Baskin School of Engineering
Revised Academic Plan 2006-2011
Submitted by
Michael Isaacson
Acting Dean
January 17, 2006
Baskin School of Engineering
UC Santa Cruz
Revised Long-Range Academic Plan
2006-2011
(1-17-06)
Comprehensive Baskin School of Engineering Revised Long-Range Plan
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Table of Contents
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School of Engineering Mission Statement .......................................... 2
Table 1: Engineering Faculty at a Glance in AY 2010-11 .................. 3
Table 2: Baskin School at a Glance in AY 2010-11........................... 4
Executive Summary ........................................................................... 5
Section 1: Academic Programs......................................................... 26
Section 2: School-Wide Initiatives ................................................... 41
Section 3: Research Excellence ........................................................ 54
Section 4: Administration................................................................. 80
Appendices:
Applied Mathematics and Statistics Plan
Biomedical Engineering Plan
Computer Engineering Plan
Computer Science Plan
Electrical Engineering Plan
Technology and Information Systems Plan
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Baskin School of Engineering Mission Statement
The mission of the Jack Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California,
Santa Cruz is to develop and sustain first-rate education and research programs that
integrate the fundamental principles and sound practice of science and engineering. The
School strives to serve the needs of the greater Silicon Valley region and the State of
California by creating and disseminating knowledge through research and teaching, and
by offering curricula that nurtures creative thinking and prepares our students for
productive careers at industrial and academic settings in rapidly evolving areas of science
and engineering. In the second half of the decade, the Baskin School will continue to be
a distinctive knowledge creator and educator in its chosen fields. We will provide an
excellent education for all students, regardless of major, so the campus’s graduates
become contributing citizens in a high-technology society.
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Table 1
Engineering Ladder Rank Faculty FTE by AY 2010-11
Department or Program
Faculty FTE
Applied Mathematics & Statistics .......................................................... 16
Applied Mathematics – BS, MS, PhD
Statistics and Stochastic Modeling – MS, PhD
Biomolecular Engineering...................................................................... 14
Bioinformatics – BS, MS, PhD
Biomolecular Engineering – BS, MS, PhD
Computer Engineering ........................................................................... 22
Computer Engineering – BS, BS/MS, MS, PhD
Network Engineering – MS
Autonomous System – MS, PhD
Computer Science .................................................................................. 28
Computer Science – BA, BS, MS, PhD
Software Engineering – MS
Computer Game Engineering – BS
Electrical Engineering............................................................................ 18
Electrical Engineering – BS, MS, PhD
Masters of Engineering – MS
Technology and Information Management ............................................... 8
Technology and Information Management – BS, MS, PhD
SOE Reserved Positions........................................................................ 8.1
Total Engineering Ladder Rank Faculty............................................ 114.1
Note: Total includes one FTE currently held centrally for Professor Haussler
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Table 2 Baskin School of Engineering at a Glance
2000-01
Actual
Academic
Ladder Faculty (FTE)
Research Scientists, Adjuncts
And Post Doc Scholars
2004-05
Actual
2010-11
Projected
59
77.2
114.1
28
75
130
Enrollment
Undergraduate (FTE)
Graduate (FTE)
Total FTE
702
133
8351
866.4
247.2
1,113.61
1,436
485.5
1,921.5
Majors – Headcount
Undergraduate
Graduate
9202
1353
6813
2341
1,042
500
Total Gifts (in millions)
Total Awards (in millions)
Total Expenditures (in millions)
Indirect Cost Recovery (in millions)
$.34
$5.2
$3.9
$.8
$2.1
$12.1
$13.4
$2.8
$10.7
$26.2
$23.1
$4.6
GSRs (quarters)
Teaching Assts (quarters)
Campus Fellowships (quarters)
Other Fellowships (quarters)
209
98
48
4
304
143
49
33
525
216
70
57
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Source: 04-05 ISPS Instructional Load Summary
Source: 00-01 UG Declared/Proposed Majors (Three Quarter Average) ISPS
3
Source: AIS 3-quarter average declared, proposed and minors
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
HIGHLIGHTS, RECOMMENDATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS
As it approaches its 10th anniversary, the Baskin School of Engineering has achieved
many significant milestones. The School’s reputation and visibility has continued to rise
regionally, nationally and internationally. This is evident by the recognition of its faculty
and increased corporate support. Faculty recognition over the past five years include:
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David Haussler received Carnegie Mellon’s Dickson Prize and was also named
Scientist of the Year by “R&D Magazine”;
Benjamin Friedlander received the IEEE Third Millenium Medal;
Darrell Long was appointed to the Kumar Malavalli Endowed Chair in Storage
Systems. Funds from the endowed chair provide support for research, graduate
students, and other activities of the Storage Systems Research Center (SSRC), a
leading center for research on data storage and storage systems;
J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves received a long-term multidisciplinary research program
grant from the Office of Naval Research for research on Dynamic Ad-hoc
Wireless Networking (DAWN). UCSC will be the lead campus on the research
with Maryland, MIT, UCB, UCLA, UICI and Stanford universities;
Charles McDowell was named Carnegie Scholar by the Carnegie Foundation for
the Advancement of Teaching;
Darrell Long, together with Scott Brandt, Ethan Miller, Alkis Polyzotis, and
Gabriel Elkaim, and Carlos Maltzahn, forged a significant agreement with Los
Alamos National Laboratory to establish a new collaborative institute for research
and education in the area of scientific data management, called The Institute for
Scalable Scientific Data Management (ISSDM);
Ali Shakouri received a long-term multimillion dollar grant from the Office of
Naval Research to establish the Thermionic Energy Conversion (TEC) Center, a
collaborative project in which UCSC is the lead institution involving researchers
at Harvard, UCBerkeley, UCSB, MIT, Purdue and North Carolina State;
SOE faculty received numerous awards and recognition including:
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Named IEEE Fellows: Patrick Mantey, Darrell Long, and J.J. GarciaLuna-Aceves;
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Named ACM Fellows: Steve Kang, Ira Pohl, and Phokion Kolaitis;
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Named American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows:
Marc Mangel, David Hausler, Michael Isaacson, others;
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Sloan Foundation Fellow: Todd Lowe, others; and
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Eleven SOE faculty have received NSF CAREER awards.
David Draper was elected President of the International Society of Bayesian
Analysis;
Steve Kang received the Van Valkenburg Award and appointed to a blue-ribbon
panel on nanotechnology; and
Michael Isaacson was elected to the Executive Board of the Engineering Research
Council of the ASEE.
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Other milestones achieved in the past five years include:
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Full ABET accreditation of both Computer Engineering and Electrical
Engineering;
Launching initial UCSC academic degree programs in Silicon Valley;
Establishment of the NSF funded multimillion dollar Developing Effective
Engineering Pathways (DEEP) program, which provides Community College
students with academic support and enrichment opportunities to create a
successful transition to the university and an educational plan leading to a career
in engineering;
Completion of the award-winning, 90,000 square foot Engineering 2 Building,
constructed adjacent to the existing Baskin Engineering Building to support the
rapid expansion of the school’s programs; and
Extramural gifts and awards increased from $14.1 million to $38.9 million.
The School now has 80.2 faculty FTE, approximately 2.5 times the faculty size in 1997,
when the School was formed. By 2010-11, faculty FTE will increase to 114.1, an increase
of slightly over 40% over the five-year period. Also by 2010-11, the School plans to have
a total of 1,921 FTE students, including 1,042 undergraduate majors and 500 graduate
students. During this rapid period of growth, we anticipate increasing our budgeted
student-faculty workload ratio from 14.4 to between 15 and 17.
Our goal is to develop a school that stands out in every aspect of teaching, research, and
service to the profession. We shall provide impact of the highest quality with FIRSTrate faculty, who are Frontier Impacting through excellence in Research, Service and
Teaching.
To achieve this goal, the School must continue to recruit excellent and visionary faculty
and staff in the face of the enormous challenges in addressing the high cost of living and
offering competitive salaries and start-up packages. We plan to continue to pursue
strategic “target of excellence” (TOE) hires and recruit eminent scholars who are of the
caliber of national academy members. Senior leadership is a critical requirement for
starting new programs, and we will strive to attract renowned candidates to ensure
success in our three target areas of excellence: biotechnology, information technology,
and nanotechnology.
A. AREAS OF EXCELLENCE
The Baskin School of Engineering will continue to focus on building and promoting
excellence in three major areas: information technology (IT), biotechnology (BT), and
nanotechnology (NT). These three areas are closely linked and synergistic in nature, and
activities in each area are supported and enhanced by contributions from the others.
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Biotechnology
With the establishment of the Department of Biomolecular Engineering, research in
biotechnology has rapidly advanced. Under the leadership of David Haussler, the School
has established an international reputation for its bioinformatics research. This
recognition has resulted in Dr. Haussler’s Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
award, the School’s participation in QB3—one of the Governor’s first California
Institutes for Science and Innovation—and extensive media coverage. Building upon an
established program in bioinformatics and the Center for Biomolecular Science and
Engineering (CBSE), and the SOE participation in the NSF funded Engineering Research
Center in Biomimetic Electronic Systems (BMES), a partnership between USC, CalTech
and UCSC, the School plans to continue development in this area by creating an
undergraduate program in Bioengineering and undergraduate and graduate programs in
Biomolecular Engineering.
Information Technology
Information technology has been the focus of the School’s founding programs—
Computer Science and Computer Engineering—along with Technology and Information
Management (TIM) and the developing program in Software Engineering. As our most
evolved area, the School promotes several areas of excellence in its information
technology programs. Our participation in the Center for Information Technology
Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) continues to provide exciting opportunities
in IT research and education programs in close collaboration with UC Berkeley, UC
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Davis and UC Merced, and California’s IT industry. The Baskin School is the lead
institution in a multimillion dollar, multiuniversity consortium funded by the Department
of Defense to study Dynamic Ad-hoc Wireless Networks (DAWN) for development of
technology for complex wireless networks that can be set up in rapidly changing
emergency environments. In addition, a new Institute for Scalable Data Management
(ISSDM) has just been set up between the SOE at UCSC and Los Alamos National
Laboratory which will be a multimillion dollar multiyear effort supported by the DOE.
Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology is an enabling technology for both information technology and
biotechnology. Sheer size minimization for portability and energy savings requires
nanotechnology. Further, nanoscale devices and process technology are key to the
advancement of intelligent biosensors and biomolecular engineering. The continuing
trends to decrease feature size in electronic and photonic devices will enable a plethora of
new devices for diagnostics and computing to be developed. Such shrinking will enable
nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) that will further enhance the advantages of the
current microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) used in a variety of applications from
communications to medicine. This is an area our School is building. It is an area that
cannot be overlooked in modern engineering disciplines. The Electrical Engineering
Department already has begun to develop a strong research program in this area, but
except for molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) instrumentation within the EE department,
there is little materials processing, fabrication and deposition equipment for fabricating
novel material devices on campus. We are actively seeking to develop the infrastructure
for materials processing and characterization needs. At present we have four faculty
members in EE actively working in this important area and in the coming year, the EE
Department will search for a tenured faculty member in nanotechnology and device
materials. A member of the physics department is on that search committee.
Concurrently, the Physics Department plans to hire a tenure track faculty member in
condensed matter physics and a member of the EE department is on that committee .
These two hires, plus additional collaboration between the departments of physics,
chemistry, EE and Molecular and Developmental Biology will accelerate UCSC’s
program development in this area with the aim of being able to put together a successful
proposal to create an NSF funded Materials Science and engineering Center at UCSC.
The School of Engineering and the Physical and Biological Sciences Division have been
approached by National Laboratories for future research collaboration in this important
area. Furthermore, EE faculty will play a key role in the development of the Bio-InfoNano Research and Development Institute being planned at NASA-Ames Research Park.
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B. RESEARCH EXCELLENCE BY DEPARTMENT
In order to establish the three Areas of Excellence, we plan to strengthen
interdepartmental research collaborations by focusing on the following areas of research.
AMS
Autonomous Systems:
Control Theory/Algorithms
and Physical Systems
Assistive Technologies and
Biomedical Devices
Bayesian Statistics and
Applied Mathematical
Modeling
Bioinformatics and
Biomolecular Engineering
Communications, Signal and
Image Processing
Computer Systems, Storage
and Architecture
Formal Methods and Security
Graphics & Visualization,
Computer Game, Computer
Vision, Human Computer
Interface
Machine Learning and
Artificial Intelligence
Networks
BME
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Optoelectronics and Optical
Systems
Remote Sensing and
X
Environmental Technology
Software Engineering and
Databases
Technology and Information
Management
VLSI, Nanosystems, and
Materials
AMS – Applied Mathematics and
Statistics
BME – Biomolecular Engineering
CE – Computer Engineering
CS
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TIM
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EE
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CE
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CS – Computer Science
EE – Electrical Engineering
TIM – Technology and Information
Management
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C. ACADEMIC PROGRAMS
(Summary of Initiatives from Section 1)
During the past five years, the School of Engineering has introduced the following new
programs:
• Bioinformatics: Minor, BS, MS and PhD;
• Computer Engineering: MS with emphasis in Network Engineering;
• Electrical Engineering: MS and PhD;
• Statistics: Minor; and
• Computer Technology: Minor
By 2010-11, the School will have a comprehensive set of engineering degree programs
that cover biotechnology (BT), information technology (IT), and nanotechnology (NT)
disciplines. At the end of the next few years, SOE is considering phasing out the dual
degree program as the SOE approaches its full complement of faculty.
Below is a comprehensive look at the School of Engineering’s existing and planned
programs:
CURRENT
PROPOSAL
PLANNED
UNDER REVIEW
Applied Mathematics
Autonomous Systems
Bioengineering
Biomolecular Engineering
Bioinformatics
BS, MS, PhD
MS, PhD
BS
MS, PhD
Minor, BS, MS,
PhD
BS
Computational Biology with MCD
Computer Science: Computer Game
Design with F&DM
Computer Engineering*
Computer Science
BS
Minor, BS,
BS/MS, MS,
PhD
Minor, BA, BS,
MS, PhD
BA, BS
BS, MS, PhD
Minor
Dual Degree Engineering Program**
Electrical Engineering
MEng
Statistics and Stochastic Modeling
MS, PhD
Software Engineering
MS
Technology and Information
BS
MS, PhD
Management
* Includes MS with emphasis on Network Engineering and Computer Technology
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** With BA awarded by UCSC and BS awarded by the College of Engineering at UC
Berkeley (to be phased out as the SOE reaches its full complement of faculty).
The Baskin School of Engineering will have introduced ten new programs by 2010. The
campus’s commitment to the School has enabled our rapid growth in both program
quality and size, and we ask campus administration and the Academic Senate to continue
their commitment to the School’s development. This commitment is critical to our
success in establishing a prominent and distinctive world-class School of Engineering.
We should note that as the SOE continues to grow, some of the programs in CE and EE
will begin to have a mechanical engineering flavor, particularly in the areas of MicroElectro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS), autonomous systems, renewable energy resources
and in some instances in bioengineering. Since the number of faculty allocated to the
SOE does not allow the development of a new department in Mechanical Engineering,
we anticipate being able to develop mechanical engineering-like research and
instructional programs within existing departments by planning concentrations and
minors in those areas.
D. INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION
The School of Engineering is committed to building interdisciplinary programs between
our departments and across divisional boundaries, linking to other divisions and colleges
at UCSC and UCSC Extension. We envision campus-wide benefits as academic and
research program collaborations grow.
In particular, we plan to develop and offer new degree programs at both the
undergraduate and graduate levels in collaboration with the divisions of Physical and
Biological Sciences, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts. Examples include:
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Applied Mathematics and Statistics is considering a proposal for a new
undergraduate major and minor in Applied Mathematics, a joint degree program
with Mathematics;
Biomolecular Engineering will propose a new graduate program in Biomolecular
Engineering, in collaboration with Molecular, Cell and Developmental (MCD)
Biology, Chemistry, and Biochemistry;
Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Computer Engineering and Electrical
Engineering will propose a joint graduate program in Autonomous Systems;
A new program track in Computational Biology will be developed in
collaboration with MCD Biology and Biomolecular Engineering;
Biomolecular Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering and
MCD Biology departments are planning to create a new undergraduate program
in Bioengineering, with the goal of eventually developing a graduate program in
this area;
Computer Science will propose a new undergraduate program, Computer Game
Design, in collaboration with Film and Digital Media and Mathematics
Departments;
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Computer Science is considering proposing a graduate program in Software
Engineering. Such a program could be related to faculty in Technology and
Information Management and Computer Engineering, and could be a key
initiative in the Silicon Valley Center;
Electrical Engineering is planning a project-oriented Masters of Engineering
(MEng) degree program, which fits in well with the new Technology and
Information Management program and the possibility of a UCSC School of
Management, centered at the Silicon Valley Center; and
Technology and Information Management will launch a new graduate program,
Technology and Information Management, in collaboration with Computer
Science, Economics and Psychology.
The School of Engineering will also pursue the development of a certificate program
related to the Technology and Information Management Program with UCSC Extension,
and short courses based on faculty areas of expertise, depending on appropriate
opportunities and mutual interest.
E. SCHOOL-WIDE INITIATIVES
(Summary of initiatives from Section 2)
In addition to our plans for new academic and research programs, the Baskin School of
Engineering plans to engage in several new initiatives that contribute to the goals of the
School and the campus as a whole.
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Building Interdisciplinary Collaborations with Other Divisions
Interdisciplinary collaboration between the SOE departments and with other UCSC
divisions has the advantage of broadening and strengthening SOE’s programs and
research. The SOE will pursue new opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration by:
• Sharing courses between departments and across divisions that complement and
support existing courses and programs;
• Creating new courses that span disciplines, such as technology and information
management, statistics and stochastic modeling, computer game design,
autonomous systems, and biomolecular engineering; and
• Joint appointments of faculty.
To improve the ability of all UCSC divisions to increase their interdisciplinary
collaborations, we recommend that central administration look at the following:
• Provide support to interdepartmental and interdivisional joint faculty
appointments by contributing 1/3 of the cost of the position (with the other 2/3
being split between the two hiring departments);
• Provide adequate contiguous space to include the wet lab space for Biomolecular
Engineering;
• Coordinate hiring faculty searches across divisions; and
• Current campus policy and procedures make it difficult for departments to receive
enrollment credit for courses they develop to support other departments with large
enrollments and students with widely diverse educational needs.
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2.
International Programs
The growing global nature of the world will increasingly impact every aspect of our
professional and personal lives. The Baskin School of Engineering strives to be a school
that is representative of the international world in which our students will live their lives.
We accomplish this by reaching out to international students, creating learning
opportunities that integrate topics of globalization into appropriate SOE programs and
courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level, and by conducting research that is
relevant and valuable worldwide. In just a few short years, SOE has built collaborative
relationships with higher education institutions and industrial organizations throughout
the Pacific Rim, including Korea, Japan, Taiwan, China, Malaysia, India, and Singapore.
And, we have just initiated a collaboration with EPFL in Switzerland.
3.
Improving Enrollments
Over the next five years, the SOE plans to increase enrollments and budgeted faculty
workload ratio from 14.4 to between 15 and 17. This will be accomplished in the
following ways:
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Develop new and attractive programs, which will bring students to UCSC in
greater numbers. Examples of such programs include the Applied Mathematics,
Autonomous Systems, Bioengineering, Biomolecular Engineering, Computational
Biology, Computer Game Design, Software Engineering, Statistics and Stochastic
Modeling, Technology and Information Management and a project-oriented
Master’s of Engineering in Electrical Engineering;
Develop a university honors program in engineering;
Increase fellowship funds by actively seeking externally funded graduate training
grants to enable the SOE to increase its number of talented graduate students
which will enable the SOE to offer multiyear GSR’s and fellowships. This will
make us more competitive with competing institutions. Towards this end, the
SOE will hire a grants writing coordinator to assist the faculty in putting together
large scale, multi-investigator research and training grants, and we will work
across divisional boundaries to create interdisciplinary efforts;
Establish the plan for providing adequate space including the wet lab space for the
Biomolecular Engineering Department. The program cannot be successful
without adequate resources, including a wet lab and contiguous office space for
its faculty;
Develop new undergraduate courses that will appeal to a broad spectrum of
UCSC students, such as courses on how to better understand and use computers,
information and technology, and nanotechnology. For example, we have just
initiated a new course in renewable energy resources. Some of these courses will
function well as general education courses to increase the technological literacy of
the UCSC student population. Others will enable students who are trying to
decide on a career direction to know if engineering is the right choice for them;
Work to increase retention of undergraduate students; and
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With programs such as DEEP, increase the number of university college transfer
students.
We note that as a program focused jointly on graduate and undergraduate education, any
unadjusted summation of enrollments will necessarily put the SOE at a disadvantage
because of the instructional intensity of graduate education.
4.
Diversity Promotion
The Baskin School remains committed to continuing its strong efforts to recruit, develop,
promote, and retain the highest quality faculty, students, and staff. We will continue to
foster an environment that highlights diversity of thought, expression, culture, and
educational experiences.
The School promotes diversity primarily through student outreach to underrepresented
groups. Specific examples of such efforts and past accomplishments include:
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Appointed a SOE faculty member to be director of student outreach for the
School. This is a new position;
Created a permanent staff position in undergraduate affairs to handle student
outreach;
Strengthen ties with other educational institutions to reach underrepresented
groups through programs such as the NSF-funded Developing Effective
Engineering Pathways (DEEP) Program;
Create the "Welcoming Diversity Project" which seeks to: (1) increase student
retention in computing during the first two years of University education, (2)
understand the issues at UCSC that lead to a lack of retention, and (3) begin
increasing the pipeline by exposing students at local K-12 schools to computing
and woman computer science and engineering students. With the aid of a
Campus Diversity Grant in 2005, we established eWomen, a support community
for female graduate students and faculty, now funded in part by Google. We will
work to ensure the continuing sucess of this new organization;
The planned Bioengineering BS program is expected to increase the number of
women, underrepresented ethnic/racial minorities, and disabled students attending
UCSC and pursuing engineering majors; and
Working with the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences, create the right
climate at UCSC to successfully put in a bid to the National Conference of Black
Physics Students to hold their annual meeting at UCSC sometime in 2009-2010.
This conference generally has between 150-200 attendees and is supported by
industry and national laboratories as a way to actively recruit students from
underrepresented groups to pursue graduate studies in physical sciences and
engineering.
Although still relatively young, the School’s original departments have a strong history of
faculty diversity, particularly with regard to women and Asians and that trend continues
as we have grown and added new departments and disciplines. The School of
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Engineering has been committed to continued good faith efforts to recruit, develop,
promote, and retain the highest quality faculty for the School and to provide the campus
with a faculty consistent with the ethnic and gender diversity of available Ph.D.'s to serve
our student population. We recognize that the diversity of our faculty applicant pools is
ultimately a factor of the diversity of engineering graduates. As such, the school has a
strong history of providing co-curricular and outreach efforts in support of recruiting,
retaining, and ensuring the success of a diverse student population
Finally, it should also be noted that the School is sometimes at a disadvantage in its
efforts to recruit underrepresented faculty due to resource constraints and the extreme
competition from the other research universities.
5.
Summer Session
The Baskin School will participate in year-round operations with a proper allocation of
the State budget. At the Silicon Valley Center, we will be able to offer courses to nonUCSC students returning home to the Silicon Valley region for summer break. We can
also offer research/design internship programs and senior thesis courses for UCSC
students and bridging courses for transfer students, especially those from this region’s
community colleges. Although the program goals are well justified, faculty are concerned
about the negative impact of summer sessions. With adequate resources for staff and
faculty compensation, a full-fledged summer session will be a major asset to the campus.
6.
Pacific Rim Roundtable for Technology and Society
The regional advantage of the Pacific Rim will continue to be dominant in this decade. It
is important that technologies be developed in the interest of society and its environment.
A Roundtable Consortium for technology development in harmony with society and
environment will serve well the Pacific Rim industry and nations. The program goal
resonates with UC’s initiative for the “10 Plus 10 Program” with China and will
complement the UC’s California ISI initiatives for CITRIS and QB3. This forum will
also serve as an important gateway for UCSC to the Silicon Valley region and Pacific
Rim countries including Japan, China, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, India, Canada, and
Mexico among others. The School has established MOUs for potential collaboration and
exchange programs with Hokkaido Information University (HIU), Yonsei University,
Korea Telecom (KT) and Seoul National University, and has received students from
those institutions. The President of National ChiaoTung University, Taiwan and his
various deans visited UCSC for future collaborations. So did directors and several
professors of IIT, India. In October 2005, an international forum was held in Sapporo,
Japan among HIU, Nanjing University, China and UCSC to discuss the matters related to
IT education and research. In two years, UCSC plans to host this meeting on our campus.
6.
UCSC Silicon Valley Center
Our program initiatives at the UCSC Silicon Valley Center (SVC) are aimed to achieve
two goals:
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1. Make pertinent undergraduate and graduate study more accessible to students
and professionals who live and work in Silicon Valley; and
2. Increase UCSC’s visibility and impact in Silicon Valley.
The Technology and Information Management and Network Engineering programs have
been high priorities for the School because these programs cater to working professionals
who wish to update and augment their skills. As such, the programs will attract more
working students to SVC if they can be easily accessed. As students explore the
educational opportunities at the Silicon Valley Center, they will become familiar with the
programs offered on campus and highly qualified, motivated students may choose to
pursue advanced degrees at UCSC. In AY 2006-07 we plan to move our MS in network
engineering program to SVC, contingent upon the availability of the program space. We
have also offered our first set of courses in Technology and Information Management. In
fall 2007, we will launch a new graduate program in Technology and Information
Management at SVC. And, we are developing plans to offer courses and projects in our
proposed MEng Program in EE at SVC.
The School anticipates SVC will enable the discovery of more opportunities to further
our goals. In research, many of NASA’s goals match our Areas of Excellence vision.
We will link our research programs in California ISIs (CITRIS and QB3) and research
centers and institutes (ITI, CBSE, CIMSS, SSRC, and ISSDM) to promote strong
research collaborations with NASA, and national laboratories such as Lawrence
Livermore Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Los Alamos Laboratory and the
technology industry in the region. Furthermore, SOE faculty are playing key roles in the
initial stages of planning for an Air Traffic Management Institute located at the SVC that
will be a partnership between UCSC, UC Berkeley and NASA-Ames.
F. RESEARCH INITIATIVES
(Summary of initiatives from Section 3)
The School’s reputation will be based on our excellence in research. In addition to
particular areas of research excellence, the Baskin School of Engineering has a unique
culture of collaboration, which is reflected in our interdisciplinary partnerships. As the
School grows, we will build upon our areas of excellence and expand into new areas that
further collaboration across departmental boundaries, forming new interdisciplinary
connections between engineering, arts, humanities, social sciences and natural sciences.
The School plans to continue the expansion and support of focused research centers, such
as the existing Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering, the Information and
Technology Institute, and the proposed Center for Innovative Materials, Sensors and
Systems which will evolve around interdisciplinary science and engineering. Each
activity encompasses a set of collaborative and interdisciplinary research centers founded
on our current and planned areas of excellence.
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Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering (CBSE)
The Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering (CBSE) is directed by
Biomolecular Engineering Professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
investigator David Haussler. The CBSE fosters interdisciplinary research and academic
programs, explores new biological and biomedical questions resulting from genome
sequencing and advances in biomolecular science, and blends cutting-edge computational
approaches with new research in biology, chemistry, and engineering. It serves as an
umbrella organization to promote the exploration of new biological and biomedical
questions resulting from genome sequencing and advances in biomolecular science.
CBSE affiliates blend cutting-edge computational approaches with new research in
biology, chemistry, and engineering. The center’s 62 faculty affiliates come from 12
departments spanning the School of Engineering, the Division of Physical and Biological
Science, and the Division of Social Sciences.
Information and Technology Institute (ITI)
ITI is a Focused Research Activity (FRA) and is operationally within the Baskin School
of Engineering. Via its research centers, ITI focuses research in an inter-related set of
areas of interest to faculty in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Electrical
Engineering (as well as some from Physics, Chemistry, and Applied Mathematics). Areas
of emphasis include:
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Design and development of complex networked systems and software
technologies;
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Storage systems and databases;
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Multimedia systems and applications in education and business management;
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Communications;
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Opto-electronics (including nanotechnology devices);
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VLSI design, packaging, testing;
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Sensors, sensor systems and Internet appliances;
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Visualization and computer graphics;
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Knowledge management / data mining; and
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Decision support tools.
For ITI, advanced "Internet" applications provide the impetus and focus that bring
together the components of research related to the rapidly expanding world of networks,
distributed computing, "smart" sensors and internet appliances. As electronics and
packaging developments lead to low cost and powerful sensors resulting in a broad array
of instruments, these become Internet devices, bringing a significant increase in the data
captured, transmitted, stored, managed, and displayed. ITI also promotes research in
applications of the emerging capabilities of the Internet to such exciting areas as distance
education and telecollaboration, environmental monitoring, and resource management.
Center for Innovative Materials, Sensors and Systems (CIMSS) - Proposed
A third Focused Research Activity in the School of Engineering will promote innovative
research in novel and smart materials, biomaterials, nanomaterials, smart sensor
development, environmental sensing and engineering, nanoelectromechanical systems,
and microrobotics. These areas contain enormous opportunities for synergy with the two
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other research centers in the School, the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences and
also potentially with NASA-Ames, national laboratories and the Monterey Bay Aquarium
Research Institute (MBARI) among others. Biomaterials will be critically important, not
only for biomolecular and biomedical engineering but also for sustainable technology
and systems development and intelligent biosensory development.. This center would be
consistent with the university initiative to establish a coordinated effort between the SOE
and the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences to develop a materials science and
engineering core. Sustainable technology will enable product and services that are
ecologically balanced, environmentally sound and socially responsible to ensure
mankind’s future. The Center will provide excellent research collaboration among
researchers and graduate students in biomolecular engineering, computer engineering,
electrical engineering, physics, biology, chemistry, environmental toxicology, and earth
sciences, and ocean sciences.
Additional new opportunities for interdisciplinary focused research centers include:
The Engineering Research Center for Biomimetic Electronic Systems (BMES) is part
of a multimillion dollar NSF funded Engineering Research Center consisting of USC,
CalTech and UCSC. The UCSC portion of this center emphasizes the development of the
low power, mixed signal electronics necessary for development of biomimetic prosthetic
devices for vision, memory and muscle function.
Dynamic Ad-hoc Wireless Networks (DAWN) is a collaborative effort to develop the
technology for complex wireless communication networks that can be set up in rapidly
changing environments such as battlefields and emergency situations. The Baskin School
of Engineering will head a multidisciplinary team of scientists at seven major
universities. The project also includes researchers at UC Berkeley, UCLA, Stanford
University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the University of Maryland,
and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). It is funded by a five-year
grant from the U.S. Department of Defense that will provide an average of $1 million per
year spread among the seven institutions.
Institute for Scalable Scientific Data Management (ISSDM) will address looming
issues of data storage and management for projects that involve large-scale simulation
and computing. The University of California, Santa Cruz and Los Alamos National
Laboratory have agreed to establish a new collaborative institute for research and
education in the area of scientific data management. The institute will be a multimillion
dollar per year, multi-year DOE funded effort and will provide opportunities for UCSC
graduate students to gain specialized experience and expertise in scientific data
management by working on large-scale computing projects at Los Alamos. In addition,
the students who take advantage of these opportunities will provide a pool of potential
employees for the laboratory with skills in key areas of computer science and data
management where the lab foresees significant staff needs in the future.
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Research Institute in Applied Mathematics and Statistics (RIAMS) – Proposed
RIAMS will enable UCSC to bring together a sufficiently large critical mass of
researchers in Applied Math and Statistics required to tackle large, difficult and important
collaborative problems in fields such as astronomy/astrophysics, computational
genomics, environmetrics, mathematical biology and robotics. As the west coast center
of excellence in these highly important research areas, RIAMS will greatly increase
UCSC’s visibility in the mathematics sciences.
Storage Systems Research Center (SSRC) is composed of faculty from the Computer
Science, Computer Engineering, and Electrical Engineering departments. SSRC research
focuses on caching, storage systems hierarchies, large-scale distributed storage systems,
security, and performance.
Thermionic Energy Conversion (TEC) Center is a collaborative and multidisciplinary
project involving researchers at seven major universities working to develop new
technology for direct conversion of heat to electricity. The research team is comprised of
experts in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, materials science, and physics.
With UCSC as the lead institution, the TEC Center also includes researchers from UC
Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Purdue University and North Carolina State University. It is funded by a five-year, $6M
grant from the Office of Naval Research.
G. ADMINISTRATION CHALLENGES
(Summary of initiatives from Section 5)
The Baskin School of Engineering has undergone rapid growth during the first few years
of its existence, and this pace is projected to continue. As the first professional school at
UCSC, the operations of the Baskin School have resembled a start-up business with both
the campus and the School evolving and learning together in a grand experiment to create
a unique 21st century engineering environment for teaching and research. The leadership
role of the Baskin School on behalf of the campus in helping to plan and implement
academic programs at the Silicon Valley Center while developing essential industrial
partnerships throughout the Silicon Valley, has added further complexity to the broad
task of establishing a professional school.
The Baskin School continues to take the lead on a variety of interdivisional
collaborations in both academic and research programs. In particular, we plan to develop
and offer degree programs at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, with
collaboration between other departments in School of Engineering, and with the Physical
and Biological Sciences, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts divisions. As with our
successful initiatives in the Silicon Valley, the Baskin School seeks broad-based
collaborations and connections to enhance both instruction and research programs, as 21st
Century engineering must be intellectually and professionally diverse to be relevant and
effective.
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Examples of interdivisional collaborations include:
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Joint Applied Mathematics degree programs with Mathematics;
A proposed collaboration with Biology, Chemistry and Physics to develop a
research emphasis in Bio-Materials;
Collaboration with MCD Biology, Chemistry and Biochemistry on a new BioMolecular Engineering program;
Collaboration with MCD Biology on a new Computational Biology program
track;
Collaboration with MCD Biology on a planned new Bio-Engineering program;
Collaboration with Film and Digital Media, and Mathematics, on a new
Computer Game Design program; and
Collaboration with Economics and Psychology on development of a new
Technology and Information Management program.
As the Baskin School has quickly evolved and grown, operational resources have often
lagged behind academic program development and implementation—the faculty have
been recruited and hired even though essential administrative and research infrastructure
was not in place. In planning for continued expansion of the schools instruction and
research programs through 2011, a major challenge is to sustain the necessary
infrastructure to ensure success. More resources will be needed on a regular basis.
Key elements in this process include sufficient resources in four areas:
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4.
Adequate and appropriate space;
Faculty salaries, start-up and housing assistance;
Staffing and operational support; and
Technology investment.
Adequate and Appropriate Space
The Baskin School will continue to need additional space as programs expand. The
severe space shortage that restricted SOE growth was partially alleviated by completion
of the new E2 building in 2004. However, with faculty expected to increase over 40% in
the next five years, space shortages will again be problematic without careful planning
and allocation of campus resources.
The first space challenge will be to ensure that the campus proceeds with plans to
relocate non-engineering services and programs out of the BE and E2 buildings to
facilitate the growth of engineering programs. This includes campus services such as
Financial Aid, Printing Services, and the Post Office, plus academic programs such as
Mathematics and Economics. Provided sufficient resources, space currently used by
these functions will then be available to help accommodate SOE program growth. This
growth includes important technology and nanotechnology laboratory space for
instruction and research used full-time by students and faculty.
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The second space challenge is to provide resources to modify and sustain available space
within the BE and E2 buildings appropriate to programmatic uses. Examples include
funding renovations to create new laboratory space for BME, CE and EE, including wet
laboratories, clean rooms, laser optic rooms, vibration sensitive facilities and locations for
autonomous vehicle storage and development. Campus capital funding for Alterations 2
and 3 Projects within BE (to begin in 2006) will partially complete some laboratories, but
the space will be insufficiently furnished to support faculty and student research without
the allocation of further funding. Planned expansion of the BME Program will require
additional wet laboratory spaces beyond what is available following these renovations,
requiring either new space to be constructed or other existing space to be modified.
Moreover, as other space within the BE building becomes available to SOE, it will
require renovation to be appropriately suited to faculty and student needs for instruction
and research. Significant resources will be required for all these types of space.
The third space challenge is to identify and implement solutions to allow for contiguous
occupation of instruction, research and office space by faculty and academic programs.
Under current campus planning, the BME Program will be spread across multiple
buildings and facilities with offices in the new PSB building, partially completed wet
laboratories in the BE building, some laboratories in the Sinsheimer building, and
computational space in the BE and E2 buildings. In addition, campus plans to construct a
Bio-Medical building which will include additional BME wet laboratories in yet another
facility. SOE and the campus would be well served to begin long term capital planning
for a separate Bioengineering Building properly designed and equipped to facilitate the
future direction of instruction and research in this field.
Faculty Salaries, Start-up and Housing Assistance
Similar to other areas of the campus, the Baskin School faces major challenges in
recruiting and retaining the highest quality faculty. The competitive problems associated
with faculty salaries, housing costs, and start-up packages as outlined in our initial
Academic Plan five years ago remain today.
The current engineering salary scale impairs our ability to make competitive offers to
faculty candidates, particularly in technology related fields. Competition comes not just
from other higher education institutions, but also from private industry. There are
disadvantages as well simply from the cost of living in the Santa Cruz area and greater
San Francisco Bay Area, which diminishes the real consuming value of salaries. SOE is
further hampered by limited upgrade funds as the Baskin School has yet to reach a size or
maturity that yields normal turnover savings sufficient to provide resources for upgrading
faculty salaries. We need assistance from the campus to create resource flexibility that
enables hiring the very best faculty at salaries competitive with those offered elsewhere.
Housing costs are an additional problem in attracting and retaining qualified faculty,
especially at the tenured-track level where the vast majority of our hires are made.
Again, Santa Cruz is part of a larger economic environment with some of the highest
housing prices in the nation, so we are naturally disadvantaged compared to institutions
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in other regions. For SOE to be successful in developing unique 21st Century
engineering programs, new approaches must be identified to mitigate housing costs for
faculty and enhance recruitment of top scholars from throughout the world.
