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Aspiring Architect Earns PG&E Internship

July 24, 2013
At a conference of the Society for Hispanic Professional Engineers, Jessyca Kamel, a junior from Los Angeles, wore her UC Merced shirt on her morning coffee run. “I bumped into one of the PG&E recruiters,” said Kamel, a mechanical engineering major. “She saw my sweatshirt,...

Faculty Featured in NBC Education Videos

June 27, 2013
Professor Martha Conklin and Professor Tom Harmon worked with NBC producers on a series of videos designed to teach young people about water and sustainability. “Sustainability: Water” has two segments that feature Conklin and Harmon, “Sierra Nevada Snow Pack & Snow Melt...

Founding Faculty Member Honored with NSF Grant for Excellence

June 19, 2013
A five-year CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation is helping Professor Alberto Cerpa develop the next big breakthrough in wireless sensor networks – an autonomous, self-learning system that uses its own energy wisely. “We need to maximize its lifetime while maximizing the...

Grad Student’s Farmland Mapping Project Gets Prestigious Publisher

June 17, 2013
Working to map every square inch, UC Merced master’s student Andrew Zumkehr found there are 111 million acres of abandoned farmland in the United States. That’s a lot of space for growing biofuels that could replace between 5 percent and 30 percent of the United States' primary...

Computer Major Looks Forward to Job at Microsoft

May 15, 2013
On his first tour of UC Merced almost five years ago, Andy Luhrs decided the campus was the right place for him. “The tour guide made an impression,” said Luhrs, who is from Danville. “Everyone I met had a good vibe — open and passionate about the school.” As he heads...

Senior’s Post-Graduation Plans Include Developing Web Business

May 6, 2013
Tyler Shaddix’s house looks like most of the other houses on his block in a subdivision not far from the UC Merced campus. It’s what’s inside that’s different – the home office of a startup company offering a web service that has, in less than a year, become very...

Engineering a Garden Takes a Campus Community

April 8, 2013
As everyone knows, space is limited on the UC Merced campus. But with a little money and a lot of persistence, Engineers for a Sustainable World has found a way to carve out a little room for a community garden. The idea has been a dream of the Merritt Writing Program lecturer De Ette Silbaugh for...

MESA Lab’s Unmanned Planes Could Be Game Changers for Many

February 19, 2013
Peek in the windows at the Mechatronics, Embedded Systems and Automation (MESA) Lab sometime. You will probably see students flying small remote-controlled vehicles at all hours of the day and night. Sometimes the students are having so much fun they have to be pushed to go home and sleep. But...

Professor’s Paper, Among Year’s Best, Shows Dramatic Effects of Mountaintop Mining on Climate

February 11, 2013
UC Merced School of Engineering Professor Elliott Campbell has co-authored a paper showing that mountaintop removal mining will dramatically accelerate the regional effects of global warming by turning natural carbon sinks into sources of carbon emissions, some within the next 15 years. On top of...

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