BSOE Undergraduate Newsletter
Announcements
Gesher Group Consulting Applications
Application Opening Soon for Gesher Group
We are a Pro Bono Business Consulting Org, who work with real clients in three sections of service: Data Analytics, Marketing Strategy, and Business Consulting. If you are interested in a career in any of these three sectors, Gesher Group allows the application of these skills in a real professional field.
You do not need any previous work experience in applying and prefer candidates who have at least 1 year left at UC Santa Cruz.
If you are interested in applying, early applications will be available next Friday, February 19. For those applicants who submit their form any time between February 19 and March 1, will qualify for an automatic interview with Gesher.
Make sure to follow @geshergroup on IG/LinkedIn/Facebook to stay tuned in for more updates and events!
Deans' & Chancellor's Award Information
The Deans and Chancellor wish to encourage and stimulate outstanding scholarship and creativity among undergraduate students, based on work developed in courses or programs in the normal pattern of 2020-2021 academic activity at UCSC.
All materials, including the faculty letter of support, must be received by March 24, 2021.
DEANS' UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS
Fifty undergraduates, 10 from each of the academic divisions will receive a Dean's Award of $100 for outstanding achievement in their division.
CHANCELLOR'S UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS
Fifteen Chancellor's Awardees, three from each division, will be selected from theDeans' Award lists to receive the Chancellor's Award of an additional $500.
STECK AWARD
The Steck Award will recognize the most outstanding research project chosen from the fifteen Chancellor's Awardees. This student will receive an additional $1000. In addition, his or her research project will be bound and copies given to the student, the research supervisor, the UC Santa Cruz Library, and the Steck Family whose generous contributions have made this award possible.
Winners of the Deans', Chancellor's and Steck awards will be honored during Undergraduate Student Achievement Week, June 2021.
GUIDELINES
- All research project submissions must include at least one letter of recommmendation by a faculty mentor/sponsor. Once the student submits their application a seperate email to the mentor listed will be generated automatically containing the link for them to submit the letter of recommendation. All undergraduate students applicants must contact their mentor/sponsor before submitting their application in order to confirm that a letter of support will be possible.
- All applications must include either an attachment of a completed thesis or completed project or performance (by URL). Research projects must be finished when the application is submitted. Projects that are still in progress, or are planned to be completed after the application deadline, should be submitted in the following application cycle. Submitted applications that are incomplete, or do not have a project attachment or link, or are projects that are not yet completed, will be rejected.
- The applicant should choose the one faculty mentor/sponsor of their project who is most familiar with the project and who will be able to provide the strongest letter of recommendation. Only one letter of recommendation is required. Mentors should be UCSC faculty/lecturers/post-docs/researchers etc that have a blue CruzID.
- For group projects, only one student in the group (usually the lead in the project) completes an application. They then must list the other students as project students. Each project member must approve of the application that is submitted.
- When the faculty mentor/sponsor submits their letter of recommendation, they must also approve the submitted project. Faculty sponsor recommendations and approvals must be submitted online immediately after the student application deadline. It is recommended that the mentor/sponsor write the letter as soon as possible after being contacted by the student.
- Foreign language projects must be accompanied by appropriate translation.
- Technical papers must include an abstract in non-technical language.
- Projects completed in spring 2020 (and therefore not submitted in last year’s competition) are eligible for the 2021 awards competition, even if the student has already graduated.
- Previous award winners are only eligible to submit projects in the current application cycle if those projects are significantly different in scope or topic from the previously awarded project.
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Click Here to Apply for the Deans', and Chancellor's Award
Application requires use of your CruzID Gold password
Please contact ur_hnrs@ucsc.edu if you have any questions regarding the application or the application guidelines
Deans' & Chancellor's Award Deadline March 24
The Deans and Chancellor wish to encourage and stimulate outstanding scholarship and creativity among undergraduate students, based on work developed in courses or programs in the normal pattern of 2020-2021 academic activity at UCSC.
All materials, including the faculty letter of support, must be received by March 24, 2021.
DEANS' UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS
Fifty undergraduates, 10 from each of the academic divisions will receive a Dean's Award of $100 for outstanding achievement in their division. Please submit your award for the BSOE Division by March 24th, 2021. For more information on dates and deadlines and submission guidelines look here: https://dca.ue.ucsc.edu/
ACE Recruitment Announcement for Engineering
Apply for ACE CSE 16, CSE 20, CSE 30 in Spring 2021!
ACE is a community of learners who strive for and commit to academic excellence. Students work together in problem solving sessions to help each other master the concepts your professor teaches in class. Students also receive the benefit of 1 hour mentoring sessions each week with fellow peers who previously took the course and received an exceptional grade.
Check out our new Virtual ACE video to see what it’s like to participate in ACE virtually!
ACE students tend to pass their courses at higher rates and earn more A and B grades compared to non-ACE students in the same course. ACE will be supporting CSE 16, CSE 20, and CSE 30 in Spring 2021, and we encourage you to apply! ACE problem solving sessions and mentoring will be held virtually. Check out our student testimonial video to see what students say about ACE!
Visit our website: http://ace.ucsc.edu to learn more about the ACE Program!
To apply, please go to our Application Page
--- Application Deadline: Thursday March 18th at 6:00pm ---
Click Here to add this deadline to your calendar
Beginning Monday, March 29th:
ACE CSE 16-01 sessions meet on Mon/Weds 1:00-2:30pm.
Beginning Tuesday, March 30th:
ACE CSE 20 sessions meet on Tues/Thurs 1:30-3:00pm.
Beginning Tuesday, March 30th:
ACE CSE 30-01 sessions meet on Tues/Thurs 10:00-11:30am.
NeuroTechSC Spring Onboarding Meeting is 11AM on April 3!
Interested in neuroscience, AI, or Brain-Computer Interfaces? Join NeuroTechSC at our upcoming onboarding meeting to learn how to get involved with club activities. Our current pursuits include:
- non-invasive synthetic telepathy project that won 1st in the US
- weekly podcast with researchers and entrepreneurs in neurotech
- weekly research paper readings on computational neuroscience and BCI
As a member, you could be working on the project’s hardware or ML, interviewing guests on the podcast, or engaging with novel research in this space. We’re growing rapidly as a club and looking to spread our love for neurotechnology, so please stop by our workshop on April 3rd at 11AM if you’re interested! The zoom link will be provided on Slack that you can join via this form.
Check out the informational flyer here!
Register to Participate in Baskin Day 2021
BMSIS Young Scientist Program
The BMSIS Young Scientist Program (YSP) provides opportunities for students and eligible early career scientists to participate in space related research, learn about effective science communication, and develop critical thinking skills in ethics, policy, and more.
We currently have open opportunities that might be of interest to your students.
“The BMSIS Young Scientist Program” focuses on undergraduate students and those who have completed undergraduate studies but have not yet enrolled in graduate school. This program is offered primarily as a remote, online program (though some projects do offer on-site training, pending on the location of the applicant). Research Associates with the BMSIS YSP work with one or more of our BMSIS research scientists on a variety of projects in Earth and space science, engineering, and science communication. While some of the projects do have funding, many of the virtual projects are unpaid.
Please feel free to share the link to our 2021 BMSIS Young Scientist Program application: https://www.bmsis.org/ysp/
Reader position for ECE153
A reader / grader is needed for ECE153 - Digital Signal Processing. Interested students please apply at https://rta.soe.ucsc.edu/