UC Santa Cruz seniors Bryan Garcia, Caelum Rodriguez, Florencia Gregorio and Brett Sargent have been named this year’s Next Generation Scholars in Applied Mathematics (Next Gen SAM).
While the rest of campus was winding down in anticipation of Thanksgiving break, Baskin Engineering hosted the western portion of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Heads Association.
Based at UCSC’s Silicon Valley Campus, the new professional master’s degree offers training in the burgeoning field of computational processing of speech and text.
This year’s Women in Science and Engineering Award will be presented to Lise Getoor, director of the UCSC D3 Data Science research center and professor of computer science and engineering.
For the first time in Professor Tracy Larrabee’s 29 years of teaching, after five quarters of steady improvement and constant experimentation with teaching methods, the gap between the grades of her underrepresented minority and first-generation college students and the rest of the class vanished.
As he begins his second full academic year as dean, we sat down with Dean Wolf to discuss his first year and his plans for the future of the engineering school.
Jack Baskin, whose steadfast support led to the establishment and rapid growth of the Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been selected for induction into the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame.
Completion of the Engineering 2 Building this summer has added 150,000 square feet of new office, laboratory, and classroom space on campus, primarily for the Baskin School of Engineering.
Focus will be on the high-technology needs of the region and the state in the next century.