BE Undergraduate Newsletter
New Announcements
Calling all Baskin Engineering upcoming graduates, come get your Grad bag!IGDA FOUNDATION VIRTUAL EXCHANGE and GDC PROGRAMS
Baskin Store is NOW OPEN!
Announcements
Cybersecurity Workshops From Slug Security!NSF REU program at SJSU
Calling all Baskin Engineering upcoming graduates, come get your Grad bag!
IGDA FOUNDATION VIRTUAL EXCHANGE and GDC PROGRAMS
Baskin Store is NOW OPEN!
Announcements
Cybersecurity Workshops From Slug Security!
Are you a hacker at heart? Do you dream of cracking codes, breaking firewalls, and exposing secrets? Have you ever been curious about how the internet stays safe? Tinkered around a site, trying to find exploits? Well, then Slug Security, UC Santa Cruz's Cybersecurity Club, may be for you!
Would you like to learn how to hack into servers, create malware, and avoid detection like a true hacker? Do you want to use a Pringles can to make directional antennas and scan for vulnerable networks? Do you want to compete in national competitions, going against other hackers to see who is the best?
Then join us! We are a student-led cybersecurity club dedicated to fostering a community of hackers who work to improve security.
We host workshops and actively compete in CTF and national competitions such as the NSA Codebreaker Challenge.
We meet every Monday from 2-4 PM at Baskin Engineering 2, Room 506.
Visit our site (https://slugsec.ucsc.edu) for more information. If you have any questions, please visit our FAQ page or email us at slugsec@ucsc.edu.
NSF REU program at SJSU
Only female students can apply for this program. https://etap.nsf.gov/award/
Target: Undergraduate Women Students
Requirement: US citizens, Enrolled female students
Stipend: $6,000
Living Cost: $3,500
Duration: 10 weeks (May 30 - August 4, 2023) in Summer 2023.
Calling all Baskin Engineering upcoming graduates, come get your Grad bag!
This is an exciting time of year. We wanted to let you know where you can go to get your Baskin Engineering license plate frame as well as your commemorative hat.
- When: Tuesday, June 6th 9am-4pm
- Where: Baskin Courtyard, near E2 180
- What: Passing out license plate frames, Baskin hat, and honor cords for those who qualify.
Please come by to get your grad bag!!
IGDA FOUNDATION VIRTUAL EXCHANGE and GDC PROGRAMS
ANNOUNCING: IGDA FOUNDATION VIRTUAL EXCHANGE and GDC PROGRAMS
About the Programs
The Virtual Exchange is a six-week program that provides grantees with exceptional learning opportunities through workshops, coaching, and individualized mentorship from accomplished video game industry professionals.
The 2024 GDC Program gives individuals from underrepresented communities around the globe a chance to attend GDC in 2024.
Cohorts for both programs include:
- HBCU-HSI Scholars supports students and recent graduates of Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Hispanic-Serving Institutions within the U.S.
- Next Gen Leaders supports mid-career game industry professionals as they look to transition to leadership roles in the industry.
- Velocity is for professionals looking to transition into the game industry from a non-gaming career or industry.
- International Scholars is designed for college students who are currently enrolled in a university or are recent graduates.
Baskin Store is NOW OPEN!
Customize your own Baskin Engineering clothes and gear! Personalize your choices by adding your major or club. Graduating seniors: This makes a great gift idea to share with your family!
https://sideline.bsnsports.
You can see examples in glass display cases located in E2 second floor and JBEB first floor.
Events
Thursday (May 18th): Network with UCSC's Natural Language Processing Community in Silicon Valley
Event Date and Time: 05/18/2023 5:15 pmEvent Location: Silicon Valley Campus
Celebrate the spring season with UCSC's growing Natural Language Processing community! Join us for ice cream and conversation at our NLP Spring Social this Thursday, May 18th, at 5:15 PM. At the event, you'll have an opportunity to meet current and incoming NLP graduate students, connect with NLP instructors, and network with industry professionals. To attend this event at UCSC's Silicon Valley Campus, please complete this brief registration form by May 17th.
ECE Talk: The Magic of Lasers and Interferometers
Event Date and Time: 05/31/2023 4:00 pmEvent Location: Physical Sciences Bldg., room 114
ECE Talk: The Magic of Lasers and Interferometers
Dr. Douglas M. Baney, IEEE Fellow
Worldwide Corporate Director of Education
Keysight Technologies
Abstract:
This will be a fun and interesting talk about applications of lasers and interferometers from the measurement of the tiniest things, to development of the laser mouse, to measurement of gravity waves and light.
Speaker Bio:
Doug Baney has over 30 years of experience in R&D and applied research with HP, Agilent, and Keysight Technologies in Silicon Valley. This led to many new and novel products in the fields of millimeter waves and photonics including the development of the first globally commercialized laser mouse. He holds 246 US and international patents, and numerous publications being cited over 2,300 times, and served as General Co-Chair of the Optical Fiber Communications Conference and General Co-Chair of the Optical Amplifiers and Their Applications Conference. In his current role as Corporate Director of Education, he develops engagements with universities worldwide. He’s an Honorary Visiting Professor with The University of Edinburgh, an Adjunct Professor with UC Santa Barbara, and a Fellow of the IEEE.
Contact bsoedev@soe.ucsc.edu
Jobs
Opportunity to participate in a compensated user study
Software research position
This is an exciting software research opportunity for a strong candidate who wants to work on a challenging project. The candidate will contribute to our Phased Array technology at Yektasonics. Our Phased Array is a hardware-software co-designed system, which is an order of magnitude lower cost than other Phased Arrays in the market with performance breakthroughs.
The technology has applications in a wide range of medical and non-medical fields. In medicine, Focused Ultrasound is a revolutionary medical therapy, which uses harmless sound waves to cure cancer with no chemo-therapy or surgery, and brain treatment without opening the skull, to name a few. Our technology drives the transducers, which generate these sound waves at ultrasound frequencies, with fine phase and power control. We have launched our Power Module successfully, which is the power stage of our Phased Array.
Yektasonics has received numerous awards and recognitions, such as a recent award from the National Science Foundation - Innovation Corps program in 2023, a second prize from the UC Santa Cruz Chancellor at Launchpad 2022, being a finalist of American Heart Association in the Bay Area in 2022, being a finalist of the University of California Big Ideas Competition in 2021, and being part of UC Berkeley Incubator Citris Foundry in 2020, to name a few.
Our Phased Array consists of different software modules, such as our embedded computing interface, our Yektasonics OS, our feedback processor, and more. A strong candidate will mostly code in C/C++ in our challenging environment. If you are highly passionate and looking for a real challenge, please email your resume with your transcript to Navid Gougol at gougol@yektasonics.com.
You can check out the company website for more information at www.yektasonics.com.