Jack Baskin School of Engineering

Jack Baskin
School of Engineering
Established 1997
Dean Alexander L. Wolf
Location Santa Cruz, California, United States
Affiliations University of California, Santa Cruz
Website http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/

The Jack Baskin School of Engineering is the school of engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The school trains students in seven departments: Applied Mathematics & Statistics, Biomolecular Engineering, Computational Media, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Technology Management. The school of engineering was formed in 1997 and endowed through a multimillion-dollar gift from retired local engineer and developer Jack Baskin.[1]

Degrees offered

Approaching Baskin from McLaughlin Drive
Majors & Degrees OfferedB.A.B.S.M.S.Ph.D.Other
Applied Mathematics and Statistics**
Bioengineering*
Bioinformatics*
Bioinformatics & Biomolecular Engineering**B.S./M.S, B.S./Ph.D
Computer Engineering***B.S./M.S.
Computer Science****
Computational Media: Computer Game Design*
Computational Media**
Electrical Engineering***
Games & Playable Media*
Network and Digital Technology*
Robotics Engineering*
Scientific Computing & Applied Mathematics*
Technology and Information Management***

Baskin Engineering offers undergraduate degree programs in:

Baskin Engineering offers MS and PhD programs in these disciplines.

  • Applied Mathematics & Statistics
  • Bioinformatics & Biomolecular Engineering
  • Computer Engineering
  • Computer Science
  • Computational Media
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Games & Playable Media
  • Scientific Computing & Applied Mathematics
  • Technology & Information Management

Research

Engineering 1 on the left and Engineering 2 on the right

Student demographics

Undergraduates

In Fall 2016, the undergraduate students of Baskin School of Engineering were made up of 1.6% of African American/Black students, 33.4% of Asian students, 19.7% of Hispanic/Latino Students, .2% of Pacific Islander/Native Hawaiian students, 28.5% of White students, and 8.3% of students who identified as two or more ethnic identities. In addition, out of the 4,073 total undergraduate students affiliated with the Baskin School of Engineering, 3,164 (78%) were men and 865 (21%) were women.

Fall 2017 Undergraduate Major Count: 4,234 [2]

Graduates

In Fall 2016, the graduate students of Baskin School of Engineering were made up of .2% African American/Black students, 6.4% of Asian students, 4.4% of Hispanic or Latino students, 26.6% of White students, and 3.7% of students who identified as two or more ethnic identities. In addition, out of the 590 total graduate students affiliated with the Baskin School of Engineering, 438 (74%) were men and 143 (24%) were women.

Fall 2017 Graduate Major Count: 619 [3]

Centers and institutes

Centers

  • W.M. Keck Center for Adaptive Optical Microscopy
  • Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering (CBSE)
  • Center for Games and Playable Media
  • UCSC Genome Sequencing Center
  • Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS)
  • W.M. Keck Center for Nanoscale Optofluidics
  • Center for Research in Open Source Software (CROSS)[4]
  • Center for Research in Storage Systems (CRSS)
  • Center For Stock Assessment Research (CSTAR)
  • Storage Systems Research Center (SSRC)
  • Center For Sustainable Energy And Power Systems (CenSEPS)
  • UCSC Data, Discovery and Decisions in Data Science (D3)

Institutes

Deans

  • Founding Dean: Patrick E. Mantey, July 1997- December 2000
  • Sung Mo "Steve" Kang, January 2001- February 2007
  • Acting Dean: Michael S. Isaaccson, January 2006- June 2006, March 2007-April 2009
  • Arthur P. Ramirez, May 2009-June 2014
  • Interim Dean: Joseph P. Konopelski, July 2014-June 2016
  • Alexander Wolf, 2016–present

Silicon Valley

Baskin Engineering conducts classes, career training, and professional development programs at the Silicon Valley Center, located in the NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field in Mountain View, California. Tracks include product management, technology and commerce, data mining, reliability engineering, advanced device engineering, and network engineering.

Facilities

The 212-seat Baskin Engineering Auditorium and Engineering 2 building, a 150,000-square-foot (14,000 m2) space, were completed for occupancy in the summer of 2004. The Physical Sciences Building provided additional space for biomolecular engineering programs and groundbreaking for a new Biomedical Sciences Building in 2010.

Startups and spinoffs

References

  1. ↑ "UC Santa Cruz names engineering building in honor of Jack Baskin". June 3, 1999. Archived from the original on March 2, 2012. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
  2. ↑ Office of Institutional Research, Assessment, and Policy Studies, 11/15/17
  3. ↑ Office of Institutional Research, Assessment, and Policy Studies, 11/15/17
  4. ↑ "CROSS – Center for Research in Open Source Software". cross.ucsc.edu. Retrieved 2018-02-01.

Coordinates: 37°00′04″N 122°03′47″W / 37.001°N 122.063°W / 37.001; -122.063

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