Profesors Ricardo Pinto de Castro and Reza Ehsani received the 2021 CITRIS Seed Award to investigate practical pathways to electrify tractors in farming operations.
It’s a scene familiar to many students: sitting at the kitchen table, utterly hopeless because they can’t solve that tricky math problem. Many people can identify with that feeling and if it’s not conquered, it can turn into what Chris Wright calls “math phobia” — something students at UC Merced...
In its first-ever round of discretionary funding awards, the Million Mile Fuel Cell Truck (M2FCT) Consortium has granted nearly $1 million to five universities to move forward with innovative hydrogen research projects that can respond to the nation’s need to address the...
Many UC Merced students are first-generation college students, meaning they are the first in their families to pursue college degrees and the types of careers having a degree affords. UC Merced’s strong relationships with industry partners plays a key role in helping students navigate these career...
Graduate students and a convergence of physics, engineering and environmental science could result in not only the next generation of solutions to pressing environmental challenges, but a new group of diverse and globally competitive nano-engineers, as well.
A nearly $2 million grant from the...
UC Merced’s NSF-CREST Center for Cellular and Biomolecular Machines (CCBM) has been awarded an additional $5 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to continue its mission. In total, the NSF has invested $10 million in the center, an indicator of the importance of the Center’s work and...
A team of engineering and computer science students from UC Merced invented a sensor-driven device dubbed "Sweet Steering," which fits over tractor trailer hitches and prevents crushing of sweet potatoes during harvesting.
Watch: https://abc30.com/uc-merced-sweet-potatoes-potato-...
Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. student Jairo Viola won the Outstanding Paper award at the IEEE First International Conference on Digital Twins and Parallel Intelligence (DTPI2021). Certificate at https://mechatronics.ucmerced.edu/news/2021/congratulations-jairo-dtpi-2021-outstanding-paper-...
Jairo Viola and Derek Hollenbeck were named the IEEE 2021 Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA) Best Student Paper Award finalist for the paper entitled “Fractional-Order Stochastic Extremum Seeking Control with Dithering Noise for Plasma Impedance Matching....
