
HONORING LEGACY
Celebrating 25 Years of Trailblazing
Inspiring engineers to elevate the world through bold and socially responsible innovation


HONORING LEGACY
Celebrating 25 Years of Trailblazing
Inspiring engineers to elevate the world through bold and socially responsible innovation


HONORING LEGACY
Celebrating 25 Years of Trailblazing
Inspiring engineers to elevate the world through bold and socially responsible innovation

#2
public university in the nation for students focused on making an impact in the world (Princeton Review, 2022)
#5
undergraduate computer science specialty: game development programs (U.S. News & World Report, 2023)
AAU
UCSC was named to the Association of American Universities in 2019, joining just 65 other universities
#4
for social mobility (U.S. News & World Report, 2020). This celebrates our commitment to enrolling and graduating low-income students
HSRU
member of the Alliance of Hispanic Serving Research Universities
#5
in the top 50 Institutions by Total Bachelors Degrees awarded in Computer Science in Engineering (ASEE, 2020)
Overview
A campus of exceptional beauty in coastal Santa Cruz is home to a community of people who are problem solvers by nature: Baskin Engineers.
Founded in 1997 alongside the expanding internet, our school is uniquely positioned to address the challenges of the modern world. At the Baskin School of Engineering, faculty and students collaborate to create technology with a positive impact on society, in the dynamic atmosphere of a top-tier research university.
Baskin Engineers Make an Impact
Our students, faculty, and researchers are agents of change
Leading in the areas of health engineering, climate and sustainability, machine learning, artificial intelligence, games, human computer interaction, materials, devices, instruments, computing, and engineering math, Baskin Engineers are committed to building a better world.
Inclusion at Baskin Engineering

UC Santa Cruz and Baskin Engineering are committed to creating educational equity that will lead to real, transformative change. We are one of only two institutions in the nation that holds the honor of being a Hispanic Serving Institution, an Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution, and member of the Association of American Universities.
Robotics for war relief
Engineering undergraduate student Liam Asayag had never thought of making a drone before—until he witnessed the war zone in Ukraine. Inspired, he made a low-cost prototype in Assistant Professor Steve McGuire’s robotics lab for use by aid groups on the front lines.
