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UCR mechanical engineer earns NSF CAREER award to better understand the flow of particles that can be seen only with a microscope

Assistant professor of mechanical engineering Bhargav Rallabandi at the Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering (BCOE) at the University of California Riverside (UCR) has been awarded a $540,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award to better predict and control the motion of microparticles in liquid. NSF CAREER awards are awarded to assistant professors to...

BCOE alumnus earns a spot on the 2022 Forbes 30 Under 30

Yige Li, class of 2019, has been named a top entrepreneur in the energy category for working to accelerate automobile electrification.

BCOE donors shower $257,000 in support for student organizations during largest BCOE Match Challenge to date

This year in 2021, BCOE set an ambitious goal to nearly double that amount to $150,000 – and surpassed that goal to raise $257,290, the largest Match Challenge amount to date. The start of this year’s challenge coincided with the launch of UCR’s Beyond Brilliant Initiative, which seeks to raise $50 million over five years...

Engineering students gain access to cutting-edge equipment in new electrical engineering maker space

As students return to campus this fall, they will have a new place – outfitted with industry-grade equipment - to put into practice the lessons they learn in the classroom. In summer 2021, Victor Tolan, president of BK Precision, donated several key instruments to the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering’s newly established student makerspace...

Historic triple-match opportunity available in 2021 BCOE Match Challenge supporting student organizations

The Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering (BCOE) will host the 4th Annual BCOE Match Challenge from Monday, October 4 through Sunday, October 31, which provides direct and immediate support for 19 engineering professional student organizations.
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Two UC Riverside engineers join $3.75 million MURI research grant to study brain dynamics and reinforcement learning  

Fabio Pasqualetti and Samet Oymak serve as co-principal investigators on the team lead by the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis
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UCR engineering and business students spearhead inaugural UC Riverside Aerospace Conference

More than 50 students, faculty and staff collaborated across UC Riverside to host the inaugural annual UC Riverside Aerospace Conference on Saturday, April 17 with more than 250 student attendees.

Q&A with Ruperd Wilson II, Electrical Engineer at Raytheon Technologies

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...

Q&A with Sohail Nadimi, PhD, Senior System Design Engineer, KLA+

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...

Q&A with Darin Anderson, Chairman and CEO of Salas O'Brien

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...