Department News
November 04, 2025
A Seat at the Table
A UCR's Mathematics, Engineering, and Science Achievement (MESA) program has established a successful track record in helping educationally underserved students — such as those from first-generation Hispanic/Latino households — excel in math and science and pursue a degree in engineering and other STEM fields.
November 03, 2025
UV light holds promise for energy-efficient desalination
UCR experiments offer a pathway for solar desalination solutions
October 08, 2025
Successful Launch
The Highlander Space Program, a student aerospace engineering organization, marked two milestones: The successful launch of its first-ever liquid-fueled rocket and two awards from an international rocketry competition.
October 07, 2025
Smarter battery tech knows whether your EV will make it home
A new diagnostic metric combines charge data and environmental factors like traffic patterns, elevation changes, and ambient temperature to generate real-time predictions about whether an EV battery can complete a specific task.
October 01, 2025
UCR professor wins top honor for innovative energy research
Cengiz Ozkan named Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
July 30, 2025
UCR engineering professors recognized as first married couple elected NAI fellows
UC Riverside engineering professors Mihri and Cengiz Ozkan have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors, or NAI, becoming the first married couple in the United States to receive the honor.
July 16, 2025
Fostering Future Faculty
Graduate students and postdoctoral researchers from across the country found the support and guidance through a new FAME program geared to recruit and mentor future faculty mentors.
July 16, 2025
Revved Up on Robots
Brandon Marcus's robotics and artificial intelligence research and recent co-authorship of a major paper accepted to the 2025 CASE conference mark a few of his successes as the second BCOE student to graduate with a bachelor's degree in robotics.