Cross-Border Regional Entrepreneurism and Technology Alliance

UC San Diego is partnering with Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC) in a research and education program designed to stimulate technology commercialization and economic development in the Southern California-Baja California region. Under the partnership, UC San Diego’s top-ranked Jacobs School of Engineering and its William J. von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism and Technology Advancement will work with UABC’s highly regarded Institute of Engineering and the Center for Technology Development and Transfer to form a crossborder regional entrepreneurism and technology alliance called “CREATE.”

Read more the Jacobs School news site: cross-border regional entrepreneurism and technology alliance.



From L to R, Eugenio Clariond Reyes-Retana, CEO of Verzatec and a member of the Council of Advisors for the Jacobs School of Engineering; Rosibel Ochoa, director of the von Liebig Center; and Gabriel Estrella Valenzuela, president of UABC.



More photos from Bioengineers Teaching About Heart Valves and How Blood Defies Gravity

More photos from Bioengineers Teaching About Heart Valves and How Blood Defies Gravity

Ben Franklin Hung Out at the Bioengineering Booth

No word if Ben Franklin made heart valves from paper, but he did make an appearance at the bioengineer's booth at the USA Science & Engineering Festival.

Paper Heart Valves and Kids Finally Meet

Adam Young says it's going great at the UC San Diego bioengineering booth at the USA Science & Engineering Festival. Here are two snapshot views of the booth in action. 

Bioengineers in DC at USA Science & Engineering Festival / Photos!

Photos from Saturday morning booth set up at the USA Science & Engineering Festival. Read all about the project here.

Booth Progress: Paper Valve Making...Not Yet

The banners are up, the posters are up, the kids...well, they are still at home patiently waiting for tomorrow. And so are we. In the meantime, setup photos below and full story is here.

The Valves in your Heart and Veins are One Way Streets.

The Valves in your Heart and Veins are One Way Streets. But don't take my word for it. Talk to the bioengineering students who are taking this message to the nation's capital this weekend. It's part of the USA Science & Engineering Festival.

Read all about the project on the heart valve story on the Jacobs School Web site.

Watch a preliminary video of the UCSD bioengineering students in the process of creating their make-your-own-blood-valves activity for kids.

 A few photos are below, and stay tuned for photos and updates from the students at the event over the weekend.

                                          Bioengineering undergad Robert Amezquita with one of the valves from the students heart-valve timeline.

                                           The heart-vavle timeline.
                                     

                                           (Above and below: Bioengineering Ph.D. student Jessica DeQuach holds a Bjork-Shiley heart valve, part of the heart valve timeline the students created for the USA Science & Engineering Festi