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Voices of Baskin Engineering

  • Sidney Robinson: Undergraduate

    Sidney Robinson: Undergraduate

    Degree Program: Computer Science, B.S.Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Santa CruzDepartment: Computer Science”Change is coming, and I’m excited for it.”

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  • Evan West: Alumnus

    Evan West: Alumnus

    Degree Program: Computer Science, B.S.Graduate Institution: Stony Brook UniversityUndergraduate Institution: University of California, Santa CruzDepartment: Computer Science”I’ve had people come up to me and say, “your class is the reason I got an internship or a job offer,” and that is wonderful. It’s definitely one of my prouder moments.”

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  • Fatemeh Mirzaei: Graduate Student

    Fatemeh Mirzaei: Graduate Student

    Degree Program: Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering Graduate Institution: University of California, Santa CruzUndergraduate Institution: Azad UniversityDepartment: Computer Science and EngineeringHometown: Tehran, Iran “We want to provide greater context around online content for consumers, and reduce the amount of time people have to devote to sorting through information.”

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  • Carmen Robinson: Staff

    Carmen Robinson: Staff

    Graduate Institution: University of Arkansas at Little RockUndergraduate Institution: University of Central ArkansasDepartment: Undergraduate Affairs and MEPHometown: Little Rock, Arkansas “It is important to have a community, especially for students of color because it’s easy to feel like you’re erased, that you don’t belong somewhere because historically you’re not a part of that group, but things have to…

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  • John Felts: Alumnus

    John Felts: Alumnus

    Degree Program: Ph.D., Electrical and Computer EngineeringGraduate Institution: University of California, Santa CruzUndergraduate Institution: UC Santa BarbaraDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringHometown: 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…

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  • Ryan Modlin: Alumnus and Graduate Student

    Ryan Modlin: Alumnus and Graduate Student

    Degree Program: B.S., Bioengineering, M.S., Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology Graduate Institution: UC Santa Cruz Undergraduate Institution: UC Santa Cruz Department: Biomolecular EngineeringHometown: 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…

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  • Jared Duval: Graduate Student

    Jared Duval: Graduate Student

    Degree Program: Ph.D., Computational MediaGraduate 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…

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