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John Felts: Alumnus

March 11, 2025November 20, 2019 by Baskin Engineering Communications

Degree Program: Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering
Graduate Institution: University of California, Santa Cruz
Undergraduate Institution: UC Santa Barbara
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Hometown: Fresno, California

“I think for any entrepreneur you just have to be ready that it’s going to be tougher than you think, but at the end of the day, even if you fail, you’re going to learn so much…. it’s going to be so hard, so be ready for that, but it’s, it’s worth the ride.”

Ryan Modlin: Alumnus and Graduate Student

March 11, 2025September 11, 2019 by Baskin Engineering Communications

Degree Program: B.S., Bioengineering, M.S., Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology
Graduate Institution: UC Santa Cruz
Undergraduate Institution: UC Santa Cruz
Department: Biomolecular Engineering
Hometown: Huntington Beach, CA

“Currently, my project is engineering zymomonas mobilis, a unique organism that has a specific metabolic pathway that helps increase the production of biofuels, specifically ethanol and butanol… Fossil fuels are quickly becoming depleted and are very toxic, so if we were able to find a sustainable synthetic source of fuel, it would be extremely beneficial for overall environmental health.”

Laura Gómez

January 5, 2024May 5, 2019 by Baskin Engineering Communications

Living on the Edge of Your Comfort Zone: Women in Executive Leadership

Jacob Martinez

January 5, 2024May 1, 2019 by Baskin Engineering Communications

Jacob Martinez founder of Digital NEST.

Andrew McCree

January 17, 2024April 24, 2019 by Baskin Engineering Communications

My experience at Twitter

Eron Lake

January 17, 2024April 17, 2019 by Baskin Engineering Communications

Eron Lake: Game Design

Jared Duval: Graduate Student

March 11, 2025January 9, 2019 by Baskin Engineering Communications

Degree Program: Ph.D., Computational Media
Graduate Institution: UC Santa Cruz
Undergraduate Institution: Western New England University
Department: Computational Media
Hometown: Dudley, Massachusetts

“SpokeIt is a big team project I’m working on. It’s a game with this overarching narrative and within that game there are a bunch of therapeutic mini games that focus on different kinds of speech therapy.”