Overview
Proximity to Exciting Los Angeles and a Wide Range of Activities Balance Campus Life with Academics at UC Riverside
The great city of Los Angeles, the "City of Angels," is less than 60 miles west of Riverside, where the campus of University of California, Riverside (UC Riverside) is located. Los Angeles is home to over 4 million residents from every part of the earth. Los Angeles has some of the busiest business centers, most cutting-edge fashion corridors, and best live music. It also has Hollywood, the "movie capital of the world." Los Angeles offers everything from a night at the Museum of Contemporary Art downtown to a bright and sunny day at Venice Beach.
Campus life at UC Riverside (UCR) is as diverse as the multicultural and multilingual student body. There are a vibrant arts community, great live concerts, fantastic film screenings, dynamic dance recitals, exciting theater, and a great deal more. There are clubs and organizations to join, too, such as the Graduate Student Association, Citizens University Committee, the Athletics Group, Tau Beta Phi (the National Engineering Honor Society), the Political Action Committee, and nearly 300 others.
The Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) has a local chapter at UC Riverside. IEEE, the primary professional society for electrical and electronics engineers, offers technical, social, and professional development in the field of engineering. It is primarily determined to help engineers with professional improvement, but it seeks to be the foremost engineering organization on the UC Riverside campus, offering a variety of chances for graduate students to improve themselves beyond the lecture hall.
Graduate Programs Are Offered in Computer Engineering, Control and Robotics, and Intelligent Systems
UC Riverside's Department of Computer Science and Engineering offers a comprehensive Master of Science program in computer engineering. The program comprises several areas of specialization that include computer-assisted design (CAD); very large-scale integration (VLSI); the process of combining multiple transistors into a single chip; the various processes and purposes of embedded systems; the development, creation, and operation of high-speed networks; the research, development, and creation of mixed signal circuits; and the creation of digital and analog circuit boards.
The department's M.S. program in control and robotics covers many different areas of specialization, including what is known as "swarm intelligence" and the development, creation, and operation of autonomous vehicles; robust, adaptive, nonlinear, and intelligent controls; and various kinds of robotics systems.
An M.S. program in intelligent systems is also offered. Program specializations include image recognition, biometrics, machine learning, computer vision, GIS/spatial databases, computational and intelligent sensors, intelligent systems, and information theory.
The Top-Notch Faculty and a Long History of Solid Research Strengthen the Graduate Programs at UC Riverside
The UC Riverside's Department of Electrical Engineering faculty members come from many backgrounds and diverse disciplines that range from swarm intelligence theories of self-organizing robots that are autonomous to error-coding for the transmission of various data and their subsequent storage. Faculty members include published authors and leaders in their field, such as Roger K. Lake; National Science Foundation Career Award-winner Albert Wang; Sakhrat Khrizoev; and Susan Hackwood, who is also Executive Director of the California Council on Science and Technology.
Research has been a primary focus of UCR since it was founded over 100 years ago. All graduate programs, including those of the Department of Electrical Engineering, provide graduates with research degrees that, in fact, substantiate their technical training and identify their ability to create singular offerings in their fields. The University is known for several innovations in research and development that fulfill the school's goal of pursuing new information for improving the planet. These findings range from Anthony Norman's development of life-saving hormones derived from vitamin D to Pamela Burnley discovering the "deep-focus earthquake."
UC Riverside's Department of Electrical Engineering research facilities are vast and varied, with most of them housed within the massive landmark, the Carillon Tower. The Office of Research (OR) coordinates efforts among all of the over two dozen research facilities at UC Riverside. College of Engineering research facilities include those of Center for Nanoscience Innovation for Defense (CNID); College of Engineering Center for Environmental Research and Technology; and the Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering.