Start-up funding continues to be an enormous challenge in successful faculty recruitment,
as SOE offers are often not competitive with the resources provided by older and more
established engineering schools. This affects particularly our ability to hire
underrepresented minority faculty where there is extreme competition from other
institutions. SOE has pursued extramural funding to help increase start-up packages, but
additional campus resources are necessary as well. Unfortunately, limitations in start-up
funding adversely impacts the quality of faculty recruitment, both in attracting and
keeping the top candidates. This became most apparent recently with recruitment efforts
in departments such as BME. Available wet laboratory space to be provided to faculty
after completion of the Alterations 2/3 Project in the BE building will be incomplete and
unfurnished—so further start-up funding will be necessary to make the labs operational.
Recent BME faculty candidates reviewing the project plans for such space have turned
down SOE offers because they view the incomplete laboratories as a lack of commitment
by the campus administration to create and sustain successful programs.
Staffing and Operational Support
The statewide budget problems of recent years impacted creation of a sustainable staffing
and operational infrastructure within the Baskin School. While faculty recruitment
proceeded at a rapid pace and the school experienced growth, campus support funding
allocations were decreased due to budget reductions. This especially disadvantaged a
new professional school since core infrastructure was not sufficiently established. Some
essential components of staffing support were created, while others, such as separate
departmental staffing, were not. In reality, individual departments exist in terms of
clusters of faculty and available academic degrees, but there are not physically separate
and adequately staffed departmental offices within the Baskin School at this time.
As SOE continues to grow, staffing and operational support lags behind. Faculty often
cannot rely on the extent of support services and resources available in other programs
due to limited staff. The level of staff positions relative to faculty positions within SOE
lags behind those evident within other engineering schools throughout the University of
California. As a result, faculty often must function as their own administrative assistants
which is not an efficient use of resources. Professional schools simply require a higher
level of staffing and operational support than some other academic programs. For
example, at UC Irvine, besides centralized staffing reporting to the Dean’s Office, the
engineering school strives to provide resources equivalent to one permanent staff FTE for
every four ladder rank faculty FTE.
Recruitment and retention of qualified staff, especially in technology support areas, also
presents a major challenge to SOE. The competitive climate fostered by proximity to
Silicon Valley sometimes makes university staff salaries unattractive. Given that part of
SOE’s mission is to further expand the academic presence of UCSC within the Silicon
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Valley, staff performance expectations, standards, and competitive pressures require the
highest caliber of professional staff. Unfortunately, we are restricted by campus staff
human resource practices that can impede using the job classification and salary levels
necessary for success. This has been especially evident in frustrated efforts to hire
permanent staff to support academic programs at the Silicon Valley Center.
SOE will require additional resources from the campus, extramural sources, and industry
partners to build the necessary staffing and operational support levels as the school
expands.
Technology Investment
The programmatic cornerstone of the Baskin School is technology. Our focus to create
academic excellence exclusively in the fields in bio-technology, info-technology, and
nano-technology sets SOE apart from the traditional patterns adopted by engineering
schools established in the 20th Century. And this makes technology even more integral to
our success. Technology is more than a tool used to complement and support instruction
and research; it also is the primary object of much instruction and research.
In this regard, on-going investment in technology is essential, and the requirement to
upgrade and expand technology for SOE programs is never-ending. One emerging
demand is to enhance the provision of videoconferencing and distance learning
capabilities between the main UCSC campus and the Silicon Valley Center to support
new academic programs offered in both locations. Changes in the technology curriculum
are creating demands for expanded instructional laboratory space and dedicated teaching
and fabrication space, along with the equipment required for such facilities. Within the
realm of computer resources for SOE faculty, students, and staff, there is demand for
expanding and enhancing network infrastructure, wireless computing, virtual private
networks, enterprise computing services, computational computing capacity, and an
increased number of data centers.
SOE has been successful in generating extramural funding to help keep pace with some
technology demands, but additional resources will continue to be necessary. A portion of
these costs should be provided from campus resources as part of regular operations, but it
is unclear how the dynamics and service levels for technology support will be realized
given the recent ITS consolidation. Tradeoffs and priorities have not been identified as
they relate to sustaining high quality support for academic based computing, although
this is a goal shared by many. The ITS consolidation removes resources from academic
divisions into a centralized operation, reducing flexibility for faculty to directly influence
the allocation of technology resources. As the process to overcome this challenge is
developed and implemented, SOE will still need resources to move forward to keep pace
with technological advances and changes.
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H. ACCOUNTABILITY
Our goal is to establish an internationally eminent and distinctive School of Engineering
that provides significant impact to industry, academia, and society. Our target areas of
excellence will promote active collaborations across departmental and divisional
boundaries and achieve the School’s reputation as one of the best nationally. We expect
that the School’s reputation will follow once our areas of excellence are well established.
By the end of this decade, we expect that each of the SOE departments will be in the top
25 in the nation.
The Dean’s Advisory Council (DAC) consistently recommends that the SOE aim at being
the first in a small number of target areas. At the same time, DAC emphasizes the
importance of providing broad basic education. This recommendation strongly supports
our goal for building truly outstanding focused engineering programs with significant
impact at UCSC. For strategic management of enrollment growth and promotion of
excellence, each department will be asked annually to justify resources based on its
research productivity, program strength and outcome assessment in addition to the
enrollment count. The School of Engineering will use a transparent metric for teaching
load, research load, and service load to ensure fair and rewarding resource allocation. The
School will also encourage and support team proposals for increased extramural research
funding from Federal funding agencies, private foundations, industry and Federally
supported research laboratories, such as Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, and NASA Ames
Research Center. Individual departments in the School have increased research funding
on a yearly basis beyond that expected by the increase in the number of faculty. In this
long term planning document, the School also presents a timeline for program
development.
Despite our ambitious and concerted best efforts, our goals cannot be achieved in the
absence of proper resource allocations, such as faculty and staff recruitment, adequate
space provision and infrastructure support for both research and instructional activities.
In this regard, the accountability should be mutual between the Baskin School of
Engineering and UCSC as provider of the resources from the State of California.
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I. CONCLUSIONS/RECOMMENDATIONS
In the next five years, the Baskin School of Engineering can fully achieve the vision for
the school that was first articulated in the 2001-2011 Long Range Plan. The revised
long-rang plan details the pathway that will enable the SOE to become preeminent in
three areas of excellence: biotechnology (BT), information technology (IT), and
nanotechnology (NT). The School will accomplish this by increasing and improving its
leadership with interdisciplinary collaborations in both academic and research programs.
In order to achieve its goals over the next five years, the Baskin School of Engineering
will depend on the following additional support and resources from central
administration:
 Free up space in the BE and E2 of non-engineering services and programs to
provide sufficient resources to help accommodate SOE program growth;
 Provide resources to modify and sustain available space within the BE and E2
buildings appropriate to programmatic uses. Examples include funding
renovations to create new laboratory space for BME, CE and EE, including wet
laboratories, clean rooms, laser optic rooms, locations for autonomous vehicle
storage and development, and vibration sensitive facilities;
 Assist to create resource flexibility that enables hiring the very best faculty at
salaries equivalent to those offered elsewhere;
 Identify new approaches to mitigate housing costs for faculty and enhance
recruitment of top scholars from throughout the world;
 Augment resources derived from SOE extramural sources and industry partners to
build the necessary staffing and operational support levels as the school expands;
 Provide support to and incentives for interdepartmental and interdivisional joint
faculty appointments, by supporting 1/3 of the cost of the position for a five year
period, with the other 2/3 being split between the two hiring departments;
 Change existing policies and procedures for calculating teaching credits, such that
departments with courses that have significant enrollments from other
departments or divisions are appropriately rewarded, and acknowledge that more
TA resources are needed in teaching laboratory courses than conventional classes;
 Provide enhanced teaching and research resources and facilities at the UCSC
Silicon Valley Center (SVC), including videoconferencing and distance learning
capabilities between campus, SVC and the SOE research and teaching partners;
and
 Augment resources derived from SOE extramural sources and industry partners
for investment in SOE technology equipment and related operational support.
With the continued growth of the SOE will come the requirements for expanding
and enhancing network infrastructure, wireless computing, virtual private
networks, enterprise computing services, computational computing capacity, and
increased number of data centers.
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SECTION 1: ACADEMIC PROGRAMS
The goal of the proposed academic programs is to create nationally recognized centers of
excellence for the Baskin School of Engineering while providing a significant
contribution to other academic areas and the UCSC campus as a whole. Senior leadership
will be an essential element for starting and driving new and several existing programs.
We will strive to attract renowned candidates to ensure successful achievement of our
target areas of excellence.
Over the past 5 years, the School has built a framework for a comprehensive set of
engineering degree programs at the cutting edge of technology, and has been recognized
as a leading research center and engineering school. During the remaining period of the
ten-year plan, the School will develop research programs in engineering that encompass
innovative biomaterials, nanomaterials, biosensors and systems.
The proposed undergraduate programs reflect the growth of the School as well as the
need to fulfill student curriculum expectations of a world-class engineering school
located near Silicon Valley. In undergraduate education, our goal is to prepare
engineering majors by providing an extensive array of lateral and integrated degree
programs. New undergraduate programs in Applied Mathematics, Bioengineering,
Computer Game Design, and Computational Biology are proposed or planned and reflect
the School’s desire to create programs which cross traditional disciplinary boundaries.
This approach, which allows specialized areas of study for the undergraduate in a rapidly
changing field of study coupled with education in other disciplines, benefits both the
undergraduate student and the UCSC campus.
In graduate education, the School of Engineering’s primary objective is to prepare
students to assume leading roles in industry, national laboratories, and academia. Our
graduate degree programs are designed for the pursuit of scholarly accomplishment by
the active encouragement of both interdisciplinary and specialized areas of study, so that
our students are equipped with fundamental skills and the ability to meet the demands of
the ever-changing technical fields. The School will actively advance the pursuit of
excellence in our graduate degree programs. Already at nearly 16% of the total UCSC
graduate student enrollment, over the next five years the SOE plans to nearly double its
graduate enrollments. This will be achieved through new and pioneering academic
programs in areas of Autonomous Systems, Biomolecular Engineering, Software
Engineering, Statistics and Stochastic Modeling and Technology and Information
Systems Management, as well as increasing enrollments in existing graduation programs.
The Baskin School maintains a commitment to building bridges to other parts of the
academic community at UCSC. Specifically, our plan includes the formation of degree
programs at both the undergraduate and graduate levels jointly or in collaboration with
departments in the Physical and Biological Sciences (PBS), Social Sciences, Humanities
and Arts divisions.
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Examples include:
• Applied Mathematics and Statistics is considering a proposal for a new
undergraduate major in Applied Mathematics, a joint degree program with
Mathematics;
• Biomolecular Engineering will propose new graduate program in Biomolecular
Engineering, in collaboration with Molecular, Cell and Developmental (MCD)
Biology, Chemistry, and Biochemistry;
• Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Computer Engineering and Electrical
Engineering will propose a joint graduate program in Autonomous Systems;
• A new program track in Computational Biology will be developed in
collaboration with MCD Biology and Biomolecular Engineering;
• Biomolecular Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering and
MCD Biology departments are planning to create a new undergraduate program
in Bioengineering;
• Computer Science will propose a new undergraduate program, Computer Game
Design, in collaboration with Film and Digital Media and Mathematics
Departments;
• Computer Science is considering proposing a graduate program in Software
Engineering. Such a program could be related to faculty in Technology and
Information Management and Computer Engineering, and could be a key
initiative in the Silicon Valley Center;
• Electrical Engineering is planning a project-oriented Masters of Engineering
(MEng) degree program, which fits in well with the new Technology and
Information Management program and the possibility of a UCSC School of
Management, centered at the Silicon Valley Center; and
• Technology and Information Management will launch a new graduate program,
Technology and Information Management, in collaboration with Computer
Science, Economics, and Psychology.
The Baskin School will also pursue the development of a certificate program related to
the Technology and Information Management Program with UCSC Extension, and short
courses based on faculty areas of expertise, depending on appropriate opportunities and
mutual interest.
We should note that as the SOE continues to grow, some of the programs in CE and EE
will begin to have a mechanical engineering flavor, particularly in the areas of MEMS,
autonomous systems, renewable energy resources and in some instances in
bioengineering. Since the number of faculty allocated to the SOE does not allow the
development of a new department in Mechanical Engineering, we anticipate being able to
develop mechanical engineering-like research and instructional programs within existing
departments by planning concentrations and minors in those areas.
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TABLE 3: Timeline for Engineering Degree Programs
AY 0607
Applied Math & Statistics
Statistics
Statistics & Stochastic
Modeling
Applied Mathematics
Biomolecular Engineering
Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics
Biomolecular Engineering
ESTA B L I
S H E D
Minor
Computer Science
Computer Science
Computer Science
Computer Science
Computer Game Design
Software Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Technology & Information
Management
Information Systems
Management
Technology & Information
Management
AY 0809
AY 0910
AY 1011
P L A N N E D
MS/PhD
BS
MS/PhD
BS
Minor
MS/PhD
BME/CE/EE/MCD
Bioengineering
Computer Engineering
Computer Engineering
Computer Engineering
Computer Engineering
Network Engineering
Computer Engineering
Computer Technology
Autonomous Systems
AY 0708
BS
BS
BS/MS
MS/PhD
MS
Minor
Minor
MS/PhD
BA/BS
MS/PhD
Minor
BS
MS/PhD
MS/PhD
BS
MEng
BS
MS/PhD
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APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS
Over the next five years, Applied Mathematics and Statistics (AMS) will help UCSC to:
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Strengthen the campus position as a major research university, by building on our
already-recognized excellence in mathematical biology, mathematical
astrophysics, control theory, and Bayesian statistics (nonparametrics, spatialtemporal modeling, and computationally-intensive methods of inference,
prediction and decision-making, with applications in environmetrics, genetics,
health policy, medical statistics, and computer modeling and simulation of
complex phenomena);
Promote innovation and enhance academic quality at both the undergraduate and
graduate levels, and substantially increase doctoral production, (a) by converting
the already-functioning informal AMS graduate program to a formal program
with parallel tracks in Applied Mathematics and in Statistics, and (b) by codeveloping with the Department of Mathematics a new undergraduate major and
minor in applied mathematics;
Substantially increase contract and grant support, by building upon existing
strengths within AMS to reach out even more successfully to current research
partners at Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, the Lawrence Livermore
Labs, the Los Alamos National Laboratories, the National Aeronautic and Space
Administration (NASA), the National Center For Atmospheric Research, the
Sandia National Laboratories, and new partners, for new and continuing funding
from institutions such as the CalFed Science Program, NASA, the National
Institutes of Health, and the National Science Foundation;
Manage the enrollment growth necessary to accommodate 2,800 new student FTE
between now and 2010–11, and improve access for the diverse population that
comprises California today, by continuing the process of joint curriculum
planning with existing partner Departments (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
Economics, Environmental Studies, Environmental Toxicology, Mathematics, and
Molecular and Cell Developmental Biology), and extending this joint curriculum
planning to new partner Departments (e.g., Psychology and Sociology), to expand
existing AMS service teaching and develop new courses of greatest usefulness to
the campus in both applied mathematics and statistics; and
Encourage trans-departmental and trans-divisional academic and scholarly
programs, by building upon existing strengths within AMS to deepen continuing
collaborations with other UCSC scholars in programs such as the UCSC Center
for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), the
Center for Stock Assessment Research (CSTAR), the Institute for Quantitative
Biomedical Research (QB3), and the STEPS Institute, and begin new
collaborations.
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AMS currently has 9 ladder faculty (4 in Applied Mathematics, 5 in Statistics), with a
senior search in Applied Mathematics underway in 2005–06. By 2010-2011, AMS is
projected to have 15 ladder faculty. AMS is projected to receive a total of approximately
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$1.7 million in contract and grant awards in 2010-11 (a 73% increase over the
corresponding 2005-06 value); AMS expects to have a total of 39 graduate students in
residence in 2010-11 (a doubling in size of the current informal graduate program); and
AMS is projected to teach approximately 447 student FTE in 2010-11 (a 51% increase
over the corresponding figure in AY2005-06). See the AMS 5-year plan in the appendix
for recent honors and achievements.
We anticipate system-wide approval of a graduate program proposal in Statistics and
Stochastic Modeling (SSM) by fall 2006 or winter 2007. However, according to the
Graduate Council and the Committee on Planning and Budget, (a) the viability of the
SSM graduate program is threatened without an immediate infusion of new faculty
positions in statistics; (b) the establishment of a graduate program in applied mathematics
is also a top campus priority; and (c) a similar infusion of new faculty positions in applied
math is necessary to meet goal (b).
Once the SSM proposal is formerly approved, AMS will therefore seek system approval
for permission to re-launch the AMS graduate program, with the title “Graduate Program
in Applied Mathematics and Statistics” with parallel tracks in applied math and statistics.
The AMS graduate program will serve as a research and teaching springboard for a new
undergraduate program in Applied Mathematics, which will be developed jointly with the
Department of Mathematics. We anticipate launching this new undergraduate major and
minor in 2009-10. In addition to serving as a double major possibility (e.g., with
Biology, Mathematics and Physics), this major will potentially serve as an excellent
source of high-quality AMS graduate students, in both applied math and statistics.
AMS recommends four future opportunities for UCSC investment in new endeavors
related to AMS:
1. Proposal to establish a Research Institute in Applied Mathematics and Statistics
(RIAMS), for collaborative research in areas including astronomy/astrophysics,
computational genomics, environmetrics, mathematical biology and robotics;
2. Growth in SoE-Physics collaboration in the area of Biophysics (nanobiology of
aging; protein motors);
3. Proposal of a new program in Control Theory, with collaboration from
Astronomy/Astrophysics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and
Computer Engineering; and
4. Creation of a Statistical Consulting Service, which will provide a UCSC central
clearing house for statistical advice to faculty and graduate students on design and
analysis issues in projects involving data collection, modeling and interpretation.
With additional faculty from the RIAMS proposal, AMS would propose an
undergraduate major in statistics (an undergraduate minor in statistics has already been
established). We will revisit this issue in 2008-09 by conducting a study of the
undergraduate statistics degree program at other UC campuses.
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BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING
The Department of Biomolecular Engineering (BME) was founded at UC Santa Cruz in
January, 2003 making it the newest academic department in the School of Engineering.
BME administers the undergraduate and graduate program in bioinformatics.
Biomolecular Engineering is a program of great promise within the long-term planning in
the School of Engineering. The departmental faculty enjoy international acclaim for their
pioneering research and graduate instruction in Bioinformatics and their ongoing
contributions to the Human Genome Project. Faculty members use powerful new
physical and computational engineering tools as they investigate fundamental problems
of modern biology, biochemistry and biophysics. In this regard, BME is among the most
innovative and interdisciplinary departments at UCSC, thereby bridging perceived
boundaries between engineering and the sciences. The new department offers a highly
interactive environment in which colleagues and their students can undertake cuttingedge interdisciplinary research and develop attractive academic programs for the next
generation of biomolecular engineers. As a result, a substantial number of other UCSC
faculty are now involved in collaborative efforts with their colleagues in BME, and are
actively developing courses and programs of study in these areas. With an international
head start in the area of bioinformatics, the department has been able to create unique
teaching and research programs, and BME students upon graduation will find career
opportunities in both academic and industrial settings.
BME’s near term goal is to recruit a sufficient number of faculty to achieve critical mass.
We will recruit only the most talented faculty members who regard themselves as cross
disciplinary, and can work at the molecular and nanoscale level with the tools of both
computational and experimental science. The department plans to grow to a total of 14
ladder-rank faculty by 2010-11, including at least one Howard Hughes Medical Institute
(HHMI) investigator, plus one faculty member who currently has a split appointment
with the BME and Computer Engineering Departments. The department will also attract
several affiliated faculty from UCSC’s Molecular, Cell and Developmental (MCD)
Biology and Chemistry and Biochemistry (CBC) Departments, as well as other School of
Engineering Departments.
With a successful recruiting effort over the next several years, we believe it will be
possible in the near term to undertake planning for a multi-department based
bioengineering BS program, followed by BS, MS and PhD programs in biomolecular
engineering over the longer term. UCSC presently has 20-30 faculty members working in
bioengineering and affiliated areas. Members of this group are already working to create
a unified vision of research, graduate training, and undergraduate education in the broad
area of bioengineering.
As to be expected in such a thriving area at the forefront of modern biotechnology, it is
both difficult and expensive to recruit faculty. Additionally, the rapid growth of our
discipline has left the School, as well as the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences
and the Campus unprepared for the laboratory needs of our faculty. BME’s international
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stature has assisted greatly in faculty recruitment, but can only partially mitigate the
issues of insufficient resources. As an individual program, we have no way to address the
short-term and long-term space issues related to wet laboratories and contiguity.
Thus, we find our nascent department at a crossroads, which is an appropriate place to be
as we commence a five-year planning process. The faculty of the Department of
Biomolecular Engineering expects a clear and committed priority within the School of
Engineering, the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences, and the campus. We are
heartened by the planned allocation of FTE that will allow the department to achieve its
mature size by 2010-11. As a major priority, it then follows that research space and start
up funding appropriate to such a venture must be allocated.
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COMPUTER ENGINEERING
The Department of Computer Engineering will maintain and build excellence in research,
undergraduate and graduate teaching, and service during the next five years. In research,
we target five specific areas of research excellence:
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Computer system design;
Design technologies;
Digital media and sensor technology;
Computer networks; and
Embedded and autonomous systems.
In the coming 5 years, we plan to maintain excellence in these focused areas and build
excellence in a cross-cutting interdisciplinary emphasis in assistive technology as we
seek to train undergraduate and graduate engineers for the future.
Recent examples of research excellence include leading a $5.2M multi-university
consortium to develop the new science of ad hoc networks; creating and receiving
national publicity on the development of a virtual white cane for the blind; receipt of NSF
career awards; receiving a highly competitive NSF Major Research Instrumentation grant
to launch our autonomous systems program; working with biology faculty and
undergraduates to create a sensor network for coral reef monitoring, creating collars and a
sensor network for monitoring of the activities and behavior of coyotes, and receiving
continuing funding (with Environmental Toxicology) for research on real-time control of
ground-water clean-up.
In teaching, we strive for innovation and excellence in the classroom and in academic
programs. We have led efforts to integrate modern technology in teaching, and are
constantly working to improve our undergraduate and graduate curricula. Recent
examples of teaching excellence include innovation with tablet PCs and web archiving
(supported by COT), offering a new first-year Hands-On Computer Engineering course
every quarter to increase excitement and improve retention in engineering students,
creating a minor in Computer Technology targeted for non-engineering students
interested in K-12 teaching, and placement of our PhD and Postdoctoral graduates at
leading industrial research laboratories and in faculty positions at UM Amherst (now
tenured), UCI, Santa Clara, Georgetown (now tenured), Cal Poly San Luis Obispo,
Bahcesehir University, U Naples, and U Twente.
Recent examples of service excellence include serving as Provost of Crown College;
chairing the Committee on Educational Policy; leading UCSC’s CITRIS branch;
directing the Korea Telecom executive program; being Associate Dean for
Undergraduate Affairs; leading SOE Outreach; and chairing CONCUR 2005, the lead
international conference and concurrency theory. Computer Engineering has also taken
significant part in UARC development.
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The Department of Computer Engineering seeks to sustain and build excellence with
diversity. This is a particularly difficult goal within the discipline of engineering which
has traditionally has not had significant representation among women and
underrepresented minorities. Because of this problem, the Department has placed a
strong emphasis on diversity within engineering.
Computer Engineering has had no net growth since 2001-02. In spite of the lack of
growth, we have been able to meet or exceed most 10-year plan measures, when adjusted
for the number of faculty. The numbers show a high level of effectiveness for allocated
resources, lending strong support to the idea of moderate growth within the Department
of Computer Engineering and its broad interdisciplinary research programs.
Future Opportunities for Investment
The Department has identified five exciting opportunities for the near future, the first
three of which will be supported with new FTE and the latter two of may be supported
with any additional positions or turnover. Investment in these areas will enable (in part)
the development of a program in bioengineering, the development of a world-class
program in autonomous systems and control, and solidification of our international
prominence in networks.
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Assistive Technologies and Bioengineering. This area is of extreme importance
to our aging population. We envision the creation of a research center, with strong
collaborations with faculty in digital media and sensor technology, embedded and
autonomous systems, biomolecular engineering, electrical engineering, and
molecular, cellular, and developmental biology. We are in the planning stages in
developing a BS program in Bioengineering jointly with the departments of BME,
EE and MCD Biology.
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Program in Autonomous Systems. Computer Engineering proposes the
development of interdisciplinary graduate group in Autonomous Systems and
Control, with CE, EE, AMS, and TIM. Hiring in Computer Engineering for this
program will focus on the design and construction of autonomous systems. . This
program is expected to be part of a mechanical engineering emphasis in the SOE
within the next decade.
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Networks Pinnacle of Excellence. Network and internet security has become a
key area of applied research within the computer networks field. Computer
Engineering is poised to expand to internetworking and applied network security.
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COMPUTER SCIENCE
The quality of UC Santa Cruz's Computer Science Department is reflected by the
accomplishments of its faculty. The Computer Science Department has been in existence
for over thirty years and offers four degrees: B.A., B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer
Science, with a combined BS/MS degree currently under development. The program
includes nineteen full-time ladder rank faculty with 126 students enrolled in the graduate
program. To date, the Department has awarded more than 220 Masters and 80 Doctoral
degrees. University-industry interaction is enhanced through the employment of
computer professionals as visiting faculty and through arrangements for students to gain
practical research experience by working as interns in nearby industrial research
laboratories.
The Department is highly regarded on campus and at the national level for its excellent
faculty, extramural funding, and high quality of teaching. Of the current nineteen faculty
members, ten are full professors, three are associate professors and six (one of whom was
hired this year) are assistant professors. The technical strength and the impact of faculty
research is demonstrated by their appointments to the editorial boards of several ACM
and IEEE journals, a Sloan Foundation Fellowship, and participation in numerous
technical program committees and NSF panels. The department faculty includes two
ACM Fellows (Pohl and Kolaitis) and an IEEE Fellow (Long). Four department
Assistant Professors have received NSF CAREER awards. All Computer Science faculty
members have funded research projects and publish regularly in leading technical
journals. During the past five years, the Computer Science faculty received $11,589,000
in extramural funding, including $2,624,000 in 2004-05.
The Computer Science faculty conducts research in the following primary areas:
Computer Graphics and Scientific Visualization, Computer Systems, Machine Learning,
Databases and Software Engineering. The Department of Computer Science is highly
regarded for its strength in Computer Graphics and Scientific Visualization. The
Department also enjoys great strength in the area of Systems Research with seven faculty
members and 20 graduate students working in storage systems, distributed computation,
programming languages, and database systems.
The Computer Science Department emphasizes the placement of its degree recipients and
actively assists them in obtaining rewarding positions. Graduates have gone on to a
variety of positions in academia and industry. A number of Computer Science graduates
have pursued teaching careers, securing positions at institutions such as Rice University,
Johns Hopkins University, the University of Pittsburgh, UC Berkeley, and a recent
position at UC San Diego. Placements in industry have included positions at bellwethers
such as Apple Computer, Bell Labs, IBM Almaden Research Center, Micron
Technology, National Semiconductor, Oracle, Raytheon Corporation, Sun Microsystems,
Sarnoff Corporation, SGI, Veritas, Xerox, Yahoo, and several startup companies.
Additionally, some students have accepted employment at government research facilities,
including Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Naval Research Laboratory and nearby
NASA Ames Research Center. The strong placement record the Computer Science
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Department has compiled is not only a reflection of the strength of its programs, but also
the quality of its students.
In the next five years, highest priority will be faculty recruitments for supporting the
Computer Gaming/Entertainment initiative, Database Systems, Software Engineering and
Programming Languages, Machine Learning and Data Mining, and Operating Systems.
Additional faculty recruitments are anticipated for supporting areas of Computer
Security, Computer Graphics, Algorithms, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence,
Systems, and Software Engineering.
We are currently recruiting faculty in Computer Gaming in order to create a new submajor. This is important in two regards: computer gaming is a fast growing research area
that integrates existing strengths in the department; computer gaming is very attractive as
a recruitment tool for very high quality undergraduates. Computer Gaming already exists
as a pathway in the ordinary CS major. By creating a new named degree program
tentatively titled Computer Game Design we expect to reverse the recent decline in the
number of CS majors and increase the quality of entering freshmen. UCSC will have the
first such degree in the UC system that emphasizes rigorous technical computer science.
Resource issues for this new degree are adequate for accepting 25 majors. The courses
within CS for this degree already exist or can be managed when the new CS gaming
position is filled in 2006. Programs that have been contacted by us, especially digital
media, economics, music and mathematics all welcome this initiative and plan to
accommodate the first cohort.
The Computer Science department currently has 262 undergraduates (declared and
proposed majors) and 126 graduate students (as of Fall 2006). We expect to bring on
board approximately 25 new CS gaming students a year over the next 4 years.
We expect to increase our service offerings in several ways over the next two years. We
have a new lower division computer gaming course that is expected to attract 200
students. Our general education programming courses are gaining in popularity and are
required by the business economics major and some science majors. We expect to have
300 students in our yearly offerings for these courses. CMPS 10, a feeder and general
education course, remains very popular and has two offerings with nearly 300 students
per year. We expect the graduate program to grow in proportion to faculty growthnamely approximately 7 grad students per faculty.
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ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
A key strength of the department and a major distinguishing feature is the research focus
on the underlying science necessary to solve important engineering problems. Our faculty
have key collaborations across divisional boundaries with colleagues in Applied
Mathematics, Astronomy, Chemistry, Physics, Molecular, Cell and Developmental
Biology, Earth Sciences, Ocean Sciences, Education, both on and off campus, and with
various medical schools.
EE faculty have been recipients of numerous national and international awards, such as
the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, the Rank Prize in Optoelectronics, the Burton Medal
of the Microscopy Society of America, The Mac Van Valkenburg Award of the IEEE
Circuits and Systems Society. In addition, our faculty have been elected as IEEE
Fellows, AAAS Fellows, Packard Fellows and four of our faculty have won NSF
CAREER awards. EE faculty have played major roles (PI or co-PI) in large scale multiinvestigator, multi-institution research centers. The NSF Engineering Research Center in
Biomimetic, Microelectronic Systems (USC, lead; UCSC, CalTech) and the ONR Center
for Thermionic Energy Conversion (UCSC, lead; UCB, UCSB, Purdue, Harvard, North
Carolina State) are just two examples.
We see the intersection of the life sciences with engineering (and particularly electrical
engineering) as one of the intellectually exciting areas of the future. This is true not only
for the instrumentation arena, but also in the biomedical, environmental and materials
areas as well. We also see the intersection of the environmental sciences and electrical
engineering as another emerging area in which our faculty are getting involved. Faculty
are not only working on both developing novel forms of remote sensors for earth and
ocean environments, but they are also investigating many aspects of the “physical layer”
of wireless communications needed to tie networks of sensors (radar, sonar and optical)
together in order to sense multidimensionally on a large scale.
With a significant program in opto-thermo-electric conversion devices, some faculty
members in the EE department are also looking at alternative methods of energy
conversion. Energy generation and its environmental impact is another of the key issues
in society and it will certainly become more important in the future as fossil sources are
depleted. The other exciting area in which we plan to expand (and which overlaps with
the other areas) is that of low power/analog/mixed signal circuit design.
Because of the multidisciplinary research of the EE faculty, the faculty is involved with
several campus research centers: the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP),
the Center for Adaptive Optics (CfAO), the Center for Biomolecular Science and
Engineering (CBSE), the Center for Integrated Marine Technology (CIMT), the Institute
for Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) and the Center for Remote Sensing (CRS),
two of the California Institutes for Science and Innovation -- the Center for Information
Technology in the Service of Society (CITRIS), a consortium of UCB, UCD, UCSC and
UCM and the Center for Quantitative Biology (QB3), a consortium of UCB, UCSF and
UCSC) – and, the new California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM).
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The number of Electrical Engineering ladder rank faculty has been increasing at a rate of
about 8.25% per year since the department approval in 2000. By 2010-11 we will have
grown to 18 FTE. Furthermore, we would like to increase the number of adjunct/research
faculty whose primary concentration is on research. However, the UCSC policy of having
adjunct appointments go through the identical hiring process as for ladder rank faculty
results in excessively long delays in hiring and prevents the department from taking
advantage of unique targets of opportunity.
As the EE department has started to grow in the device and nanotechnology area, more
materials processing needs and specialty spaces have became essential. Thus, there is a
critical need in EE for wet chemistry, materials processing and characterization space
(much of this needs to be in vibration and EM interference free environments). In the
long term, we are looking at expansion space for both applied optics, microfabrication
and processing in the 2300 Deleware building. There is also the long-term possibility of
utilizing research space in the Bio-Info-Nano Research and Development Institute being
planned at NASA-Ames Research Park.
As we look at the mix of MS and PhD students in our graduate program, we are exploring
the possibility of offering another type of graduate degree, a project oriented masters of
engineering (MEng). The basis for this is that there are a significant number of students
enrolled in graduate courses in EE at UCSC who work in Silicon Valley. UCSC has
established the Silicon Valley Center headquartered at the NASA-Ames Research Park in
Mountain View, just 35 miles away and the School of Engineering is committed to
developing academic programs in that center.
Other plans for the next five years include:
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Expanding the department by five faculty in our focus areas of excellence;
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Offering a wider selection of courses that will benefit the entire campus;
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Revise student advising and mentoring system to improve student retention;
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Continue investigating ways to improve math fundamentals of EE undergrads;
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Increase external funding to more than $500-600K per faculty, a number
consistent with the top ten EE departments in the country; and
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Develop administration infrastsructure to allow EE faculty to more easily put
together large-scale research proposals.
It needs to be mentioned again, that a crucial aid in allowing EE to pursue these various
pathways is the ability to be able to attract esteemed research/adjunct faculty. UCSC
needs to streamline the process for adjunct appointments. This is not only a problem for
electrical engineering, and engineering as a whole, but will also be a problem for the
proposed School of Management.
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TECHNOLOGY AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
The objective of the Technology and Information Management Program (TIM) is to
conduct cutting edge research and produce graduate students in the area of managing
information, knowledge, innovation, and technology. The operations of the Bachelor’s
degree program in ISM (Information Sciences Management), launched jointly by the
Economics and Computer Science departments, have resided for last seven years within
the Computer Science department. The establishment of an independent department
offering Masters and Doctorial degrees is proposed for Fall 2007.
The new department will combine knowledge of engineering analytics with the broader
knowledge of how to use these analytics to solve problems and create value in today’s
fast changing technology and business climate. Topics of interest include information
management, knowledge engineering, commercialization of technology, new product
development, stochastic optimization with risk assessment, business intelligence, and
data mining, enterprise integration, and application of knowledge and emerging
technologies to business enterprises. Our prior research work and on going collaboration
with Silicon Valley companies, such as Cisco, IBM, Yahoo and HP have given TIM a
major advantage in business knowledge engineering. We will sustain our excellence in
this area, especially in the context of service economy.
The Technology and Information Management program is expected to have strong ties to
several departments within the UCSC campus, including computer science, computer
engineering, electrical engineering, applied mathematics and statistics, biomolecular
engineering, economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, biology and
environmental studies. There are several future opportunities for investment in new
endeavors that provide for synergistic interdivisional collaborations. These include:
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Robotics for business;
Knowledge engineering in health systems or biology;
Information management in social networks; and
Managing innovation.
We expect that some of these collaborations are likely to result in new degree programs
after the TIM graduate degrees are approved.
Over the next five years, our priorities are as follows:
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It is critical that we are successful in recruiting 4 new ladder faculty with
expertise in: financial engineering; new product and services design development
and management; innovation engineering and management; and knowledge
services and management. Since these are emerging areas with very high salary
premiums, we will pursue a strategy of hiring those who possess the necessary
skills and industry exposure or have demonstrated an ability to span area
boundaries and are fast learners;
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We will build upon this foundation with 4 additional ladder faculty with expertise
in TIM and other campus programs; and
TIM has a high priority to build divisional and inter-divisional collaborations. We
propose development of campus-incentive programs where 2/3 faculty FTE is
housed in one department while 1/3 FTE is housed in TIM or vice-versa. TIM is
extremely keen in having a total of 3 to 5 FTE offering 1/3 FTE to 9 departments.
The five TIM faculty (including the associate adjunct professor) are actively engaged in
seeking extramural research support. Successful funding in the past couple of years
includes two NASA projects funded through the UARC ARP competition, and research
projects funded by HP and Cisco. TIM faculty is engaged in writing NSF CAREER
grants and collaborative NSF grants with CE and Economics faculty. We have also
submitted a proposal to Samsung in collaboration with the SOE Dean. TIM is interested
in participating in an IGERT grant and is looking to campus leadership to articulate
principles so that every group can get a fair chance of participating in these grants which
are limited to 2 per institution. TIM faculty is actively pursuing several industry contacts
with many companies including IBM for research funding. Campus funding for seed
projects involving interdivisional collaboration will also prove very useful to TIM
faculty.
Technology and Information Management is an area that develops principles and
concepts that impact managers and executives, rather than engineers alone.
Consequently, TIM is an area where the following measures of excellence are
appropriate:
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Placement of undergraduate and graduate students;
Alumni support (an area that school of Engineering must build and emphasize; we
like to nurture our undergraduate and graduate students through active mentoring;
many of them are likely to hold executive and managerial positions down the
road);
Impact of executive courses on industry to be evaluated through evaluation
questionnaires; and
Impact of our research on industry practice and executive impact to be evaluated
through industry survey on a long-term (for example, five-year) time scale.
Other goals for the next five years include:
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Increase service course offerings which will benefit the entire UCSC community;
Build upon our successful internship program with Seagate Technology;
Engage in an intensive undergraduate outreach program, with a target of
increasing enrollments by a compounded rate of 10-15% over the next 3-5 years
By 2010-11, reach a graduate student level of 58, with 8 FTE faculty and 4
adjunct faculty (externally funded); and
Recruit Silicon Valley executives for presenting campus seminars and becoming
TIM adjunct faculty.
