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A little-known problem threatens systems that deliver electric power to residential and commercial customers: the underground distribution cables that operate at 12,000 volts or higher […]
Blast Protection of Bridges is a CITRIS project aimed at determining the response of long-span bridges and elevated freeways to blasts that occur on the […]
Whenever a major earthquake occurs, there are inevitably buildings that collapse, often trapping people inside. A natural impulse is to rescue them, yet worldwide statistics […]
Helping out those who help us A UC Berkeley project known as FIRE—the Fire Information and Rescue Equipment technology system—will help increase the safety and […]
Life-Saving Robots The goal of this project is to develop field-suitable robotic technologies to assist first-responders in the aftermath of natural and/or man-made disasters. After […]
Shawn Newsam, an assistant professor in the School of Engineering at the
University of California, Merced, has been selected for a prestigious PECASE award from
the White House.
CITRIS researchers at UC Berkeley are exploring new ways to use sensors
to monitor our infrastructure—including water and traffic.
The Cosumnes River is the last river without major dams on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada. Thus, it is one of the few […]
CITRIS researchers at UC Berkeley are exploring new ways to use sensors to monitor our infrastructure—including water and traffic. The Lagrangian Sensor project, led by […]
Two-thirds of the Sierra Nevada precipitation is snow, much of which falls when the temperature is just below 0°C. Therefore, a few degrees increase in […]
