BSOE Undergraduate Newsletter
Announcements
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!
Declare your BSOE Major
Dear BSOE students,
If you are required to declare your major this quarter go here to start the process! If you are in your 6th quarter at UCSC (end of your 2nd year), you need to start the major declaration process in Spring, even if you still have major qualification courses still in progress.
Please note that the final day to start the process in the School of Engineering is Friday, April 16 at 4:00pm!
Although the campus declaration of major deadline for Spring is Fri. April 30, the declaration of major process in the BSOE requires several steps including verification of your major qualification requirements which is why you must start the process earlier than the campus deadline.
Register to Participate in Baskin Day 2021
Call for Participation: Spring 2021 Tech4Good Lab Web Development Skill Building Groups
The Tech4Good Lab is seeking students to participate in our 4-week skill building groups to learn web development this quarter. These groups are great if you are looking for a casual way to learn some HTML, CSS, and Typescript. No prior experience is required and we encourage all students to join.
The groups will run for 4 weeks. During those 4 weeks you will be placed in a group with 4-5 students to work together as you learn web development. You will be required to attend two 1.5 hour meetings, Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:45am-1:15pm, where you will be put into a breakout room to work with your group. During those meetings you will be using Causeway, a platform we've been developing to learn web development while working on real-world projects. In Causeway, individuals progress their learning through small roles where you contribute to a larger project, rather than simply topical textbook problems.
Groups will meet on the following dates, 11:45am-1:15pm PDT:
- Week 1: 4/6, 4/8
- Week 2: 4/13, 4/15
- Week 3: 4/20, 4/22
- Week 4: 4/27, 4/29
Additionally, we will be having a kickoff meeting that all participants are required to attend the first week of the quarter on Thursday 4/1 11:45am-1:15pm.
If you can commit to attending all meetings, including the kickoff meeting, and want to participate please sign up here by Wednesday 3/31 at 5pm: https://forms.gle/dG5m5qCDF2RRT7n38. Please note that if you completed all 4 weeks of the groups in Winter 2021 quarter, you will not be able to participate this quarter. However, if you dropped before the end of the 4 weeks last quarter, you are welcome to sign up again.
Since the platform is relatively new, the skill building groups are also part of a study to understand and improve the learning experience with Causeway. Therefore, by participating in the skill building groups you are agreeing to being part of the study as well. There is more information about the study in the sign up link.
If you have any questions, please email Veronica Rivera at veariver@ucsc.edu. Otherwise, looking forward to working with you soon!