The winning project, Niahactic, may partner with leading augmented reality company Niantic to further develop their prototype.
Professor Magy Seif El-Nasr and her GUII lab are using a machine learning technique known as process mining to better visualize and understand how players are navigating and solving problems in games.
Generative AI technologies will not replace engineers, but they will inevitably reshape the skills and habits of mind necessary for engineers and engineering students to succeed. The worst thing we could do as responsible and progressive educators is to try to resist their presence in the classroom.
A group of UC Santa Cruz engineering students—cleverly named the “Not-So-Slow Slugs”—are competing in a national student supercomputing competition.
National Engineers Week 2023 highlighted the achievements of Baskin Engineering students and faculty over the past 25 years and underscored the importance of socially driven engineering.
Xian Chang and Samir Ghosh will share their cutting-edge research for a chance to win $3,000.
Unapologetically Ambitious: Take Risks, Break Barriers, and Create Success on Your Own Terms
Angela Brooks, associate professor of biomolecular engineering at UC Santa Cruz, has received an Outstanding Research and Professional Mentor Award from the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics & Native Americans in Science (SACNAS).
Graduate Institution: Indiana University Bloomington, Writing, MFA
Department: UC Santa Cruz CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
“The thing that I love the most about being a part of this community is getting to work with such an incredibly diverse range of topics and researchers.”
Drawing from her research experience in human computer interaction, virtual reality, and assistive technologies, Baskin Engineering Ph.D. candidate Tiffany Thang is creating serious games to support individuals in their development of socioemotional skills and self-confidence.
Department: Baskin Engineering Dean’s Office
Graduate Institution: UCLA, Linguistics, Ph.D.
Undergraduate Institution: UCSB, Linguistics, B.A.
“I’ve worked with students my whole career, in all sorts of settings and with all sorts of objectives in life, but I have never worked with students who were more creative, collaborative, and dedicated than the engineering students at UC Santa Cruz.”
