The Jack Baskin School of Engineering is the school of engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The school trains students in seven departments: Applied Mathematics & Statistics, Biomolecular Engineering, Computational Media, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Technology Management. The school of engineering was formed in 1997 and endowed through a multimillion-dollar gift from retired local engineer and developer Jack Baskin.
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Majors & Degrees Offered
Baskin Engineering offers undergraduate degree programs in:
- Applied Mathematics & Statistics
- Bioinformatics
- Bioengineering
- Bioinformatics and Biomolecular Engineering
- Computer Engineering
- Computer Science
- Computational Media: Computer Game Design
- Electrical Engineering
- Network & Digital Technology
- Robotics Engineering
- Technology and Information Management
Baskin Engineering offers MS and PhD programs in these disciplines.
- Applied Mathematics & Statistics
- Bioinformatics & Biomolecular Engineering
- Computer Engineering
- Computer Science
- Computational Media
- Electrical Engineering
- Games & Playable Media
- Scientific Computing & Applied Mathematics
- Technology & Information Management
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Research
Student Demographics
Undergraduates
As of Fall 2016, the undergraduate students of Baskin School of Engineering are made up of 1.6% of African American/Black students, 33.4% of Asian students, 19.7% of Hispanic/Latino Students, .2% of Pacific Islander/Native Hawaiian students, 28.5% of white students, and 8.3% of students who identify as two or more ethnic identities. In addition, out of the 4,073 total undergraduate students affiliated with the Baskin School of Engineering, 3,164 (78%) are men and 865 (21%) are disproportionately women.
Graduates
As of Fall 2016, the graduate students of Baskin School of Engineering are made up of .2% African American/Black students, 6.4% of Asian students, 4.4% of Hispanic or Latino students, 26.6% of White students, and 3.7% of students who identify as two or more ethnic identities. In addition, our of the 590 total undergraduate students affiliated with the Baskin School of Engineering, 438 (74%) are men and 143 (24%) are disproportionately women.
Student Organizations
- Amateur Radio Club (UCSCARC)
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- Bioengineering Club
- Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)
- Engineers for Change (EFC)
- Engineering Graduate Student Association (EGSA)
- eWomen at UC Santa Cruz
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Information Systems Management Association (ISMA)
- National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)
- Queer Geeks
- Santa Cruz Linux User's Group (Slug LUG)
- Security Santa Cruz (SSC)
- Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS)
- Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers (SASE)
- Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE)
- Society of Women Engineers (SWESLUGS)
- Tau Beta Pi (TBP)
- The Element Lounge (TEL)
- Women in Science and Engineering (WISE)
Centers and Institutes
Centers
- W.M. Keck Center for Adaptive Optical Microscopy
- Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering (CBSE)
- Center for Games and Playable Media
- Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS)
- W.M. Keck Center for Nanoscale Optofluidics
- Center for Research in Open Source Software (CROSS)
- Center for Research in Storage Systems (CRSS)
- Storage Systems Research Center (SSRC)
- UCSC Data, Discovery and Decisions in Data Science (D3)
Institutes
- California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3)
- Institute for the Biology of Stem Cells (IBSC)
- Information Technologies Institute (ITI)
- UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute
Deans
- Founding Dean: Patrick E. Mantey, July 1997- December 2000
- Sung Mo "Steve" Kang, January 2001- February 2007
- Acting Dean: Michael S. Isaaccson, January 2006- June 2006, March 2007-April 2009
- Arthur P. Ramirez, May 2009-June 2014
- Interim Dean: Joseph P. Konopelski, July 2014-June 2016
- Alexander Wolf, 2016-present
Silicon Valley
Baskin Engineering conducts classes, career training, and professional development programs at the Silicon Valley Center, located in the NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field in Mountain View, California. Tracks include product management, technology and commerce, data mining, reliability engineering, advanced device engineering, and network engineering.
Facilities
The 212-seat Baskin Engineering Auditorium and Engineering 2 building, a 150,000-square-foot (14,000 m2) space, were completed for occupancy in the summer of 2004. The Physical Sciences Building provided additional space for biomolecular engineering programs and groundbreaking for a new Biomedical Sciences Building in 2010.
Startups and Spinoffs
- Ceph
- Concur Technologies
- Dovetail Genomics
- Five3 Genomics
- Maverix Biomics
- Oxford Nanopore Technologies
- Two Pore Guys
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