Georgios Karavalakis, a seasoned researcher at CE-CERT, is transitioning to a full-time Professor role at the Chemical and Environmental Engineering Department at UCR, while maintaining CE-CERT as his secondary department.
CE-CERT is proud to announce the recipients of the 2023-2024 Scholarship Awards totaling $40,500. We would like to congratulate them on their hard work and thank our generous donors who made these awards possible.
Out of twelve national teams, UCR EcoCAR received both the Spirit of the Challenge and the Spirit of Communications awards, recognizing their perseverance, high technical standards, outstanding communication, leadership, and sportsmanship.
Electrifying Logistics: What Does a Sustainable Future for the Inland Empire Look Like? 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...
The EcoCAR team 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 learn...
UCR Welcomes DOE Representatives for Site Visit On April 18, the University of California, Riverside (UCR) hosted Christy L. Jackiewicz, Chief of the Minority Educational Institution Division at the DOE Office of Economic Impact and Diversity, and Nabih Haddad, STEM Research and Development Lead. This visit was part of the preparations for the upcoming "Energy...
Mayor Patricia Dawson and City Manager Mike Futrell recently visited UC Riverside's CE-CERT to explore potential partnerships. With their combined efforts, the two organizations can work towards a more sustainable future for the city and its residents.
DHE has partnered withce-cert at the University of California at Riverside (UCR) to enhance our understanding of emissions from freight activities, particularly in the Inland Empire region
12th Annual Onboard Sensing, Analysis, and Reporting (OSAR) Conference Highlights Advancements in Emissions Research and Measurement Systems The 12th Annual Onboard Sensing, Analysis, and Reporting (OSAR) conference, held in Riverside, California, was a success, drawing over 150 attendees from industry, academia, and government agencies. Led by Kent Johnson, Associate Researcher, and Assistant Adjunct Professor for...
City Manager Mike Futrell and Economic Development Manager Jorge Barrera recently visited CE-CERT to witness the organization's innovative work firsthand. Both parties are dedicated to working together to drive positive change and position Riverside as a leader in sustainable living and environmental stewardship.
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 6 th consecutive year. For each of the 3 week-long programs, 50 high school and recommended 8 th grade students will work...
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...
