Student Organizations

  • The Academic Excellence Program (ACE) has a goal of increasing the diversity of students in science and engineering. Many of our classes have separate ACE sections to provide intensive tutoring for students who meet certain criteria having to to do with economic disadvantage or by being the first member of their family to attend college.
  • The Multicultural Engineering Paricipation Program (MEP) seeks to increase the diversity of engineering students. They have many events open to all students, and they also have drop in tutoring services available to all students.
  • The UCSC student chapter of the IEEE has many activities and subgroups to help young engineers. The popular SOE Cyberslug visible at the top of this page was originally created to help fundraising for the UCSC student chapter of the IEEE.
  • The UCSC student chapter of the ACM provides social and academic support opportunities for students in computing disciplines.
  • The Society for Women Engineers (SWE) has both male and female engineers as members and they have organized many review sessions for SOE students.
  • The UCSC chapter of the National Society for Black Engineers (SBE) provides support for aspiring engineers of color.
  • The Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) say in their mission statement that they are brought together by heritage, social responsibility, and a desire to improve the quality of all people through the use of science and technology.
  • The UCSC Linux Users Group (SLUGLUG) provides free assistance to any students who would like to have open software unix systems on their personal PCs or macintoshes. Their "Installfest"s have been popular and lively events.
  • The Queer Geeks organization provides support for people of varying sexual identification and those who support them.