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SECTION 2: SCHOOL-WIDE INITIATIVES
In addition to our plan for new academic programs (Section 1) and research programs
(Section 3), we plans to engage in several new School-wide initiatives that contribute to
the overall goals of the campus as a whole.
1. Building Interdisciplinary Collaborations with Other Divisions
Interdisciplinary collaboration between the SOE departments and with other UCSC
divisions is synergistic with our efforts to broaden and strengthen SOE’s programs and
research. The SOE will pursue new opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration by:
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Sharing courses between department across divisions that complement and
support existing courses and programs;
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Creating new courses that span disciplines, such as in new programs in
technology and information management, statistics and stochastic modeling,
computer game design, autonomous systems, and biomolecular engineering; and
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Joint appointments of faculty.
There are ways in which central administration could improve the ability of all UCSC
divisions to increase and improve their interdisciplinary collaborations. We recommend
that central administration look at the following:
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Provide support to interdivisional joint faculty appointment by supporting 1/3
of the cost of the position (with the other 2/3 being split between the two hiring
departments);
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Provide resources to develop adequate wet lab space for Biomolecular
Engineering. Such wet lab space will enable BME to realize its goal of
developing world class Biomolecular Engineering. Alternatively, alteration of
Baskin Engineering building space would help meet the need without significant
delay. Eventually we envision a new bioengineering building to house the BME
program and biomaterials research;
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Coordinate hiring faculty searches across divisions; and
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Change existing policies and procedures for calculating teaching credits, such that
departments with courses that have significant enrollments from other
departments or divisions are appropriately rewarded. And acknowledge that more
TA resources are needed in teaching laboratory courses than conventional classes.
2. International Programs
The growing global nature of the world will increasingly impact every aspect of our
professional and personal lives. The School of Engineering strives to be a school that is
representative of the international world in which our students will live their lives. We
accomplish this by reaching out to international students, creating learning opportunities
that integrate topics of globalization into appropriate SOE programs and courses at both
the undergraduate and graduate level, and by conducting research that is relevant and
valuable worldwide. In just a few short years, SOE had built collaborative relationships
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with higher education institutions and industrial organizations throughout the Pacific
Rim, including Korea, Japan, Taiwan, China, Malaysia, India and Singapore. Also, we
have begun a collaboration with EPFL in Switzerland.
The School has established MOUs for potential exchange programs with Hokkaido
Information University (HIU), Yonsei University, Seoul National University, Korea
Telecom (KT) and has to far received 22 full-time engineering students. Over the last two
academic years, more than 20 participants from Korea Telecom have studied engineering
and economics as part of a University Extension Certificate Program.
The President of National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan and his various deans visited
UCSC to explore future collaboration. We had similar visits by directors and several
professors of ITT, India. In October 2005, an international forum was held in Sapporo,
Japan participants from HIU, Nanjiing University, China and UCSC to discuss matters
related to IT education and research. In two years, UCSC plans to host this meeting on
our campus. Ajou University, Suwon, Korea wishes to establish a MOU for exchange of
students and faculty members. In March, Don Wilberg, UCLA professor emeritus and
now affiliated with our campus, will visit and teach courses at Ajou University. Malaysia
also wishes to send students for undergraduate engineering degrees. In response to
invitations, the Dean of Engineering plans to visit India, Singapore and Malaysia in the
next few years.
The growing global nature of the world will increasingly impact every aspect of our
professional and personal lives. The Baskin School shall be a school that is
representative of the international world in which our students will live their lives. We
will investigate ways to reach out to international students, and create courses and
programs that integrate topics of globalization into appropriate SOE programs and
courses.
3. Improving Enrollments
By 2010-2011, the SOE plans to increase enrollments and improve budged faculty
workload ratios from 14.4 to between 15 and 16. This will be accomplished in the
following ways:
• Develop new and attractive programs, which will bring students to UCSC in
greater numbers. Examples of such programs include the Applied Mathematics,
Autonomous Systems, Bioengineering, Biomolecular Engineering, Computational
Biology, Computer Game Design, Software Engineering, Statistics and Stochastic
Modeling, Technology and Information Management and a project-oriented
Master’s of Engineering in Electrical Engineering;
• Develop a university honors program in engineering;
• Increase fellowship funds both internally and by externally funded training grants
which enable the SOE to increase its number of talented graduate students and
offer competitive multiyear GSR’s/fellowships to the most talented students.
Towards this end, the SOE will hire a grants writing coordinator to assist the
faculty in putting together large scale, multi-investigator research and training
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grants, and we will work across divisional boundaries to create interdisciplinary
efforts;
Increase interactions with Community Colleges in the region, in particular
Foothill, DeAnza, Mission ,Cabrillo and Hartnell. Through the NSF DEEP
(Developing Effective Engineering Pathways) program, SOE faculty members are
collaborating with community college faculty members to help attract more
students into engineering fields;
Establish the plan for a new building with adequate wet lab space for the
Biomolecular Engineering Department and other engineering programs which
have the need for wet lab type space. The BME program cannot be successful
without adequate resources, including a wet lab and contiguous office space for
its faculty;
Develop new undergraduate courses, that will appeal to a broad spectrum of
UCSC students, such as courses on how to better understand and use computers,
information and technology, nanotechnology and renewable energy resources.
Some of these courses will function well as general education courses to increase
the technological literacy of the UCSC student population. Others will enable
students who are trying to decide on a career direction to know if engineering is
the right choice for them;
Work to increase retention of undergraduate students by emphasizing/requiring
more faculty contact; and
Reach out to international students. The growing global nature of the world will
increasingly impact every aspect of our professional and personal lives. The
School of Engineering shall be a school that is representative of the international
world in which our students will live their lives. We will investigate ways to
reach out to international students, and create courses and programs that
integrate topics of globalization into appropriate SOE programs and courses.
We note that as a program focused jointly on graduate and undergraduate education, any
unadjusted summation of enrollments will necessarily put the SOE at a disadvantage
because of the instructional intensity of graduate education.
4. Diversity Promotion
The Baskin School remains committed to continuing to make strong efforts to recruit,
develop, promote, and retain the highest quality faculty, students, and staff. We will
continue to foster an environment that highlights diversity of thought, expression, culture
and educational experiences.
Although still relatively young, the School’s original departments have a strong history of
faculty diversity, particularly with regard to women and Asians and that trend continues
as we have grown and added new departments and disciplines. However, we are still
struggling in the area of recruitment of faculty from underrepresented populations. The
School of Engineering has been committed to continued good faith efforts to recruit,
develop, promote, and retain the highest quality faculty for the School and to provide the
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campus with a faculty consistent with the ethnic and gender diversity of available Ph.D.'s
to serve our student population. We recognize that the diversity of our faculty applicant
pools is ultimately a factor in the diversity of engineering graduates. As such, the school
has a strong history of providing co-curricular and outreach efforts in support of
recruiting, retaining, and ensuring the success of a diverse student population.
We must also note that the School is often at a disadvantage in its efforts to recruit
underrepresented faculty due to resource constraints and our inability to provide a
competitive salary and start-up package.
The School promotes diversity through student outreach to underrepresented groups.
Specific examples of such efforts include:
• Appointed an SOE faculty member to be director of student outreach for the
School. This is a new position;
• Created a permanent staff position in undergraduate affairs to handle student
outreach;
• Strengthen ties with other educational institutions to reach underrepresented
groups through programs such the NSF-funded Developing Effective Engineering
Pathways (DEEP) Program;
• Create the "Welcoming Diversity Project", which seeks to: (1) increase student
retention in computing during the first two years of University education, (2)
understand the issues at UCSC that lead to a lack of retention, and (3) begin
increasing the pipeline by exposing students at local K-12 schools to computing
and woman computer science and engineering students;
• With aid of a Campus Diversity Grant, in 2005 we established eWomen, a support
community for female graduate students and faculty, now funded in part by
Google. We will work to ensure the continuing sucess of this new organization;
• The planned Bioengineering BS program is expected to increase the number or
women, underrepresented ethnic/racial minorities, and disabled students attending
UCSC and pursuing engineering majors; and
• Working with the Division of Physical and Biological Science, create the right
climate at UCSC successfully put in a bid to the National Conference of Black
Physics Students to hold their annual meeting at UCSC sometime in 2009-10.
The major emphasis of diversity promotion for the School has been in the area of student
diversity. The Baskin School of Engineering has a strong commitment to student
diversity at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The disciplines of engineering and
computer science, nationally, are constantly struggling with diversity, both with respect
to women and with respect to members of underrepresented ethnic and racial groups.
The Baskin School is an active participant in this struggle. Below, we discuss related
issues with respect to recruitment and retention of female students and underrepresented
minorities. While many of these programs serve both issues, some programs are
primarily targeted toward diversity with respect to specific subgroups.
Finally, it should be noted that the School is sometimes at a disadvantage in its efforts to
recruit faculty from under-represented groups due to significant resource restraints.
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Engineering Diversity: Female Students in the SOE
Bachelor’s degrees awarded by the School show an acute lack of diversity in comparison
to the social and natural sciences. In 2000, the percentage of degrees awarded nationally
to women in social sciences was 62%, natural sciences 55%, mathematics/computer
science 32%, and engineering 20%. With the recent national decline in interest in
computer science, there has been a particularly troubling rapid decline in the interest of
women in computer science. Nationally, the total number of incoming U.S. college
students interested in majoring in computer science eroded by 60% between 2000 and
2004 overall but 75% for women. At the Baskin School, we have seen the national trends
in declining interest in computing and declining interest of women in computing most
strongly in the Computer Engineering, Computer Science, and Information Systems
Management majors. The declining interest of woman is most startling, with a drop from
19.5% female in 2001 to 9.9% in Fall 2004 among those three majors (table below).
Undergraduate Proposed and Declared Majors
Fall
2001
BINF
CE
CS
EE
TIM
Female 1
9
51
1
15
Male
0
101
181
31
27
%
Female 100.0% 8.2% 22.0% 3.1% 35.7%
Fall
2002
BINF
CE
CS
EE
TIM
Female 8
14
40
4
29
Male
11
115
206
34
61
%
Female 42.1% 10.9% 16.3% 10.5% 32.2%
Fall
2003
BINF
CE
CS
EE
TIM
Female 13
17
32
12
23
Male
24
122
249
50
56
%
Female 35.1% 12.2% 11.4% 19.4% 29.1%
Fall
2004
BINF
CE
CS
EE
TIM
Female 14
17
27
17
10
Male
32
183
256
109
52
%
Female 30.4% 8.5% 9.5% 13.5% 16.1%
SoE
77
340
UCSC
7089
5418
18.5% 56.7%
SoE
95
427
UCSC
7306
6739
18.2% 52.0%
SoE
97
501
UCSC
7861
6471
16.2% 54.8%
SoE
85
632
UCSC
11.9%
These data do not provide the full picture, however, because until recently approximately
40% of incoming students did not indicate any planned major. At UCSC, students may
wait until their junior year to declare a major. A frequent loss to computing majors has
been the student who never receives advice from the engineering advising office, and
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decides not to pursue a computing major after a discouraging quarter. Beginning fall
2004, students were encouraged to indicate a cluster of majors (“Information Sciences,
Engineering and Technology” for all School of Engineering majors), and are required to
do so beginning fall 2005. These clusters, combined with AIS, have enabled targeted
emailing to students in their early years. Furthermore, some departments are assigning
faculty advisors to freshman/sophomore students interested in Engineering and requiring
regular contact between the advisor and student.
In comparison to other Schools of Engineering, the SOE has among the highest
percentage of women faculty in the nation. The school has grown from 13.6% in 2003 to
15.7 % in 2005, which placed UCSC eighth in the nation. Of course, these numbers
continue to be depressingly below one half. Some departments, such as Computer
Engineering, have focused on assigning women faculty and teaching assistants to entry
computing courses when appropriate.
Six years ago, undergraduate students and faculty formed an active Society of Women
Engineers (SWE) chapter. The chapter has served multiple functions of providing a
supportive community for undergraduate SOE women, developing community activities
such as a regular Game Night, and sponsoring workshops through the year on topics such
as C and Unix. Perhaps most importantly, the group provides active mentoring for new
students. This includes major and course advice, pointers to which faculty to go to when
facing either academic or laboratory culture issues, and general education advice, such as
a strong recommendation that all engineering students, but especially women, take the
'Introduction to Feminism' course as one of their general education requirements.
This year, a past president of SWE (now a graduate student) worked with CE Chair
Hughey to obtain campus diversity funding to form a graduate student group in the SOE.
The organization, eWomen, has regular lunches for general discussion as well as special
events. The kickoff event occurred in February 2005 with a seminar and discussion with
Telle Whitney, President and CEO of the Anita Borg Institute. The organization has been
tremendously successful, and has received funding from Google to continue its regular
lunches. The eWomen’s Mission Statement is:
eWomen has been organized to support and encourage women graduate
students in engineering. Women are under-represented in engineering and face
many social issues as a result. Problems such as stereotyping, underestimation of
skill level, lack of peer support, and family issues act as deterrents to women
entering and achieving full potential in engineering fields.
eWomen provides:
• An open forum for discussion of issues
• Supportive peer environment
• Faculty support
• Liaison with Department Chairs and Dean to communicate about
problems that would benefit from changes in policy
eWomen activities include inviting role models in the field to speak about
overcoming challenges and reaching out to undergraduate and K-12 females to
encourage and support interest in engineering.
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The SOE and the PBS Division participate in the nationwide Mentor-Net Program which
provides the e-mentoring network for women in science and engineering. Students who
enroll in the program are provided with a mentor in industry who communicates with
them electronically throughout their educational career about goals, coursework and other
topics.
Professors Hughey, Manduchi, and Obraczka lead an NSF Research Experiences for
Undergraduates site, SURF-IT (surf-it.soe.ucsc.edu), a summer research program with a
focus on increasing the number of women and underrepresented minorities in
engineering. In its first three years, the program provided research opportunities to 33
students, 60% of whom were female and 25% of whom came from underrepresented
ethnic or racial groups. The program includes joint activities with the Chemistry SURF
REU Site. Students are placed throughout the School of Engineering. A long-term goal
of this program is to attract more of the students to UCSC for graduate study.
Engineering Diversity: Multicultural Students in the SOE
Our Multicultural Engineering Program (MEP) is the University level component of the
well-known and respected Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement Program
(MESA). MEP provides academic support services to assure greater opportunities for the
preparation and retention of underrepresented minority and/or low income or
educationally disadvantaged student populations. Students gain professional and
leadership skills through special workshops educating them about engineering careers,
graduate school applications, mentoring, and summer research programs. MEP also
encourages students’ involvement with local student chapters affiliated with national and
regional engineering societies. These include the National Society of Black Engineers
(NSBE), the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), and the Society of
Women Engineers (SWE), along with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).
Additionally, in partnership with the Cabrillo College MESA California Community
College Program (CCCP), the School of Engineering fosters collaboration between
students from UCSC and Cabrillo College MESA CCCP who share common curricular
goals and career interests in these fields. MEP encourages college students to consider
educational opportunities at UC Santa Cruz and facilitates educational support services
throughout the academic year specifically for Cabrillo MESA CCCP students. Included
with these services is their students’ use of the MEP study room at UCSC to complement
the relationship between engineering and science students of the UCSC and Cabrillo
campuses.
One of the most important aspects of the MEP has been a weeklong summer bridge
program funded by the NSF program California Alliance for Minority Participation in
Science and Engineering (CAMP) for entering frosh and transfer students. This program
is a week-long team building experience with a focus on academic success, academic
advising, Unix, mathematics, and social events with faculty and current students. Our
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proposed bridge program is modeled on the successful MEP program, though with a
higher level of academic content (programming) and continual follow-through
throughout the academic year. The programs will be scheduled so that female MEP
students may take part in the Welcoming Diversity program immediately after the MEP
program.
The University of California Leadership Excellence through Advanced Degrees (UC
LEADS) Program at UCSC seeks to encourage, mentor, and train educationally or
economically disadvantaged undergraduates who are likely to succeed in graduate school.
To realize its mission of increasing the diversity of graduate students in UC’s doctoral
programs in science, engineering, and mathematics, the two-year program provides
students of high potential with educational experiences that increase their
competitiveness for admission to doctoral programs. With the assistance of a faculty
mentor, a student performs research activities on two campuses, at their home institution
the first year and at a different campus their second year. Students receiving the UC
LEADS fellowships must have had situations or events that adversely impacted their
education, such as attending a disadvantaged high school, or not having any college
graduate role models in their immediate family. Students also must be committed to
promoting diversity in education. The program includes a systemwide symposium every
spring.
The Baskin School in partnership with De Anza College and Foothill College has
launched an effort to increase the number of underrepresented students who are entering
the engineering profession. Under the auspices of the Collaborative for Higher Education
and with the support of a multimillion National Science Foundation grant, the
Developing Effective Engineering Pathways (DEEP) Program identifies and introduces
students from under-represented populations to the field of engineering, and provides
ongoing advising and encouragement so that they will have strong academic preparation
in the required classes. A multi-faceted approach is tailored to meet the specific needs of
students at the differing developmental stages of the educational process. Counseling,
mentoring, tutoring and specifically tailored support will increase the success of these
students at the community colleges and as they transfer to UC Santa Cruz. With a solid
academic foundation built at the community college, these participants will successfully
transfer to UC Santa Cruz and complete a four-year engineering degree. This program
will be expanded to include Cabrillo College and Hartnell College as well.
The ACE Honors Program provides tutoring for many introductory mathematics and
science courses. ACE is an intensive tutoring program that introduces complementary
material in small discussion sessions. ACE sessions are led by full-time employees, and
require quarter-long commitments from students. ACE is aimed at increasing diversity
and success in mathematics and science. ACE has received the Presidential Award for
Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. This award, presented
by the White House, and administered by the National Science Foundation, is given to
individuals or programs who have demonstrated an outstanding and sustained mentoring
program to students underrepresented in science, mathematics, and engineering.
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Engineering Diversity: Curricular Approaches
Over the past few years, SOE programs have been active in curricular changes to enhance
retention of students, female and ethnic minority students in particular.
Faculty members Charlie McDowell and Linda Werner introduced pair programming to
the introductory Java courses. Pair programming is a technique that shows promise for
increasing retention among beginning university programming students. The use of pair
programming in introductory programming courses has the potential to increase the
retention of both women and men. A large study of over 500 students at UCSC showed
that students who paired had more confidence in their programming assignments and
enjoyed completing the assignments more than students who programmed alone. Paired
students were more likely to complete the course and, because of that, were more likely
to pass the course. Both paired and solo students performed equally well on individually
taken exams on the course material; both groups were as likely to pass the subsequent
course where pair programming was not used; and were significantly more likely to have
declared a computing major almost one year after completing the experiment.
In Fall 2004, CE Chair Hughey introduced and taught a new low-unit Hands-On
Computer Engineering course. The course includes 4 weeks of digital logic (using plenty
of LEDs), 3 weeks of programming in assembly language, and guest lectures with handson activities in networks and robotics. In addition to (mildly) technical homework
problems, students must attend an organization meeting (e.g., ACM, IEEE, SWE, SHPE,
NSBE), interview a senior design program group, attend at least one of the regular majororiented faculty-undergraduate lunches, and for a final, take part in the senior design
project presentations. The course includes 1 staff (faculty or undergraduate tutor) per 2-3
students, enabling a positive experience for all students. We have paid particular
attention to ensuring several of the tutors are women, both to provide role models to new
female engineering students, and to show to the male students that being an engineer is
independent of gender.
Engineering Diversity: Future Plans
During the coming five years, we intend to maintain the approaches and programs
discussed above, and also will work to develop the following possibilities:
1. Creation of a Community of Learning for subpopulations of science and
engineering students. This approach has been used successfully for women
in science and engineering at some universities, and we are investigating
this in collaboration with Crown College;
2. Continued sponsorship (leading to student travel fellowships) or direct
support of conferences targeted for underrepresented groups, such as the
Tappia Celebration of Diversity in Computing and the Grace Hopper
Conference;
3. Development of new first-year courses targeted for retention of all students
interested in engineering majors;
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4. Establishment of undergraduate and graduate programs in bioengineering,
an area that sees particularly high participation from women and minorities,
for example 40% of bioengineering BS degrees were awarded to women in
2003. This statistic is reflected in part in our current enrollments in
bioinformatics;
5. In cooperation with the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences, create
a climate at UCSC so that we can propose to the National Conference of
Black Physics Students to hold their annual meeting (one which draws
about 100-200 students) on the UCSC campus around 2009-2010; and
6. Continued pursuit of broad faculty searches with an emphasis on diversity
and excellence.
5. Summer Session
To participate in year-round operations, several possibilities have been explored. We
approach our role in year-round operations with commitment. We recognize the need to
explore and resolve compensation and support issues with the other divisions as the
campus implements an expanded summer session. To ensure smooth organization and
coordination of the planning and implementation of a summer session, we recommend
that central administration address the faculty compensation issues and provide adequate
administrative support.
The School anticipates that re-entry and transfer students will be particularly interested in
summer session as they are more strongly focused on completing their university
education to start their career. Summer session offerings and consequently finishing their
degree more quickly, may result in an acceleration of income earnings by approximately
25% for a student pursuing completion of an undergraduate degree. This is a significant
incentive for students on financial aid or having a family to support. Summer offerings
will also accelerate the completion of major degree programs and transitioning students
from community college to the University of California.
The Silicon Valley Center presents enormous opportunities to attract students situated or
returning to the Silicon Valley region. Courses will be offered to students returning home
to the Silicon Valley area for summer break. The site can also offer bridge courses for
transfer students.
Particular courses include stochastic methods, computer organization, discrete
mathematics, introduction to networks and the internet, among others. Other summer
session offerings could include courses in senior thesis, research and design internship
with future expansion into basic undergraduate and special graduate courses.
6. Pacific Rim Roundtable for Technology and Society
The regional advantage of the Pacific Rim will continue to be dominant in this
decade. It is important that technologies be developed in the interest of society and
its environment. A Roundtable Consortium for technology development in harmony
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with society and environment will serve well the Pacific Rim industry and nations.
The program goal resonates with UCSC’s initiative for the STEPS program and will
complement the UC’s California ISI initiatives for CITRIS and QB3. This forum will
also serve as an important gateway for UCSC to the Silicon Valley region and
Pacific Rim countries including Japan, China, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, India,
Canada, and Mexico among others. The School has been approached for potential
collaboration and exchange programs in recognition of our regional advantage and
promise for digital engineering leadership. It is envisioned that a faculty member in
the TIM program can lead this program in close consultation with the Dean of
Engineering, the Dean of Social Sciences Division, and the Director of the Silicon
Valley Center.
Below we summarize some ideas for taking advantage of the opportunities
available in the Pacific Rim:
•
Develop research and intern relationships with industries that are based in
the Pacific Rim;
•
Develop relationships with educational and research institutions in the
Pacific Rim, for example the Center for Remote Imaging, Sensing and
Processing headed by Prof. L. K. Kwoh at the National University of
Singapore;
•
Develop student exchange programs with Pacific Rim Universities; and
•
Target professional meetings in the Pacific Rim for participation.
7. Internship/CO-OP Programs
Much of the true education of an engineer takes place outside of the classroom and
university. For many engineers the motivation to excel in academic engineering derives
from initial contact and involvement with actual engineering projects in an industrial
setting. Engineering projects in an industrial setting allow exploration and specialization
of career choices as well an opportunity to gain practical experience. In addition, students
who have work experience also have more appreciation for classes and often do better
than other graduates in career development.
We propose the development of formal internship programs in partnership with
industry as a way to participate in this important process of academic and career
development. Corporate internships and other incentives will benefit both the School
and industry by encouraging enrollment in our programs.
The Electrical Engineering department proposes to develop a program to offer three
levels of summer internships: sophomore year as entry-level technician, junior year as
technician, senior year as engineer. An internship of three summers in a company adds
appreciably to the quality of project work as it allows students more involvement with the
project and the industry environment.
ASML (formerly Silicon Valley Group) and National Semiconductor have encouraged
the School to develop programs aimed directly at specialties of Electrical Engineering
analog circuit design that are in short supply. In addition, the School will actively
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develop and publicize internship opportunities at other industrial concerns and the
National Laboratories at Los Alamos and Livermore.
8. UCSC Silicon Valley Center
Our program initiatives at the UCSC Silicon Valley Center (SVC) are aimed to achieve
two goals:
1) Make pertinent undergraduate and graduate study more accessible to students
and professionals who live and work in Silicon Valley; and
2) Increase UCSC’s visibility and impact in Silicon Valley in the process.
The Technology and Information Management and Network Engineering programs have
been high priorities for the School’s SVC program because these programs cater to
working professionals who wish to update and augment their skills. As such, the
programs will attract more working students to SVC if they can be easily accessed. As
students explore the educational opportunities at the Silicon Valley Center, they will
become familiar with the programs offered on campus and highly qualified, motivated
students may choose to pursue advanced degrees at UCSC. In 2006 we plan to move our
MS in network engineering program to SVC, contingent upon the availability of the
program space. We have also offered our first set of courses in Technology and
Information Management. In fall 2007, we will launch a new graduate program in
Technology and Information Management at SVC. In addition, we are developing plans
to offer courses and projects in a proposed Masters of Engineering (MEng) program in
Electrical Engineering at the SVC. These courses would be taught jointly at the UCSC
main campus and the SVC and interactively videocast to the other campus.
The School anticipates SVC will enable the discovery of more opportunities to further
our goals. In research, many of NASA’s goals match our Areas of Excellence vision.
We will link our research programs in California ISIs (CITRIS and QB3) and research
centers and institutes (ITI, CBSE, CIMSS, SSRC, and ISSDM) to promote strong
research collaborations with NASA, and national laboratories such as Lawrence
Livermore Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Los Alamos Laboratory and the
technology industry in the region.
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SECTION 3: RESEARCH EXCELLENCE
Introduction
Our reputation will be based on our research excellence. In the next five years, we seek to
continue to advance and exceed our current level of research excellence. The School has an
exceptional position in that its field of study naturally lends itself to key contributions to
various fields of study throughout the campus. We have a unique spirit of collaboration
throughout the campus, reflected in our interdisciplinary partnerships. As the area of
engineering research grows, we will build upon our existing collaborative partnerships and
venture into dynamic related fields where opportunities for further collaborations and
new interdisciplinary connections will thrive. Total awards (not including $10.7 million in
gifts) are anticipated to grow to $26.2 million by 2010-11, resulting in indirect cost
recovery projections for the university of over $4.6 million by 2010-11.
The School plans to continue the expansion and support of focused research centers, such
as the existing: Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering, the Information and
Technology Institute, and the proposed Center for Innovative Materials, Sensors and
Systems which will evolve around interdisciplinary science and engineering. Each
activity encompasses a set of collaborative and interdisciplinary research centers founded
on our current and planned areas of excellence.
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APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS RESEARCH PROGRAMS
AMS strives to achieve research excellence in two main areas: dynamic mathematical
modeling of complex natural phenomena, and Bayesian statistical methods of inference,
prediction, and decision-making, in both cases with applications in engineering and the
sciences. Our focus is on modeling of the world around us, and our approach is
computationally intensive (through the numerical solution of systems of partial
differential equations in applied math and the use of Markov chain Monte Carlo methods
and other techniques for approximating high-dimensional integrals in statistics). We are
committed to full interdisciplinary collaborations in which we serve as co-PIs on grants
with investigators from other fields, so that our publications are a mix of methodology
articles in leading applied math and statistics journals and substantive articles in leading
journals in the fields in which we collaborate.
In the disciplines of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, we have identified the following
programmatic directions for research specializations of current faculty and future hires,
by targeting sub-disciplines in these two fields that (a) are envisioned to be of paramount
scholarly importance in the first half of the 21st century, (b) will lend distinction to the
existing AMS faculty, and (c) are likely to promote fruitful interdisciplinary interactions
at UCSC. Statisticians tend to work in more than one sub-discipline, so most of AMS's
existing statisticians are listed below more than once, and there will be strong interactions
among the research work in the three statistics sub-disciplines.
Each of the Applied Math (AM) and Statistics (S) groups naturally breaks down in
research specialization into 3 sub-groups; because each of these groups is equally
important and the SoE target for AMS of 8 faculty per Group is not divisible by 3, we
have anticipated the possibility of at least 1 additional hire in each Group in the future
beyond AY2011-12 (through a combination of increased central campus resources and/or
extramural funding to support the future Research Institute in Applied Mathematics and
Statistics (RIAMS) and/or non-RIAMS extramural funding and/or additional AMS
workload), making at least 3 ladder faculty in each research subgroup. See the AMS
appendix for details on current AMS faculty. (Abbreviations for interactions in the list
below: COH = Center for Ocean Health; STEPS = Science, Technology, Engineering and
Policy for Society Institute for Environmental Research; CSTAR = Center for Stock
Assessment Research; EEB = Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; ES = Earth Sciences;
MCDB = Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology; OS = Ocean Sciences; CfAO =
Center for Adaptive Optics; ETox = Environmental Toxicology; SCIPP = Santa Cruz
Institute for Particle Physics.)
• (AM) Mathematical biology (3 faculty) (Mangel, Wang, 1 new; SoE interactions
with Bioinformatics, BME; campus interactions with COH, STEPS, CSTAR,
EEB, ES, MCDB, Physics (especially biophysics, if UCSC starts a new initiative
in this field));
• (AM) Fluid dynamics (3) (Garaud, 2 new; SoE interactions with EE, CE; campus
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•
•
•
•
interactions with OS, ES, Astronomy/Astrophysics);
(AM) Optimization/control theory (3) (Cortes, 2 new; SoE interactions with EE,
CE, CS, Bioinformatics; campus interactions with Astronomy/Astrophysics, ES,
CfAO, ETox, Physics);
(S) Bayesian nonparametrics (3) (nonparametric distributional modeling,
nonparametric modeling of regression surfaces, connections with machine learning)
(Draper, Kottas, Lee, 1 new; SoE interactions with CS, BME; campus interactions
with CSTAR, Astronomy/Astrophysics, SCIPP);
(S) Bayesian environmetrics (3) (spatial-temporal modeling, environmental risk
assessment) (Draper, Lee, Sanso, 1 new; SoE interactions with CE, EE; campus
interactions with COH, CSTAR, STEPS, ETox, OS); and
(S) Computationally-intensive Bayesian inference, prediction and decision-making
(3) (Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, stochastic optimization) (Draper,
Kottas, Lee, Prado, Sanso, 2 new; SoE interactions with BME, CS, TIM; campus
interactions with EEB, MCDB, SCIPP, CSTAR).
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BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING RESEARCH PROGRAMS
The goal of the Biomolecular Engineering (BME) Department is to achieve a level of
excellence that will place us among the top five similar departments nationally. Distinct
from traditional bioengineering departments, the BME department will develop a new
blend of engineering, computational biology and nanotechnology that draws on current
strengths at UCSC, and reflects our vision of an important direction that biological and
medical discovery should take. The target areas of excellence, highlighted below,
intersect with all three areas of excellence identified for the Baskin School of
EngineeringIT, BT and NTand allow the department to play key roles in new
campus initiatives, such as the biomedical research focus of Molecular, Cell, and
Developmental (MCD) Biology, and Chemistry and Biochemistry.
Protein bioinformatics and engineering.
We currently have one of the leading groups in the world in protein structure prediction,
but much of the future of the computational study of proteins will be in designing
proteins. This is a natural direction for the Biomolecular Engineering Department to
pursue. Our strength is in the computational end of things, and BME needs to add a
faculty member who can lead the laboratory studies of protein structure and function.
Synthetic biology position
A new field in bioengineering is the engineering of existing biological systems by adding
several genes to existing organisms to create new signaling pathways and new functions.
The approach can be quite modular, reusing standard components, thus fitting in well
with engineering design styles in other disciplines. This field promises to be a particularly
fruitful area for 21st century bioengineering.
Bioinformatics position
David Haussler and Jim Kent have made the genome browser at genome.ucsc.edu the
best resource for comparative genomics in the world. Dr. Haussler sees the grand
challenge of the human genome as explaining the evolutionary history of every base of
the genome. This requires comparison with many other genomes across a wide variety of
organisms. The rate of new discoveries is exceeding what the current team can handle.
Furthermore, since Dr. Haussler and Dr. Kent are not teaching (except by advising grad
students), we are seriously short of faculty who train undergradutes and first-year
graduate students in the techniques of comparative genomics. We need to add a faculty
member to research, teach, and mentor in this new field to maintain our lead position.
Since we already have the premier research group, recruiting in this field should be
relatively easy.
Nanotechnology development/high throughput engineering
Our primary current expertise in Engineering for Biomolecules is in bioinformatics, a
form of information engineering. We also have expertise in DNA microarray technology,
but need to expand into additional high throughput techniques, such as micro fluidics,
proteomic and microarray technologies, and robotics. Without such an expansion, it will
be difficult to launch our academic programs in bioengineering and biomolecular
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engineering. We expect these new faculty members to have strong collaborative potential
with our existing research programs. Thus, proteomics or microarrays would be the most
likely areas for the high-throughput technology position, and nanotechnology related to
existing nanopore science or other areas in BME and collaborating programs.
Stem Cell Biology
Research in stem cell biology is opening doors to understanding fundamental problems in
molecular biology, and BME seeks to recruit faculty members taking a biomolecular
engineering approach to solving problems in stem cell biology. The differentiation of
stem cells into specialized cells is a complex process involving networks of genes linked
together by transcriptional regulatory circuits, intracellular signaling cascades, and cellcell interactions. Our understanding about the detailed events and the genes involved in
these processes is incomplete.
New developments in stem cell biology take a genome-wide approach to analyze the
entire network of genes and how their function is modulated during development. New
biomolecular engineering techniques in stem cell biology will contribute to our
understanding of the causal genetic events underlying how cells specialize from stem cell
progenitors. These approaches will greatly complement our strengths in genomics and
bioinformatics, creating opportunities for new avenues of scientific investigation.
Systems Biology
We seek to recruit faculty members doing research in the area of Systems Biology. New
high-throughput advances in molecular biology research are quickly changing how
biological problems are being solved. Exciting research in this area lies at the interface
between biology and engineering. To complement our expertise in computational
analysis of genome-wide datasets, we seek colleagues that will develop new technologies
for measuring molecular phenomena of entire cells or tissues on a global scale. These
include but are not limited to techniques for measuring transcriptional changes,
alternative splicing, protein abundance, protein modification state, genome-wide
knockout studies, and synthetic genetic interaction mapping. We seek faculty that are
applying existing technologies to new biological questions, especially those relating to
stem cell research, as this is another one of our target areas.
Biosensors
We aim to recruit faculty involved in biosensor research for two reasons. First, biosensors
can be highly specific, inexpensive and portable, therefore they will play an increasing
role in disease diagnosis, forensics, detection of pathogens in food and water supplies,
and detection of airborne pathogens released from bioweapons. Second, biosensors
require research expertise at the interface between electrical engineering, nanoscale
fabrication, data processing, control theory and biochemistry. Biomolecular Engineering
(and the Baskin School of Engineering more generally) has already established effective
interdisciplinary research between faculty in these areas. Therefore, we are optimistic that
new faculty recruits working on biosensors will thrive in this environment.
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Genomics/Stem cell biology
The priority here is determined by the same issues described above for seeking a stem
cell biologist. Here the emphasis will be to complement that hire with a second hire using
computational analysis of stem cell data. The differentiation of stem cells into specialized
cells involves networks of genes, and signaling cascades. Understanding the genes
involved in these processes can only be done using the methods of genomics and
bioinformatics. We therefore seek colleagues who can train undergraduate and graduate
students in this burgeoning field, as well as competing for Proposition 71 research grants.
Modeling
Computational modeling of biological processes is now an essential aspect of
contemporary research in biomolecular engineering. Such modeling ranges from
molecular dynamics simulations of individual molecules as they interact with other cell
structures, to establishing interactomes that describe all protein-protein interactions
occurring in a given cell type, to models of physiological and electrophysiological
processes that underlie tissue level function. Expertise in modeling is therefore required
for Biomolecular Engineering, and we will seek new faculty members who can bring
their expertise to the UCSC campus.
Biomaterials
Virtually all of the advances in understanding biomolecules and their applications in
research and biotechnology now involve novel materials. Examples of collaboration
between the departments of Biomolecular Engineering and Electrical Engineering include
the silicon nitride nanopores being developed for DNA sequencing, the ARROW
waveguides that will be applied to single molecule detection devices, and implantable
electrodes that will enable vision in the blind. All of these materials are being
investigated on an ad hoc basis, and we do not have colleagues who focus on biomaterials
in their research. For this reason we seek to hire a faculty member who will establish this
area in BME, who can train undergraduate and graduate students in biomaterials and who
will participate in the university’s effort to establish biomaterial efforts between the SOE
and the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences.
Microbial engineering
Synthetic biology relies in large part on devising “toolkits” of genetic information that
can be used to program microorganisms and eukaryotic cells such as stem cells. A faculty
member specializing in microbial engineering will therefore complement our new hire in
synthetic biology that was described above, as well as providing expertise in growing an
engineering live cells. We see this individual as an essential component of a complete
department with the research theme of biomolecular engineering.
