In early 2019, UCR’s Chemical Engineering undergraduate students, Albert Fernandez, Zachary Lyons, and Matthew Marquis and graduate student, Priyanka Singh were awarded a $5,000 grant from non-profit organization VentureWell to support newly formed InnovaCan, a for-profit technology spin-off from UCR. Leading this team was UCR Adjunct Professor and Assistant Research Engineer at CE-CERT, Dr. Charles...
CECERT hosted the GEMS (Girls in Engineering Math and Science) conference on October 3, 2019, for 35 9th and 10th grade girls from across the Inland Southern California region. Leading the conference was Professor Sunni Ivey and 3 female grad students, Sahar Ghadimi, Priya Sengupta, and Xinyue Kan from UCR CE-CERT. The day’s objectives were...
The Bourns College of Engineering, Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT) partnered with Bourns, Inc. & the Science Technology Engineering Partnership (STEP) to host the 20th annual STEPCon event. 2019 marks the 9th year of CE-CERT’s involvement with STEPCON. This year we welcomed over 200 high school students from Riverside and San Bernardino County...
CARB, Riverside educational institutions sign agreements to train future environmental leaders 10/16/2019 October 16, 2019 Release #19-45 CARB, Riverside educational institutions sign agreements to train future environmental leaders UC Riverside, Riverside Community College District and Riverside Unified School District sign MOUs to formalize agreements offering classes, facility tours and more RIVERSIDE – Against the backdrop...
September 19th, 2019, CE-CERT proudly hosted one of two StratosShare Launch Events in the city of Riverside. StratosShare is an on-demand car rental company that rents hydrogen-electric vehicles by the hour or day through a smartphone app. The event hosted industry speakers from the State of California Energy Commission, Commissioner Patty Monahan, San Bernardino City...
CE-CERT is participating as a collaborator in the newly announced Health Disparities Research Center under the leadership of the School of Medicine. Other partners include the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (CHASS), and the School of Public Policy (SPP), as well as collaborators in the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (CNAS). The...
Connected eco-driving can reduce the number of stops and idling time for individual vehicles, while also avoiding unnecessary acceleration or deceleration based on live traffic information. UCR and Volvo demonstrated this technology on a heavy duty truck in Los Angeles, CA. Their findings, presented in a paper pre-published on arXiv , are highly promising, with...
You’ve probably noticed the antenna-like towers and black tote cases that have appeared around the UC Riverside campus in recent weeks. Not surprisingly, they’ve prompted some questions. “Some people are curious,” said Ranga Rajan Thiruvenkatachari, a graduate student in mechanical engineering, who is part of the research team that set up the equipment. “Sometimes I...
In a leap forward that could be a game changer for understanding how plant biomass can be more efficiently broken down, a research team at the University of California, Riverside have joined forces with teams at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Central Florida to create a chemical roadmap to breach these defenses...
CE-CERT is proud to announce the winners of the 2019-2020 National Center for Sustainable Transportation Fellowship and Dissertation Awards. Three graduate students were awarded $20,000 each to support their research in sustainable transportation. The National Center for Sustainable Transportation (NCST) is one of five national centers funded by the US Department of Transportation’s Office of...
Ziran Wang, recent mechanical engineering Ph.D. graduate, and Xishun Liao, electrical and computer engineering Ph.D. student, built an immersive driving simulation platform that develops a cooperative ramp merging system. Highway on-ramp merging has been linked to traffic congestion. Drivers along the on-ramp adjust vehicle speeds and positions to enter the highway, while drivers on the...
The UC Riverside CE-CERT Emissions and Fuels Research group has partnered with MVT Solutions and MeasureMission to bring a comprehensive fuel efficiency and emissions evaluation package to the industry.
The 2019-2020 academic year introduces the J. Wayne Miller and Thomas Durbin Graduate Research Award, a $1,000 scholarship made possible by donors Dr. Jiacheng Yang and Dr. Sam Tanfeng Cao, both CE-CERT alumni. The inaugural recipient of this award is Cavan McCaffery, a second year Ph.D. student studying Mechanical Engineering and working closely with the...
A new study finds that increasing the percentage of ethanol in gasoline to 30% or 78% ethanol (as compared to baseline fuel with 10% ethanol) in a flex fuel gasoline direct injection passenger vehicle reduced tailpipe emissions of particulate matter (PM), total hydrocarbon (THC), non-methane hydrocarbon (NMHC), carbon monoxide (CO), and BTEX toxics (benzene, toluene...
On Thursday, May 16, EPA and UCR joined to reaffirm their 2010 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) designed to increase EPA’s outreach to diverse and underserved communities by offering internships, joint projects, and scientific research opportunities to students and faculty members. The day was highlighted with activities from UCR’s Office of Sustainability the Center for Environmental...
CE-CERT is proud to announce the recipients of the 2019-2020 Scholarship Awards. Ten students were awarded a total of $37,500 in recognition of their commitment to academic and research excellence. We would like to congratulate them on their hard work, and to thank our generous donors who made these awards possible. Graduate Awardees Isaac Afreh...
A $1.19 million grant will bring lessons about air pollution to over 2,000 Riverside high school students as early as next year. Riverside Unified School District teachers will collaborate with the UC Riverside Center for Environmental Research & Technology to create new lesson plans to add to high school biology, physics and chemistry classes about...
On Thursday, May 23 rd, CE-CERT hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony at the Chemehuevi Community Center to highlight the success of the recent collaboration between CE-CERT, the California Energy Commission (CEC), and a team of technology partners to deploy and demonstrate an advanced micro grid system on the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe reservation near Lake Havasu...
