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M2FCT Consortium Awards Chuang Lab Hydrogen Funding

November 15, 2021
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...

OMRON Endowed Scholarship to Help Engineering Students in the Robotics Field

November 4, 2021
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...

Researchers Win First Place in 2021 IEEE VTS Motor Vehicles Challenge

November 2, 2021
An international team of UC Merced and University of Porto, Portugal, researchers won the first prize of the 2021 IEEE VTS Motor Vehicles Challenge.

NSF Grant to Help Grad Students Find Solutions to Environmental Challenges

November 1, 2021
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...

NSF Awards CCBM Center $5 Million to Continue STEM Research

October 27, 2021
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...

Mechanical Engineering Students Come Up with Solution to Expensive Farm Problem

October 14, 2021
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-...

ME Ph.D. Student Jairo Viola Wins Outstanding Paper at IEEE First International Conference

October 1, 2021
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 Named IEEE 2021 Conference on CCTA Best Student Paper Award Finalists

October 1, 2021
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....

Northwestern Magazine Highlights Professor Ashlie Martini's Work to Get Humans to Mars

September 30, 2021
... (excerpt from article) Preventing Wear and Tear on Mars Rovers Before humans even set foot on Mars, they will already have a cache of Martian rocks and soil to study back on Earth, thanks to the Mars Perseverance rover, which landed on the planet in February. The rover’s caching...

West Coast Researchers Turn to Biochar in Fight Against Climate Change

September 30, 2021
Mechanical Engineering Professor Gerardo Diaz, Ph.D.,and his team, and Professor Rebecca Ryals, Ph.D., are turning agricultural by-products into a versatile substance known as biochar and studying the effects on climate change. Read more: https://abc7news.com/biochar-wildfires-...

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