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COMPUTER ENGINEERING RESEARCH PROGRAMS
We maintain a modified 10-year plan focus on five core areas of computer engineering,
and are initiating a crosscutting emphasis on assistive technologies. During the coming 5
years, we will most particularly be emphasizing full development of the Embedded and
Autonomous Systems area, in particular robotics and control, and the Assistive
Technology emphasis. The growth in Autonomous systems will be one of many efforts
in the SOE to develop Mechanical Engineering like programs within the existing
departments of the SOE. Assistive Technology is one component of our growing
interdisciplinary and interdivisional programs in bioengineering. In the longer term we
wish to see at least five faculty members in each of our areas of excellence to provide
critical mass for strong research programs able to present and fund focused large projects
with multiple PIs. The areas include:
•
Computer System Design studies the creation of computer and digital systems
to solve problems. We currently perform work in parallel and distributed
computation, performance modeling, field-programmable gate array (FPGA) and
very large scale integration (VLSI) system design, and computer architecture. We
are presently engaged in a recruitment in the area of VLSI and/or Reconfigurable
System Design. Primarily the SOE area of Computer Systems, Storage, and
Architecture. (Brandwajn, Hughey (in part), Renau, 2005-06 Recruitment);
•
Design Technologies includes both the hardware and software technology
needed to design and build complex digital systems. Our current research includes
Computer Aided Design (CAD) for nanoscale system design, CAD for FPGA
design, and CAD for VLSI design and testing. Primarily the SOE area of VLSI,
Nanosystems, and Materials. (Chan, Ferguson, Larrabee, Schlag);
•
Computer Networks includes the technology, software, and algorithms required
to make large networks of computing devices. Research areas presently include
design and evaluation of protocols for wired and wireless networks, network
switching, sensor networks, and internetworking research. Sensor networks are
collaborative networks of inexpensive sensors that enable, for example, smart
highways and sophisticated environmental monitoring. We have developed
several sensor networks in collaboration with EEB faculty to solve various
environmental monitoring problems. This group collaborates with the faculty in
Electrical Engineering and EEB, and includes graduate students from Computer
Engineering and Computer Science. Primarily, the SOE area of Networks; and
partially the SOE areas of Remote Sensing and Environmental Technology; and
Formal Methods and Security (Garcia-Luna, Obraczka, Varma, 2008-09
Recruitment);
•
Digital Media and Sensor Technology has an emphasis on computer systems
and technologies for video processing, sensor networks, and distance education.
Our current research includes image and video reconstruction and modeling,
vision for robotics, visual tracking and surveillance, embedded vision systems,
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and human-computer interaction. Research strengths in Electrical Engineering and
in Computer Science complement several of these areas. Part of the SOE areas of
Graphics & Visualization, Computer Game, Computer Vision, HCI; and of
Communications, Signal and Image Processing. (Manduchi, Mantey, Tao); and
•
Embedded and Autonomous Systems focuses on three related areas: embedded
systems, control, and autonomous systems. Embedded systems include the
ubiquitous computers in aircraft, automobiles, and consumer electronics. Control
involves the use of mathematical models and algorithms to control complex
mechanical or other systems. Autonomous systems are mobile embedded systems
that are able to sense and interact with the environment. The integration of
physical, electronic, and computer components into a working autonomous mobile
system is a very difficult problem and a growing area of research. Autonomous
systems will have a major social and technological impact, with applications
encompassing medical robots, interplanetary exploration, aid for the motionimpaired, and unmanned rescue missions. Research strengths in Applied
Mathematics and Statistics and in Electrical Engineering complement this area.
Primarily the SOE area of Autonomous Systems; and partially the SOE areas of
Formal Methods and Security; and of Software Engineering and Databases. (de
Alfaro, Dunbar, Elkaim, 2007-08 recruitment, 2009-10 recruitment, 2010-11
recruitment).
Finally, we have our cross-cutting emphasis of Assistive Technology. We expect
that most of the Department’s Assistive Technology research will take place
within the Embedded and Autonomous Systems area and the Digital Media and
Sensor Technology area.
•
Assistive Technologies considers the use of computer and other technology to
improve functional capabilities of individuals with disabilities. Growth of this
emphasis will help enable the creation of undergraduate and graduate
Bioengineering programs, and also define a new educational and training model for
the engineer of the future, focusing on human—centered design. The National
Academy of Engineering, in its 2005 report The Engineer of 2020, found one of
the four primary challenges for the Engineer of 2020 to be creating and designing
“technology for an aging population". We plan a unique and timely emphasis in
this area, most strongly aligned with our Embedded and Autonomous Systems and
our Digital Media and Sensor Technology groups. Research strengths in Electrical
Engineering and Psychology complement this area. Primarily the SOE area of
Assistive Technologies and Biomimetic Devices. (Manduchi, 2005-6 Recruitment)
During 2004-05, the CE research program generated nearly $3.5M among 16 resident
faculty members, and has more than doubled its level of research funding per faculty
member over the past five years.
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COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH PROGRAMS
The Computer Science Department carries out a substantial research program that
focuses on selected key areas of computer science and strives for synergistic interaction
with other disciplines in science and engineering. The Computer Science department
already contributes strongly to the campus's research excellence in several key areas,
including:
• Computer Systems (especially storage systems);
• Machine Learning;
• Software Engineering;
• Database Systems;
• Trustworthy Computing; and,
• Visualization, Graphics, and Human-Computer Interfaces.
In the 1980s much emphasis was placed on high performance computing, but the past
decade has seen a shift in emphasis to what could be described as "information
technology infrastructure". This encompasses the storage, maintenance, manipulation,
transmission, and retrieval of information in an efficient and secure way. In addition to
established areas like operating systems, distributed systems, relational database systems,
and networks, the emerging areas of storage systems, heterogeneous databases, data
mining, and computer security play a significant role in this information technology
infrastructure area.
The Computer Science Department will build on its excellent Storage Systems
Group led by Professor Darrell Long and on its security expert Professor Martin Abadi to
become a top department in this information technology infrastructure area. This ties into
the strong computer networks group in the Computer Engineering department. This
information technology infrastructure area achieves synergy with the other research foci
of the department and school, as well as between its component areas. Not only is the
Bioinformatics Group interested in both genomic databases and data mining of genomic
data, but data-mining and the machine learning area have significant synergy and many
graphics applications can benefit from efficient large storage systems.
The Database Systems Group has three faculty led by Phokion Kolaitis. The two tenure
track faculty, Assistant Professor Tan and Assistant Professor Polyzotis, have won NSF
CAREER Awards. This group is important to both the Storage Systems interest in CS
and to data-mining and data management issues in TIM.
The Machine Learning group is led by Professor Manfred Warmuth and is recognized as
one of the leaders in developing and explaining some of the most successful machine
learning algorithms and paradigms, such as: Boosting, On-line Learning Algorithms,
Adaptive Algorithms, and Support Vector Machines. The Computer Science hiring plan
includes adding applied learning faculty who will help put into practice the fundamental
advances generated by our strong group of learning faculty and increase our visibility in
the more empirical learning communities. In addition to the synergies between Machine
Learning and the areas of Computational Biology, Bayesian Statistics, and Artificial
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Intelligence, there is a strong synergy between the Machine Learning faculty and the
Storage Systems group as the adaptive algorithms developed by the Machine Learning
group can be used to improve performance on a variety of systems tasks.
Visualization has emerged as one of the most important ways to assimilate data or
information that has traditionally been presented in the textual or tabular form. The
importance of utilizing other senses such as sound, gesture, pose, haptics and smell, in
order to create a compelling scenario for learning, exploring, and discovery has given rise
to fervent research activities in the area of virtual reality interfaces. Related challenges
spur research activities in visualization, graphics, human-computer interaction,
collaborative/distance learning, user interfaces and digital media. The Computer
Science Department currently has a group of three strong graphics faculty (Assistant
Professor Jim Davis and Professors Alex Pang and Suresh Lodha), one of the best
graphics groups in the UC system. This group has close working ties with several
agencies within the Silicon Valley, and has worked with other groups within the
department, e.g., visualizing protein alignment data and real time environmental data.
Careful hiring in the sub areas of Human-computer Interaction and virtual reality along
with the development of a top-notch display showcase/virtual reality lab will allow
UCSC to become a national leader in this field. This also ties into Computer Gaming and
Digital Media research.
Software Engineering is one of the major programmatic initiatives of the School of
Engineering; as such, it is a planned area of excellence of both the Computer Science
department and the School of Engineering as a whole. The Computer Science department
is taking the lead to successfully develop software engineering at UCSC with the help of
the CE department. Our initial hire in the area, Assistant Professor Jim Whitehead, has
an NSF CAREER award. More recently, Associate Professor Cormac Flanagan won a
Sloan Fellowship. We see an opportunity for UCSC to achieve national eminence in this
area by hiring outstanding software engineering faculty, developing first-rate graduate
programs, and establishing a high-profile research and educational presence at the Silicon
Valley Center.
We are currently recruiting faculty in Computer Gaming in order to create a new submajor. This is important in that computer gaming is a fast growing research area that
integrates existing strengths in the department. Graphics, AI, Software Engineering are
critical to such an effort as is the Digital Media program making this an interdivisional
initiative.
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ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH PROGRAMS
Since its formal establishment in AY2000-01, the Electrical Engineering has endeavored
to advance a research agenda in a few focused, but overlapping areas. These focus areas
broadly include the following:
• Photonics and electronics;
• VLSI, MEMS, and nanotechnology; and
• Signal processing, communications and remote sensing.
Although we are still focused in these general areas at some level, there is significant
overlap between these areas and we have begun to emphasize life science applications in
most of the areas. We see the intersection of the life sciences with engineering (and
particularly electrical engineering) as one of the intellectually exciting areas of the future.
This is true not only for the instrumentation arena, but also in the biomedical,
environmental and materials areas as well. The department is beginning to build up
major foci in these application areas. Building on existing strengths, we are beginning to
develop nano/microtechnology for a variety of bio/biomedical applications. A key
strength of the department and a major distinguishing feature is the research focus on the
underlying science necessary to solve important engineering problems.
Our faculty have key collaborations across divisional boundaries with colleagues in
Applied Mathematics, Astronomy, Chemistry, Physics, Molecular, Cell and
Developmental Biology, Earth Sciences, Ocean Sciences, and Education, both on and off
campus, and with various medical schools. In addition, EE faculty not only have research
ties with colleagues in all of the other engineering departments at UCSC, but also, faculty
from those departments teach courses that some of our students are required to take.
EE faculty have played major roles (PI or co-PI) in large scale, externally funded, multiinvestigator, multi-institution research centers. The NSF Engineering Research Center in
Biomimetic, Microelectronic Systems (USC, lead; UCSC, CalTech) and the ONR Center
for Thermionic Energy Conversion (UCSC, lead; UCB, UCSB, Purdue, Harvard, North
Carolina State) are just two examples.
We also see the intersection of the environmental sciences and electrical engineering as
another emerging area in which our faculty are getting involved. They are not only
working on both developing novel forms of remote sensors for earth and ocean
environments, but they are also investigating many aspects of the “physical layer” of
wireless communications needed to tie networks of sensors (radar, sonar and optical)
together in order to sense multidimensionally on a large scale.
With a significant program in opto-thermo-electric conversion devices, some faculty
members in the EE department are also looking at alternative methods of energy
conversion.
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The other exciting area in which we plan to expand (and which overlaps with the other
areas) is that of low power/analog/mixed signal circuit design. The need for such circuitry
not only in biomedical diagnostics, but also in many other remote sensing and
communication scenarios is enormous, and there is a pressing need for students skilled in
that art in the industries of northern California and elsewhere.
A planned expansion in “materials for devices” is consistent with the university effort to
build up a materials research core between physics, chemistry and EE and a biomaterials
emphasis with MCD Biology; the ultimate goal being to propose to develop a NSF
funded Materials Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) at UCSC. There is a
consensus among SOE and the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences that bringing
together condensed matter science, materials chemistry and application development in a
limited number of important focus areas is the most important approach in laying the
groundwork for a MRSEC, provided that the applications drive the foundational science.
Towards this end, the SOE and the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences will be
putting together a committee to further explore the recommendations of the 2005
Materials Initiatives white paper.
If we are serious in carving a niche for nanotechnology at UCSC, we need to concentrate
on bringing in external dollars for large-scale research centers where we can take
advantage of the economy of scale and leveraging which such centers allow. EE faculty
are deeply involved in building collaborations with the University Affiliated Research
Center at NASA-Ames, not only in developing joint programs, but also in the planning of
the Bio-Info-Nano Research and Development Institute (BIN-RDI) to be developed at the
Ames Research Park. Such development will aid in our goal of creating large-scale
research centers led by EE faculty and crossing departmental and divisional boundaries.
In addition to having EE play a major role in developing a materials research effort here
at UCSC, we also are looking towards having an NSF funded ERC (or equivalent) led by
EE faculty within the next half decade. We are exploring the idea of initiating a Center
for Nanotechnology and Renewable Energies. An EE faculty member is looking at the
possibility of proposing an ERC in Adaptive Optics as the successor to the NSF-funded
STC Center for Adaptive Optics among several possibilities. Finally, we are bringing
together faculty from diverse disciplines from UCSC and NASA-Ames to look at the
possibility of putting together a proposal for a Center for the Exploration of the Limits of
Life (CELL) in the next round of NSF Science and Technology Centers (2007). We see
the cost-effectiveness of large scale centers not only from a research point of view, but
also from the point of view of being able to allow students to participate in solving large
scale, important societal problems, and in being able fund the resources to deliver more
professional development opportunities to students (such programs are integral
components of such centers). Furthermore, such centers are able to offer more outreach
opportunities to students traditionally underrepresented in engineering disciplines. We
will work closely with the Graduate Division as we begin to put together such center
proposals such that we can leverage and augment the professional development programs
already in existence at UCSC.
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There are several key issues that the department faces in the near-term and long term. The
most critical one is that of appropriate infrastructure. As the EE department has grown in
the device and nanotechnology area, more materials processing needs and specialty
spaces have become essential. Moreover, some of the areas of proposed expansion will
also be heavily in such areas because those are the exciting interface areas of the future
and there will be an increasing demand for students trained in those areas in Silicon
Valley industries. Thus, there is a critical need in EE for wet chemistry, materials
processing and characterization space (much of this needs to be in vibration and EM
interference free environments). Please see the EE 5-year plan in the appendix section
for specific recommendations.
Future Opportunities for Investment in New Endeavors
As mentioned previously, we plan to develop a coherent materials effort at UCSC in
collaboration with the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences with the ultimate aim
of being successful at bring an NSF funded MRSEC to UCSC. Coupled with the
materials efforts going on at NASA-Ames and the development of a Bio-Info-Nano
Research and Development Institute there and the potential of the TI building for further
long-term expansion, we feel we are moving in the right track to have a successful end.
Plan for Extramural Research Support
As mentioned previously, the present external funding per faculty FTE in EE is about
$320K per year (about $4.1M total last year excluding gifts). This external funding per
faculty has been steadily increasing since the EE department’s inception. Our goal is to
increase the external funding level to be more like $500-$600K per faculty by 2010,
consistent with the top ten EE departments to the country. We plan to do this by
concentrating on several approaches:
•
Developing interdisciplinary training program proposals to the NSF, NIBIB and
DofED, to name a few. These proposals will allow for more multiyear promised
financial support than we can do at present. (currently we can offer none!)
Moreover, such programs will allow for student rotation in different labs the first
year and will provide leverage for further research grants. This should increase
the quality of our graduate students and make us more competive with other
major research institutions in graduate recruitment;
•
Concentration of efforts in developing large scale externally funded center grants,
such as ERC’s, STC’s and NCRR resources;
•
Increase the diversity of funding sources to include a wider range of federal
agencies as well as private foundations;
•
Develop closer ties to the national labs and NASA-Ames (through the UARC and
the BIN-RDI); and
•
By actively recruiting U.S. citizens and permanent residents to our graduate
program. This will allow us to increase the number of students per research dollar,
thus facilitating more ambitious programs to be undertaken.
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As the department matures, we hope to be able to operate in the black and get the cash
flow necessary to develop the administrative infrastructure to allow the faculty to more
easily put together large scale research proposals. At present, we have faculty actively
involved in investigating the possibilities of proposals for externally funded centers on
the following topics:
•
An ERC for Nanotechnology and Renewable Energy Resources;
•
An ERC for Adaptive Optics;
•
An STC for a Center for the Exploration of the Limits of Life;
•
A training program in Imaging Across Scales;
•
An Institute for Air Traffic Management (with the UARC);
•
A Materials Science and Engineering Research Center; and
•
A Center for Innovative Materials, Sensors and Systems.
It needs to be mentioned again, that a crucial aid in allowing to pursue these various
pathways is the ability to be able attract esteemed research/adjunct faculty. UCSC needs
to be able to streamline the process in which we get adjunct appointments. This is not
only a problem for electrical engineering, and engineering as a whole, but will also be a
program for the proposed School of Management.
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TECHNOLOGY AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
Research Overview
TIM faculty will carry out cutting edge research in business intelligence, service
engineering, knowledge engineering, risk engineering, new product development,
innovation management, enterprise integration, and application of knowledge and
emerging technologies to business enterprises. More specifically, we have identified
service science and knowledge engineering as the most exciting opportunities for
the near future. Our prior research work and on-going collaboration with Silicon Valley
companies, such as Cisco, IBM, Yahoo, and HP have given TIM a major advantage in
business knowledge engineering. We will sustain our excellence in this area, especially in
the context of service economy.
There are several future opportunities for investment in new endeavors including
• Robotics for business;
• Knowledge engineering in health system or biology;
• Information management in social networks; and
• Managing innovation.
These new endeavors provide significant opportunities for interdivisional collaborations
with many departments within School of Engineering and Division of Social Sciences.
We are extremely well poised to take advantage of campus schemes to promote
interdivisional collaboration.
Plan for Extramural Research Support
The five TIM faculty are actively engaged in seeking extramural research support. With
only 1 tenured faculty (mostly tied up with administration and service) and 3 tenure track
faculty with average time at UCSC being less than 1 year, and 1 adjunct faculty (who is
teaching 4.2 classes a year and shouldering several responsibilities including
undergraduate directorship and SVC infrastructural development and outreach), we
believe TIM has made excellent progress. Successful funding in the past couple of years
include two NASA projects funded through UARC competition, and research projects
funed by HP and Cisco.
2003-04 was the first year for TIM with Professor Ram Akella being the only faculty
with the mission of building the program and no extramural funding was obtained that
year. During 2004-05, Professor Akella obtained $64,000 from HP, $15,000 from Cisco
and $132,000 from NASA for a total of $211,000. During this period, Prof. Kevin Ross
obtained $31,958 from NASA/UARC funding. Thus, the total funding received by the
TIM program during 2004-05 was $243,000 approximately. Prof. John Musacchio joined
in January 2005 and Professor Yi Zhang has joined in Fall 2005.
TIM faculty is engaged in writing a NSF CAREER grant, two or three collaborative NSF
grants, grants in collaboration with CE and Economics faculty. TIM has submitted a
grant to Samsung in collaboration with the SOE Dean. TIM is interested in participating
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in an IGERT grant and is looking to campus leadership to articulate some principles
(such as no more than two chances to one group) so that every group can get a fair chance
of participating in these grants which are limited to two per institution. TIM faculty is
actively pursuing several industry contacts with many companies including IBM for
research funding.
Campus funding for seed projects involving interdivisional collaboration will also prove
very useful to TIM faculty.
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FOCUSED RESEARCH CENTERS
Introduction
The purpose of the School’s focused research centers is the fostering of interdivisional
interactions through joint research projects, coordinated faculty hiring, and the
development of joint academic programs designed for a better understanding of
information technology, engineering and industry.
The School plans to have three organized research units: Center for Biomolecular Science
and Engineering, Institute for Networking, Information Technologies Institute and the
Center for Innovative Materials, Sensors, and Systems. These units will be centered on
multidisciplinary science and engineering including materials engineering, life science
engineering and environmental engineering. Each unit encompasses a set of research
activities with focus on our targeted areas of excellence.
1. The Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering (CBSE)
The Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering is the most mature of the Focused
Research Activities (FRA) housed within the Baskin School of Engineering. It supports
interdisciplinary endeavors in engineering and science, offering unique opportunities for
research and learning in bioinformatics and related fields. The blend of academic
programs at UCSC allows students to pursue challenging avenues of study in biomedical
research, bioinformatics, environmental toxicology, and related areas at the forefront of
discovery. Community studies and philosophy programs address the ethical, social, and
legal implications of today’s scientific research.
Directed by Biomolecular Engineering Professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
(HHMI) investigator David Haussler, the CBSE currently has 62 faculty members from
12 departments spanning the School of Engineering, the Division of Physical and
Biological Science, and the Division of Social Sciences:
• Applied Mathematics and Statistics (4);
• Biomolecular Engineering (8);
• Chemistry and Biochemistry (16);
• Community Studies (1);
• Computer Engineering (4);
• Computer Science (3);
• Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (1);
• Electrical Engineering (3);
• Environmental Toxicology (5);
• Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology (15);
• Philosophy (1); and
• Physics (1).
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The CBSE first took shape in 1999 and became an official FRA early in 2001. Contrary
to the original plan, the CBSE will not apply to become an Organized Research Unit
(ORU), because UCOP no longer funds these entities.
The CBSE mission
CBSE fosters interdisciplinary research and academic programs that address the scientific
questions of the post-genomic era—the scientific opportunities resulting from the
completion of the human genome project and the sequencing of other model organisms. It
serves as an umbrella organization to promote the exploration of new biological and
biomedical questions resulting from genome sequencing and advances in biomolecular
science. Its affiliates blend cutting-edge computational approaches with new research in
biology, chemistry, and engineering.
CBSE takes advantage of our location in the San Francisco Bay Area and proximity to
Silicon Valley to foster research collaborations between UCSC and other world-class
institutions (Stanford, UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco) and leading biotechnology and
high tech companies.
Goals:
• Promote interdisciplinary research in areas that encompass the study of genomic
information and structural biology;
• Support the UCSC Genome Browser, a crucial resource for the international scientific
community;
• Support a core of facilities, such as the KiloKluster data processing system and
microarray facility;
• Help meet the need for trained professionals in industry and academia by developing
courses, curricula, and internships leading to degrees in the areas of bioinformatics
and biomolecular engineering;
• Attract research funding for the center, for affiliated faculty, and for students from
federal, state, and private agencies; and
• Cultivate and maintain mutually beneficial relationships with industry through
research collaborations, internship opportunities, and gifting programs.
Participation in multi-campus organizations
The CBSE serves as the contact point and administrator for UCSC’s involvement in two
multi-campus organizations, the California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical
Research (QB3) and the Bioengineering Institute of California.
• QB3: The CBSE coordinates UCSC’s participation in QB3, one of the first California
Institutes of Science and Innovation (Cal ISI). A cooperative effort between UCSF,
UCB, UCSC, and industry, QB3 endeavors to harness the quantitative sciences to
create fundamental new discoveries, products, and technologies for the benefit of
human health. The CBSE also served as primary consultant in the design of QB3funded space in the new Engineering 2 building, completed in summer 2004 and in
the new Physical Sciences building, which is nearing completion.
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• Bioengineering Institute of California: The CBSE coordinated UCSC’s participation
in a proposal for the Bioengineering Institute of California, a UC-wide Multi-Campus
Research Unit (MRU). This proposal was accepted in 2003, and CBSE now
represents the campus in this institute. The institute focuses on intercampus research
in the area of biomedical engineering. It facilitates an annual symposium on
bioengineering that brings researchers from throughout the University of California
together with scientists from California industry. The institute also directs itself
toward providing the infrastructure for intercampus communication, data sharing, and
broadcasting of teaching materials.
Accomplishments and focus areas
The CBSE first took shape in 1999 and became an official FRA early in 2001. Rather
than pursuing a defined academic vision, the CBSE has worked in support of departments
and faculty affiliates to help bring to fruition academic objectives that are in line with our
mission, such as training grants and the development of new departments and facilities.
For example, the interdisciplinary research and faculty recruitment efforts of the CBSE
paved the way for the creation of the new Biomolecular Engineering department in the
School of Engineering. The programs and projects described below further illustrate the
role that CBSE plays in the academic fabric of UCSC.
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First working draft sequence of the human genome: On July 7, 2000, Jim Kent and
David Haussler posted the first working draft of the human genome sequence on the
internet at www.genome.ucsc.edu for free and unrestricted access by all people.
Within 24 hours, the scientific community downloaded one-half trillion bytes of
information from the UCSC genome server, their first access to the assembled
blueprint of our human species.
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The UCSC Genome Browser: Soon after the initial posting of human genome on the
UCSC website, Haussler and Kent developed an interactive genome browser, now
used by thousands of biomedical researchers every day. The publicly funded UCSC
browser allows researchers to view all 23 chromosomes of the human genome at any
scale from a full chromosome down to an individual nucleotide. Since releasing the
human genome, they have performed related work for the mouse, the rat, other
mammals, and more distantly related species. This unprecedented tool opens up a
deeper understanding of the origins of disease and the evolution of our species. It is
used extensively in biomedical research, accessed by thousands of researchers from
around the globe every day. The Genome Browser project now employs a staff of 20,
which is expected to grow by half over the next five years. The browser forms the
basis for many graduate and postdoctoral research projects focused on understanding
the nature of the human genome and how its code translates to organism development
and function.
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Bioinformatics graduate programs: CBSE developed and submitted the proposal for
the Bioinformatics M.S. and Ph.D. programs, which became formal in fall 2003.
UCSC has developed one of the top bioinformatics research programs in the country
under the leadership of David Haussler, Kevin Karplus, and Richard Hughey. UCSC
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is now the only UC campus and one of just seven universities in the United States to
offer all three degrees in bioinformatics. From the time they arrive on campus,
bioinformatics M.S. and Ph.D. candidates participate in cutting-edge research.
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Department of Biomolecular Engineering (BME): CBSE developed the proposal for
this new department, launched In February 2004 within the School of Engineering.
The BME department features an interdisciplinary blend of engineering, biology, and
chemistry designed to foster collaboration with other departments. This
interdisciplinary department reflects our vision of the direction that biomedical
discovery will take over the next two decades. The department has 8 faculty members
to date and is expected to grow to 14.
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NIH training grants: CBSE assisted the departments of biomolecular engineering and
of molecular, cell, and developmental (MCD) biology in applying for and receiving
NIH training grants designed to support graduate students involved in specified areas
of biomedical research. In addition to directly supporting graduate students, the grants
also provide flexible funding departments can use to support graduate training
programs. The five-year grants amount to $850,000 for MCD biology and $800,000
for biomolecular engineering. Under these grants, student training includes a rotation
program in which they spend time working in different laboratories with faculty in
both biomolecular engineering and MCD biology.
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Stem cell training grant: CBSE coordinated and submitted a proposal to the California
Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) for a 3-year, $1.2 million training grant
to establish a new training program in the systems biology of stem cells. This grant
will fund the training of three graduate students and three postdoctoral fellows each
year. CBSE will support this program in a number of ways, including administering
the budget, hiring staff, establishing the laboratory facility, coordinating the
development of the curriculum, and the selection and disbursement of fellowships.
David Haussler will serve as program director, and 11 other faculty from the
departments of biomolecular engineering, electrical engineering, and MCD biology
will serve as mentors. This program reflects our commitment to interdisciplinary
research and education at the interface of science and engineering, and it takes
advantage of the fact that many of our faculty regularly work across the divisional
boundaries. The program will underscore the value of stem cell research in
developing therapies and cures for human disease and establish UC Santa Cruz as a
stem cell training and research center.
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Bioengineering symposium: In June 2005, UCSC hosted the 6th annual UC SystemWide Bioengineering Symposium for the Bioengineering Institute of California. The
CBSE coordinated every aspect of this annual event, a three-day symposium entitled,
"Envisioning the Biomedical Future." The symposium had 172 participants from the
biotechnology industry, the National Institutes of Health, and all of the UC campuses.
It brought together a broad range of scientists and students to exchange ideas and
share recent advances in the field of bioengineering. Speakers throughout the
symposium showed how advances in biomolecular engineering are shaping the
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biomedical future. And UCSC researchers are among those at the forefront of these
developments.
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Diversity outreach activities, fellowships & awards: CBSE works to increase the
diversity of students and researchers involved in genome research and in exploring its
surrounding ethical, legal, and social implications. Through an NHGRI-sponsored
program, the CBSE actively recruits students at national conferences hosted by
SACNAS, SHPE, NSBE, and SWE, and through programs such as MESA, CAMP,
MARC/MBRS, MEP, ACE, and ACCESS. The CBSE hosts an annual summer
workshop on genome-related research for students and teachers. We offer diversity
fellowships to graduate students and awards to undergraduates at UCSC who are
working on genome-related research projects. We also increase public awareness of
the potential benefits and risks of genome research through talks offered to schools
and community groups.
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Research collaborations among faculty in different fields. Here are a few notable
examples:
o The CBSE coordinated and obtained a $1 million Packard Foundation
grant, “Bioinformatics and Microarray Expression Analysis of Nervous
System Function,” that allowed UCSC to build and staff a state-of-the-art
microarray facility, directed by HHMI Professor Manny Ares in MCD
biology. This grant ran from 2000 to 2004, with an extension to 2005;
o Recent research characterizing a potential drug target on the SARS virus
that began with the development of a genome browser for SARS in the
Center for Genomic Sciences and was conducted by two different
laboratories in the MCD biology department and the chemistry &
biochemistry department; and
o Nanopore detectors, instruments built around a tiny pore in a membrane or
thin, solid-state wafer, hold promise for genome sequencing. This project
resides in the biomolecular engineering lab of Mark Akeson and David
Deamer (chemistry and biochemistry). Early on, a computer science
graduate student developed a machine-learning algorithm capable of
identifying the DNA base pairs in real time as they enter the nanopore,
creating an interdisciplinary collaboration that continues today, now that
he is an assistant professor at another institution. This device, when fully
developed, should have many possible uses such as DNA fingerprinting,
detection of disease genes, and pathogen identification.
Funding and operating expenses
Most of the major funding agencies and private foundations allocate substantial portions
of their budgets to research awards in areas relevant to the CBSEbioinformatics,
proteomics, and various types of technology development. The CBSE faculty affiliates
are strong candidates for such awards, and individually and through collaborative projects
organized by the CBSE, they have had extraordinary success in obtaining extramural
funds.
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CBSE operates entirely from extramural sources. David Haussler’s NHGRI award covers
most of the genome browser staff, postdoctoral scholars, graduate students,
undergraduate researchers, some administrative staff, and our outreach coordinator.
Further funding for research staff and postdoctoral students is derived from Haussler’s
grant from the National Cancer Institute. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
directly employs some of our staff, and covers much of the operating budget for the
CBSE office and for the Haussler wet lab. QB3 funds some administrative staff and
capital projects and will soon begin to offer funding for postdoctoral scholars and
graduate students to be distributed among QB3 affiliates at UCSC.
The CBSE currently has 28 staff members associated with the Haussler laboratory and
the UCSC Genome Browser: 5 administrators and 23 research and technical staff
members. We expect this staff to grow further within the next 5 years. The CBSE also
funds 6 postdoctoral scholars and about a dozen graduate students.
2. The Information Technologies Institute
The Information Technologies Institute (ITI) is a Focused Research Activity (FRA) and
is operationally within the Baskin School of Engineering (SOE). Via its research centers,
ITI focuses research in an inter-related set of areas of interest to faculty in Computer
Science, Computer Engineering, and Electrical Engineering (as well as some from
Physics, Chemistry, and Applied Mathematics).
Areas of emphasis include:
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Design and development of complex networked systems and software
technologies;
Storage systems and databases;
Multimedia systems and applications in education and business management;
Communications;
Opto-electronics (including nanotechnology devices);
VLSI design, packaging, testing;
Sensors, sensor systems and Internet appliances;
Visualization and computer graphics;
Knowledge management / data mining; and
Decision support tools.
For ITI, advanced "Internet" applications provide the impetus and focus that bring
together the components of research related to the rapidly expanding world of networks,
distributed computing, "smart" sensors and Internet appliances. As electronics and
packaging developments lead to low cost and powerful sensors, resulting in a broad array
of instruments, these become Internet devices, bringing a significant increase in the data
captured, transmitted, stored, managed, and displayed. ITI also promotes research in
applications of the emerging capabilities of the Internet to such exciting areas as distance
education and telecollaboration, environmental monitoring, and resource management.
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Directed by Computer Engineering Professor Patrick Mantey, ITI has faculty from
throughout the School of Engineering, and also has participation from the Division of
Physical and Biological Science, the Division of Social Sciences and the Arts.
ITI was proposed as part of the campus initiatives in 2000, and was organized as an
official FRA early in 2001. Contrary to the original plan, the ITI has not pursued
becoming an Organized Research Unit (ORU), as an ORU appears to bring no new
funding nor other apparent advantages over an FRA.
The ITI mission
ITI functions as an umbrella organization, providing the organizational and management
structure to support large and interdisciplinary projects. It also facilitates the management
and sharing of resources and staff (including administrative support and also technical
staff).
A major function of the ITI is the coordination and management of interactions and
cooperation with industry. These include arrangements for industry research staff
working at ITI on cooperative projects with industry. A major focus of ITI is facilitating
the developing partnerships with the information technology industry, especially in
Silicon Valley.
Goals
• Promote leading-edge research in information technologies and applications;
• Provide staff and facilities for large, multi-year and multi-disciplinary research
projects;
• Attract research funding for the center, for affiliated faculty and staff, and for students
from federal, state, and private agencies; and
• Cultivate and maintain mutually beneficial relationships with industry through
research collaborations, internship opportunities, and gifting programs.
Participation in multi-campus organizations
The ITI serves as the contact point and administrator for UCSC’s involvement in the
Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS).
CITRIS is one of the California Institutes for Science and Innovation (Cal ISI), and ITI
coordinates UCSC’s participation in CITRIS. Professor Patrick Mantey also serves as
director of CITRIS at Santa Cruz. CITRIS has provided funding for the research space
on the 5th floor of the new Engineering 2 building, completed in summer 2004, and
housing ITI / CITRIS activities.
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Cooperation with other campus organizations
The ITI has on-going partnerships with:
• STEPS (Science, Technology, Engineering, Policy) Institute for Innovation in
Environmental Research;
• UCSC Center for Remote Sensing;
• University Affiliated Research Center of UC and NASA Ames;
• Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute;
• Center for Integrated Marine Technology / UCSC Institute of Marine Science;
• UCSC Environmental Toxicology Department;
• UCSC Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering (CBSE); and
• California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research (QB3) at UCSC.
Accomplishments
The ITI has supported the creation of and/or the work of a number of research centers and
projects.
Included are:
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Storage Systems Research Center (SSRC);
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Dynamic Ad-hoc Wireless Network Center (DAWN);
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Thermionic Energy Conversion Center;
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Biomimetic MicroElectronic Systems (BMES);
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Quantum Electronics Group;
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Computer Communications Research Group (CCRG);
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Inter-Networking Research Group (i-NRG);
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UCSC Scientific Visualization Laboratory;
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UCSC Visual Computing Laboratory; and
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Information Retrieval / Knowledge Management Center.
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CARNIVORES (partnership with STEPS);
MicroArchitecture at Santa Cruz (MASC);
Assistive Technology;
Multidimensional Signal Processing Group;
Enterprise Cockpit;
Santa Cruz Agent Technology & Environments Research (SCATE);
Center for Stock Assessment Research (CSTAR);
Real-time Environmental Information Network and Analysis System (REINAS);
HF Radar Project; and
Sea Labs.
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3. Center for Innovative Materials, Sensors and Systems (CIMSS) -- Proposed
The Center for Innovative Materials, Sensors and Systems (CIMSS) will promote
research in both biomaterials and novel functional materials critical for biotechnology,
information technology, nanotechnology, smart sensor development, environmental
sensing, and environmental technology, nanoelectromechanical systems, microarrays and
microrobots. Technology development for sustainable products can also be an important
research mission in order to ensure that future industrial products and services are
ecologically balanced, environmentally sound, and socially responsive to ensure a
collective future for all mankind. The SOE anticipates playing a leading role in the
development of a proposal to establish a NSF-funded Materials Science and Engineering
Research Center at UCSC. This fits in with our long-term goals of establishing CIMSS.
We plan to build multidisciplinary academic research programs in materials science and
engineering, biomedical instrumentation and environmental engineering following the
example of the biomolecular engineering program through the Center for Biomolecular
Science and Engineering (CBSE). Furthermore, CIMSS would also be synergistic with
our nascent proposal to develop a Center for the Exploration of the Limits of Life
(CELL), which would bring together engineers, microbiologists, chemists and other
disciplines to explore the fundamental limits of living organisms.
Potential participants could include professors Ali Shakouri, Holger Schmidt, Michael
Isaacson, Wentai Liu, Joel Kubby, Ken Pedrotti, John Vesecky, Claire Gu and others in
the EE Department: Susan Carter, and Sriram Shastry in Physics; David Deamer, Jin
Zhang, and Shao-wie Chen in Chemistry; Todd Lowe in Biomolecular Engineering; and,
Russ Flegal in Environmental Toxicology. Additionally, the new tenured hire in EE in
materials devices will also play a key role.
4. Institute for Scalable Scientific Data Management
Institute for Scalable Scientific Data Management (ISSDM) will address looming issues
of data storage and management for projects that involve large-scale simulation and
computing. The University of California, Santa Cruz, and Los Alamos National
Laboratory have agreed to establish a new collaborative institute for research and
education in the area of scientific data management. The institute will provide
opportunities for UCSC graduate students to gain specialized experience and expertise in
scientific data management by working on large-scale computing projects at Los Alamos.
In addition, the students who take advantage of these opportunities will provide a pool of
potential employees for the laboratory with skills in key areas of computer science and
data management where the lab foresees significant staff needs in the future. It is
anticipated that annual LANL funding of this activity will be in excess of $1M over the
next five years.
5. Research Institute in Applied Mathematics and Statistics (RIAMS) -- Proposed
Research Institute in Applied Mathematics and Statistics will enable UCSC to bring
together a sufficiently large critical mass of researchers in Applied Math and Statistics
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required to tackle large, difficult and important collaborative problems in fields such as
astronomy/astrophysics, computational genomics, environmetrics, mathematical biology
and robotics. As the West Coast center of excellence in these highly important research
areas, RIAMS will greatly increase UCSC’s visibility in the mathematics sciences.
6. Storage Systems Research Center (SSRC) is composed of faculty from the
Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Electrical Engineering departments.
SSRC research focuses on caching, storage systems hierarchies, large-scale distributed
storage systems, security and performance.
