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.
Learning to Succeed
Department of Computer Science and Engineering professor Frank Vahid will serve as the new deputy director of college-level digitally enabled learning and teaching for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Keeping Software and Systems Safe
Computer Science and Engineering's Trent Jaeger's engineering expertise in keeping computer networks safe from hacks has made him the go-to cybersecurity expert for big tech and the U.S. government.
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Heart Smart
UCR Bourns College of Engineering students participated in the Data Science Challenge, a two-week summer internship at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory that this year prompted them to use data science and machine learning as tools to tackle a real-world problem in the biosciences; the limitations of the electrocardiogram.
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...
From ‘magical box’ to NSF CAREER Award
Amr Magdy began dabbling in computers at age 13, in Alexandria, Egypt, on a desktop Pentium 2 that ran Windows 95 with no Internet. “I would say, ‘This is a magical box’,” said Magdy, an assistant professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the UC Riverside Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering. “Twenty-five years...
Programming Without Prescription
Allan Knight teaches computer science students there’s more than one pathway to career success
BCOE’s first ever Family Weekend brings together engineering families to experience life as an engineering student
Parents and families of engineering students at the Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering (BCOE) experienced a slice of college life at the first ever Family Weekend on Friday, May 13 and Saturday, May 14. Through MakeRspace activities, classroom lectures, tours of BCOE, and more, families experienced firsthand their student’s campus life and engaged...
BCOE celebrates Professor Emeritus Thomas H. Payne’s 80th birthday
The Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering (BCOE) celebrated Professor Emeritus Thomas H. Payne’s 80th birthday and 55 years of service to the University of California, Riverside (UCR) on Saturday, April 2. Payne played a significant role in developing BCOE and growing the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He served as department chair...
Computer science alumni launch Engineers for Good to help international nonprofits with software development and mentor current BCOE students
With help from alumni, Jeremy Woo-Sam ‘87 and Jeff Zamora ‘88, and the UCR Foundation Board of Trustees Student Support Match Challenge, the Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering launched “Engineers for Good (EFG),” earlier this year.