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The Baskin School of Engineering at The University of California, Santa Cruz

University of California System: 

Ten campuses, located from North to South, in Davis, San Francisco, Berkeley, Santa Cruz, Merced, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, Riverside, Irvine and San Diego. Originally designed to "encourage by all suitable means the promotion of intellectual, scientific, moral and agricultural improvement” of the people of California. “Would contribute even more than California's gold to the glory and happiness of advancing generations." University of California System UC San Diego UC Santa Cruz UC Santa Barbara UC Berkeley UC San Francisco UC Davis UC Merced UC Los Angeles UC Riverside UC Irvine

University of California, Santa Cruz is: 

A major research university with distinctive signature programs A major research university characterized by a student-oriented environment University of California, Santa Cruz is

UC Santa Cruz: 

-opened in 1965 with -2000-01 enrollment of over 12,000 students (10% graduate students) -45 undergraduate majors -27 graduate fields Faculty honors include -11 members of the National Academy of Sciences -15 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences -Two members of the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine -U.S. News and World Report (2001) named UC Santa Cruz the 26th best public campus in the country -U.S. News and World Report (1995), UCSC was ranked 13th among U.S. universities for its commitment to undergraduate teaching UC Santa Cruz

UCSC Enrollment Growth: 

UCSC Enrollment Growth

As California’s Research University, UCSC Values: 

A superb and committed faculty Talented undergraduates from diverse backgrounds Excellent graduate students A dedicated staff with up-to-date skills As California’s Research University, UCSC Values

Vision of the Baskin School of Engineering: 

Vision of the Baskin School of Engineering A distinctive engineering school tailored to promote technological innovation Frontiering, Impacting through excellence in Research, Service and Teaching See our Executive Summary: http://planning.ucsc.edu/plans2001/ExecSum/Engineering.pdf

Baskin School of Engineering Academic Programs: 

Degrees Offered in the Near Future Electrical Engineering- MS, Ph.D. Biomolecular Engineering- MS, Ph.D. Engineering Management- MS Baskin School of Engineering Academic Programs Degrees Currently Offered Bioinformatics- BS Computer Science- BA, BS, MS, Ph.D. Computer Engineering- BS, MS, Ph.D. Electrical Engineering- BS Network Engineering- MS Information Systems Management- BS Software Engineering- MS Applied Mathematics and Statistics- MS, Ph.D.

Baskin School of Engineering- Its Growth: 

Baskin School of Engineering- Its Growth

Target Areas of Excellence: 

Target Areas of Excellence

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Departmental Target Areas of Excellence

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Interdisciplinary Partnerships

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Recent Initiatives Cal-ISI- QB3 & CITRIS State-Supported Summer Programs Plan for Silicon Valley Center at NASA Ames Park Engineering Management (MS) Software Engineering (MS) Pacific Rim Roundtable for Technology and Society Summer Session Distance Learning Monterey Bay Education Science and Technology (MBEST) Center

Institute of Bioengineering, Biotechnology and Quantitative Biomedical Research (QB3): 

Institute of Bioengineering, Biotechnology and Quantitative Biomedical Research (QB3) Facilities at UC San Francisco (medical sciences), UC Berkeley (engineering and physical sciences), and UC Santa Cruz (mathematical sciences) Develop new technologies and new areas of research based upon the application of the physical, chemical, mathematical and engineering sciences to biomedical research Will consist of three interrelated programs- Bioengineering and Biotechnology; Bioinformatics; and Structural and Chemical Biology Will enable the University of California and California industry to remain in the forefront of research in the twenty-first century Major new research facilities will be built on the three campuses by 2004

CITRIS (Center for IT Research in the Interest of Society): 

CITRIS (Center for IT Research in the Interest of Society) Partnership among UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz, and UC Merced Initial focus on highly distributed, reliable and secure Societal-scale Information Systems (SIS) SIS for smart classrooms, smart buildings, transportation management, disaster response, environmental monitoring, seismic planning, medical networks, energy-consumption monitoring, etc. California Governor’s initiative for CISI fir IT, BT, NT to provide infrastructures- 2 new buildings at UC Berkeley with microfabrication lab expansion, a new wing of Engineering II Building at UC Santa Cruz Education plan includes Tele-Laboratory Center; Degrees through distance learning Founding corporate members (tentative)- Broadvision, Ericsson, HP, IBM, Infineon, Intel, Marrell Semiconductor, Microsoft, Nortel, ST Microelectronics, Sun Microsystems Director, Prof. Randy Katz (UCB); Chief Scientist, Prof. J. Demmel; UCSC representative, Prof. P. Mantey, Director of iNIST UC Berkeley UCSF UC Davis UC Santa Cruz UC Merced UC Santa Barbara UC San Diego UCLA UC Riverside UC Irvine

Current Engineering Research Areas: 

Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Neural Networks Pattern Recognition and Retrieval Computational Biology Nonmonotonic Reasoning Bioinformatics Biomolecular Engineering Human Genome Mapping Logic Synthesis, Timing Analysis VLSI systems- design, testing, CAD Interconnection Modeling and Design Field-Programmable Gate Arrays Bayesian Statistics Dynamical mathematical modeling Scientific Visualization Computer Modeling, Image Synthesis, and Animation Image Processing, Storage, Retrieval, and Transmission High-Speed Network Design Computer Architecture Programming Languages Software Engineering Theoretical Computer Science Analysis of Algorithms Parallel Computation Distributed Computation Computational Learning Theory Logic in Computer Science Current Engineering Research Areas

Networks and Distributed Systems Faculty: 

J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves- wireless networking and internetworking Darrell Long- director, center for storage and database research; distributed systems Anujan Varma- high-speed networks, optical switching Alexandre Brandwajn- system and performance modeling Patrick Mantey- image processing, computer systems and applications Katia Obraczka- multicast routing for ad hoc networks, congestion control for reliable multicast, and Internet object cache performance. Tara Madhyastha- high bandwidth I/O interfaces, automatic techniques for characterizing performance and adapting to new workloads. Ethan Miller- file and storage systems, operating systems, computer security, distributed systems, information retrieval, performance evaluation Scott Brandt- Operating Systems, soft real-time processing, storage systems, distributed systems. Networks and Distributed Systems Faculty

Computer Graphics and Scientific Visualization Faculty: 

Jane P. Wilhelms- Project Director of the UC Santa Cruz Visualization Laboratory, computer graphics, computer animation, physical simulation, and scientific visualization Alex T. Pang- scientific visualization, collaboration software, uncertainty visualization and virtual reality interfaces Suresh Lodha- computer-aided geometric design, scientific visualization, and computer graphics Allen Van Gelder- development of algorithms for visualization of large and complex data sets. Computer Graphics and Scientific Visualization Faculty

Electrical Engineering Faculty: 

John Vesecky- Chair of the new department, remote sensing technology and applications, particularly radar oceanography Claire Gu- volume holographic data storage and optical fiber communications Steve Kang- Dean, School of Engineering, VLSI design, CAD and fully optical networks Ali Shakouri- integrated cooling of electronic components, photonic switching and fiber optics communication systems Peyman Milanfar- image processing Ben Friedlander- signal processing Jiayuan Fang- high speed integrated circuits, microwaves and numerical electromagnetics Ken Pedrotti- high speed electronics and detectors Electrical Engineering Faculty

Biomolecular Science and Engineering Faculty: 

David Haussler (Computer Science)- CBSE Director, pioneered the use of novel computational approaches, such as hidden Markov models, in the analysis of biological data, human genome mapping Manuel Ares- Microarray Facility genomics Kevin Karplus (Computer Engineering)- protein homology and structure prediction David Deamer (Chemistry)- Nanopore Applications Laboratory Richard Hughey (Computer Engineering)- bioinformatics computation Alan Zahler- Intronerator, a computational platform for exploring genomes Biomolecular Science and Engineering Faculty

VLSI Design and Packaging Faculty: 

Wayne Dai- computer-aided design of VLSI chips, layout synthesis and interconnect analysis, and multi-chip modules Pak Chan, Martine Schlag- partitioning placement and routing and field-programmable gate array-based systems Joel Ferguson, Tracy Larrabee- VLSI fault modeling and testing Steve Kang- low power VLSI design, CAD Ken Pedrotti- Mixed-signal IC design, optoelectronic circuits Ali Shakouri- quantum electronics, integrated cooling of electronic components Claire Gu- volume holographic data storage, optical fiber communications, and optical information processing. VLSI Design and Packaging Faculty

Applied Mathematics and Statistics Faculty: 

Applied Mathematics and Statistics Faculty David Draper- Bayesian statistics, hierarchical modeling, stochastic optimization, Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, statistical model uncertainty, quality assessment in health & education, stochastic modeling in the medical and social sciences. Neil Balmforth- Non- Newtonian fluid dynamics and applications in geology, large dynamical systems, pattern formation is systems with continuous spectra and fluid shear flows Hongyun Wang- Biophysics and molecular biology, energy transduction in biological systems, force generation mechanism and thermodynamics of molecular motors, behavior and regulations of molecular pumps. Molecular structural analysis, animation and visualization. Fluid mechanics, differential equations, numerical analysis, fast algorithms, parallel computing. Raquel Prado- non-stationary time series from a Bayesian point of view Bruno Sansó - (Visiting Professor) Bayesian robustness, spatio-temporal modeling in hydrology

Long-Range Planning of UCSC: 

Long-Range Planning of UCSC Research University for the 21st Century 10 year planning horizon Guided by institutional values Integrated/ Comprehensive Define and Align Programmatic Foci Academic Support Physical Infrastructure All funds (new and existing) Accountability

New Academic Programs Emerging from Planning: 

New Academic Programs Emerging from Planning Campus Curriculum Initiative Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering Center of Justice, Tolerance and Community Institute for Humanities Research Masters of Public Humanities Digital Arts/New Media Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics School of Engineering

School of Engineering Faculty in 2010: 

School of Engineering Faculty in 2010

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“In the dawn of the 21st century, higher education is--more than ever before in human history--inextricably linked to the progress of our society and people everywhere. Working together, we can ensure that UC Santa Cruz will continue to thrive, thereby making our world better, both today and tomorrow.” -Chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood