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...

CE-CERT is proud to have 3 of our past researchers featured under UC Riverside’s 40 under 40 list: Charles Cai ’15, Harshit Agrawal ’09, and Joseph Silva ’11.

CE-CERT Invited to Exhibit at California Air Resources Board (CARB) Public Open House

CE-CERT’s partner, California Air Resources Board (CARB) will be hosting their Haagen-Smit Clean Air Leadership Talks on Friday, May 20, 2022, from 2-4 PM, at the New CARB Campus in Riverside

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), General Motors and MathWorks announced the 15 North American universities and the 2023 Cadillac LYRIQ as the vehicle selected for the EcoCAR EV Challenge, the next DOE-sponsored Advanced Vehicle Technology Competition (AVTC) set to begin in Fall 2022. University of California, Riverside, Bourns College of Engineering Center for Environmental...

On Friday, April 15th, the Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT) celebrated its 30th year anniversary of research and achievements at the University of California, Riverside. Since 1992, CE-CERT has proudly worked towards their goals of being a leader in environmental education and partner with various industries and governments to innovate technologies for the...

CE-CERT is proud to announce the recipients of the 2022-2023 Scholarship Awards totaling $33,500. We would like to congratulate them on their hard work and thank our generous donors who made these awards possible.

CE-CERT’s Ford Motor Company Chair in Environmental Engineering, Charles E. Wyman was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering on February 9th, 2022, for his distinguished advances in transforming lignocellulosic feedstocks to low-carbon-footprint fuels and chemicals.

CE-CERT Researcher Dr. Guoyuan Wu and his colleagues have been awarded the SAE International Arch T. Colwell Merit Award on January 4th, 2022, for their outstanding contributions to existing knowledge of mobility engineering.