Jack Baskin School of Engineering

Holger Schmidt directs the Applied Optics Group and the W.M. Keck Center for Nanoscale Optofluidics. Brad Smith (center) works with students and Cisco engineers on new projects in the NMO Lab. Jose Renau directs the first-ever OpenSPARC Center of Excellence. The BSOE Now Offers Graduate Courses On-Line Katia Obraczka leads the Inter-Networking Research Group, which integrates sensors and networks to understand the environment. Art Ramirez, Dean of Baskin Engineering, researches experimental materials physics. Stephen Petersen works with students on the Greenwharf project, a low-impact marine microgrid energy system. The Bionics Lab, led by Jacob Rosen, develops wearable robots, exoskeletons and surgical robots. Sri Kurniawan designs and evaluates interactive systems that help people with special needs. Ed Green is interested in the evolutionary history of humans and their extinct relatives. For their senior capstone design project, a team of engineering undergraduates builds a lightweight bionic exoskeleton Professors Elkaim, Rosen, and Dunbar lead research on autonomous systems at all scales. Professor Michael Mateas leads North America's largest games research group, the Center for Games and Playable Media. JJ Garcia-Luna-Aceves leads a team of researchers at UCSC and six other universities in developing ad-hoc wireless networking. Professors Pascale Garaud and Raquel Prado are part of the growing Applied Mathematics & Statistics Department. Photos from Graduation 2012 are now available on the BSOE gallery web site.

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