7. Dynamic Ad-hoc Wireless Networks (DAWN) is a collaborative effort to develop
the technology for complex wireless communication networks that can be set up in
rapidly changing environments such as battlefields and emergency situations. The Baskin
School of Engineering will head a multidisciplinary team of scientists at seven major
universities. The project also includes researchers at UC Berkeley, UCLA, Stanford
University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the University of Maryland,
and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). It is funded by a five-year
grant from the U.S. Department of Defense that will provide an average of $1 million per
year spread among the seven institutions.
8. Thermionic Energy Conversion (TEC) Center is a collaborative and
multidisciplinary project involving researchers at seven major universities working to
develop new technology for direct conversion of heat to electricity. The researcher team
is comprised of experts in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, materials
science and physics. With UCSC as the lead institution, the TEC center also includes
researchers from UC Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara, Harvard University, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Purdue University and North Carolina State University. It is
funded by a five-year, $6M grant from the Office of Naval Research.
9. The Engineering Research Center for Biomimetic Electronic Systems (BMES) is
part of a multimillion dollar NSF funded Engineering Research Center consisting of
USC, CalTech and UCSC. The UCSC portion of this center emphasizes the development
of the low power, mixed signal electronics necessary for development of biomimetic
prosthetic devices for vision, memory and muscle function.
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SECTION 4: ADMINISTRATIVE CHALLENGES
Introduction
The Baskin School of Engineering has undergone rapid growth during the first few years
of its existence, and this pace is projected to continue. As the first professional school at
UCSC, the operations of the Baskin School have resembled a start-up business, with both
the campus and the School evolving and learning together in a grand experiment to create
a unique 21st century engineering environment for teaching and research. The leadership
role of the Baskin School on behalf of the campus in helping to plan and implement
academic programs at the Silicon Valley Center while developing essential industrial
partnerships throughout the Silicon Valley has added further complexity to the broad task
of establishing a professional school.
The Baskin School continues to take the lead on a variety of interdivisional
collaborations in both academic and research programs. In particular, we plan to develop
and offer degree programs at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, in collaboration
with the Physical and Biological Sciences, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts
divisions. As with our successful initiatives in the Silicon Valley, the Baskin School
seeks broad based collaborations and connections to enhance both instruction and
research programs, as 21st century engineering must be intellectually and professionally
diverse to be relevant and effective (see examples in Section 2).
As the Baskin School has quickly evolved and grown, operational resources have often
lagged behind academic program development and implementation—the faculty have
been recruited and hired even though essential administrative and research infrastructure
was not in place. In planning for continued expansion of the schools instruction and
research programs through AY2010-11, a major challenge is to sustain the necessary
infrastructure to ensure success. More resources will be needed to meet this challenge.
Key elements in this process include the following areas:
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1. Development and Industrial Relations Plan
Overview
Fund-raising efforts at the Baskin School of Engineering are critical to the long-term
success of the school. New campus leadership in 2005 is demonstrating an increased
emphasis on the importance of development, both centrally in University Relations and in
divisional development operations. University Relations is beginning the planning
process for a major comprehensive campaign for the campus. Thus, strategic planning
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and priority setting at the Baskin School will be deeply examined during 2006. Longrange strategic planning for development and fund-raising operations at the Baskin
School is balanced over three critical areas:
1. Advancing corporate relationships;
2. Building a pipeline of donors; and
3. Major gifts.
The success of the Baskin School’s fund-raising is beginning to accelerate due, in large
part, to the increase of visibility for the school in the Silicon Valley technology
community. Success in a number of specific niche areas of research – like computational
genomics, storage systems, wireless networks, biomedical devices, and nanopore
technology – is the primary cause. Evidence of success in these niche areas is the
significant federal and state funding awards that have benefited each of these areas. The
visibility that accompanies such funding has already resulted in the first major gift from a
non-affiliated private individual - $1M Kumar Malavalli Endowed Chair in Storage
Systems Research.
Research success has also driven the growth of corporate giving. To date, such giving is
primarily in the form of research gifts - $25-100K annual support, often funding graduate
fellowships. However, this success and the growth of corporate relationships with these
research faculty and centers has resulted in several significant corporate in-kind gifts, i.e.
Cisco Networking Labs ($400K), Symantec network software ($500K), IBM storage
cluster ($150K). Over the next 3-5 years, significant effort to institutionalize these
relationships between the Baskin School and corporate donors will enable the
development office to realistically pursue larger corporate gifts with potentially broader
impact and alignment with the school’s strategic plan. Regardless of the fund-raising
potential, corporate relationships have positive impacts on a wide array of internal and
external relations areas of activity. These benefits are very important to the Baskin
School – internships, career opportunities, technology transfer, government funding –
though they are difficult to quantify in the context of development activities.
This improved visibility attracts attention and support from individuals throughout the
Silicon Valley technology community and beyond, but the Baskin School’s maturing
alumni base is also being energized by these successes. As the Baskin School approaches
its 10th anniversary, alumni are naturally beginning to approach a level of maturity that
will increase the likelihood for increased giving, particularly for annual giving. Many
alumni, particularly graduate alumni, are beginning to experience higher levels of
financial maturity. Thus, the pool of prospective alumni donors with significant capacity
is, and will continue to grow in the near and long-term future.
This growth in the number of prospective donors and the complexity of donor
relationships presents significant challenges for the Baskin School Development Office.
As of 2005, this office consisted of one giving officer and one administrative staff.
Additional staff will be required to continue to increase the level and quality of the
development operation. An assistant director of development will be hired early in 2006,
but additional support staff and giving officer(s) will be required in the near future if we
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are to establish a significant informational base and explore long-term potential
partnerships.
Advancing Corporate Relationships
To develop corporate relationships, the Baskin School Development Office will
coordinate and manage 20-30 corporate relationships and support the operation and
creation of two research center-based industry affiliate programs. This represents a
significant increase in the number of managed corporate relationships, but during
FY2006-07, University Relations will hire a central corporate development office. Since
the Baskin School is the primary point of contact for the vast majority of corporate
relationships on campus, the Baskin School stands to benefit significantly from the
efforts of this position. In addition, the Silicon Valley Initiatives via the UARC and BINRDI will also be considering a corporate relations officer in some form. The continuing
advance of the Technology and Information Management (TIM) graduate program, to be
offered via the Silicon Valley campus at Moffet Field, combined with the increased focus
on corporate relations stands to increase the level and number of corporate relationships
and fund-raising opportunities.
During FY2006-07, the Baskin School development office will focus on increasing
collaboration with faculty, individuals and teams, to continue to share prospect strategy
design and tactical implementation. As of 2005, the highest priority relationships include
HP, IBM, Microsoft, Google, Cisco and Symantec. These corporations have the highest
potential to develop broad relationships with the Baskin School and campus, as well as
the philanthropic capacity for significant impact. Other important corporate relationships
exist with Adobe, Agilent (Avago), Apple, Plantronics, Hitachi GST, Seagate, National
Semiconductor, and Intel. These are lower in priority because the relationship is focused
on specific faculty members or research areas or because the philanthropic capacity is
lower.
The Storage Systems Research Center (SSRC) currently operates a moderately successful
industry affiliate program. The development office has supported and advised the
operation of this program, developing a strong understanding of the needs of such
programs in order to achieve sustainable success. Building upon success, and learning
from the shortcomings of the SSRC, the development office will coordinate and support
the Dynamic Ad-hoc Wireless Networking Group (DAWN) toward the creation of a
similar industry affiliate program during FY2006-07.
Corporate giving to the Baskin School has risen steadily over the past five years, from
nearly $1M in FY2000-01 to over $1.5M in FY2004-05. Improved corporate relations
efforts both within the school and at the campus level will continue to support continued
increases in research support and in-kind equipment grants – the primary recipients to
date. This growth should be $3-4M annually by FY2009-10 if trends and focused efforts
continue, along with relatively stable economic growth in the regional technology sector.
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Building a Pipeline of Donors
In order to take advantage of the maturing alumni base and the growth in prospective
donors through increased visibility of research niches, a strategy for building a long-term
pipeline of donors must be implemented in FY2006-08. This strategy includes:
• Creation of a leadership annual giving program;
• Increase in the number and quality of donor/alumni engagement events and
programs;
• Development of more and better volunteer leadership opportunities; and
• Development of a more accurate and up-to-date alumni base.
Annual giving to the Baskin School has steadily increased - $20K in FY2003-04, $28K in
FY2004-05 and $50K in 2005. Such increases cannot be attributed exclusively to
specific Baskin School development efforts, but rather to central development efforts and
improved visibility with alumni. Budgetary and human resource constraints have
severely limited the ability to communicate with and solicit Baskin School constituencies.
The Baskin School has had an annual giving society ($500+) – the Dean’s Club – since
FY2003-4 but has not fully implemented its operation. Highest priority will be given to
the Dean’s Club annual dinner and the quarterly Dean’s Club e-newsletter.
Subsequently, priorities will shift toward the redesign of the Dean’s Club Program, the
testing of targeted direct mail/email communications and solicitations, and annual
personal solicitation visits.
As of FY2005-4, school-wide donor/alumni engagement events consisted of only the
Annual Engineering Alumni Reunion and Dean’s Club Dinner. Emphasis will continue
to be focused on the quality and size of these two events. During FY2006-07, the Baskin
School will also give high priority to the creation of an annual faculty presentation in
Silicon Valley in collaboration with the UCSC Alumni Association. Upon the increase of
development staffing, the development office will form an Alumni Board focused on the
design and implementation of a senior design contest, providing a large number of
engagement opportunities for board members and alumni through board activity and
judging. The development office will also begin to provide support and advice on
department level alumni events.
The development office will continue to support the marketing efforts of the Baskin
School in a number of ways. In addition to advising on publications, communications,
and events, examples of development marketing priorities from FY2005-06 include the
nomination and acceptance of Jack Baskin into the Silicon Valley Engineering Council’s
Hall of Fame, annual Alumni Awards, and corporate sponsorship/involvement in the
annual faculty retreat.
Volunteer leadership opportunities will continue to be a major activity of the
development office. As of FY2005-06, this included staffing, management and strategic
planning related to the Dean’s Advisory Council (DAC) and the Regional Advisory
Board (RAB). Primary to the mission of such groups is assisting the Baskin School to
secure the necessary resources to achieve its strategic goals. Membership on these boards
is a very important opportunity to effectively engage high-capacity prospective donors
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and volunteers. The addition of the Baskin Engineering Alumni Board (BEAB) will
complete a broad range of volunteer opportunities for the Baskin School constituent base.
Annual giving goals set for the programs described above, combined with a 7% alumni
participation rate goal, suggest that annual giving should grow to contribute between
$200-300K annually by FY2009-10.
Major Gifts
The Baskin School development office major gifts program is managed and operated by
the Director of Development, Steve Bourdow, who joined the Baskin School in July
2004. Major gift programs focus on building and strengthening institutional relationships
with individuals who have the financial capacity to make a gift of at least $25K. As of
FY2005-06, the pool of prospective major donors numbered 130 individuals. A major
gift program strives to balance such a portfolio evenly between donors who are at
different stages of relationship – discovery, cultivation, stewardship. As of 2005, this
balance was 55%, 38%, 7%, respectively. The Director of Development works closely
with the Dean and key faculty to cultivate key donor relationships toward solicitation
(stewardship), balancing the latter two categories. The Assistant Director of
Development (pending FY2006-07) will seek to develop relationships with less engaged
major donor prospects. Closely tied to the leadership annual giving programs, these
combined efforts will balance and grow a pipeline of major gift donors focused on the
key priorities of the Baskin School.
Key Fund-Raising Priorities (FY20050-6):
(amounts are gift size required for each opportunity)
1. Attracting top faculty
– Endowed Chairs ($500K+)
– Corporate support of start-up packages ($100K+, cash or in-kind)
– Dean’s discretionary funding ($100K annual – DAC)
2. Growth of graduate student body
– Endowed fellowships ($150K+)
– Corporate research gifts ($25-100K)
3. Increase faculty research
– Entrepreneurship program, corporate gifts, foundation gifts
– Increase number of corporate campus visits
– Industry affiliate programs
4. Increase undergraduate enrollment
– Endowed scholarship ($50K+)
– Expendable scholarship
5. Infrastructure support, furnishing space
– E2 naming opportunities ($50K-$5M)
– Teaching and Learning Center ($1M)
– Corporate in-kind gifts
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Overall Forecast – 2009-10
It is expected that as the Baskin School and its development operation and donor base
matures during the period between FY2006-2010, major gifts from individuals and
alumni will contribute approximately 50% to fundraising totals. While the depth of
understanding on the strength of the current pool of prospective major gift donors is
relatively weak, some forecasts can be approximated. Year to year growth in fundraising
for the division over the past five years has averaged 12.5%, excluding extraordinary
one-time gifts. By including growth above this average in annual giving and corporate
giving, supported by trends and focused efforts, overall fundraising for the Baskin School
should be $9-12M annually.
2. Adequate and Appropriate Space
The Baskin School will continue to need additional space as programs expand. The
severe space shortage that restricted SOE growth was partially alleviated by completion
of the new E2 building in 2004. However, with faculty expected to increase over 40% in
the next five years, space shortages will again be problematic without careful planning
and allocation of campus resources.
The first space challenge will be to ensure that the campus proceeds with plans to
relocate as soon as possible non-engineering services and programs out of the BE and E2
buildings to facilitate the growth of engineering programs. This includes campus
services such as Financial Aid, Printing Services, and the Post Office, plus academic
programs such as Mathematics and Economics. Provided sufficient resources, space
currently used by these functions will then be available to help accommodate SOE
program growth. This growth includes important technology laboratory space for
instruction and research used full-time by students and faculty.
The second space challenge is to provide resources to modify and sustain available space
within the BE and E2 buildings appropriate to programmatic uses. Examples include
funding renovations to create new laboratory space for BME and EE, including wet
laboratories, clean rooms, laser optic rooms, autonomous systems vehicle development
and storage space, and vibration sensitive facilities. Campus capital funding for
Alterations 2 & 3 Projects within BE (to begin in 2006) will partially complete some
laboratories, but the space will be insufficiently furnished to support faculty and student
research without the allocation of further funding. Planned expansion of the BME
Program will require additional wet and dry instructional laboratory spaces beyond what
is available following these renovations, requiring either new space to be constructed or
other existing space to be modified. Moreover, as other space within the BE building
becomes available to SOE, it will require renovation to be appropriately suited to faculty
and student needs for instruction and research. Significant resources will be required for
all these types of space.
The third space challenge is to identify and implement solutions to allow for contiguous
occupation of instruction, research and office space by faculty and academic programs.
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Under current campus planning, the BME program will be spread across multiple
buildings and facilities, with offices in the new PSB building, partially completed wet
laboratories in the BE building, a some laboratories in the Sinsheimer building, and
computational space in the BE and E2 buildings. In addition, campus plans to construct a
Bio-Medical Building will include additional BME wet laboratories in yet another
facility. SOE and the campus would be well served to begin long term capital planning
for a separate Bioengineering Building properly designed and equipped to facilitate the
future direction of instruction and research in this field.
3. Adequate Faculty Salaries, Housing and Start Up
Similar to other areas of the campus, the Baskin School faces major challenges in
recruiting and retaining the highest quality faculty. The competitive problems associated
with faculty salaries, housing costs, and start-up packages as outlined in our initial
Academic Plan five years ago remain today.
The available engineering salary scale impairs our ability to make competitive offers to
tenure track faculty candidates, particularly in technology related fields. Competition
comes not just from other higher education institutions, but also from private industry.
There are disadvantages as well simply from the cost of living in the Santa Cruz area and
greater San Francisco Bay area, which diminishes the real consuming value of salaries.
SOE is further hampered by limited upgrading funds, as the Baskin School has yet to
reach a size or maturity that yields normal turnover savings to help provide resources for
upgrading faculty salaries. We need assistance from the campus to create resource
flexibility that enables hiring the very best faculty at salaries equivalent to those offered
elsewhere.
Housing costs are an additional problem in attracting and retaining qualified tenure track
and tenured faculty. Again, Santa Cruz is part of a larger economic environment with
some of the highest housing prices in the nation, so we are naturally disadvantaged
compared to institutions in other regions. For SOE to be successful in developing unique
21st Century engineering programs, new approaches must be identified to mitigate
housing costs for faculty and enhance recruitment of top scholars from throughout the
world.
Start-up funding continues to be the single biggest challenge in successful faculty
recruitment, as SOE offers are often not competitive with the resources provided by older
and more established engineering schools. This affects particularly our ability to hire
underrepresented minority faculty where there is extreme competition from other
institutions. SOE has pursued extramural funding to help increase start-up packages, but
additional campus resources are necessary as well. Unfortunately, limitations in start-up
funding adversely impacts the quality of faculty recruitment, both in attracting and
keeping the top candidates. This became most apparent recently with recruitment efforts
in departments such as BME. Available wet laboratory space to be provided to faculty
after completion of the Alterations 2/3 Project in the BE building will be incomplete and
unfurnished—so further start-up funding will be necessary to make the labs operational.
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Recent BME faculty candidates reviewing the project plans for such space have turned
down SOE offers because they view the incomplete laboratories as a lack of commitment
by the campus administration to create and sustain successful programs.
4. Staffing and Operational Support
The statewide budget problems of recent years impacted creation of a sustainable staffing
and operational infrastructure within the Baskin School. While faculty recruitment
proceeded at a rapid pace and the school experienced growth, campus support funding
allocations were decreased due to budget reductions. This especially disadvantaged a
new professional school since core infrastructure was not sufficiently established. Some
essential components of staffing support were created, while others, such as separate
departmental staffing, were not. In reality, individual departments exist in terms of
clusters of faculty and available academic degrees, but there are not physically separate
and adequately staffed departmental offices with the Baskin School at this time.
As SOE continues to grow, staffing and operational support lags behind. Faculty often
cannot rely on the extent of support services and resources available in other programs
due to limited staff. The level of staffing positions relative to faculty positions within
SOE lags behind those evident within other engineering schools throughout the
University of California. As a result, faculty often must function as their own
administrative assistants which is not an efficient use of resources. Professional schools
simply require a higher level of staffing and operational support than some other
academic programs. For example, at UC Irvine, besides centralized staffing reporting to
the Dean’s Office, the engineering school strives to provide resources equivalent to one
permanent staff FTE for every four ladder rank faculty FTE.
Recruitment and retention of qualified staff, especially in technology support areas, also
presents a major challenge to SOE. The competitive climate fostered by proximity to
Silicon Valley sometimes makes university staff salaries unattractive. Given that part of
SOE’s mission is to further expand the academic presence of UCSC within the Silicon
Valley, staff performance expectations, standards, and competitive pressures require the
highest caliber of professional staff. Unfortunately, we are restricted by campus staff
human resource practices that can impede using the job classification and salary levels
necessary for success. This has been especially evident in frustrated efforts to hire
permanent staff to support academic programs at the Silicon Valley Center.
SOE will require additional resources from the campus, extramural sources, and industry
partners to build the necessary staffing and operational support levels as the school
expands.
5. Technology Investment
The programmatic cornerstone of the Baskin School is technology. Our focus to create
academic excellence exclusively the fields in bio-technology, info-technology, and nanotechnology sets SOE apart from the traditional patterns adopted by engineering schools
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established in the 20th century. And this makes technology even more integral to success.
Technology is more than a tool used to complement and support instruction and research;
it also is the primary object of much instruction and research.
In this regard, on-going investment in technology is essential, and the requirement to
upgrade and expand technology for SOE programs is never-ending. One emerging
demand is to enhance provision of videoconferencing and distance learning capabilities
between the main UCSC campus and the Silicon Valley Center to support new academic
programs offered in both locations. Changes in the technology curriculum are creating
demands for expanded instructional laboratory space and dedicated teaching and
fabrication space, along with the equipment required for such facilities. Within the realm
of computer resources for SOE faculty, students and staff, there is demand for expanding
and enhancing network infrastructure, wireless computing, virtual private networks,
enterprise computing services, computational computing capacity, and increased number
of data centers.
SOE has been successful in generating extramural funding to help keep pace with some
technology demands, but additional resources will continue to be necessary. A portion of
these costs should be provided from campus resources as part of regular operations, but it
is unclear how the dynamics and service levels for technology support will be realized
given the recent ITS consolidation. Tradeoffs and priorities have not been identified as
they relate to sustaining high quality support for academic based computing, although
this is a goal shared by many. The ITS consolidation removes resources from academic
divisions into a centralized operation, reducing flexibility for faculty to directly influence
the allocation of technology resources. As the process to overcome this challenge is
developed and implemented, SOE will still need resources to move forward to keep pace
with technological advances and changes.
Specific requirements include:
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General purpose video conferencing facilities (i.e. equipment) for research and
short-term needs for campus and off-campus initiatives. This is critical for the
SVC academic and research programs;
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Equipment to provide each (SOE?) conference room with a moderate level of
video teleconferencing equipment;
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An inventory of desktop video conference equipment available for checkout by
SOE community members;
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Expanding the numbers of scanners, so that every floor of each SOE building has
a combination copier, scanner and printer;
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Improvements to existing telephone system, adding wireless capability to forward
calls;
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Campus network connections to:
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CENIC CalRen High Performance Research network
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CENIC CalRen Experimental/Development Network
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SVC connection to CENIC CalRen HPR;
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SVC Virtual Private Network;
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Installation and maintenance of a Virtual Private Network at SOE with ability to
support multiple levels of service;
By AY2007, all SOE servers to have Gb/s connections;
Wire molding for future lab spaces;
Connection of backup generator power to be-g router;
Installation of UPS units for all network switches;
Two working UPS units for each main router;
Two high-speed fiber uplinks to separate routers for every switch closet;
Uniform wireless communications for voice and data throughout the engineering
complex;
Multiple wireless systems, each aligned for the specific support of enterprise,
research, and instructional needs;
Four computational computing server projects;
Improve existing data centers to have power and cooling supplied by standard
generator power and N+1 redundancy for critical support systems;
Equipment for new labs (see above); and
Equipment for new research and instructional lab support.
Details on these requirements follow:
1. Videoconferencing and Distance Learning, - Expand and Upgrade Capabilities
Present videoconferencing and distance learning facilities are too few for future
requirements. Presently all of these are located in general assignment classrooms, which
are operated by campus media services and scheduled by the registrar. These locations
although useful for larger undergraduate courses, are nearly impossible to schedule for low
enrollment graduate courses and research collaborations.
The School is actively participating in numerous remote site research and instructional
activities, some examples include the Silicon Valley Center, UCSC Extension Sites in
Silicon Valley and a new initiatives at Los Alamos National Labs in New Mexico. In
addition, due to limited main campus space and local housing costs, additional growth will
need to occur at remote sites such as 2300 Delaware Street, NASA- Ames Research
Facilities, Monterey Bay Science and Technology (MBEST) and at an expanding number
of UCSC Extension sites.
Presently there are four distance learning classrooms spread among the Jack Baskin
Engineering and Engineering 2 buildings. All of these are located in sizable general
assignment classrooms, that are normally scheduled for classes throughout the quarter. At
present there are no general-purpose video conferencing facilities for research groups and
short-term needs. Easy to operate video conference facilities will be required to
accommodate not only off campus initiatives but to enable principal investigators to
collaborate in a far more efficient and effective manner. A goal should be to equip each
conference room with a moderate level of video teleconference equipment.
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The School should have an inventory of desktop video conference equipment available
for check out by SOE community members as needed. Desktop video conference
systems are relatively inexpensive and would reduce travel to off-site locations providing
additional time for SOE community members to be more productive. Some form of
training community members in the use of desktop video conference equipment and use
would be highly beneficial as well.
2. Copying, Printing and Scanning
SOE faculty members require expanded copying, printing and scanning capabilities.
As of December 2005, two copiers in the School (one in Baskin, one in Engineering 2)
provide scanning services and none are connected for printing. The School should
work towards expanding the numbers of scanners available, so that every floor of
each building has a combination copier, printer and scanner. Scanning serves to
reduce the amount of paper and energy used, reduces the load on the environment and
provides for increased efficiencies of faculty, staff, and students.
3. Telephones
Investigations at improving the existing telephone system should be initiated. SOE
community members are often roaming between laboratories, classes and meetings. The
telephone system should have wireless capability that does not interfere with wireless
networking. It should also provide the ability to forward calls immediately to wherever
the client is located, whether that be in their office or at our remote sites. As of December
2005, many SOE members are relying upon personal cell phones to compensate for the
inadequacies of the campus telephone system. This should be remedied.
4. Computing Resources
A. Networking Infrastructure
The computing network infrastructure is the life-blood of any modern advanced research
facility. SOE has recognized this and has invested heavily in the fastest, most reliable and
robust networking system. These investments far exceed any other division or unit on
campus. Still, SOE computer networking requirements traditionally exceeded our most
expansive predictions. As of December 2005, our 10/100Mb and limited Gb switched
computer network to the desktop is doing reasonably well with some room for additional
capacity. However this is immediately after a redesign that coincided with the opening of
the Engineering 2 building. Over $500K of improvements were made to provide expanded
conduits between buildings, install fiber optic trunk cabling and replace main routers and
switches.
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Since the computing network is so vital to the School, this section is segmented into 5
main areas; (i) campus internet connection (UCSC - CENIC HPR initiative); (ii) Silicon
Valley Center internet connection (SVC - CENIC HPR initiative); (iii) SOE Network
Operations; (iv) SOE Building cable plant and network equipment stardards; (v) Network
robustness and reliability standards and improvements.
(i) Campus Connection to the Internet (UCSC to CENIC HPR or Dark Fiber
Initiative). As of December 2005, the UCSC connection to the internet is
provided via two 2.5 Gb/s connections, one of which is leased. These connections
serve the entire campus and are considered by senior managers in ITS and by
faculty in SOE, PBSci and Lick Observatories to be inadequate and constrictive to
research.
Campus research initiatives and the demands of network video conferencing will
require the campus to rapidly and drastically improve data connections to
educational network in California. This network is operated by the Corporation
for Educational Network Initiatives in California (CENIC). Two networks UCSC
should be connected to:
(a) CENIC CalRen High Performance Research (CalRen HPR) network; and
(b) CENIC CalRen Experimental/Development Network.
Presently UCSC is one of the few UC campuses not connected to either the
CENIC HPR nor Experimental networks. This must be recognized by campus
leaders as a major roadblock to future growth on the UCSC campus and should be
considered a top priority for funding. ITS Director for Core Technologies has
made achieving these connections a top goal for the campus. SOE must support
this initiative in whatever way possible.
(ii) Silicon Valley Center Connection to the Internet (SVC to CENIC CalRen
HPR). Networking requirements that the Silcon Valley Center also require a direct
connection to CENIC CalRen HPR and Experimental networks. There are state
initiatives to bring the CENIC network to the NASA Ames complex. However
additional effort by campus will be required to bring that connection perhaps 1
mile to the buildings that house SOE community members. SOE members need to
have the same level of networking and computing system access whether they are
located in one of the Engineering Buildings or at the Silicon Valley Center.
Therefore a Virtual Private Network (VPN) is required for connections between
SOE facilities on the main campus and those at the Silicon Valley Center.
(iii) SOE Internal Network Operations. Engineering and Computers Science
schools run their own networks because requirements of the researchers are not
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yet considered needed for other campus units and sometimes the services are not
scalable. It is vitally important that local control and management of the SOE
internal networks be maintained. As of December 2005, the technical staff of
SOE has been consolidated into the ITS organization. Historically the ITS
Networking group has needed to maintain a consistent set of networking service
levels that typically funded far below the minimum requirements of SOE. There
is significant concern by faculty and technical staff that should NTS attempt to
pick up networking for SOE, then our non-scalable service levels cannot be
maintained. Thus SOE must maintain network operation and management within
the local IT specialists for SOE.
(iv) SOE Building Cable Plant and Network Switching Improvements.
During the December 2001 writing of this document, network delays were
present due to a bottleneck in our single main router and backbone trunks and
because SOE only had a single Gb/sec connection to the main campus. When the
Engineering 2 building was outfitted for networking, vast improvements were
made to the network cable plant backbone and main routers. These
improvements now allow all network closets (switch locations) to be optically
trunked (dual homed) to two modern Cisco 6500 main routers (be-g and e2-g).
Trunking on these main switch closets is using 1Gb/sec multimode and single
mode fibers and we anticipate that higher throughputs may be obtained. These
throughputs may require the use of jumbo frames and higher bandwidths,
something our networking investments can scale into. Therefore recent
improvements provide a capable network backbone that can handle increased
traffic from the larger numbers of systems.
Networking at the edge (switch to desktop) is using 100Mb/s switch gear with a
limited capability to provide 1Gb/s to the desktop. Due to expanded desktop
videoconferencing and collaboration tools, desktop installations should take the
form of the highest data rate possible within reasonable cost. We anticipate
increased requirements for Gb/s Ethernet to the desktop. Gb/s service levels are
currently required for any SOE servers receiving central tape backup services.
We anticipate that by AY2007, all SOE servers (with or without tape backup)
will require Gb/s connections. Network edge requirements will drive
replacements of 10/100MB/s network switches or augmented with addition
Gb/s switches.
Applied Sciences Alterations Phase I project made use of wall mounted wire
moldings for many instructional and research labs. These wire moldings allow for
easy upgrades, alternations of both networking and power wiring at reduced costs.
Engineering 2 did not use wall mounted wire molding and subsequently we later
needed to install more network connections. Additional alternation projects
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should incorporate wiremolding for lab spaces as our networking and power
requirements are always increasing and changing. This configuration allows us to
make those changes rapidly and at reduced costs.
(v) Network Robustness and Redundancy. SOE Networking has been designed to
allow continued operations through the most common single points of failure.
These include loss of power, disconnection of network trunk, loss of a power
supply and even loss of a main router. As of December 2005, most SOE switch
closets are dual homed to two routers; all switch closets have local UPS support;
all switches are purchased and installed with redundant power supplies and both
routers have two UPS units with different sources of power. The e2-g router is
connected to backup generator power, however the be-g router is not.
Continuous improvements in network robustness and redundancy are required
to make the network a resilient as possible. As of December 2005, the
following actions should be taken:
• Connect backup generator power to be-g router;
• Continue to install UPS units for all network switches;
• Ensure two UPS units are working for each main router; and
• Continue to dual home all new switch closets including those in the
new PSB Building.
B. Wireless Computer Networking
Uniform wireless communications for voice and data throughout the engineering complex
is considered a necessity that provides enhanced productivity for faculty, students and
staff. At present there is a spotty coverage of 802.11b wireless coverage using both the
existing School’s wireless system (Tsunami) and the Campus Enterprise wireless system
(CruzNet). The school is in the process of installing a 802.11b/g wireless network to
provide uniform coverage through Engineering 2 and the Baskin Engineering Building. We
envision this system to provide coverage for both the SOE mac addressed authentication
system and the more restrictive and secure CruzNet system.
The CruzNet system in place on much of the UCSC campus meets a low level need for
wireless, however SOE faculty and students require a less restrictive and more flexible
wireless system. CruzNet policies are set to protect campus administrative users and
systems and do not account for many research and instructional requirements which
faculty and graduate students in the School require. Thus the ability to provide multiple
wireless systems, some enterprise level (such as CruzNet) and others more aligned with
research and instructional needs must be available. This can be provided for by allowing
multiple wireless systems to coexist by using different service set identifiers (SSIDs) for
different services. Local ITS specialists and CruzNet personnel should work together to
achieve a system that accommodates multiple levels of service.
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C. Virtual Private Networks
Increasing requirements of SOE community members for access to services from nonSOE managed networks will require the use of a secure means to connect to shared
resources. A Virtual Private Network (VPN) should be installed and maintained so that
faculty, students and staff members can securely use computing resources at the School
from any location in the world.
A second VPN is needed to extend SOE networking and services to the Silicon Valley
Center. The SOE Silicon Valley Center VPN would allow SOE members at SVC to
receive the same computer services that they currently receive when on site in Baskin
Engineering or Engineering 2.
D. Enterprise Computing Services – Email, Webserver, Filestorage
The School of Engineering has since the beginning operated its own email system, web
server, file storage and backup. As of December 2005, the UCSC campus is
consolidating IT support under a single organization reporting to the Campus Vice
Provost of Information Technology. Engineering Schools need to implement rapid
advances on their email, web and filestorage systems. Quite often these rapid advances
have benefits associated with them that other units on campus do not immediately
require, appreciate or even comprehend. SOE must retain a separate email, web and
file storage with backup that can be rapidly modified without the extensive budget,
project and change management processes the remainder of the campus requires. The
School recognizes a need for extensive governance and configuration management
processes for campus-wide enterprises systems, however those processes inhibit risk
taking and the adoption of bleeding edge technologies. SOE requires rapid
advancement and adoption of bleeding edge technologies to obtain excellence in our
programs. Many of these technologies are common place in other research engineering
schools but are often considered ill-suited for the remainder of the campus.
E. Computational Computing, As of December 2005, SOE operated four shared general
purpose unix login servers, 2 computational servers and a graduate computing lab (BE340). These systems are currently inadequate for support of research and graduate
instructional in the School. The computing infrastructure committee (CIC) has
recommended the following projects be implemented:
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General purpose computational cluster computing system – for use only by SOE
students, this would provide a multi-system general purpose login server. At
times the system would also permit, multiple job processing to various computers
as well;
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Secure Computing System – for use by faculty and students involved with
proprietary data, such as the MOSIS research program.
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General Purpose Login Servers – multiple Linux, Sun Solaris on Sparc, Sun Solaris
on X86, Mac OS10 servers are required to compile, test and run various
instructional and research efforts under these different operating systems.
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Graduate Computing Laboratory Expansion – currently BE340 is available for
general purpose graduate computing. Department faculty in Computer
Engineering and Computer Science have setup department labs in the Engineering
2 building. Those new labs along with labs for the AMS, BME and EE
departments should be equipped to allow new students without research
sponsorship a place to work with appropriate computing resources.
F. Physical Infrastructure Improvements – Data Centers
The School has research work and services that is critical to researchers throughout the
world (for example Genome Data). Some of this data and computational capability must
remain operational 24/7/365. As such, the School needs to have data center facilities and
support that is robust and can operate through power outages, earthquakes and individual
system failures. The School should partner with ITS on a multi-faceted approach
towards improving and developing data centers with as much redundancy and robustness
as possible. These plans should take into account short-term needs and abilities along
with the longer term view that a major campus data center will be built at the 2300
Delaware Street building.
As of December 2005, the School (including CBSE) operates out of four datacenters
(BE213, BE250, E2-208, E2-594). Short term plans include relocating all critical core
computing services to the E2-208 data center as E2-208 has modern data center
infrastructures for fire suppression, backup generator power, main UPS support with
emergency power off, redundant air conditioning and seismic isolation rack mounting.
The acknowledged single point of failure for E2-208 is the lack of air conditioning during
a power outage. That problem must be address immediately as well as backup power
air conditioning for the E2-594 data center.
Longer term plans should include a through review of the facilities in BE213, 250 and 252
with the intent to develop a prioritized improvement list that would bring these facilities
to the highest reliability status as possible. Some of these improvements may include the
following:
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Backup generator power to BE213, BE250, to include backup power to air
conditioning;
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Install FM200 fire extinguishing systems to BE213, 250, 252;
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Increase the size of UPS systems for BE250;
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Install seismic “iso-base” plates for racks in E2-594, BE213, BE250; and
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Ensure all network routers and switches connecting these data centers to the
internet have UPS, redundant power supplies and connections to backup
generator power.
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5. Special Class Instructional Laboratories –
A. Addition and Expansion of Existing Labs, As of December 2005, the School has
10 special class instructional labs primarily used by the Computer Engineering and
Electrical Engineering Departments. A list of these labs is as follows:
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BE-104 Digital Logic Lab;
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BE-111 Signals Lab;
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BE-113 Circuits Lab;
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BE-115 Robotics Lab (new since December 2001);
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BE148 Laser/Optics Lab (new since December 2001);
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BE150 Advanced Digital Logic Lab;
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BE161 Electromagnetics & RF Lab;
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BE162 Semiconductor Materials Lab;
•
BE168 Networking Lab (new since December 2001); and
•
E2-592 - Advanced Networking Lab (new since December 2001).
Several additional labs will likely be established after December 2005. Instructional
labs in various states of planning or investigation include:
•
Senior Projects Labs, two each (for CMPE-EE123A/B);
•
Biomolecular Engineering Labs, two each;
•
Computer Gaming Lab;
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Silicon Valley Center Lab; and
•
Nanofabrication/Characterization Lab.
B. Dedicated Computer Science Instructional Labs
As of December 2005, the Computer Science department uses the UCSC Campus
instructional computing (IC) laboratories. The IC laboratories are general-purpose
computing environments arranged to serve a wide variety of courses from all campus
departments and divisions. Computer Science undergraduate studies require far more
access to hardware and software than is physically obtainable from these campus open
labs. Also many CS courses would like their undergraduate students to install,
administer, experiment with and maintain software as part of the curriculum. This is
especially true for operating systems, E-Commerce, internet and database software.
Many of our Junior Colleges transfer students had these resources at their JC Campus
only to find it lacking at UCSC.
In the December 2001 version of this document, it was said “the School plans to
investigate providing a few specialized Computer Science computing labs principally for
upper division courses. These labs would not be open to the general campus population
and could be configurable depending upon the sole needs of the CS Department. Many
CS courses would likely continue to utilize the campus IC labs when possible, especially
for lower division courses where requirements for unimpeded access are not required.”
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As of December 2005, the School has not identified space or funding to provide
dedicated Computer Science undergraduate computing labs.
6. Research and Instructional Laboratory Support
A. Machine Shop Requirements
Presently the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences (PBSci) operate a
machine shop with a single machinist. The machine shop has two areas; a staff
operated machine shop and an area where students, after considerable training,
are allowed to use. The availability of the PBSci machine shop facilities to SOE
community members historically has been spotty at best. The shop is only
available when the PBSci machinist is present and not deeply involved in his own
projects.
SOE researchers and especially students working on senior projects require less
restricted access to the shop. Quite often they are working round the clock on
projects and require after hours access to the shop. SOE faculty requested the
School either develop its own machine shop or provide resources and means to
expand the PBSci Machine Shop access for after hours use.
