Electrical Engineering
- December 02, 2008
UCSC to host international renewable energy program
Last summer, U.S. and Danish students learned firsthand about renewable energy technologies being implemented in Denmark through a program organized by UCSC faculty. Next year, the campus will host the four-week summer program, along with NASA Ames Resear
- September 29, 2008
Baskin School of Engineering will showcase faculty research on Friday, October 17
Advances in sustainable energy, information systems, DNA sequencing, and video-game design are among the highlighted topics in a day of UCSC engineering faculty presentations.
- September 02, 2008
NSF grant provides scholarships for UC Santa Cruz engineering students
A new scholarship program will provide financial and academic support for students in the Baskin School of Engineering, thanks to a $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.
- June 24, 2008
Microchip developed by UCSC engineer is helping restore vision to the blind
Last year, Wentai Liu watched as surgeons implanted a microchip he had designed into the eye of a blind patient. For Liu, a professor of electrical engineering at UCSC, it was a major milestone in two decades of work on an artificial retina to restore vis
- June 04, 2008
UC students travel to Denmark for renewable energy summer program
Faculty at UCSC have organized a renewable energy program that will bring together U.S. and Danish students for four weeks this summer in Lolland, Denmark.
- May 30, 2008
Three UCSC graduate students win big grants for biotechnology research
Three UCSC graduate students have been selected to receive training grants intended to hasten innovations in a variety of biotechnology-related fields. The two-year grants provide $50,000 per year for each student.
- April 14, 2008
Research on optical data transmission earns best paper award
A research project that grew out of an international exchange program at UCSC's Baskin School of Engineering won the Best Paper Award at a recent conference.
- April 01, 2008
Engineering Hope: UCSC bioelectronics engineer designs prostheses that promise to change lives
Wentai Liu is an electronics wizard whose work is enabling the development of devices once found only in the realm of science fiction--miniaturized electronic implants to restore vision, movement, and other biological functions lost to disease or injury.
- March 17, 2008
UC Santa Cruz engineering students win national robotics competition
A team of four students from UCSC's Baskin School of Engineering won the first-place trophy in a national student robotics competition for their design of a solar-powered robot that can climb up a vertical ribbon carrying a payload.
- January 01, 2008
Nobuhiko Kobayashi wins Best Paper Award from International Association of Engineers
A research paper by Nobuhiko Kobayashi, an associate professor of electrical engineering, was selected for the Best Paper Award of the International Conference on Chemical Engineering 2007.
