[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6457]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  UCR BOURNS COLLEGE 25TH ANNIVERSARY

  (Mr. TAKANO asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TAKANO. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to commemorate the 25th 
anniversary of the University of California, Riverside's Bourns College 
of Engineering. In 1990, UCR opened its new public engineering college 
to educate the next generation of engineering leaders. Since then, the 
college has produced over 5,600 engineering graduates and is ranked 
first among public universities of the same size.
  Not only does the UCR Bourns College of Engineering offer a quality 
engineering education, it is committed to recruiting students who are a 
true reflection of the ethnic and cultural diversity of the world in 
which we live.
  The college is also home to world-class engineering researchers who 
are leveraging Federal dollars to improve air quality, predicting 
wildfires, discovering alternative energy fuels, and developing new 
materials that will change our lives.
  I want to applaud UCR's chancellor, Kim Wilcox, and dean of 
engineering, Reza Abbaschian. I know they will lead the Bourns College 
of Engineering down an even more successful path over the next 25 
years.

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