B. Fabrication Space
A shop area to do fabrications of circuit boards, simple hardware and to house
our new laser cutter system is needed. This fabrication space previously existed
within the BELS group, however that space was reallocated when the BELS
group was relocated for the Nanotechnlogy lab (BE64).
C. Outside Shop and Research/Robotic Vehicle Assembly Area
SOE faculty have requested work space for larger robotic vehicles. Gabriel
Elkheim of the Computer Engineering Dept currently has a robotic sailboat and
may receive a robotic land vehicle used in DARPA’s autonomous land vehicle
challenge. Shop space to house, assemble and test these vehicles is necessary
to continue this research.
7. Silicon Valley Center – Requirements
A number of faculty and students will be working out of the Silicon Valley Center at
NASA Ames Research Park. This location will need to support instruction, research
work and faculty working intermittently between this site and the main UCSC campus.
As of December 2005, it is hoped that SOE members will be working out of Building 19
at the NASA Research Park. At some point in the future two new buildings may be
constructed. An instructional classroom and office building may be commissioned by
Foothill-De Anza College District. UCSC may lease instructional and office space in
the proposed building. The other building is expected to be a wetlab nanotechnology
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research building that will be part of the Bio-Info-Nano Research and Development
Institute.
A. SVC Server Room
As of December 2005, it is expected that over the next two years, up to 3 racks of
research servers may be installed at the SVC Building 19 site. When the new
buildings are programmed and designed for NASA-Ames Research Park, an
important part is to include a Tier III or IV data center as part of that
construction.
B. Video Conferencing
It is expected that the campus will provide a most amount of video
conferencing and distance learning equipment at the Building 19 site. This is
required to permit faculty to teach simultaneously to students at SVC and the
UCSC main campus. It is also necessary for researchers collaborating
between the two sites and elsewhere in the world.
C. SVC-SOE Virtual Private Network (VPN)
A VPN is needed to extend SOE networking and services to the Silicon Valley
Center. The SOE Silicon Valley Center VPN would allow SOE members at SVC to
receive the same computer services that they currently receive when on site in
Baskin Engineering or Engineering 2. Presently the campus runs two separate
VPNs to the SVC site, however neither will permit SOE networking services to
operate. In December 2005, campus networking personnel acknowledge a need to
setup a third VPN to provide SOE members at SVC this access.
8. Physical Security, Infrastructure and Environmental Monitoring Infrastructure
The campus should invest in remote camera systems, omnilocks, card-key access to
rooms and hard-wired doors for sensitive areas such as laboratories containing
expensive equipment. Electrical and environmental monitoring is needed to ensure
laboratory facilities are receiving proper utilities and that problems are noted before
significant research work has been adversely affected.
A. Building and Laboratory Physical Security
The Engineering 2 building was built using centrally monitored and controlled
card-key access system. Jack Baskin Engineering building uses hard keys for
most labs and individual combination cipher locks (omnilocks) for instructional
lab spaces. Often hard keys are not returned or are lost by various students.
Physical security to many of these lab spaces cannot be controlled to a
reasonable level. Nearly all of these labs contain very expensive test equipment
and computers. It is imperative that a robust physical security system that can
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quickly lock out undesired individuals be implemented. It is recommended the
card key system installed in Engineering 2 be extended to the Jack Baskin
Engineering building outer doors. For Baskin Engineering, all lab doors should be
equipped with the card key system (optimum solution) or with omnilocks.
B. Electrical Power Monitoring and Improvements
Since December 2001, the electrical grid serving Baskin Engineering and
Engineering 2 has failed with seemly increasing and lengthy occurrences. Some of
these failures are attributed to PG&E electrical distribution problems; however an
increasing number of failures have been due to campus electrical grid shortcomings,
either in capacity or in maintenance.
Campus Electrical Engineers have expressed concern about the deteriorating
shape of the University owned electrical distribution system. Most of this
system is over 40 years old and is close to absolute capacity. In some cases, a
single failure may cause the campus to go dark for days. For a research campus,
this is unacceptable and must be remedied. The campus must should install a
second feeder to the core of campus and provide electrical capacity and
reducancy that is needed for new buildings on campus.
While these grid failures have occurred, SOE and other units on campus have
experienced a higher than normal rate of failure of computer, UPS and electronic
test equipment components. SOE faculty feel these failures are due to noisy line
power, power surges and potential currents on neutral and ground wires.
Sometime after December 2005, SOE expects to bring on line several
nanotechnology and Biomolecular Engineering Labs. These labs will be far more
sensitive to “dirty” electrical power than computer systems. Monitoring of the
electrical systems serving Baskin Engineering will be necessary to ensure proper
filtering and conditioning of power is applied when needed. Monitoring of the
electrical systems serving the Engineering 2 building is recommended to reduce the
possibility of system failures due to long term dirty electrical power.
C. Environmental Monitoring
Several areas of Baskin Engineering and Engineering 2 require monitoring of
environmental parameters such as temperature, humidity, and air flow. This is
needed to ensure laboratory work proceeds without disruption and/or destroying
results of sensitive fabrications and experiments. These monitoring systems
should be tied back to an automated reporting system to immediately alert
facilities and laboratory personnel to environmental problems.
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6. Library Resources
In this age of the Internet and Worldwide Web, electronic access to technical journals,
conference proceedings and related materials and databases is key to the success of
successful graduate programs, across all divisions. This is particularly true of the
professional societies. At the same time, need for access to traditional printed technical
materials is declining. Electronic versions of some technical journals can be very
expensive, especially from the European for-profit publishers. However, it is becoming
increasingly important that faculty and graduate students have access to online research
resources from the major technical publishers. Therefore, it is recommended that the
campus place a high priority on investigating ways of providing faculty and graduate
students with electronic access to the principal research and instruction resources in fields
of relevance to the School. Each department should be consulted on the specific online
resources are of greatest importance to their research and teaching.
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AMS Revised Academic Plan for 2005–11
David Draper, Jorge Cortés, Pascale Garaud, Athanasios Kottas, Herbert Lee,
Marc Mangel, Raquel Prado, Bruno Sansó, and Hongyun Wang
10 January 2006
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Maintaining and Building Excellence
Over the next five years the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics1 (AMS) will
help UCSC to
• strengthen the campus position as a major research university, by building on our
already-recognized excellence in mathematical biology, mathematical astrophysics, control theory, and Bayesian statistics (nonparametrics, spatial-temporal modeling, and
computationally-intensive methods of inference, prediction and decision-making, with
applications in environmetrics, genetics, health policy, medical statistics, and computer
modeling and simulation of complex phenomena);
• promote innovation and enhance academic quality at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, and substantially increase doctoral production, (a) by converting the alreadyfunctioning informal AMS graduate program to a formal program with parallel tracks in
Applied Mathematics and in Statistics, and (b) by co-developing with the Department
of Mathematics a new undergraduate major (and/or minor) in applied mathematics;
• substantially increase contract and grant support, by building upon existing strengths
within AMS to reach out even more successfully to current research partners—at Arizona State University, Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, the Lawrence Livermore
Labs, the Los Alamos National Laboratories, MIT, the Naval Postgraduate School, the
National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA), the National Center For Atmospheric Research, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS, Santa Cruz Laboratory), the Sandia National Laboratories, UC Santa Barbara, the University of New
Mexico, and Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro—and new partners, for new and
continuing funding from institutions such as the CalFed Science Program, NASA, the
National Institutes of Health, the NMFS, and the National Science Foundation;
• manage the enrollment growth necessary to accommodate 2,800 new student FTE
campus-wide between now and 2010–11, and improve access for the diverse population
that comprises California today, by continuing the process of joint curriculum planning
with existing partner Departments (Biomolecular Engineering, Computer Engineering,
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AMS has not yet formally applied for departmental status (we expect to do so near the beginning of
the winter 2006 quarter); as a courtesy (and a kind of shorthand) the campus permits us to call ourselves a
Department in the interim period, and we will use that shorthand in this document.
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Computer Science, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Economics, Electrical Engineering, Environmental Studies, Environmental Toxicology, Mathematics, Molecular and
Cell Developmental Biology, and Technology and Information Management), and extending this joint curriculum planning to new partner Departments (e.g., Psychology
and Sociology), to expand existing AMS service teaching and develop new courses of
greatest usefulness to the campus in both applied mathematics and statistics; and
• encourage trans-departmental and trans-divisional academic and scholarly programs, by
building upon existing strengths within AMS (1) to deepen continuing collaborations
with other UCSC scholars in programs such as the UCSC Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), the Center for Stock Assessment Research
(CSTAR), the Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research (QB3), and the STEPS Institute, and begin new collaborations, and (2) to continue planning of trans-departmental
graduate programs such as the Program in Control Theory and Applications now under
joint development between AMS, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering and
Technology and Information Management.
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Sustainability Within Available Resources
2.1
AMS Current Position
As elaborated in Appendix 2 (and detailed, e.g., in the 2004–05 AMS Annual Report, available
at www.ams.ucsc.edu/AMS-annual-report-2005.pdf), the current position for AMS is as
follows.
• AMS currently has 9 ladder faculty (4 in Applied Mathematics ( AM ), 5 in Statistics
( S )), with a senior search in Applied Mathematics underway in 2005–06;
• Regarding extramural funding, applied mathematics and statistics are subjects in which
it is unusual to generate large amounts of funding, because the customary awards involve summer salary, student and/or postdoctoral researcher support, and modest allocations for computing equipment and travel. Having said that, in 2004–05 the 9 ladder
AMS faculty received a total of $1,163,809 in contract and grant awards, an average
of $116,400 per ladder faculty member, and had research expenditures of $784,128, an
average of $78,400 per ladder faculty member;
• AMS currently supervises 20 M.S. and Ph.D. students (6 in applied math, 14 in statistics), who were initially admitted to graduate study within the Departments of Computer Science, Environmental Studies, Ocean Sciences or Physics (with transfer to AMS
when our graduate program is approved); and
• We expect a total of approximately 2,810 students (about 312 student FTE) from at
least 25 Departments in all 5 Divisions on campus to take the 34 AMS courses offered
in 2005–06.
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Note that, as campus enrollment figures demonstrate, AMS has the highest workload ratio of any School of Engineering (SoE) Department at 23.7 (see Table 3
below; the SoE average is 14.9, and the campus average is 19.5).
2.2
AMS Sustainable Position in 2010–11
As the rest of this document details, the projected sustainable position for AMS in 2010–11
will be as follows.
• AMS is projected to have 15 ladder faculty (7 in applied math, 8 in statistics) in 2010–11
(the corresponding figure in 2011–12 is projected to be 16 (8 applied math, 8 statistics));
the 2010–11 figure will be a 67% increase over the 2005–06 value;
• AMS is projected to receive a total of $1,710,550 in contract and grant awards in
2010–11 (an average of $114,000 per ladder faculty member), and to have research
expenditures of $1,554,700 (an average of $103,650 per ladder faculty member); the
2010–11 award figure will be a 73% increase over the corresponding 2005–06 value; and
total expenditures and expenditures per ladder faculty member are expected to rise
from 2004–05 by 113% and 33%, respectively;
• AMS expects to have a total of 39 graduate students in residence in 2010–11 (30 Ph.D.,
9 M.S.), and to graduate 12 students that year (6 Ph.D., 6 M.S.); this means that the
AMS graduate program will more than double over the next five years (total students
will go up by a factor of 2.05, and students graduating by a factor of 2.17); and
• AMS expects to teach approximately 4,030 students (447.5 student FTE) in 2010–
11 (3,105 lower division, 450 upper division, and 475 graduate enrollments); this will
represent a 51% increase over the corresponding figure in 2005–06.
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Future Opportunities For Investment in New Endeavors
As part of this revised planning exercise we have identified four promising future opportunities
for UCSC investment in new endeavors related to AMS.
• We argue in Appendix 3, on the basis of an analysis of the size of the top 18 Departments
of Statistics in the most recent (1995) National Academy Survey (NAS) of academic
excellence in the U.S., that every attempt the campus can make to enable AMS to grow
beyond the current target of 8 faculty in each of AM and S in 2011–12 will have
significant positive impact on external reputation surveys such as the NAS ranking just
mentioned. With this in mind, and with substantial intellectual support from a number
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of Departments with which we collaborate in the SoE and the Divisions of Physical and
Biological Sciences (PBSci) and Social Sciences (SSci),
In the next 2–3 years AMS will propose the establishment at UCSC of a
Research Institute in Applied Mathematics and Statistics (RIAMS).
(We believe that it is unreasonable to make this proposal now, because we are currently
searching for a senior member of the Applied Math Group and this person should be allowed substantial input into the content of the RIAMS proposal.) This Institute, which
will be funded by a combination of grant/contract support and a request to central campus for 8 new faculty lines for AMS over a 12–year period, will enable UCSC to bring
together a sufficiently large critical mass of researchers in Applied Math and Statistics
to tackle large, difficult and important collaborative problems—at the crucial interface
between applied math and statistics—in fields such as astronomy/astrophysics, computational genomics, environmetrics, mathematical biology and robotics whose solution
would not be possible without attaining the required critical mass. The Statistical and
Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) in North Carolina, the only organization in
the U.S. anything like RIAMS, has been highly successful both in employing postdoctoral researchers to work on problems at the applied math-statistics interface and in
demonstrating that there is ample demand for a second U.S. institute with a similar
theme. As the West Coast center of excellence in this highly important topic for 21st
century science and technology, RIAMS will greatly increase UCSC’s visibility in the
mathematical sciences.
• It is clear from an examination of (1) funding patterns at NSF and other scientific
funding agencies and (2) the importance of problems in this burgeoning field that biophysics is a growth area of enormous potential at the interface between Engineering
and the Physical and Biological Sciences. We believe that UCSC should follow leading
universities such as Princeton in making a significant investment in biophysics in the
next 5–10 years. With Marc Mangel’s work on the nanobiology of aging and Hongyun
Wang’s work on protein motors, AMS is already well positioned to make a significant
contribution to the UCSC biophysics initiative, and we anticipate that future hires in
the mathematical biology area within AMS—including one or more of the RIAMS new
faculty lines funded by central campus—will be able to strengthen UCSC’s presence in
this important field.
• Control theory is another extremely important area in applied mathematics at the
interface between Engineering and the Physical and Biological Sciences. Applications
in adaptive optics, remote sensing, and robotics—involving collaboration between researchers in AMS and Astronomy/Astrophysics, Electrical Engineering, and Computer
Engineering/Computer Science, respectively—are three of the many interdisciplinary
and interdivisional collaborative possibilities in this crucial field. The addition of Jorge
Cortés to the Applied Math Group in AMS in 2004 immediately put UCSC on the
map in control theory; Cortés is now working with William Dunbar and Gabriel Elkaim
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(Computer Engineering), John Musacchio and Kevin Ross (TIM), Donald Wiberg (Electrical Engineering) and others to develop a graduate program in control theory and its
applications. Below we will propose that AMS be given authorization to make a second
hire in control theory in 2006–07, and we believe that UCSC should further invest in
this important area by allocating one or more of the RIAMS new faculty lines funded
by central campus to control theory.
• UCSC has a pressing need for a Statistical Consulting Service (SCS), a central
clearing-house of statistical advice to faculty and graduate students on design and analysis issues in projects involving data collection, modeling and interpretation. Since
the founding of the Statistics Group within AMS in 2001, the number of requests for
statistical consultation from UCSC faculty and graduate students has steadily risen,
and is now at a point where the demand can no longer be met without central campus
help in the form of release time for AMS faculty and modest support for AMS graduate
students. In the next 1–2 years the Statistics Group in AMS will make a proposal to the
Graduate Division for central campus line-item support to launch the SCS and yearly
line-item support thereafter to maintain it and permit it to grow.
The day-to-day running of the SCS will be based on free short consultations; when
the person initiating a medium-length or long consultation has a grant to support the
research giving rise to the question under study, a modest transfer of funds from the
relevant grant to support the AMS graduate students who help with the consultation
will be requested. In steady state we envision the demand for the SCS to be such that,
for the AMS faculty member leading the SCS in any given quarter, the load would be
equivalent to teaching one course. Participating in the SCS through enrollment in a
course on statistical consulting will become part of the second year of the M.S. and
Ph.D. degree tracks in Statistics within AMS; this will serve both to ensure sufficient
graduate student staffing of the SCS and to provide a rich source of applied problems
(some of which may turn into dissertation collaborations) for AMS graduate students.
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Synergistic Graduate and Undergraduate Programs
Academic Departments in the United States do three kinds of teaching: service teaching,
mainly to first- and second-year undergraduates; teaching in support of an undergraduate
major, mainly to third- and fourth-year undergraduates; and graduate teaching to M.S. and
Ph.D. students. A small Department does not have enough faculty to engage vigorously
in all three of these teaching modes. From its inception in 2001 the AMS Department has
chosen to concentrate initially on service and graduate teaching, the former because it is
natural for faculty in applied math and statistics to do their part in educating all of UCSC’s
undergraduates in these two disciplines, and the latter because excellence in graduate teaching
goes hand in hand with the kind of research excellence to which AMS is dedicated.
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4.1
Graduate Programs
Through the kind cooperation of a number of other Departments (principally Computer
Science but also including Environmental Studies, Ocean Sciences, and Physics), AMS has
been able to build up a substantial cohort of graduate students by initially admitting these
students to the cooperating Departments: from 0 such students in 2001 the incipient AMS
graduate program has grown to 20 students (18 Ph.D., 2 M.S.) in 2005–06. The formal
AMS proposal for M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Statistics and Stochastic Modeling (SSM) was
submitted to campus in April 2005; it received strongly positive reviews from the Graduate
Council (GC) and the Committee on Planning and Budget (CPB) in October 2005, and
a revised version of the proposal that responds to the suggestions of GC and CPB will
be re-submitted to campus in January 2006. (VPAA Alison Galloway has predicted quick
UCSC approval after this resubmission, and systemwide approval 6–12 months after UCSC
approval.)
As detailed in Section 5 below, GC and CPB had two main concerns about the SSM proposal:
(1) It is vital for campus to support graduate training in statistics by quickly ramping up
the faculty size in the Statistics Group within AMS, while remaining mindful of the
need for balance with faculty size in the Applied Math Group, and
(2) It is equally vital to the campus research mission for there to be graduate training
within AMS in applied mathematics.
We agree completely with the first of these concerns: AMS can only strengthen and enlarge
the campus graduate mission, particularly doctoral education, by continuing the growth—at
the fastest possible rate supported by SoE and campus growth—of the faculty in both the
Applied Math and Statistics Groups. Section 5 below details the proposed AMS sustainable
faculty growth plan, which is both responsive to GC and CPB concerns and consistent with
the SoE and campus growth projections.
In response to the second of the GC and CPB concerns noted above, the AMS plan for
graduate education, subsequent to the re-submission of the SSM proposal, is as follows.
• While the revised SSM proposal is undergoing final UCSC and system-wide approvals,
we will develop an applied math track of a joint graduate program in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, and
• As soon as the SSM proposal is approved systemwide, we will request permission to relaunch the AMS graduate program with the title “graduate program in Applied Mathematics and Statistics” with parallel tracks in (i) applied math and (ii) statistics.
Table 1 below gives the actual and projected growth of the AMS graduate program from
2003–04 (the year the first AMS graduate student finished) to 2011–12. As noted in Section
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Table 1: Actual and projected growth of AMS graduate program, 2003–2012.
Year
2003–04
2004–05
2005–06
2006–07
2007–08
2008–09
2009–10
2010–11
2011–12
Ladder
FTE
8
10
9
10
12
12
14
15
16
Graduate Students
in Residence
Ph.D. M.S. Total
13
1
14
18
2
20
18
2
20
18
4
22
21
6
27
23
7
30
27
8
35
30
9
39
33
10
43
Graduate Students
Finishing
Ph.D. M.S. Total
0
1
1
1
2
3
6
2
8
5
2
7
6
3
9
5
4
9
2
5
7
7
6
13
7
7
14
Note: Figures for 2003–2006 are actual; 2006–12 figures
are projections based on sustainable growth assumptions.
2.2, we expect to have a total of 39 graduate students in residence in 2010–11 (30 Ph.D., 9
M.S.), and to graduate 12 students that year (6 Ph.D., 6 M.S.); this means that the AMS
graduate program will more than double over the next five years (total students will go up
by a factor of 2.05, and students graduating by a factor of 2.17). This is precisely consistent
with the UCSC overall plan to double the size of the graduate student cohort by 2010–11.
Early in 2001, at its inception, AMS began curriculum coordination with the Department
of Mathematics in the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences; this coordination is an
ongoing process at present and will continue indefinitely into the future. AMS graduate
students have already begun to take graduate courses in the Department of Mathematics
and vice versa, and we anticipate that the flow of AMS graduate students into Mathematics
Department graduate courses will increase with the launching of the Applied Math track of
the AMS graduate program.
Since 2001 AMS curriculum coordination at the graduate level has steadily grown with other
Departments as well: for example, AMS 205 (Mathematical Statistics) is a required graduate
course for Ph.D. students in the Department of Economics. In the next 1–2 years we look
forward to developing a new graduate class on data analysis (including computing laboratory
work in a widely-used statistical computing environment such as SAS); based on discussions
with faculty in Departments such as Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Environmental Toxicity; and Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, we expect this course to be extremely
valuable for a wide range of graduate programs in the sciences.
Block Grant Funding. As soon as the SSM graduate proposal is approved systemwide, we
will begin submitting proposals for block grants to help fund our graduate students. Three
promising block grant funding possibilities for AMS students are as follows.
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• The Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) at the National Science Foundation
(NSF) runs a program called Enhancing the Mathematical Sciences Workforce in the
21st Century (EMSW21), which has two component programs of particular relevance
to AMS: Grants for Vertical Integration of Research and Education in the Mathematical
Sciences (VIGRE; award size from $400,000 to $1,000,000 per year; awards granted for
three years, with a two year extension possible), and Research Training Groups in the
Mathematical Sciences (RTG; provides groups of researchers who have related research
goals in the mathematical sciences with funds to foster research-based training and
education).
• The U.S. Department of Education runs a program called Graduate Assistance in Areas
of National Need (GAANN). GAANN provides fellowships in areas of national need
to assist graduate students with excellent academic records who demonstrate financial
need and plan to pursue the highest degree available in their courses of study. In fiscal
year 2004, for example, a total of $10,015,000 was awarded to 48 recipient graduate
programs; the awards ranged from $124,668 to $750,000 and averaged $208,645 in size.
UCSC has a successful track record with GAANN grants; for example, the Department
of Computer Science currently has a GAANN award.
• The National Institutes of Health (NIH) runs a program called Predoctoral Research
Training in Biostatistics. The purpose of the program is to provide support for predoctoral training in biostatistical theory and evolving methodologies related to basic
biomedical research; the goal is to ensure that a workforce of biostatisticians with a deep
understanding of statistical theory and new methodologies is available to assume leadership roles related to the nation’s biomedical, clinical, and behavioral research needs.
The Department of Biomolecular Engineering has expressed interest in co-applying for
an NIH biostatistics training grant with the Statistics Group in AMS.
4.2
Undergraduate Programs
Once AMS has reached sufficient faculty size, the initial AMS concentration only on service
and graduate teaching can be augmented by the launching or enriching of two undergraduate programs, one in applied math and one in statistics (we have already established an
undergraduate minor in statistics).
• Applied Mathematics. The AMS graduate program in applied math will serve as a
research and teaching springboard for a new undergraduate program in applied math.
We will develop this new major and/or minor, which is crucial for UCSC’s overall
health in the mathematical sciences, jointly with the Department of Mathematics. We
do not expect to have sufficient faculty in the Applied Math Group to launch this
program, jointly with Mathematics, until 2009–10. In addition to serving as a double
major (and/or minor) possibility for a number of students on campus (e.g., in Biology,
Mathematics, Physics, and all of the SoE disciplines), this program will potentially
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serve as an excellent source of high-quality graduate students for AMS in both applied
math and statistics.
• Statistics. Given the extra burden of running the Statistical Consulting Service, we do
not expect to have sufficient faculty in the Statistics Group to launch an undergraduate
major in statistics until 2011–12 at the earliest, and it is possible that we will not be
able to run such a major without one or more of the additional statistics faculty to
be requested in the RIAMS proposal. We expect to revisit this issue in 2008–09, by
conducting a study at that time of the undergraduate statistics degree programs at the
other UC campuses to assess their resource burden.
From the summary here and the discussion in Section 5 below, it should be clear that the
entire program of additional faculty hiring in AMS over the next 5–10 years will both (a)
strengthen and enlarge the campus graduate mission with high-quality M.S. and Ph.D. students and (b) enrich the overall UCSC academic experience and lend distinction and visibility
to undergraduate programs, in AMS and campus-wide.
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Plan for Additional Faculty FTE
It is vital for the campus to build on the early success of AMS by rapidly continuing the
growth of the Department’s faculty. An example of the reasoning supporting this statement
is given by the AMS graduate proposal in Statistics and Stochastic Modeling (SSM), which
was submitted to campus in April 2005 and received comment from the Graduate Council
(GC) and the Committee on Planning and Budget (CPB) in October 2005. Both GC and
CPB found the proposal to be strong and innovative:
“We felt the overarching goals of the program ... were very strong, reflecting
considerable thought and planning on the part of AMS faculty.” (CPB)
“... the proposal seems strong at its core. Faculty participants both within and
outside of AMS are enthusiastic about the proposal, and possess an expertise that
should serve the program quite well. Engineering Dean Kang is unambiguous in
his support for the program. External letters are strong and encouraging. ... The
[GC] feels that, at its core, this is a strong proposal that will provide great benefit
to the campus.” (GC)
However, both raised concerns that can only be addressed by a commitment by campus to
rapid continued growth of AMS faculty:
• Both GC and CPB felt the viability of the SSM graduate program is threatened without
an immediate infusion of new faculty positions in statistics; a quote from the CPB report
can serve to summarize these concerns:
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“The number of faculty (statisticians and stochastic modelers) directly associated with the [SSM] program is of concern. ... With current staffing, the
program sits at a knife-edge of feasibility, so a firm commitment for faculty
expansion is vital to demonstrate that the program will be viable over the
long term. ... We believe that the Dean’s letter [of support in the revised graduate proposal] needs to incorporate explicit FTE commitments (at least two
positions) and explicit, relatively short timelines that will ensure the ongoing
viability of the program, while remaining mindful of the need for balance with
the applied mathematics faculty.” (CPB)
• CPB also clearly stated the campus strong need and strong desire for a graduate program in Applied Mathematics to supplement and complement the SSM program:
“CPB is strongly committed to the idea that all faculty at UCSC should have
access to graduate students. Therefore, we view [the SSM] proposal, which
will only train the students of statisticians and a subset of modelers within
AMS, as just a first step. The campus must eventually have a graduate
program in Applied Math, and it should come sooner, rather than later.”
(CPB)
Thus there is a pressing need, articulated forcefully by the UCSC Senate, to quickly grow
both the faculty in Applied Mathematics and the faculty in Statistics.
We believe that, to fulfill the recommendations of the Graduate Council and CPB, AMS
should grow at the rate of 2 positions per year (1 in applied math, 1 in statistics) for several
years running, to ensure the viability of the statistics track of the AMS graduate program
and to launch the applied math track. However, we are mindful that in CPEVC Kliger’s
memo of 16 November 2005 on faculty recruitment for 2006–07, he proposed that the entire
SoE only receive authorization to make the following recruitments:
2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11
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6
7
7
8.9
In view of this highly restrictive growth plan for the entire SoE, we propose in Table 2 below
a less rapid growth plan for AMS that is the absolute minimum necessary
(a) to ensure the viability of the statistics track of the AMS graduate program,
(b) to launch the applied math track of the AMS graduate program,
(c) to co-launch (with the Department of Mathematics) a new undergraduate major (and/or
minor) in applied math, and
(d) to ensure the continued enrollment growth of the SoE through expansion of the AMS
program in service teaching.
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Table 2: Proposed ladder faculty growth plan for AMS.
Number of Ladder
Academic Faculty in Fall of AY
Year (AY) AM S
Total
2005–06
4
5
9
2006–07
5
5
10
2007–08
6
6
12
2008–09
6
6
12
2009–10
6
7
14
2010–11
7
8
15
8
8
16
2011–12
Number of New
Searches in AY
AM S Total
1
0
1
1
1
2
0
0
0
0
1
2
1
1
1
1
0
1
0
0
0
Given that the SoE has six programs and that there is a general desire to move forward as
often as possible in as many of these programs as possible, CPEVC Kliger’s proposal for SoE
hiring breaks down naturally into a pattern of approximately 1 hire per year per program.
Table 2 deviates from this pattern for AMS in two crucial places:
• It will be vital to run 2 AMS recruitments in 2006–07, one each in applied math and
statistics: the applied math recruitment will be in control theory, in order to balance the
three sub-groups in the Applied Math Group, and the statistics recruitment is needed
to satisfy the GC and CPB recommendations and to improve the extremely low morale
in the Statistics Group created by campus postponing the proposed statistics hire in
2005–06. Note that we are requesting no recruitments at all in 2007–08, so that having
2 in 2006–07 can simply be thought of as forward funding (of 1 position for 1 year) in
relation to the normal pattern of 1 AMS hire per year.
• It will be equally vital to run 2 AMS recruitments in 2008–09 so that there will be
enough faculty in both applied math and statistics in 2009–10 to co-launch (with the
Department of Mathematics) the new undergraduate major (and/or minor) in applied
math, which is so strongly needed (both as a stand-alone major/minor and a double
major/minor) by many programs on campus.
Prioritized list of proposed annual faculty recruitments through 2010-11. In the
disciplines of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, we have identified the following programmatic directions for research specializations of current faculty and future hires, by targeting
sub-disciplines in these two fields that (a) are envisioned to be of paramount scholarly importance in the first half of the 21st century, (b) will lend distinction to the existing AMS faculty,
and (c) are likely to promote fruitful interdisciplinary interactions2 at UCSC. Statisticians
tend to work in more than one sub-discipline, so most of AMS’s existing statisticians are
2
Abbreviations for interactions in the list on the next page: COH = Center for Ocean Health; STEPS =
Science, Technology, Engineering and Policy for Society; CSTAR = Center for Stock Assessment Research;
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listed below more than once, and there will be strong interactions among the research work
in the three statistics sub-disciplines.
Each of the Applied Math ( AM ) and Statistics ( S ) Groups naturally breaks down in research specialization into 3 sub-groups; because each of these groups is equally important and
the SoE target for AMS of 8 faculty per Group is not divisible by 3, we have anticipated the
possibility of at least 1 additional hire in each Group in the future beyond 2011–12 (through
a combination of increased central campus resources and/or extramural funding to support
the Research Institute in Applied Mathematics and Statistics (Section 3) and/or non-RIAMS
extramural funding and/or additional AMS workload), making at least 3 ladder faculty in
each research subgroup.
• ( AM ) Mathematical biology (3 faculty) (Mangel, Wang, 1 new; SoE interactions
with Bioinformatics, BME; campus interactions with COH, STEPS, CSTAR, EEB, ES,
MCDB, Physics (especially biophysics, if UCSC starts a new initiative in this field));
• ( AM ) Fluid dynamics (3) (Garaud, 2 new; SoE interactions with EE, CE; campus
interactions with OS, ES, Astronomy/Astrophysics);
• ( AM ) Optimization/control theory (3) (Cortés, 2 new; SoE interactions with
EE, CE, CS, Bioinformatics; campus interactions with Astronomy/Astrophysics, ES,
CFAO, ETox, Physics);
• ( S ) Bayesian nonparametrics (3) (nonparametric distributional modeling,
nonparametric modeling of regression surfaces, connections with machine
learning) (Draper, Kottas, Lee, 1 new; SoE interactions with CS, BME; campus interactions with CSTAR, Astronomy/Astrophysics, SCIPP);
• ( S ) Bayesian environmetrics (3) (spatial-temporal modeling, environmental
risk assessment) (Draper, Lee, Sanso, 1 new; SoE interactions with CE, EE; campus
interactions with COH, CSTAR, STEPS, ETox, OS); and
• ( S ) Computationally-intensive Bayesian inference, prediction and decisionmaking (3) (Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, stochastic optimization)
(Draper, Kottas, Lee, Prado, Sansó, 2 new; SoE interactions with BME, CS, TIM;
campus interactions with EEB, MCDB, SCIPP, CSTAR).
Starting in 2006–07, we propose to search for new applied mathematicians and statisticians
according to the following schedule (CIBIPD = Computationally-intensive Bayesian inference,
prediction and decision-making):
EEB = Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; ES = Earth Sciences; MCD = Molecular Cell and Developmental
Biology; OS = Ocean Sciences; CFAO = Center for Adaptive Optics; ETox = Environmental Toxicology;
SCIPP = Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics.
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Academic Year
Area in AM
2006–07
Control Theory
2007–08
—
2008–09
Mathematical Biology
2009–10
—
2010–11
Fluid Dynamics
2011–12
—
2012–13
Control Theory
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Area in S
Environmetrics
—
CIBIPD
Nonparametrics
—
—
CIBIPD
Plan for Enrollment FTE
The AMS plan for enrollment FTE is in three parts: lower-division (service) undergraduate,
upper-division (major) undergraduate, and graduate (M.S. and Ph.D.) teaching.
• Lower-division (service) undergraduate teaching. As AMS has grown we have taken
on an increasing burden of service teaching in the mathematical sciences on campus,
and we expect that trend to continue. It is natural for AMS and the Department of
Mathematics to work out an arrangement that allocates the total campus enrollments
in the mathematical sciences in proportion to ladder faculty size, and to adjust the
relative percentages each year based on (potentially changing) ladder faculty count
in each Department; we are now in discussions with the Mathematics Department to
capture this idea in a Memorandum of Understanding.
• Upper-division (major) undergraduate teaching. We expect this area to grow fairly
slowly until 2010–11, when the undergraduate major and/or minor in applied math is
launched; at that point we expect a jump followed by steady but (again) fairly slow
growth.
• Graduate (M.S. and Ph.D.) teaching. We expect AMS graduate enrollments to increase
with the Department’s increasing graduate student cohort, in a manner that parallels
the growth indicated in Table 1.
Table 3 below gives the actual and projected growth of AMS enrollment FTE over the period
from 2000–01 through 2011–12. Note that, to accommodate the increases in service teaching,
AMS will need increasing support from lecturers over time, in a manner analogous to the
arrangement already approved in the original 10–year plan in 2001. The proportion of AMS
projected lecturers to overall total student FTE in Table 3 is consistent with existing patterns
in the SoE; for example, in 2004–05 the Computer Engineering (CE) Department used 4.41
lecturers with a total enrollment FTE of 325.4, a ratio of 73.8, whereas the corresponding
projected ratio for AMS in 2011–12 will be 94.9 (higher numbers in this ratio are better
because they signify higher total workload for a given lecturer budget).
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Table 3: Actual and projected growth of AMS enrollment FTE, 2000–2012.
Lower
Year
Division
2000–01
7.0
2001–02
77.3
2002–03
82.2
2003–04
178.4
2004–05
207.9
2005–06
250.0
2006–07
283.5
2007–08
298.0
2008–09
313.0
2009–10
329.0
2010–11
345.0
2011–12
362.0
Upper
Division
20.5
6.0
13.2
9.8
12.9
15.0
17.5
20.0
25.0
45.0
50.0
55.0
Undergraduate
Total
Graduate
27.5
0.5
83.3
7.0
95.4
21.1
188.2
21.6
220.8
35.2
265.0
36.0
301.0
37.5
318.0
40.0
338.0
42.5
374.0
47.5
395.0
52.5
417.0
57.5
Overall
AMS
Total Lecturers
28.0
0.1
90.3
0.1
116.5
0.2
209.8
0.5
256.0
0.9
301.0
1.9
338.5
2.5
358.0
3.0
380.5
3.5
421.5
4.0
447.5
4.5
474.5
5.0
AMS
Workload
Ratio
9.0
17.7
16.2
24.7
23.7
27.6
26.2
23.9
24.5
23.4
22.9
22.6
Note: Figures for 2000–2005 are actual; 2005–12 figures are projections based on
sustainable growth assumptions, and assuming that the inter-divisional
(Mathematics + AMS) undergraduate major/minor in applied mathematics starts in 2009–10.
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Plan for Extramural Research Support
AMS faculty constantly seek additional non-state funding as a high priority, and have had
considerable success to date: for example, from 2000–01 through 2004–05, extramural award
amounts per ladder faculty in AMS have doubled, from $58,000 to $116,400, and research
expenditures per ladder faculty member have increased by a factor of 2.5, from $30,786 to
$78,400. With the understanding (as noted in Section 2.1) that extramural research awards
in applied math and statistics will almost never be enormous, because such awards almost
always consist only of summer salary, graduate student and postdoctoral researcher support,
and modest budgets for computing and travel (and almost never involve large equipment
awards of the type that are more common in wet-lab fields and areas such as nanotechnology), our proposed future appointments are all in areas (Bayesian statistics, control theory,
environmetrics, fluid dynamics, and mathematical biology) with abundant interdisciplinary
collaborative possibilities for significant extramural funding, and we intend to hire future
colleagues who are strongly interested (as we are) in competing successfully for high-quality
grants and contracts that will help support AMS scholarship and graduate education.
Table 4 below gives the actual and projected growth of AMS extramural funding from 2000–
01 through 2011–12. Assuming faculty growth as in Table 2, we expect to roughly double
awards received from 2005–06 ($990,000) to 2011–12 ($1,838,250) and to more than double
research expenditures from 2004–05 ($784,128) to 2011–12 ($1,671,300), and we expect re14
Table 4: Actual and projected growth of AMS extramural funding, 2000–2012.
Year
2000–02
2002–03
2003–04
2004–05
2005–06
2006–07
2007–08
2008–09
2009–10
2010–11
2011–12
Ladder
FTE
3.5
7.0
8.0
10.0
9.0
10.0
12.0
12.0
14.0
15.0
16.0
Awards
Received ($)
203,000
750,819
532,314
1,163,809
990,000
1,182,500
1,271,200
1,366,100
1,468,700
1,710,550
1,838,250
Awards
Research
Received Per
Research
Expenditures Per
Ladder FTE ($) Expenditures ($) Ladder FTE ($)
58,000
107,751
30,786
107,260
300,426
42,918
76,045
685,059
97,866
116,400
784,128
78,400
110,000
900,000
100,000
118,250
1,075,000
107,500
105,900
1,155,600
96,300
113,850
1,242,300
103,500
122,400
1,335,150
111,250
114,000
1,554,700
103,650
114,900
1,671,300
104,500
Note: Figures from 2000–05 are actual; dollar figures in 2005–06, and all figures in 2007–12,
are projections based on sustainable AMS growth.
search expenditures per ladder FTE to increase by about 33% from 2004–05 ($78,400) to
2011–12 ($104,500).
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Additional Measures of Success
The measures of UCSC success detailed in previous sections to which AMS will contribute
may be summarized as follows.
• Establishing high-quality new graduate degree programs of critical importance to the
UCSC research mission;
• Conducting successful high-quality faculty recruitments;
• Increasing the quality and quantity of Ph.D. and M.S. production;
• Increasing the level of extramural funding;
• Establishing distinctive, high-quality new undergraduate degree programs of critical
importance to the UCSC research mission; and
• Helping to increase the SoE instructional workload of senate faculty, and overall SoE
enrollments.
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In addition to these measures, AMS looks forward to contributing to the success of the SoE
and the campus in four ways.
• State-funded summer session: Provided that faculty are given full freedom to choose
whether or not they wish to make the summer quarter one of their three “quarters
in residence” in any given year (rather than just the usual fall-winter-spring pattern),
AMS supports the idea of migrating toward a model in which the summer becomes
more like a regular academic quarter.
• Off-campus sites: AMS looks forward to increasing collaborations with the Technology
and Information Management (TIM) Program (e.g., in fields such as stochastic optimization and control theory) in helping to grow the Silicon Valley Center as a major
research and teaching resource for the SoE and the campus.
• Diversity of faculty and students: With 3 Hispanic and 2 women faculty—who take
every opportunity to mentor students from underrepresented groups in Engineering and
other parts of campus—among the 9 current AMS ladder faculty, and 4 Asians among
our 18 Ph.D. students, we have already demonstrated a commitment to diversity which
we look forward to continuing.
• International profile of AMS faculty: AMS has already established an international
profile in both applied math and statistics (as measured, e.g., by comments from nonU.S. researchers in these fields in letters solicited through the merit review process), and
we look forward to continuing to enhance the international visibility of the Department
and the SoE.
Appendix 1: Founding Vision
The newly-forming Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics (AMS) represents an
interdisciplinary collaboration between two fields of study—applied mathematics ( AM ) and
statistics ( S )—both of which are vital to the research, teaching and service missions of
the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). Both disciplines have as their underlying
approach the use of mathematical methods to solve problems in science and decision-making,
but they differ in fundamental and complementary ways in how mathematical methods are
brought to bear on the problems being solved.
In practice both disciplines start with a real-world process or phenomenon and develop a
mathematical model capturing the salient features of this process or phenomenon. The dividing line between the two disciplines generally concerns whether stochastic (or probabilistic,
or random) mechanisms are ( S ) or are not ( AM ) built into the model. AM models often
employ deterministic (i.e., non-stochastic) systems of (ordinary or partial) differential equations to describe the dynamic evolution over time of the process or phenomenon under study.
In contrast, statistics can be defined as the study of uncertainty: how to measure it (through
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probability), and what to do about it (through inference [the process of drawing quantitative
conclusions about unknown quantities on the basis of (i) known quantities and (ii) assumptions and judgments about how the knowns and unknowns are related] and decision-making
[the process of using what is known, and partially known, to make a real-world choice, even
if that choice must be made in the presence of uncertainty]).
AM models typically make deterministic predictions of observable real-world outcomes, but
uncertainties often exist about (a) whether or not all relevant features of the process or
phenomenon under study have been captured structurally in the model, and (b) the values
of relevant inputs to such models. Thus when AM models are confronted with data on the
observable outcomes, discrepancies between observed and predicted may arise. Among other
purposes, statistical methods may be used (1) to help decide whether these discrepancies
are too large to have “arisen by chance,” which would encourage a search for more realistic
structural assumptions; (2) to inferentially summarize the current state of uncertainty (given
the data) about both model structure and unknown quantities of interest; and (3) to suggest
how a future data-collection experiment might best be designed to maximally decrease the
dominant uncertainties.
Thus a high-quality 21st -century attempt to understand a complex real-world process or
phenomenon will frequently involve a collaboration between the fields of applied mathematics
and statistics. This observation is fundamental, but recognition of its truth has been slow to
develop in universities where rigid boundaries between mathematics and statistics have been
preserved. As Professor Bradley Efron of Stanford University (a distinguished statistician
and member of the National Academy of Sciences) said in his letter of support for the April
2005 AMS proposal for graduate degree programs in statistics and stochastic modeling,
“I read your nicely written proposal with some pangs of jealousy. Stanford, which
has first-rate faculty in both [statistics and applied mathematics], does not have a
favorable structure for combining them. I run Stanford’s undergraduate program
in applied mathematics, which is our closest approach, and many of us wish we
could have similar interactions at the graduate level.”
AMS was founded with the vision that UCSC can gain distinction as a major research university by co-locating leading researchers in AM and S in a single department within the
School of Engineering, an environment that by its very nature fosters inter-disciplinary collaborations in science and technology.
Appendix 2: Details on AMS Current Status
• AMS currently has 9 ladder-rank faculty (4 in AM , 5 in S ), with 1 senior search in
AM currently underway:
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– Assistant Professor Jorge Cortés ( AM : distributed coordination algorithms;
cooperative control; sensor networks; nonlinear and geometric control theory, with
applications to robotics; applied computational geometry; non-smooth analysis);
– Professor David Draper ( S : Chair and Head of Statistics Group; Bayesian hierarchical modeling; stochastic optimization; Markov chain Monte Carlo methods;
Bayesian nonparametrics; model uncertainty; quality assessment in health and
education; risk assessment; applications in the social and environmental sciences);
– Assistant Professor Pascale Garaud ( AM : fluid dynamics; astrophysics (planetary formation; internal dynamics of stars); geophysics; environmental applications);
– Assistant Professor Athanasios Kottas ( S : Bayesian nonparametric and semiparametric modeling; survival analysis; quantile regression modeling; categorical
data analysis; spatial statistics; inference under probability order constraints);
– Assistant Professor Herbert Lee ( S : Bayesian statistics, computational methods, inverse problems, spatial statistics, machine learning, model selection and
model averaging);
– Professor Marc Mangel ( AM : Associate Chair and Head of Applied Mathematics Group; mathematical modeling of biological phenomena, especially the
evolutionary ecology of growth, aging, and longevity; quantitative issues in fishery
management; mathematical and computational aspects of disease);
– Assistant Professor Raquel Prado ( S : Bayesian analysis of nonstationary time
series; multivariate time series; biomedical signal processing; wavelets; statistical
models for genomic data);
– Acting Associate Professor Bruno Sansó ( S : Bayesian predictive modeling of
rainfall at macro and micro levels of aggregation in space and time; Bayesian
spatial modeling; environmental and geostatistical applications); and
– Associate Professor Hongyun Wang ( AM : theoretical biophysics and molecular
modeling; energy transduction mechanism of protein motors; thermodynamics of
small systems; partial differential equations; statistical physics; classical analysis
and numerical analysis).
The current senior search in AM is in the area of fluid dynamics with physical sciences
applications.
• In the academic year 2004–05 the 9 ladder-rank AMS faculty (a) published 54 contributions to the scientific literature (38 articles in leading international journals in applied
mathematics and statistics, 5 contributions to conference proceedings, 4 book chapters,
2 book reviews, and 5 invited discussions); (b) submitted an additional 14 articles; (c)
began or continued work on an additional 5 books and 17 articles; and (d) received 9
research honors.
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• In 2004–05 AMS faculty submitted 29 grant applications (totaling $6,900,033), of which
18 were funded (and a number are still pending); the total award amount on these funded
grants was $3,691,970 (including collaborations with non-UCSC partners).
• AMS currently supervises 20 M.S. and Ph.D. students (6 in AM , 14 in S ), who were
initially admitted to graduate study within the Departments of Computer Science,
Environmental Studies, Ocean Sciences or Physics (with transfer to AMS when our
graduate program is approved).
• Since 2003, a total of 10 students have completed graduate degrees under the partial
or total supervision of AMS faculty, of whom 5 have been UCSC graduate students (2
Ph.D., 3 M.S.).
• We expect a total of approximately 2,810 students from at least 25 Departments in all
5 Divisions on campus to take the 34 AMS courses offered in 2005–06.
Appendix 3: AMS Ideal Growth
In Section 5 we demonstrated that there is a pressing need, articulated forcefully by the
UCSC Senate, to quickly grow both the faculty in Applied Mathematics and the faculty in
Statistics. How large should each of these faculties become, if we are to follow a resource
pattern similar to that in the top research universities? The draft SoE 5–year plan envisions
8 ladder-rank faculty in each of AM and S ; is this faculty size typical of that in applied
math and statistics at the top universities with approximately 17,215 students?
Table 5 below summarizes student enrollment and ladder faculty size in S at the universities
with the top 18 S faculties, according to the most recent National Academy of Sciences
survey, and Figure 1 below illustrates the relationship between enrollment and S FTE at
these universities. The solid line in the figure is a robust scatterplot smooth (trend curve)
which highlights the relationship, which is nonlinear above about 25,000 students (this range
is not relevant for UCSC). The vertical line is at 17,215 students, the planned size for UCSC
in 2010–11, and it intersects the trend curve at the upper horizontal line, implying that if
UCSC wishes to follow a resource pattern similar to that in the top research universities in
S it should be prepared at 17,215 students to invest in 28 ladder-rank faculty in statistics
(by comparison, the lower horizontal line is at 8, the currently proposed faculty size for S
in 2010–11). Even if the trend curve is ignored, the median number of ladder-rank statistics
faculty at the top-18-in-statistics universities smaller than UCSC will be in 2010–11 is 17 .
An analysis (not presented here) that takes account of the public-private university distinction
would, if anything, argue for an even bigger S Group at UCSC.
Data of this kind are harder to come by in AM , but it would be difficult to defend the
position that the value of the discipline of applied mathematics should be lower at UCSC
than the value of the discipline of statistics. This means that
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Table 5: Student enrollment and ladder faculty size in Statistics at the U.S. universities with
the top 18 Statistics faculties, according to the most recent National Academy of Sciences
survey.
1995
NAS
Ranking
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
University
Stanford
UC Berkeley
Cornell
Chicago
Washington
Harvard
Wisconsin
Purdue
North Carolina
UCLA
Minnesota
Iowa State
Texas A&M
Carnegie-Mellon
Rutgers
Penn State
Yale
Duke
Student
Enrollment
14,846
32,814
19,660
12,400
35,000
18,541
40,045
37,762
24,180
35,796
37,150
26,110
44,000
8,514
48,000
40,571
11,359
10,630
Number of Ladder
Faculty in
Statistics
19
39
54
20
28
53
16
25
40
15
37
27
34
17
18
18
8
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Sources. Ranking: National Academy of Sciences (NAS) 1995 National Survey of Graduate Faculty. Faculty
size: www.amstat.org/education/schools/schoolstext.html (data as of March 1998; statistics faculty
includes all ladder-rank statisticians on campus). University size: Proposal for a Department of Statistics at
the University of California, Irvine (May 15, 2001).
On grounds of resource usage in applied mathematics and statistics at
the top universities in those two fields which UCSC is trying to equal
or surpass, UCSC should attempt to devote substantially more than 8
ladder-rank faculty to each of these disciplines at a student body size
of 17,215 in 2010–11.
We draw two conclusions from this analysis:
(1) AMS has so far emulated the small-but-distinguished model of universities like Yale
in growing to its present size of 4 faculty in AM and 5 in S , and with notable
success to date: for example, the Statistics Group is already being favorably compared
with the Statistics Departments at Duke and Carnegie-Mellon, arguably the top two
20
40
30
20
0
10
Statistics Ladder FTE
50
Figure 1: Relationship between total Statistics ladder FTE and total student enrollment at
the U.S. universities with the top 18 Statistics faculties. Solid and dotted lines are explained
in the text.
10000
20000
30000
40000
Total Enrollment
Bayesian statistics groups in the U.S. We will need to continue to emulate the small-butdistinguished model in our future growth, and we are confident that we will continue
to have success in implementing this model; but it is also clear that
(2) Every attempt the campus can make to enable AMS to grow beyond the
current target of 8 faculty in each of AM and S will have significant positive impact on external reputation surveys such as (1) the NAS ranking
summarized (for 1995, in the discipline of statistics) in Table 5 and Figure
1, and (2) the US News engineering school rankings (available for 2006 at
www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/eng/brief/engrank brief.php):
with a faculty size beyond 16, AMS will be able to greatly contribute to
reaching the goal of the SoE ranking among the top 50 engineering schools
in the U.S. by the end of the decade.
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BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING
AY 2006—10 PLAN
Introduction and overview
Maintaining and building excellence
Biomolecular engineering has been a program of great promise within the longterm planning in the School of Engineering for a considerable period of time. The
departmental goal is to develop an innovative and interdisciplinary department at UCSC,
clearly bridging perceived boundaries between engineering and the sciences. A second
goal is to integrate powerful new physical and information engineering tools and
practices with modern biology and biochemistry. With an international head start in the
area of bioinformatics, we have sought to create a truly unique program. We believe we
have succeeded, but are at such a delicate stage and so far from critical mass that this
success is in imminent danger of failure.
As to be expected in such a thriving area at the forefront of modern
biotechnology, it is both difficult and expensive to recruit faculty. Additionally, the rapid
growth of our discipline has left the School, as well as the Division of Physical and
Biological Sciences and the Campus unprepared for the laboratory needs of our faculty.
Our international stature has assisted greatly with the difficulty of faculty recruitment, but
can only partially mitigate the issues of insufficient resources. As an individual program,
we have no way to address the short-term and long-term space issues related to wet
laboratories and contiguity, and recognize that such will require some combination of
renovation, remodeling, construction of new space, and review of the distribution of wetlab resources in relationship to other academic plans and campus priorities.
Thus, we find our nascent (though nearly 5-year-old) Department at a crossroads,
which is an appropriate place to be as we commence a five-year planning process. The
Faculty of the Department of Biomolecular Engineering expects that a clear and
committed choice of priority for the School of Engineering, Division of Physical and
Biological Sciences, and the campus as a whole must take place. All parties must decide
whether creation of a program in biomolecular engineering and bioengineering is a major
priority of the campus. As a major priority, it then follows that research space, faculty
positions, and start up funding appropriate to such a venture must be allocated.
Sustainability within Available Resources
We look forward to the discussion and development of a coherent academic plan for
the Santa Cruz campus, and hope that a world-class and interdisciplinary Department of
Biomolecular Engineering will be a major part of that plan. If so, we will need to be
assured of sufficient resources in order to develop a long-term plan for new faculty
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positions, adequate start up packages, and research space that will enable these
aspirations. There are three alternative outcomes that depend on decisions by the school
and campus with respect to Biomolecular Engineering:
1) We can proceed with the current plan to create and maintain a Biomolecular
Engineering program. This plan is feasible, but requires significant investment by
the campus, which has not occurred in the past few years. The department has
made a substantial effort to bring in a chair and a senior faculty member, but our
ability to do so has been hindered by lack of competitive start up funding, wet lab
space, and contiguous office space that would allow the daily contact so important
to a thriving department.
2) We can abandon the idea of Biomolecular Engineering and instead build a
Bioinformatics Department that will have reduced need for start up funding and
wet lab space. We have the nucleus of a world-class program, but the failed
attempt to hire wet-lab Biomolecular Engineering faculty without adequate
resources has prevented us from growing our bioinformatics program. This
solution would remove or severely delay the possibility of developing
comprehensive undergraduate and graduate programs in bioengineering.
3) The least desirable alternative is to reabsorb existing faculty into other
departments or have them migrate to other institutions If resources continue to be
limited as they have been over the past several years, this will be the implicit
choice.
The difficulty in creating interdisciplinary organizations within academic institutions is
well known, and was recently studied in the report Facilitating Interdisciplinary
Research from the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering,
and the Institute of Medicine (2005). The report includes five recommendations
regarding institutional structure, and we find the following to the most relevant: "U-2:
Allocations of resources from high-level administration to interdisciplinary units, to
further their formation and continued operation, should be considered in addition to
resource allocations of discipline-driven departments and colleges. Such allocation
should be driven by the inherent intellectual values of the research and by the promise of
IDR [interdisciplinary research] in addressing urgent societal problems."
Future Opportunities for Investment in New Endeavors
The Department of Biomolecular Engineering has had, since before its inception,
plans for development of biomolecular engineering undergraduate and graduate
programs, providing the appropriate community for mixing science and technology in an
interdisciplinary program at the forefront of modern engineering research and training.
The program faculty, also at the request of the Dean of Engineering, have expanded this
vision into a full-fledged interdepartmental bioengineering program plan. Biomolecular
engineering is leading the effort to create an undergraduate bioengineering program
among the faculty of biomolecular, computer, and electrical engineering, along with other
colleagues in the sciences and engineering. Although, on considering the 4 active
bioengineering searches (2 in BME, 1 each in EE and CE), we have (just) sufficient
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resources for launching an undergraduate program in bioengineering in 1 to 2 years, the
graduate program will take additional time and resources. Within current SOE hiring
plans, and successful recruiting efforts (primarily dependent on startup and laboratory
space issues) over the next several years, we will be able to launch M.S. and Ph.D.
programs in Bioengineering in five years UCSC presently has 20-30 faculty members
working in bioengineering and affiliated areas. Members of this group are already
working to create a unified vision of research, graduate training, and undergraduate
education in the broad area of bioengineering. We will present the ideas generated by
some of these members, and an evolving draft plan in the main portion of our revised
academic plan.
Synergistic Graduate Programs
If the space and startup resource issues with respect to biomolecular engineering
can be solved, we will be able to quickly expand the planned new undergraduate program
in bioengineering into a graduate program. The graduate program will clearly incorporate
synergistic features, in that it will include not just BME faculty, but also faculty from
other departments such as Electrical Engineering, MCD Biology and Chemistry. The
synergism will arise from the interdisciplinary nature of bioengineering in which material
science, nanotechnology, applied mathematics and statistics, computer engineering,
computer science, and electrical engineering will all play a role. A current example of
such synergy in BME is the nanopore project, which now includes faculty and students
from bioinformatics, chemistry and electrical engineering. If the project is successful, the
synergy will result in an instrument that will sequence DNA at rates exceeding 1000
bases per second, three orders of magnitude faster than existing sequencing technology.
Biomolecular Engineering as an interdisciplinary department at UCSC.
Biomolecular engineering has emerged nationally as a central theme of
interdisciplinary investigation in both academic and industrial settings. This discipline
developed from the fusion of molecular and cellular science with engineering. Typical
problems in biomolecular engineering concern the design, creation, characterization and
manipulation of macromolecules such as proteins and nucleic acids for specific
applications in basic research, health sciences and biotechnology. Biomolecular
engineering also includes the development of new tools for these applications, such as
microchips, single molecule biophysics, and nanoscopic machines.
For the purposes of this planning document, bioinformatics can be considered to
be a sub-discipline within biomolecular engineering which focuses on the information
content of nucleic acids and proteins. Research in bioinformatics typically uses
sophisticated computational approaches to analyze large amounts of complex data.
Genome sequences and data sets from high-throughput experimentation (such as
microarrays) are examples of such data. The aim of bioinformatics is to establish
relationships between sequence information and biological function. Understanding such
relationships has become an important focus of modern medical diagnostics and new
therapeutic approaches, and promises a more broadly based knowledge of molecular
biology and evolutionary mechanisms.
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The Department of Biomolecular Engineering was founded at UC Santa Cruz in
January, 2003. The Baskin School of Engineering considers the BME Department its
highest priority to develop, with commitments in new faculty and staff FTE and in space.
We are the newest academic department in the School of Engineering, and administer the
undergraduate and graduate program in bioinformatics. As will be outlined later in this
plan, we also propose to establish an interdepartmental bioengineering program as we
grow our faculty UCSC enjoys international acclaim for its pioneering research and
graduate instruction in Bioinformatics and its ongoing contributions to the Human
Genome Project. Also, a substantial number of UCSC faculty are already focused on
collaborative efforts in BME, and are actively developing courses and programs of study
in these areas. Bringing these faculty together in a departmental setting has provided the
infrastructure and organization to allow these faculty and programs to thrive. The
department will offer an interactive environment in which colleagues and their students
can undertake cutting-edge interdisciplinary research and develop exciting new academic
programs for the next generation of biomolecular engineers. The students will find career
opportunities in both academic and industrial settings.
Planning for additional faculty FTE.
Our near term goal is to recruit a sufficient number of faculty in order to achieve
critical mass. We will recruit only the most talented faculty members who regard
themselves as cross disciplinary, and can work at the molecular and nanoscale level with
the tools of both computational and experimental science. The department plans to grow
to a total of 14 ladder-rank faculty by 2010-11, including at least one Howard Hughes
Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator, plus one faculty member who will has a split
appointment with the BME and Computer Engineering Departments. It will also attract
several affiliated faculty from UCSC’s Molecular, Cell and Developmental (MCD)
Biology and Chemistry and Biochemistry (CBC) Departments, as well as other School of
Engineering Departments.
Our definition of biomolecular engineering encompasses three overlapping fields:
Engineering of biomolecules, including protein engineering and synthetic biology;
Engineering with biomolecules, including biosensors, synthetic biology, biomoleculeassisted nanotechnology; and
Engineering for biomolecules, including bioinformatics, laboratory automation,
especially for high-throughput experimental techniques.
The biomolecular engineering hiring plan for the next three years is focused on
solidifying our core strengths to enable delivery of a comprehensive program in
biomolecular engineering. Our program will also be a component of future
bioengineering initiatives. The positions include a mixture of wet lab and computational
lab needs, though in all cases, our ideal researchers will span computational and wet lab
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approaches, using the knowledge an understanding of each to accelerate discovery and
design.
2005-06, two full range recruitments in
Bioinformatics
Protein Engineering.
Our expectation is that one of the two hires may be able to come in as chair of the
department. However, our primary interest is to increase our numbers from 3 to 5 active
faculty members who can help develop the department.
2006-07, two assistant professors
Protein Bioinformatics or Computational Proteomics
Synthetic biology/Biosensors/Systems Biology
2007-08, one assistant professor, one full range
Nanotechnology applications in biomolecular engineering
Stem cell research/ Genomics
2008-09, one assistant professor
Nanotechnology/Macromolecules
2009-10, two assistant professors
Genomics, Stem cells/biomaterials
Biomaterials/Microbial Engineering
Justification of recruiting priorities
We currently have one of the leading groups in the world in protein structure
prediction, but much of the future of computational study of proteins will be in designing
proteins. The leading group in protein structure prediction (David Baker’s group at
University of Washington in Seattle) has already ventured into protein design with some
success, and this is a natural direction for the Biomolecular Engineering Department here
to pursue. With the departure of Carol Rohl, our strength is all in the computational end
of things, but we need someone who can lead the wet-lab work, as purely computational
protein design is a rather empty exercise. Even if Dr. Rohl returns from leave, her work
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has been more than half computational, so we would still need an experimentalist to
balance the research.
Protein bioinformatics
This position could either be a replacement for Carol Rohl or could be an expert
in the computational aspects of proteomics (which is mainly concerned with identifying
complex mixtures of unknown proteins), to complement prospective experimentalist hires
within the sciences.
Synthetic biology position
A new field in bioengineering is the engineering of existing biological systems by
adding several genes to existing organisms to create new signaling pathways and new
functions. The approach can be quite modular, reusing standard components, thus fitting
in well with engineering design styles in other disciplines. We have had one candidate for
chair who is particularly interested in this field, and it promises to be a fruitful new field
for 21st century bioengineering.
Bioinformatics position
We are facing up to the fact that we may not have adequate wet lab space to
recruit effectively in 2005-06. For this reason we have decided to use one of the positions
for the area of bioinformatics. David Haussler and Jim Kent have made the genome
browser at genome.ucsc.edu the best resource for comparative genomics in the world.
Dr. Haussler sees the grand challenge of the human genome as explaining the
evolutionary history of every base of the genome. This requires comparison with many
other genomes across a wide variety of organisms. The rate of new discoveries is
exceeding what the current team can handle. Furthermore, since Dr. Haussler and Dr.
Kent are not teaching (except by advising grad students), we are seriously short of faculty
who train undergrads and first-year graduate students in the techniques of comparative
genomics. We need to add a faculty member to research, teach, and mentor in this new
field to maintain our lead position. Since we already have the premier research group,
recruiting in this field should be relatively easy.
Nanotechnology development/high throughput engineering
Our primary current expertise in Engineering for Biomolecules is in
bioinformatics, a form of information engineering. We also have expertise in DNA
microarray technology, but need to expand into additional high throughput techniques,
such as micro fluids, proteomic and microarray technologies, robotics, and many other
areas. Without such an expansion, it will be difficult to launch our academic programs in
biomolecular engineering.
Our current expertise in these fields is restricted to non-permanent faculty.
Adjunct Associate Professor Mark Akeson and Interim Chair David Deamer use a
transmembrane protein to create nanopores that are used for studying DNA. In this
research, biomolecules, biophysics, and signal processing are being combined to
potentially create an ultra-high-speed DNA sequencer. Adjunct Professor Jonathan Trent
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(NASA) has been studying the heat-shock protein HSP60 and applying it to selfassembling nanostructures.
We would expect these new faculty members to have strong collaboration
potential with our existing research programs. Thus, proteomics or microarrays would be
the most likely areas for the high-throughput technology position, and nanotechnology
related to existing nanopore science or other areas in BME and collaborating programs.
Of course, we will maintain broad searches to ensure recruitment of top candidates in
these rapidly evolving areas.
Stem Cell Biology
We seek to recruit faculty members taking a biomolecular engineering approach
to solving problems in stem cell biology. New research in stem cell biology is opening
doors to understanding fundamental problems in molecular biology. The differentiation
of stem cells into specialized cells is a complex process involving networks of genes
linked together by transcriptional regulatory circuits, intracellular signaling cascades, and
cell-cell interactions. Our understanding about the detailed events and the genes involved
in these processes is incomplete.
New developments in stem cell biology take a genome-wide approach at
analyzing the entire network of genes and how their function is modulated during
development. New biomolecular engineering techniques in stem cell biology will
contribute to our understanding of the causal genetic events underlying how cells
specialize from stem cell progenitors. These approaches will greatly complement our
strengths in genomics and bioinformatics, creating opportunities for new avenues of
scientific investigation.
The passage of Proposition 71 in 2004 gave California universities and research
institutes three billion dollars for research in stem cell biology over the next ten years. In
collaboration with the Molecular Biology Department, BME Professor Haussler will lead
a stem training program with more than a million dollars from the California Institute of
Regenerative Medicine to support graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in stem
cell biology. BME has already committed itself to this exciting and promising area of
research. To guarantee our future success in this area, we seek colleagues who can both
help train these students and who will be able to compete for Proposition 71 research
grants that will be made available in the near future.
Systems Biology
We seek to recruit faculty members doing research in the area of Systems
Biology. New high-throughput advances in molecular biology research are quickly
changing how biological problems are being solved. Exciting research in this area lies at
the interface between biology and engineering. To complement our expertise in
computational analysis of genome-wide datasets, we seek colleagues that will develop
new technologies for measuring molecular phenomena of entire cells or tissues on a
global scale. These include but are not limited to techniques for measuring
transcriptional changes, alternative splicing, protein abundance, protein modification
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state, genome-wide knockout studies, and synthetic genetic interaction mapping. We
seek faculty that are applying existing technologies to new biological questions,
especially those relating to stem cell research, as this is another one of our target areas.
We believe our scientific impact as a department will be maximized by integrating our
efforts with scientists that are taking a global engineering approach to understanding
molecular systems.
Biosensors
We aim to recruit faculty involved in biosensor research for two reasons. First,
biosensors can be highly specific, inexpensive and portable, therefore they will play an
increasing role in disease diagnosis, forensics, detection of pathogens in food and water
supplies, and detection of airborne pathogens released from bioweapons. Second,
biosensors require research expertise at the interface between electrical engineering,
nanoscale fabrication, data processing, control theory and biochemistry. Biomolecular
Engineering (and the Baskin School of Engineering more generally) has already
established effective interdisciplinary research between faculty in these areas. Therefore,
we are optimistic that new faculty recruits working on biosensors will thrive in this
environment.
Genomics/Stem cell biology
The priority here is determined by the same issues described above for seeking a
stem cell biologist. Here the emphasis will be to complement that hire with a second hire
using computational analysis of stem cell data. The differentiation of stem cells into
specialized cells involves networks of genes, and signaling cascades. Understanding the
genes involved in these processes can only be done using the methods of genomics and
bioinformatics. We therefore seek colleagues who can train undergraduate and graduate
students in this burgeoning field, as well as competing for Proposition 71 research grants.
Modeling
Computational modeling of biological processes is now an essential aspect of
contemporary research in biomolecular engineering. Such modeling ranges from
molecular dynamics simulations of individual molecules as they interact with other cell
structures, to establishing interactomes that describe all protein-protein interactions
occurring in a given cell type, to models of physiological and electrophysiological
processes that underlie tissue level function. Expertise in modeling is therefore required
for Biomolecular Engineering, and we will seek new faculty members who can bring
their expertise to the UCSC campus.
Biomaterials
Virtually all of the advances in understanding biomolecules and their applications
in research and biotechnology now involve novel materials. Examples in Biomolecular
Engineering and Electrical Engineering include the silicon nitride nanopores being
developed for DNA sequencing, the ARROW waveguides that will be applied to single
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molecule detection devices, and implantable electrodes that will enable vision in the
blind. All of these materials are being investigated on an ad hoc basis, and we do not
have colleagues who focus on biomaterials in their research. For this reason we seek to
hire a faculty member who will establish this area in BME, who can train undergraduate
and graduate students in biomaterials and thereby provide a valuable resource for our
department.
Microbial engineering
Synthetic biology relies in large part on devising “toolkits” of genetic information
that can be used to program microorganisms and eukaryotic cells such as stem cells. A
faculty member specializing in microbial engineering will therefore complement our new
hire in synthetic biology that was described above, as well as providing expertise in
growing an engineering live cells. We see this individual as an essential component of a
complete department with the research theme of biomolecular engineering.
Hiring schedule
An accelerated hiring plan is required to place BME back on track with respect to
our long-range plan. The 10-year plan for 2005-06 shows BME with 11 positions, and
one vacant (HHMI). Thus, for 2005-6, we will be at 38-47% (after first hire in 2001-2).
Meanwhile, the School is at approximately 72%, and the other programs are at 100% of
plan (ISM, 5 faculty, first hire 2003-4), 83% (AMS, 10 faculty, first hire 1998-99), 70%
(EE, 12 faculty, first hire 1997-98), 72% (CE, 16 faculty, first hire 1985-85), and 71%
(CS, 22 faculty, first hire 1965-66).
Research program
A recent comparison by the School of 2003-04 quantitative information with the
the10-year plans shows a high level of achievement in our program. Although our
undergraduate enrollment numbers are below target (as can be expected with a tiny
faculty that must, as first priority, cover its internationally respected graduate program),
we are presently addressing this issue with by offering cross-listed electives for biology
majors. All other measures show great strength. Our graduate and undergraduate major
headcount numbers are, per capita, virtually identical to plan. Indeed, the small number
of BME faculty is the strongest restriction to growth in our highly competitive graduate
program. Our direct research expenditure ($5.6M) is over 3 times higher than per-capita
plan, and we generated $1.3M of indirect costs on those expenditures. Our graduate
program is a huge success, as evidenced by the rare receipt of an NIH Training Grant by
a program in its first year of existence.
Qualitatively, our research program has been a shining beacon of the School of
Engineering and campus. Our international reputation is extraordinary, and as a result it
has among the lowest acceptance rates for graduate students on campus, and is unique in
the School in its ability to attract a large body of high quality domestic applicants.
Despite these obvious successes, we are justifiably concerned that the faculty foundation
of our beacon may be crumbling, and thus an accelerated faculty schedule is required.
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Evaluation indices for Biomolecular Engineering
We have chosen the following indices to be appropriate for our department. The
numbers cited under the Planned column are for AY 2010-11, assuming 14 ladder faculty
in BME.
Academic indices for evaluation
Enrollment in UG courses
Graduate student enrollment
Graduate students per faculty member
Research indices for evaluation:
Extramural research grants
Publications in peer-reviewed journals
Citations per paper
National and international recognition
Plan for enrollment FTE
The Department of Biomolecular Engineering, even with its small size, has high
international recognition in bioinformatics and the core areas of computational genomics
and protein structure prediction. Our bachelor’s program in Bioinformatics was the first
in California, and the graduate program has instantly become one of the most selective on
campus.
Program
Bioinf 2001 Plan
Biomol 2001 Plan
Bioinf Act & Revised Plan
Bioengineering Planned
Bioinf MS/PhD Planned
Bioinf MS/PhD Act & Rev
AY01
25
AY02
30
AY03
60
44
AY04
74
10
47
AY05
85
30
57
6
30
35
17
50
26
75
26
AY06
85
60
65
30
AY07
85
75
75
50
AY08
85
75
85
70
AY09
85
75
85
90
AY10
85
75
85
100
35
40
45
50
55
The above table includes the 2001 planned headcounts for the bioinformatics BS
and graduate programs, as well as the biomolecular engineering undergraduate program.
The remaining rows show the actual and updated projections for these majors. As can be
seen from the above table, the Bioinformatics programs have not met the 2010 goals. In
both cases, this is primarily due to the exceptionally slower than planned growth of the
faculty -- Biomolecular Engineering presently has 1 full-time faculty, one with full
teaching relief. This slow growth has forced us to concentrate resources on the
demanding graduate program, primarily composed of PhD students, and has also forced
us to admit fewer of the exceptional applicants to the Bioinformatics graduate program
than desirable.
During the coming years, the joint developing of a B.S. in Bioengineering by BME,
Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and MCD Biology greatly increase the
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number of majors working at the interfaces of biology, medicine, and engineering, and
planned growth in faculty will begin to remove this bottleneck to the growth of our
nationally-recognized graduate program.
The table below shows undergraduate and graduate majors headcount and
enrollments in BME (Bioinformatics program) since its inception.
7Year
Undergrad
Grad
2003
-
2004
32, 119
17, 84
2005
25, 223
26, 147
It is clear that the graduate program is robust and growing, but that the
undergraduate major has not yet attracted sufficient numbers of students. We believe that
the Bioengineering will drive increased enrollments in courses offered by Biomolecular
Engineering. The undergraduate program in bioinformatics is not intended to become
huge, as with Computer Science or MCD Biology, but to remain a relatively small,
highly demanding program. A detailed plan for this major is included later in this
academic plan.
Plan for extramural research support.
The graph below shows income and expenditures from grants to BME faculty.
The major fractions of the current funding goes through HHMI, with Prof. Haussler as PI,
but all BME faculty have existing grants or pending applications. The graph does not
show recent awards to the Deamer laboratory ($1.5 M, 3 years) which started in October
2005, not does it show a new NIH grant to Dr. Mark Akeson, adjunct Associate Professor
in BME.
With only four active ladder faculty, it is not possible to engage in a detailed
planning effort related to extramural funding except to note that we will continue to seek
substantial extramural funding for our research efforts. If we are able to hire six new
faculty by 2010, according to our plan, the expected annual external funding for the
department is projected to be $8M, comprised of an average of $350K/yr for each of the
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10 state-funded faculty members, plus an additional $4-$5M per year from HHMI and
large, multi-PI project grants.
Additional measures of success appropriate for Biomolecular Engineering
The Department of Biomolecular Engineering has taken a leadership role in the
creation of an undergraduate degree program in bioengineering. The success of this
program, and of the related development of a graduate program in bioengineering, and
possibly biomolecular engineering, will provide a discrete measure of success of the
program. Although maintaining this leadership will be a strain on present faculty
resources (BME presently has only 3 full-time, full-duty faculty, two part-time leadership
faculty, 2 adjunct faculty, and one HHMI Investigator), the critical importance of this
area to the School of Engineering and campus means that we will work hard to ensure the
success of this collaborative venture. . UCSC presently has 20-30 faculty members
working in bioengineering and affiliated areas. Members of this group are already
working to create a unified vision of research, graduate training, and undergraduate
education in the broad area of bioengineering. Here we will present the ideas generated
by some of these members, and an evolving draft plan.
In the first half of the 20th century, the advent of high-speed communication and
electrification enabled high-technology engineering. In the second half of the 20th
century, the transistor and integrated circuits were the drivers of high technology. Now,
in the first half of the 21st century, it is expected by many that advances in understanding
biosystems, and manipulation of biomolecules will be the foundation of 21st-century
engineering. At UCSC, the late advent of engineering has allowed us to be on the
forefront of developing trends. In 1984, we were able to focus our growth into a new,
interdisciplinary area of engineering strongly coupled with the neighboring Santa Clara
region: Computer Engineering. Now, with our focus on Biotechnology, Information
Technology, and Nanotechnology, we are maintaining a commitment to looking forward
to the advent of new hybrid, cross-disciplinary technologies. This is a significant
advantage in comparison to other schools with strongly established programs in the older
branches and subdisciplines of engineering. We were able to leap ahead of such
programs with the creation of cross disciplinary engineering programs emphasizing the
cutting edge of technology and its impact on society, as in our electrical engineering
program focused on nanotechnology and biomolecular engineering program with
worldwide recognition for its contributions to bioinformatics.
The next natural step for UCSC is bioengineering. Within the 21st-century, the
rapid advances in the biological sciences, here and elsewhere, provide the underlying
framework for a broad bioengineering program at UCSC that focuses on macro, micro,
molecular, and societal bioengineering. Engineering is not just the discipline of
technology, but one of technology in the service of society. According to the recent
report of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), The Engineer of 2020: Visions of
Engineering in the New Century,
It is our aspiration that engineering educators and practicing engineers together
undertake a proactive effort to prepare engineering education to address the
technology and societal challenges and opportunities of the future.
