CE-CERT News
CE-CERT Signs Research Agreement With Thailand Scientific Institute
TISTR staff & Joe Norbeck from CERT.
Thailand Institute of Scientific and Technological Research (TISTR) in collaboration with CE-CERT will conduct collaborative research in converting biomass to synthetic vehicle fuels. The 3-year collaboration aims at exchanging researchers, knowledge and technology transfer in the production of renewable synthetic transportation fuels from biomass. This collaborative research aims to exchange researchers and knowledge on the research, and to further develop a novel hydrogasification technology for synthetic fuels production from biomass that was initially developed at UCR. The future jointly developed TISTR/UCR results will belong to both parties. Two TISTR researchers will come to UCR to conduct the research and UCR will send researchers to implement its technology at TISTR. The hydrogasification technology will be installed at TISTR in the coming months. The decrease in a dependence on imported fuels and GHG gas emissions, the increase in the security of national energy and the development of Thailand own green technologies are anticipated.
Students Graduate With Ph.D.'s
(l-r) Meng Cao, Quentin Malloy, Weihua Zhu
Meng Cao and Weihua Zhu of Electrical Engineering and Quentin Malloy of Chemical and Environmental Engineering all earned their Ph.D.'s in 2008-2009. Meng will be heading up north to UC Berkeley to be a Postdoctoral Scholar. Weihua will begin his career as a Postdoctoral Scholar at CE-CERT under Matthew Barth. Quentin will go west to Rice University in Houston, Texas for a Postdoctoral Scholar appointment doing research in Heterogeneous Chemistry. Congratulations to them all. CE-CERT wishes them the best of luck!
Intelligent Transportation Society of California Workshop a Success
The Intelligent Transportation Society of California (ITS-CA) held its May workshop at CE-CERT on May 6th. This workshop focused on "ITS & The Environment". ITS-CA is the key association that represents California's Intelligent Transportation industry, whose common objective is to deploy Intelligent Transportation Systems to California's and the nation's transportation system.
IntelliShare: an Intelligent Shared Vehicle System