On December 9, 2022, the Plug In IE workshop brought together a diverse group of about 50 individuals at Teamsters Local 1932 in San Bernardino, California, to discuss the electrification of the Inland Empire region’s logistics industry. Participants included representatives from environmental justice, labor, and other community organizations; community colleges; industry; and state regulatory agencies...
Congratulations to Jacqueline Garrido for being named UC Riverside's Outstanding Student of the Year by NCST for Academic Excellence and Leadership! From the breathtaking Andes to the world of academia, Jacqueline's journey has been nothing short of extraordinary. She firmly believes in the power of self-discovery and exploring diverse paths to find one's true passion...
The EcoCAR team proudly represented at the recent Petersen Museum Expo in Los Angeles on April 29, 2023. The team was joined by Dean Lynch and Professor Barth, who spoke about the cutting-edge developments being made at BCOE in the field of EV technology. Attendees had the opportunity to network with other BCOE alumni and...
The University of California, Riverside (UCR) welcomed two special guests on April 18 as part of preparations for the upcoming UCR/Dept of Energy event, "Energy to the People." Christy L. Jackiewicz, Chief of the Minority Educational Institution Division, DOE Office of Economic Impact and Diversity, and Nabih Haddad, STEM Research and Development Lead, visited CE-CERT...
Mayor Patricia Dawson and City Manager Mike Futrell recently paid a visit to the Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT) at the University of California, Riverside. The visit was aimed at exploring potential partnerships between the city and the research center to positively impact the community. During their visit on Friday, April 7th, Mayor...
Dependable Highway Express (DHE) Service Center in Ontario, CA, and the Center for Environmental Research & Technology (CE-CERT) at the University of California at Riverside (UCR) have partnered up to improve our understanding of how emissions from freight activities are dispersed, with a particular focus on the Inland Empire. The collaboration will involve experiments at...
The 12th Annual Onboard Sensing, Analysis, and Reporting (OSAR) conference was a resounding success, drawing over 150 attendees from industry, academia, and government agencies. The event, which took place over two days in Riverside, California, was led by Kent Johnson, Associate Researcher, and Assistant Adjunct Professor for the Emission and Fuel Research Laboratory. The conference...
Riverside, California - The new City Manager, Mike Futrell, and the Economic Development Manager, Jorge Barrera, recently paid a visit to the Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT) to get a firsthand look at some of the exciting things the organization is working on. During their visit, Futrell and Barrera were shown some of...
CE-CERT Faculty Charles Wyman, William (Bill) Carter, Matthew Barth, Georgios Karavalakis, and Thomas Durbin have been listed amongst the top 2% of scientists in the world in Stanford University's publicly available database of top-cited scientists. This database provides standardized information on citations, h-index, co-authorship adjusted hm-index, citations to papers in different authorship positions and a...
On October 13th, 2022 CE-CERT presented several projects at the Night of Art and Innovation in Downtown Riverside! Our new Solar-Hydrogen Cycle Kit was freshly displayed to show a little preview of the type of research CE-CERT is looking to contribute to. UCR/CE-CERT's EcoCar group showed off their efforts to engineer a next generation battery...
On October 6th, 2022 CE-CERT collaborated with the Science, Technology, and Engineering Partnership (STEP) for another successful annual STEP Conference (STEPCon)! 80 high school students from across the Inland Empire visited 3 of our laboratories to learn more about the different academic and career pathways they can take. Many students were interested in taking an...
Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) visited CE-CERT recently to interview Dr. David Cocker on the research being conducted at the Atmospheric Processes Chamber and what could be done in Korea to solve a growing pollution issue overseas. There is growing interest in how CE-CERT has been researching this issue over the past many years and the...
CE-CERT is excited to announce Dr. Luat Thanh Vuong as the newest affiliate member to join our center! With a primary position in Engineering, her research focuses on understanding data and developing spectral methods and physics-informed approaches to find patterns in data with reduced memory and computational costs. Dr. Vuong is currently a tenure-track assistant...
Featured Article Volvo Trucks North America announced the culmination of the Volvo LIGHTS project – an innovative three-year project that brought together 14 public and private partners to design and implement a blueprint for the robust support ecosystem necessary to deploy battery-electric trucks and equipment at scale. During the project, which ran from 2019 to...
We are proud to announce a collaboration with AVL on a connected and automated vehicle research project. The team will use the AVL Dynamic Ground Truth System™ to collect data on test drives through the City of Riverside Innovation Corridor. The vehicle data will be fused with infrastructure to optimize the dataset from V2X communication...
CE-CERT Hosts Laboratory Tours for Students from Various Riverside County High Schools The Science and Technology Education Partnership (STEP) recent held their first in-person STEM Summer Learning Labs since 2020, marking the program’s 6th consecutive year. For each of the 3 week-long programs, 50 high school and recommended 8th grade students will work in teams...
CE-CERT is thrilled to announce that Jubair Yusuf has recently successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation on plug-in electric vehicles grid integration! Yusuf’s research at CE-CERT focuses on the challenges associated with plug-in electric vehicles grid integration as well as projects on EV smart charging and discharging (funded by SCAQMD), vehicle-to-grid while islanding, EV charger and...
CE-CERT is proud to announce the 5 recipients of the 2022-2023 National Center for Sustainable Transportation (NCST) Dissertation Award! Funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Office of the Secretary for Research and Technology under the University Transportation Center (UTC) program, each doctoral candidate will receive $20,000 toward their research expenses. NCST’s research themes are...
Effective July 1st, 2022, CE-CERT Director Matt Barth will be joining BCOE as the new Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education. As such, we welcome Dr. Don Collins as CE-CERT’s new Director starting from the 2022-2023 academic year! Prof. Barth earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science from the University of Colorado, and his...
CE-CERT is honored to have Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis tour our facilities last Friday, June 17th. Our researchers took her through CE-CERT’s iconic Atmospheric Processes Lab (APL) Chamber, the Heavy-Duty Chassis Dynamometer (HCDL) Lab, Transportation Systems Research (TSR) Lab, and the Sustainable Integrated Grid Initiative (SIGI) battery trailer. Lt. Governor Kounalakis was able to chat...
