The 2024 Dean’s Awards highlight outstanding Baskin Engineering undergraduate research
Dean’s Awards recognize 10 outstanding Baskin Engineering student-research projects.
Undergraduate Research
PBS’s ‘Easter Island Origins’ explores surprising genetic research to help tell the story of the Rapa Nui people
Ishaan Bansal, a second-year computer science and engineering student at UC Santa Cruz, won first place in the Interactive Media track at HackMIT, an annual student-run hackathon held in the fall at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Computer science student places first in Interactive Media track at HackMIT
Ishaan Bansal, a second-year computer science and engineering student at UC Santa Cruz, won first place in the Interactive Media track at HackMIT, an annual student-run hackathon held in the fall at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Annual senior design showcase underscores student innovation, experiential learning, and positive impact of academia-industry collaboration
More than 30 student teams presented their projects to an audience of industry partners, faculty, staff, and community members.
Baskin Engineering 2022–23 Dean’s Awards recognize research excellence
Dean’s Awards recognize ten outstanding Baskin Engineering student-research projects.
CruzHacks sponsored grand prize winner uses augmented reality tools to support people living with disabilities
The winning project, Niahactic, may partner with leading augmented reality company Niantic to further develop their prototype.
‘Not-So-Slow Slugs’ take on supercomputing
A group of UC Santa Cruz engineering students—cleverly named the “Not-So-Slow Slugs”—are competing in a national student supercomputing competition.
Computer engineering student selected as inaugural MEP Tech4Good Fellow
During the year-long fellowship, Baskin Engineering’s Katia Avila Pinedo will lead student research projects in the Tech4Good Lab, work towards her first research publication, and complete a community-engagement project.
Celebrating student and industry collaboration at Partners’ Day
The annual event underscores the value of industry partnerships and how they provide unique opportunities for Baskin Engineering students to develop and hone their soft and hard skills in preparation for impactful, successful careers.
The UC Santa Cruz International Summer Research Program returns for its second year
The program began virtually last summer, offering an opportunity for students abroad to participate in innovative research projects with UC Santa Cruz faculty.
CruzHacks 2022: Sparking innovation and embracing inclusion in tech
The annual UCSC hackathon brought together over 400 students worldwide to learn new skills and develop innovative technological solutions to real-world challenges.
Researchers develop ‘clever’ sensor system to detect and control the complex movements of soft robotic devices
A sensing system developed by researchers at the Baskin School of Engineering provides a simplified and reliable approach for state awareness and motion detection in soft robotics.