The Jack Baskin School of Engineering at UCSC prepares technologists - and sponsors technology - for our changing world. Founded in 1997, Baskin Engineering trains students in six future-focused areas of engineering: biotechnology/information technology/nanotechnology; bioengineering; information and communication infrastructure; mathematical and statistical modeling; software and services engineering; and system design. Baskin Engineering faculty conduct industry-leading research that is improving the way the world does business, treats the environment, and nurtures humanity. Read More!
Dozens of students gained valuable experience in nanotechnology and energy research labs this summer through an internship program at the Advanced Studies Laboratories (ASL), a collaborative partnership led by UC Santa Cruz and NASA Ames Research Center. The student research projects, ranging from solar energy technology to thermoelectric devices, were on display in a poster session held last week in the ASL facility at NASA Ames, located at Moffett Field in Mountain View. More
Over 50 student researchers presented the results of their work at the 2010 Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium in the Baskin Engineering Courtyard. The new event coordinated the culminating poster presentation days of five different programs and included additional undergraduate scholars from other laboratories. More
The American Fisheries Society has selected a paper on steelhead trout by UC Santa Cruz researcher William Satterthwaite as the best publication for 2009 in the Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. More
How could you go about finding one particular bee in a hive bustling with activity? Extending this analogy to early cancer and pathogen detection gives the sense of what is required when cell biologists search for one type of biomolecule in a crowded and constantly-changing environment. More
CRC Press recently released the new Handbook of Optofluidics, co-edited by Holger Schmidt, professor of electrical engineering and director of the W.M. Keck Center for Nanoscale Optofluidics. The book is one of the first comprehensive resources on the emerging field of optofluidics, which involves the marriage of optics and microfluidics into novel integrated devices and systems. More
The Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS) presented its 2010 Best Paper award to Computer Science Ph.D. Students Greg Levin, Caitlin Sadowski and Ian Pye, CS Professor Scott Brandt, and their collaborator Shelby Funk (University of Georgia) for their work "DP-FAIR: A Simple Model for Understanding Optimal Multiprocessor Scheduilng." More
The 29 middle school girls who graduated from the fourth annual Girls in Engineering program Friday described their two weeks on the UC Santa Cruz campus as "awesome," "interesting," "fun," and yes, "inspiring." More
Twelve media innovation projects have been selected as winners of the 2010 Knight News Challenge, a contest that funds new-technology ideas that will shape the future of news and civic media. More