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App Closes Gap Between Health Care Providers and Patients

April 22, 2018
There are serious misunderstandings about the proper use of antibiotics among the general population. When considering the high percentage of non- or limited English speakers in the Central Valley, the potential for misuse and overuse of antibiotics becomes even more critical. In fact, members of...

Students Closer to Disease Detection through Automated Scanning

April 22, 2018
Pierce’s Disease costs California grape growers over $104 million annually by infecting and killing vines. Undergraduate students in the Engineering Service Learning at the University of California, Merced have been working closely with the UC Cooperative Extension for designing a drone that...

Plate Tectonics Simulation Boosts Elementary School Test Scores

April 3, 2018
34.3% of sixth-grade students in Merced County scored below proficient in science on California standardized tests in 2016. To address this educational challenge, Engineering Service Learning students at the University of California, Merced have been working closely with Chenoweth Elementary School...

Educating the Community on Bacterial and Viral Illnessses

November 3, 2017
Healthy Host is an Android Application being developed by students from the University of California, Merced's Project Protect Engineering Service Learning team. In collaboration with Healthy House and Faculty Advisor Dr. Miriam Barlow of UC Merced, students hope to bridge the gap between...

Get S.E.T. Working on Educating Students on Plate Techtonics

September 26, 2017
The Get S.E.T. Engineering Service Learning Team is working with the teachers and administrators at Merced County Office of Education to find solutions to problems that students face in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) classes.

LEED Lab project receives recognition from US Green Building Council

August 25, 2017
LEED Lab Engineering Service Learning Project has received recognition from the United States Green Building Council for its impact in future of  US Green Building Council

Students complete over 17,000 Hours of community service

July 7, 2017
  In projects ranging from the development of agriculture applications for Unmanned Aerial Systems to creating supplementary educational activities meant to help improve STEM literacy in local schools, students enrolled in the Fall 2016 and Spring 2017 academic semesters have completed...

Project Protect takes first place at Innovate to Grow competition

May 15, 2017
Project Protect received a first place reward at the Spring 2017 Innovate to Grow competition. Student teams presented to a panel of judges which compared each team for their technical content, progress, and ingenuity in helping their community partners reach their goals. Project Protect, which...

Project Protect Status Update

May 12, 2016
  The Project Protect Engineering Service Learning Team strives to provide basic health information on the topics of prevalent community illnesses and antibiotic resistant bacteria to the multi-cultural Merced community via innovation and design. This project focuses on increasing the...

Bobcat Radio Status Update

May 5, 2016
The Bobcat Radio Engineering Service Learning team was created in order to develop a blueprint that any organization could utilize to create a functioning streaming radio station; and if within their means, create an FM broadcast. Their goal is to present this blueprint to the team's client,...

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