and mentors who help students grow into confident engineers and problem solvers.
Their work advances engineering and computer science through nationally recognized research and collaboration across disciplines. In classrooms and laboratories, faculty challenge students to think deeply, test ideas, and connect theory with practice.
At BCOE, mentorship is part of the educational experience.
Experiential Engineering Education
Students learn engineering by doing the work.
Classroom learning is reinforced through research, internships, senior design projects, competition teams, and collaborative problem solving. These experiences help students build technical confidence while learning how to communicate ideas, work with others, and adapt when solutions are not obvious.
Some students arrive already seeing themselves as engineers. Others discover that identity here.
What unites them is the belief that engineering can improve lives and that they can help shape what comes next.
