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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,...

Engineering Service Learning Students Pioneer a High-efficiency Solar Collector

April 29, 2016
Adrian Toscano Technical Writing Assistant, Engineering Service Learning atoscano2@ucmerced.edu A team of Engineering Service Learning students developed a prototype solar collector that could revolutionize the way solar energy is studied at UC Merced. Working with the Engineering...

San Joaquin River Kiosk Delivered

April 29, 2016
By Adrian Toscano, Technical Writing Assistant Just in time for Christmas, a team of undergraduate students delivered an interactive gift to San Joaquin River visitors and those who care about the environment. As of Dec. 10, 2015, the San Joaquin River Engineering Service Learning (ESL) team...

Students Improve the Quality of Labs for UC Merced

April 22, 2016
Adrian Toscano Technical Writing Assistant esl@ucmerced.edu A team of Engineering Service Learning students has delivered a more satisfying educational experience for future materials science students through a semester-long project. The Instructional Lab 1 Engineering Service Learning...

Merit Partners Status Update

April 21, 2016
The team has updated the Institutional Review Board (IRB) application form and both versions of the consent form. The IRB application form was updated to indicate that all student researchers have completed CITI training. The entire form itself was also thoroughly checked for consistency and...

UAV Status Update

April 14, 2016
  The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Engineering Service Learning team (UAV) is working to design and implement a UAV system that will provide local, small-scale farmers with an efficient method of disease detection and crop management through precision techniques.   The team is collectively...

Bobcat Radio Status Update

March 28, 2016
The Bobcat Radio Engineering Service Learning team is working towards the creation of an online streaming radio service, the streaming sub-team has completed the first version of the web user guide that instructs online DJs on how to update the website and streaming playlists. This user guide is...

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