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At UCSC, with a strong emphasis on liberal, scientific, and engineering
education, as well as existing research and education in bioethics and the human sciences,
we are ready to combine technology, science, and society not just at the research level,
but also in the development of undergraduate and graduate academic programs. In this
draft discussion of bioengineering, we are focused on the applications of engineering to
medicine and the biological sciences in collaboration with the exceptional strong existing
programs in the biological sciences, physical sciences, and biomedical research at UCSC.
Our campus presently engages in bioengineering research within the biomolecular
engineering, computer engineering, and electrical engineering programs in collaboration
with the biological sciences, computer sciences, mathematics, philosophy, physical
sciences, and psychology. With existing faculty, it may be possible to create modest
graduate minors in areas of bioengineering, such as biomedical imaging, bioinformatics,
and assistive technologies. A moderate investment may enable the creation of more
general graduate and undergraduate minors in bioengineering. A larger investment will
be required to create graduate and undergraduate programs in bioengineering to serve the
needs of our students, California, and society.
At all levels, students have realized the importance of the joining of biology and
engineering into a discipline focused on using technology to better society, both
collectively and individually. Indeed, according to the NAE report, creating and
designing “technology for an aging population" is one of the four broad technological
challenges that the engineer of 2020 will face. It is only by providing a unified program
that we can effectively train our engineering graduates to solve these problems.
Growth in bioengineering has been spectacular, as technology advances enable
discovery and design of the highest impact to our aging population. Over 1999-2002, the
number of Bioengineering BS degrees granted increased by 50%, MS by 78%, and PhD
by 30%. The formation of a new NIH Institute, the National Institute for Biomedical
Imaging and Bioengineering is another indicator of the growth and permanence of this
discipline. In the University, bioengineering programs and departments exist at 9 of the
10 campuses; ours is the only campus without a bioengineering program.
For undergraduates, "bioengineering is one of the fastest-growing majors at many
universities" (ASEE PRISM, November 2004). At UCSC, the strong interdisciplinary
focus of much of our research can immediately enable undergraduate minors in areas
related to bioengineering, and with a few targeted faculty hires, enable a complete degree
program.
At the graduate level, there is similar growth, spurred in part by the influx of
Whitaker Foundation funding. The University of California has recently formed a MultiCampus Research Unit (MRU), the Bioengineering Institute of California. Founded as a
collaboration of all of our campuses, the MRU focuses on using distance and Web
technologies to enable a broad coverage of bioengineering academics at all campuses,
and an annual UC Bioengineering Symposium. In summer 2005, the UCSC School of
Engineering and Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering hosted this system
wide event.
Undergraduate and graduate bioengineering is also an exceptional opportunity for
diversity within engineering. At the undergraduate level in 2003, 40% of biomedical
engineering degree recipients were women. Presently, the School of Engineering has
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fewer than 20% female students. Bioengineering also provides an opportunity for gender
diversity within our faculty; although in 2003 our School of Engineering was eighth
nationwide in percentage of woman faculty, 13.6% woman faculty is not an
accomplishment that indicates that the work is complete. UCSC also has a low population
of disabled students, who are, because of the potential direct impact, often interested in
bioengineering and assistive technologies. This confluence of research directions,
societal needs, and opportunities for diversity makes the development of a bioengineering
program particularly timely.
The figure on the next page shows diagrammatically how we envisage
bioengineering to fit into our research programs, the UCSC campus, and society at large.
The goal of all bioengineering is in a sense societal in nature - assisting people and
society to better the quality of living. In the "primarily macro" area, we propose
continuing to develop our current excellence in assistive technologies for the aging
population. In the “primarily micro" area, we propose a strong emphasis on bio sensors,
sensor processing including biomedical imaging, and the creation of micro prostheses,
leapfrogging existing programs with macroscopic prostheses programs. In the "primarily
molecular" area, we will continue to develop our excellence in biomolecular engineering
and informatics. And societal bioengineering, we will use our understanding of
individuals and societies to develop new technologies and seek to understand the impacts
of these technologies on individuals and societies.
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Societal Bioengineering
Psychology, Sociology, Ethics,
Education
Macro Bioengineering
Assistive Technologies for an
Aging Population
Blindness
Deafness
Mobility Impairment
Micro Bioengineering
Molecular
Bioengineering
Enabling technologies for
macro and molecular
bioengineering
Molecular Manipulation and
Understanding for Medicine
Sensors
Sensor Processing
Neuroprostheses
Protein Engineering
Bioinformatics
Functional Genomics
Foundational Areas
Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Environmental
Toxicology, Computer Science, Statistics, Robotics and
Control
Macro Bioengineering
We envision a new generation of researchers, educators, and entrepreneurs committed to
shaping the future of human–centered assistive technology. Mainstream approaches to
engineering education may not adequately take into account human factors that directly
affect the usability of new technology. The gap between engineering creativity and final
user considerations is particularly serious in the case of technology designed to aid the
disabled or the elderly. All too often, engineers are tempted to build tools and devices
“just because computers can do it”, without enough awareness of the reality and actual
needs of disabled individuals. The net result is a very limited adoption of advanced
technology by such communities.
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We propose a multidisciplinary, “participatory” approach to the development of
tools and practices for assistive technology, which relies on close collaboration between
technology designers, cognitive scientists, and end–users. This approach offers great
potential for cooperation between the UCSC School of Engineering and the Psychology
Department. In addition, the establishment of UARC opens new opportunities for
research and graduate student training at the NASA Ames Research Center (ARC). In the
past, interaction between mathematical science and engineering on one end, and
psychophysics and cognitive science on the other hand, has proven very successful, for
example in the development of theories of human vision and in the implementation of
biologically inspired algorithms and systems. The proposed cooperation also draws from
a large body of knowledge in human–centered design, pioneered by NASA ARC in the
context of engineering systems for aeronautical and space systems.
Developing technology to assist an aging population encompasses a number of
research fields, straddling across Engineering (sensor processing, human–machine
interface, robotics, hardware integration) and Psychology (psychophysical models of
sensory loss, predictive cognitive models). Specific areas of research that will be
emphasized by the Macro Bioengineering program include:
Mobility, wayfinding and accessibility for the visually impaired and mobility impaired.
Integrated and wearable mobility tools to aid safe and comfortable deambulation;
indoor/outdoor wayfinding technology; control of autonomous or semi–autonomous
wheelchairs; increased independence in assisted living environment for blind and
mobility impaired individuals. (Professors Manduchi, Tao, Elkaim, Dunbar, Nourbakhsh)
Human–machine and human–environment interfaces.
Tactile/acoustic virtual map exploration for the blind; speech recognition for deaf
or hard–of–hearing individuals; eye tracking, along with the translation of eye motion
patterns into desired actions, for human/machine interface for the mobility impaired.
(Professors Manduchi, Pang, Tao)
Cognitive models for predicting and assessing user performance.
Analysis of the influence of cognitive aging and task–coordination strategies for
dual–task performances; computational models to simulate aging effects; emotional bias
in elderly and disabled individuals and its influence on memory and attention. (Professors
Massarro, Travis, Mather)
Assistive technology for the blind at the Macro Bioengineering level ties in with
research in Neural Prosthetics, which is part of the Micro Bioengineering area. The
prosthetic retina project conducted by Prof. Liu offers opportunity for innovative sensor
processing technology and raises fascinating new questions about the psychological and
psychophysical aspects of sensorial augmentations.
Additional potential benefits of the proposed Macro Bioengineering program
include the establishment of long–term relationships with external research institutions in
different areas of assistive technology, fostering continuing exchange of experience, user
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studies, and technological solutions, and providing insight into psychological, social, and
day-to-day practical aspects of living with a disability. Even more important is the
potential for creating an open and attractive environment at UCSC for disabled students,
who may provide a unique perspective on the future of assistive technology.
Beyond the specific focus on assistive technology, we believe that students
formed under this program will represent valuable assets in many other fields of today’s
professional world. Participatory and human–centered design are important paradigms for
the creation of really usable hi–tech products. We have received very encouraging
feedback from several companies, not necessarily directly related to Bioengineering,
about job placement prospects for students equipped with the skills developed under the
proposed program.
Micro Bioengineering
Micro bioengineering includes the development of sensors for biomedical
applications, the computational and algorithms for understanding sensors, and the
creation of micro-scale prostheses and other devices for medical use. Presently, all three
of these areas are represented by faculty research programs, and there is some likelihood
that new research programs will involve in micro bioengineering and nanobiotechnology.
Sensor development, at the boundaries of micro and molecular bioengineering,
include "lab-on-a-chip” technology, such as that integrated optical waveguides with
liquid cores, enabling light propagation and measurement through small volumes of
liquids on a chip (Schmidt), microscopy (Isaacson), and nanopore technology (Deamer,
Akeson).
Once sensed, data must be understood using statistical and algorithmic
techniques. Examples include cell tracking (Tao, Hughey, Di Blas, in collaboration with
Ottemann), signal and image understanding, and related areas.
The use of micro and nano devices to directly solve medical problems is best
illustrated in the artificial retina project (Liu) and biomimetic technology development
(Liu and Isaacson).
The continued development of robotic and high-throughput technologies for the
biomedical science and engineering, a focus of the draft document on biomedical
research at UCSC is also an area of micro-scale bioengineering.
Molecular Bioengineering
Molecular-level bioengineering includes the analysis, manipulation, and detection
of biomolecules. While the central core for molecular bioengineering at UCSC will be
the Department of Biomolecular Engineering, the area also involves many researchers
within the biological sciences, computer science, physical sciences, and electrical
engineering.
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Molecular bioengineering concerns three overlapping fields:
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Engineering of biomolecules, including protein engineering and synthetic biology;
Engineering with biomolecules, including biosensors, synthetic biology,
biomolecule-assisted nanotechnology; and
Engineering for biomolecules, including bioinformatics, laboratory automation,
especially for high-throughput experimental techniques.
The Department of Biomolecular Engineering, founded upon the international
prominence of our research in bioinformatics, is one of the Schools most strongly
targeted growth areas. In addition to expanding the graduate program in bioinformatics
to better meet demand (faculty advising capacity limits admission to 20% of Ph.D.
candidates), the program will continue to expand into protein engineering, synthetic
biology, nanotechnology applications in biomolecular engineering, and high throughput
experimentation and analysis.
The natural allies of these technological disciplines include molecular biology,
biochemistry, micro fluidics and all areas of micro bioengineering, computer science, and
statistics. This fundamental work at the molecular level of bioengineering will provide
the basis upon which new medicines, technologies, and procedures will be developed
within the domains of macro bioengineering and micro bioengineering.
From its start, the academic programs in bioinformatics have also cultivated
relationships with philosophy, co-creating a general education course (required for the
undergraduate mathematics degree) in bioethics, and also providing a ready stream of
students to upper-division in graduate courses in bioethics as required by the MS and
Ph.D. programs. We would like to further strengthen this relationship, in particular with
collaborative research associated with the modern ethical quandaries created by the
biotechnology revolution.
Societal Bioengineering
We have begun discussions with psychologist and collaborator Dom Massarro
about the societal level of bioengineering. Although we have not fully defined this area
(this would be a topic of the bioengineering planning retreat discussed below), this area is
expected to examine the human factors, human impacts, ethics, and quandaries that our
next generation of technologies will bring to bear upon individuals and societies.
We will seek to collaborate with researchers in psychology, sociology, education,
and philosophy to develop research in this area and, most importantly, continue our
commitment to this most important aspect of bioengineering, as bioinformatics has
emphasized and required academic courses in bioethics for all undergraduate and
graduate degrees.
BIOENGINEERING MAJOR for the Bachelor of Science Degree
The UCSC Bioengineering Engineering program prepares
graduates for a rewarding career in engineering. The BS in
Bioengineering provides students with fundamental knowledge of
mathematics, science, and technology, and advanced training in
engineering principles and practice at the molecular, cellular and
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organismal levels. Graduates will be prepared to work as engineers
solving problems in the biomedical and biomolecular domains, and to
pursue advanced degrees in engineering, medicine, or science.
One of BME’s most important efforts is the development of the BS in
Bioengineering. It is our intention to complete the approval process of the BS in
Bioengineering during AY05, accept first-year students in AY06, transfer students in
AY07, and see the first graduates in AY08. After we have had students graduate from
the program, we will immediately seek ABET accreditation to bring the total number of
UCSC accredited engineering programs up to three. The addition of this third program
(and the potential development of controls, robotics, and mechanical engineering led by
Computer Engineering) will help move the SOE to becoming a full-service School of
Engineering. No longer will students choose to attend our other campus’ simply because
there is an insufficient diversity of engineering majors and careers paths on our campus.
The draft table below indicates projected major and premajor headcounts: the
planned of the 2001 10-year plan, the actual bioinformatics numbers through AY05, and
planned bioinformatics and biomolecular engineering numbers in AY06 and beyond.
Although the bioinformatics numbers are somewhat lower than planned in 2001, it must
be noted that also our faculty count is 60% below plan, and has had to focus on our
renowed graduate program, reducing the opportunity to further expand the majors. The
current revision of SOE hiring priorities indicates that this will not be a problem during
the coming half decade.
Program
Bioinf 2001 Plan
Biomol 2001 Plan
Bioinf Act & Revised Plan
Bioengineering Planned
AY01
25
AY02
30
AY03
60
6
30
44
AY04
74
10
47
AY05
85
30
57
AY06
85
60
65
30
AY07
85
75
75
50
AY08
85
75
85
70
AY09
85
75
85
90
AY10
85
75
85
100
The Bioengineering BS curriculum is actively under development in a group
convened by BME Professor and Vice-Chair Hughey, and including faculty from BME
(Akeson, Deamer, Karplus), Computer Engineering (Manduchi and Dunbar), and
Electrical Engineering (Liu and Isaacson). As discussed above, the foci of the three
programs is clear: BME focuses on the molecular-level bioengineering, electrical
engineering focuses on micro-level bioengineering, and computer engineering focuses on
macro-level bioengineering. Of course, as with all areas, these are not strict boundaries
but overlapping clouds of interest.
The curriculum, designed for ABET accreditation, will require broad training in
mathematics (6 courses in calculus, multi-variable calculus, engineering mathematics,
biostatistics, and signals and system, the latter course being revised by EE to include
more examples of biological systems), science (10 courses in chemistry, biology,
biochemistry, and physics), programming (2 courses), and technical writing.
Unlike some bioengineering programs, we have paid special attention to ensuring
there are first and second year courses that advance student understanding of
bioengineering without requiring all the above prerequisites. To that end, Computer
Engineering Professor Manduchi is creating a new topical course on Assistive
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Technology and Universal Access to introduce students to the problems of the aging
society, Electrical Engineering Profess Liu is creating a new topical course Introduction
to Bioengineering that will focus on the interfaces between medicine and technology, and
Biomolecular Engineering Lecturer Rothwell has created a low-prerequisite course,
Introduction to Medical Biotechnology, focused on the biomolecular aspects of
bioengineering. We expect these three courses to both maintain interest in the technology
and application of bioengineering, as well as to give a broad overview of the problems
that bioengineers can solve.
Toward the Junior year, students will take 3 more advanced core courses: EE’s
circuits course, BME’s planned molecular biomechanics, and a course on physiological
systems – physiology as explained using the tools of engineering. This last course is will
to be taught by one of the new hires in EE, BME, or CE, depending on qualifications.
Students will then complete 3-4 electives in engineering or the sciences, a
combination of existing courses and new courses planned by BME, CE, and EE.
Bioengineering students will join other SOE engineering majors in the 123A/B 2-quarter
senior design program. Bioengineers must of course apply their bioengineering training
to the project, and indeed will bring a breadth of experience that could have improved
many prior projects tackled by our design program groups, such as in animal and human
monitoring.
It is expected that many bioengineering students will make use of summer session
to complete their degrees. While the interdisciplinary bioengineering curriculum can
theoretically fit into 4 years, we expect most students will proceed at a slightly slower
pace, making use of summer instruction or one or two extra quarters. This is typical of
most bioengineering programs in the system, where, as with ours, the total unit
requirements for the major and campus are slightly above 200 quarter units. Nonetheless,
we are convinced that this is the minimum acceptable program for our undergraduates.
Cluster hiring related to bioengineering
The bioengineering program is focused on cross-disciplinary faculty and projects,
research that interfaces with other fields of engineering, the biological sciences, the
physical sciences, and in the humanities (bioethics).
Our hiring plan is based on these three core areas of bioengineering, with
recruitments in broad range of interdisciplinary research areas. The continued creation of
this boundary-crossing program will enable continued success in training grants, centers,
and other collaborative research.
BME faculty believe that we could usefully engage in interdepartmental cluster
hires in the following areas:
Nanotechnology of biomolecules (Chemistry, Electrical Engineering)
Proteomics (MCD, Chemistry)
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Biomaterials (Chemistry)
Bioengineering (Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering)
The Department also sees need for the campus to develop clear and functional policies
with respect to split appointments. In interdisciplinary fields, often faculty most
appropriately wish to affiliate with multiple departments. Such practice is common in
the more long-standing bioengineering programs at our University (for example, the
Berkeley and Santa Barbara programs have a large number of zero or partial
appointments), and is currently a great administrative barrier for this type of collaborative
research. We advocate most strongly that the campus develop simplified procedures for
formal zero and non-zero appointments of limited term (e.g., 5 years), as well as
incentives for split appointment hiring at the tenured level. We lost one recent star
faculty candidate from Santa Barbara who had a split appointment between
bioengineering and chemistry on that campus, in part due campus inertia against such
appointments. Although BME and Chemistry were both excited about the potential hire,
the lack of existing policy made it impossible to complete such a venture within the
hiring timeframe. The candidate decided to remain at Santa Barbara with, unfortunately,
the clear impression that Santa Cruz is an exceedingly conservative campus. If we wish
to move the campus to the top research tier, we must begin to experiment with our
program and departmental structures in ways that administratively encourage crossprogram collaboration and center-scale grants.
Near-term and longer-term investments
As part of the three-year hiring plans of the several departments, the near-term
growth in the broad area of bioengineering is already underway. Biomolecular
Engineering has proposed hiring six faculty members in Molecular Bioengineering.
Computer Engineering has proposed hiring one faculty member specifically working in
the area of assistive technologies, and has hopes and expectations that other hires will
have interests in assistive technologies as well. The planned growth in general
biomedical research at UCSC will provide continuing opportunities for leveraging and
expanding research at all scales.
Planning for affirmative action and diversity
Our plan is simple. We will take every opportunity to assure that women and
under-represented minorities have access to our academic programs and recruiting. We
note that we have made serious offers to Prof. Pam Silver, Harvard University, and to
Prof. Tony Guiseppi-Elie, an African American, to chair the department. For a variety of
reasons, mainly having to do with limited resources available to the department, we were
unable to attract these candidates to UC Santa Cruz. We also have Carol Rohl as an
assistant professor in the department. Carol is currently on leave, taking advantage of an
opportunity in Seattle, but we hope she will decide to return to Santa Cruz in 2006.
Space requirements for Biomolecular Engineering
Laboratory space is essential for recruiting talented faculty. While the delayed
construction of PSB is a problem for the department, we must always remember that PSB
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does not include any wet lab space for Biomolecular Engineering. The only wet lab
space and expected to be specifically allocated to BME is as a result of the ALTS2 and
ALTS3 projects in E2. The quality of the planned laboratory space in these alterations
has been markedly reduced due to budget restrictions, so that only two of the six
laboratories will be ready for occupancy at the end of construction. This means that BME
will be crippled in recruiting activities for the foreseeable future. This of course raises the
additional issues that even in the best of scenarios, our faculty will be spread across four
different buildings. Our Department was never planned to be large, so it will be difficult
to maintain a sense of community in such a configuration.
After completion of the construction efforts over the next 2 - 3 years, BME will
have approximately 12,000 asf available as wet lab, dry lab and office space. This
includes 4,300 asf in PSB, and 7,600 asf in the Alts 2 and 3 remodeling of Baskin
Engineering. We plan to recruit two new ladder faculty each year AY 05-06, 06-07 and
07-08. If all department faculty were to be accommodated in the space assigned to BME,
we would fill the available space in AY 07-08, when we hope to have 10 faculty
members including a full time chair of the department. To accommodate our planned
growth to 14 faculty members by AY 09 -10, BME will require an additional 12,000 asf
for offices, labs, support, and specialty spaces such as a tissue culture facility. Details
have been previously provided.
It will also be essential to have two dedicated instructional wet lab spaces for
certain undergraduate courses planned for the Bioengineering major. These include
Molecular Biomechanics, Electrophysiology and the associated lab courses.
Computer Engineering Plan for 2010
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Computer Engineering focuses on the design, analysis and application
of computers and on their applications as components of systems.
The UCSC Department of Computer Engineering sustains and strengthens
its teaching and research program to provide students with inspiration and
quality education in the theory and practice of computer engineering.
Departmental Mission Statement
Maintaining and Building Excellence
The Department of Computer Engineering will maintain and build excellence in research,
undergraduate and graduate teaching, and service during the next five years.
In research, we target five specific areas of research excellence:
• computer system design
• design technologies
• digital media and sensor technology
• computer networks
• embedded and autonomous systems.
In the coming 5 years, we plan to maintain excellence in these focused areas and build
excellence in a cross-cutting interdisciplinary emphasis in assistive technology as we
seek to train undergraduate and graduate engineers for the future.
Recent examples of research excellence include leading a $5.2M multi-university
consortium to develop the new science of ad hoc networks; creating and receiving
national publicity on the development of a virtual white cane for the blind; writing one of
the 13 top conference papers in the broad area of Computer Architecture and receiving an
NSF CAREER grant on first application; receiving a highly competitive NSF Major
Research Instrumentation (MRI) grant to launch our autonomous systems program;
working with biology faculty and undergraduates to create a sensor network for coral reef
monitoring, creating collars and a sensor network for monitoring of the activites and
behavior of coyotes, and receiving continuing funding (with Environmental Toxicology)
for research on real-time control of ground-water clean-up.
In teaching, we strive for innovation and excellence in the classroom and in academic
programs. We have led efforts to integrate modern technology in teaching, and are
constantly working to improve our undergraduate and graduate curricula.
Recent examples of teaching excellence include innovation with tablet PCs and web
archiving (supported by COT), offering a new first-year Hands-On Computer
Engineering course every quarter to increase excitement and improve retention in
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engineering students, creating a Minor in Computer Technology targeting for nonengineering students interested in K-12 teaching, and placement of our PhD and
Postdoctoral graduates at leading industrial research laboratories and in faculty positions
at UM Amherst (now tenured), UCI, Santa Clara, Georgetown (now tenured), Cal Poly
San Luis Obispo, Bahcesehir University, U Naples, U Twente, and the Federal University
of Campina Grande (Brazil, now tenured).
In service, we dedicate ourselves to serving the Baskin School, UCSC, and our
professional disciplines. Computer Engineering faculty frequently dedicate themselves to
leading many efforts, both on campus and off.
Recent examples of service excellence include heading Crown College; chairing the
Committee on Educational Policy; leading UCSC’s CITRIS branch; directing the Korea
Telecom executive program; being Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs; leading
SOE Outreach; and chairing CONCUR 2005, the lead international conference and
concurrency theory. Computer Engineering has also taken significant part in UARC
development.
As the Department of Computer Engineering begins its third decade, we look forward to
continuing our emphasis on excellence in computer engineering education, research, and
teaching, combined with a constant focus on the innovation and incubation of new
programs.
1984-1989
1990-1994
• Pat Mantey launches UCSC Engineering
• BS/MS program
• ABET Accreditation
• First PhD graduate (1992)
• Graduate Program
• ISM major launched (Mantey, CS, Econ)
1995-2000
2000-2005
• EE launched
• BS Bioinformatics (1st in CA) launched
• School of Engineering
• Computer Technology Minor
• Professional MS program
• SURF-IT REU Site
• CITRIS/ITI Created
2006-2010
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Autonomous Systems/Control
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Assistive Technologies
Computer Engineering's 20-year history as innovator and incubator of programs
Excellence with diversity
The Department of Computer Engineering seeks to sustain and build excellence with
diversity. This is a particularly difficult goal within the discipline of engineering,
generally the least diversified area of academic endeavor throughout the nation. Because
of this problem, the Department has placed a strong emphasis on diversity within
engineering, with the following continuing approaches:
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Professors Hughey, Cox, Manduchi, and Obraczka lead an NSF Research
Experiences for Undergraduates Site, SURF-IT (surf-it.soe.ucsc.edu), a summer
research program with a focus on increasing the number of women and
underrepresented minorities in engineering. In its first three years, the program
provided research opportunities to 33 students, 60% of whom were female and
25% of whom came from underrepresented ethnic or racial groups. Students are
placed throughout the School of Engineering.
Professor Ferguson has leadership roles in the Multicultural Engineering
Participation (MEP) program and the NSF Developing Effective Engineering
Pathways (DEEP) program with De Anza and Foothill Colleges.
Professor Hughey is faculty advisor by our Society of Women Engineers chapter,
and in 2004 helped graduate students organize our newest diversity-oriented
group, eWomen, with the assistance of a campus diversity grant.
Professor Manduchi is advisor to our Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
chapter.
In the coming year, at the undergraduate level we see CE1 as being a continuing
instrument for retention and diversity. At all levels (student and faculty) the growing
focus on assistive technology within CE and bioengineering within the SOE is likely to
significantly promote diversity (in addition to excellence) within the School.
Sustainability within Available Resources
Computer Engineering has had no net growth since 2001-2. In spite of the lack of growth,
we have been able to meet or exceed most 10-year plan measures, when adjusted for the
number of faculty. The numbers show a high level of effectiveness for allocated
resources, lending strong support to the idea of moderate growth within the Department
Computer Engineering and its broad interdisciplinary research programs.
For 2004-5, the target was 21 LR faculty and 1 open position; we instead have 16 LR
faculty and 2 open positions. Thus, we are 24% below plan in LR faculty. As we had no
recruitment authorizations in 2004-5, this deficit is 27% in 2005-6. With current
recruitments underway, we expect to have 18 LR faculty in 2006-7, 22% below plan.
Computer Engineering achieved plan or close to plan in 2004-5 in most categories of the
10-year plan, when adjusted for the lower number of LR faculty (16 + 2 slots, rather than
21 + 1 slot). This across-the-board achievement of the 10-year plan goals may be unique
within the School. At the undergraduate level, adjustments are made according to LR
faculty slots (18) because empty slots enable the hiring of non-senate faculty to cover
curriculum. At the graduate level, adjustments are made according to LR faculty
positions (16) since only positions we have been authorized to fill can advise graduate
students. These numbers include:
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Undergraduate Enrollments: 9% above plan per LR faculty slot
o 268 FTE enrollments, planned 300, but 18% below LR faculty slots
o Similarly for overall enrollments
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Undergraduate majors: 25% above plan
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o 57 premajors and 100 majors, plan 125
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Graduate Enrollments: 20% below plan per LR faculty member
o 57 FTE enrollments
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Graduate students: On plan per LR faculty member
o Includes 15 part-time MS students
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Research funding: 9% above plan per LR faculty member
o $3M, not including $444k in cash and equipment gifts.
o Achieving plan with respect to graduate funding will enable us to support
a larger graduate program in the coming years, thus closing the shortfall in
graduate enrollments and students.
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Research expenditures: 25% below plan per LR faculty member
o As research funding is now on plan, research expenditures will follow.
In spite of our success with within the constraints of available faculty resources, recent
experiences have been showing in a lack of sustainability within available space
resources. Due to the currently reduced number of permanent faculty, the Department
does have sufficient computational laboratory research space. However, the Department
does not have sufficient space for its autonomous systems research program, and the
School of Engineering teaching laboratories are presently insufficient for the growing
number of CE and EE majors, undergraduate laboratory courses, and graduate laboratory
courses.
The Autonomous Systems group designs, builds, and studies full-size autonomous
systems. It requires space that can accommodate parts fabrication, prototyping and
testing of large systems, including, for example, an autonomous catamaran outfitted with
an 18’ hard wing, and a fully autonomous off-road vehicle. The main campus lacks high
ceiling labs to accommodate large systems, while suitable dry lab space is in short
supply. The amount of equipment used by this productive research group is growing,
especially with their recent receipt of a Major Research Instrumentation award. Our
current estimate is that the group has the following needs:
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2,500 asf of fabrication space for fabrication and prototyping
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1,000 asf of fabrication space for multi-vehicle testing,
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1,000 asf of 18-20’ high ceiling space for prototyping and assembly of
large scale devices,
Ideally, because these projects fully integrate undergraduate and graduate students, we
would like to have space for this research on the main campus, perhaps in a small
structure next to the E2 building.
Computer Engineering has a growing number of graduate lab courses (2-4 per year) that
compete on an unequal footing with undergraduate instructional labs. Additionally,
recent growth in electrical engineering and computer engineering students completing the
two-quarter senior capstone design course has placed considerable strain on instructional
laboratory usage. After the sophomore year, most engineering laboratories are a mixture
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of scheduled lab section time (typically four or more hours per week) and additional
independent work time (typically another four to forty hours per week per student). The
extremely high use of our senior design project laboratories, in which the students to the
dedicate the vast majority of their waking time to their capstone design project, mean 247 use of the labs not adequately accounted for in classroom statistics. During the coming
five years, it is clear that additional laboratory space, for both undergraduate and graduate
courses, will be critical to maintaining educational excellence.
Future Opportunities for Investment in New Endeavors
The Department has identified five exciting opportunities for the near future. Investment
in these areas will enable (in part) the development of a program in bioengineering, the
development of a world-class program in autonomous systems and control, and
solidification of our international prominence in computer networks.
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Assistive technologies and bioengineering. This area is of extreme importance to
the aging population. A group of 3-6 faculty and the creation of a research center
could propel us to excellence. The group would have strong collaborations with
faculty in digital media and sensor technology, embedded and autonomous
systems, Biomolecular Engineering, and Electrical Engineering. This could form
a nucleus, with other SOE programs, for launching academic and research
programs in bioengineering. Between 1999 and 2002, the number of
Bioengineering BS degrees granted increased by 50%, MS by 78%, and PhD by
30%. In the System, bioengineering programs have been or are being created at
every campus, and UCSC hosted the 2005 Systemwide Symposium on
Bioengineering. Professor Hughey is leading an effort within the SOE and in
collaboration with the sciences to develop a bioengineering B.S. program for Fall
2006.
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Program in Autonomous Systems. William Dunbar, Gabriel Elkaim, and Jorge
Cortes (AMS) have developed a graduate course sequence in control. Computer
Engineering has proposed as part of the five-year perspective, the development of
a graduate program in autonomous systems. This cross-cutting area would be
expected to include faculty in CE, EE, AMS, ISM, Economics, and potentially
other areas. We are poised to launch exceptional robotics research and degree
programs with 3 hires in autonomous systems during the next 5 years. The
Computer Engineering hires will focus on design and construction of autonomous
systems and software (as, for example, Professor Elkaim). When combined with
faculty specializing in algorithms and control theory for autonomous systems
(Professors Dunbar and Cortes, as well as a planned new AMS hire) and in sensor
technology for autonomous systems (Professors Tao and Manuduchi), we will be
able to launch a world-class graduate program autonomous systems. This group
may form the kernel of a program in mechanical engineering. All such positions
may be part of the assistive technology emphasis.
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Networks Pinnacle of Excellence. Computer Engineering's most productive
research group is in Computer Networks. Indeed, within the School of
Engineering, this group has produced more Ph.D. graduates than any other group,
and has placed students at many academic institutions. We presently have a
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strong focus on wireless networks (JJ Garcia-Luna and Katia Obrazcka) and on
high-speed network architectures (Anujan Varma). This group is poised to
expand to internetworking and applied network security. Network and internet
security has become a key area of applied research within the computer networks
field, thanks to the popularity of wireless networks which are more difficult to
secure than wireline networks. The demand for graduates with specialization in
network security is currently far higher than the supply, and this is likely to persist
for some time.
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Invigoration of core areas of computer system design and design technologies.
Because of the loss of Professors Karplus, Dai, and Madhyastha, and the
exceptional service loads of Professors Ferguson, Larrabee, and Hughey, we have
had to turn away many highly qualified applications in these areas. The successful
hire of Jose Renau and the 2005-6 recruitment in this area is the start of rebuilding
our core strength, but we will need one or two more faculty in this area within the
next 5 years to ensure and enable undergraduate and graduate education, training,
and research of the highest quality.
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Sustained excellence in Digital Media and Sensor Technology. Our dynamic and
collaborative group working in digital media and sensor technology interfaces
collaborates extensively in CE, the SOE, and on campus. We have a particular
interest in “rich media” technology for education, both in the classroom and on
the web. Collaborative problem solving and decision support will exploit the
same technological developments, and this is a joint area of interest with
colleagues in TIM (and CS) Another hire in this area in the next 5 years will
leverage and multiply our research activity in this growing area.
Synergistic Graduate Programs
Computer Engineering is itself an immensely interdisciplinary program. We study
computers and computer-based systems over a broad range of application areas. Our
research spans the range from imbedded systems and the basic computers for these, to
complex systems, and “systems of systems” where computers and networks provide the
essential control and management. We have extensive collaborations with faculty in
other departments within the School of Engineering, and we have also developed joint
research with many campus departments and organizations including the Psychology;
Chemistry; Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology; Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology; Earth Sciences; Ocean Sciences; Environmental Toxicology, SCIPP, CFaO,
Long Marine Lab, STEPS, UARC, CITRIS, CBSE, and the Educational Partnership
Center.
Computer Engineering developed UCSC's first academic degree program in Silicon
Valley. Our part-time MS in Computer Engineering with an emphasis in Network
Engineering provides working professionals with easy access to a University of
California graduate education. We are particularly excited about the development of
additional academic programs targeted for delivery in Silicon Valley, such as the
proposal for a program in Technology and Information Management (TIM). The growth
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in programs in Silicon Valley will enable a much broader level of educational choices for
professional graduate students. As CE’s part-time students often have a strong interest in
the management of technology, and we expect that many TIM students will have a strong
interest in network technology, this will be a particularly synergistic combination. We
are moving our Silicon Valley site for this program from UNEX Cupertino to the Silicon
Valley Center at the NASA Research Park, to improve the quality of our delivery and to
develop the synergy with other SOE programs such as TIM.
The development of bioengineering graduate and undergraduate programs, with
Computer Engineering taking part in the assistive technology aspects of bioengineering,
will be an important landmark for the School of Engineering. This will enable a much
broader palette of graduate programs with strong collaborations within the School of
Engineering and with the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences, and the Division
of Social Sciences.
Our recent development of a graduate sequence in control is a start of an effort to develop
a graduate research and training program in this area. The expertise presently in place,
when combined was to teach at hires in the coming years, will enable an active group
working on the application of the principles of control to a wide range of applications in
the physical and biological sciences, business, and other areas.
One means of developing administrative synergy between programs, which then can lead
to additional research synergy between programs, is by regular involvement of individual
faculty in multiple programs, for example by taking part in departmental meetings of
multiple programs. Computer Engineering faculty have frequently been involved in such
setups for the years, always with particularly worthwhile results. It is our view that
increasing the use of fixed-duration joint appointments at levels corresponding to no
teaching responsibilities and one course of teaching responsibility will greatly increase
the synergy between our as SOE programs, and if appropriately extended, throughout the
campus. One possibility for fostering such interior disciplinary connections would be for
the Division to partially fund such appointments within a School, and the Campus to
partially fund such appointments across the divisions. Such a reallocation of FTE
resources would clearly indicate the importance of interdisciplinary research to the
School and the Campus. The Department hopes to look forward to further discussions on
these matters as it also pursues potential appointments with several School of
Engineering programs.
Plan for Additional Faculty FTE
The Department of Computer Engineering has been exceedingly successful in its
recruitment of outstanding faculty. We follow an approach of moderately focused
searches, enabling sufficient flexibility to hire the smartest person and ensure the most
diverse pool of applicants. Every year CE has had a position, we have successfully
recruited our top choice or choices.
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Presently, the Department has three senior assistant professors (IV +, members of the
faculty for 4 years). Two (De Alfaro and Tao) have received prestigious NSF CAREER
grants, while Manduchi has received a major NSF grant in Assistive Technology.
The Department has three more recent assistant professors (II or III, members of the
faculty for 1 or 2 years). Elkaim and Dunbar have received an NSF Major Research
Instrumentation grant for our growing autonomous systems program. Renau has received
a prestigous NSF CAREER grant on his first application.
As a department, we propose to continue our individual and collective excellence with
the following hiring plan.
Current staffing includes:
• computer system design (Brandwajn, Hughey, Renau)
• design technologies (Chan, Ferguson, Schlag, Larrabee)
• digital media and sensor technology (Manduchi, Mantey, Tao)
• computer networks (Garcia-Luna, Obraczka, Varma)
• embedded and autonomous systems (De Alfaro, Elkaim, Dunbar)
The following hiring plan will maintain and build our excellence in the core areas of
computer engineering while enabling the development of new programs in autonomous
systems, and assistive technology, as discussed above.
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2005-6 (2 replacements)
o VLSI/FPGA system design
 Restoring an area with 2 faculty losses (Dai, Karplus).
 Tenured leader to strengthen area & lead large projects
 Assistant II – Assoc II approved.
 82,900 salary, 200,000 startup.
o Assistive Technologies (potential embedded/autonomous systems)
 Addressing the needs of society and the engineer of 2020
 Assistant professor (requested tenured leader)
 75,000 salary, 185,000 startup
 This is a non-competitive initial salary, and will need to be
upgraded. Mean starting salary in 2003-4 among PhD-granting
CE and CS programs was 77,333. (cra.org)
2007-8
o Autonomous Systems (potential AT)
 Creating a new program in autonomous systems and control
 Tenured leader to head graduate group in control
 Assistant-Professor VI
 120,000 salary, 300,000 startup
2008-9
o Networks
 Strengthening and growing a pinnacle of excellence
 Assistant-Associate Professor, a rising star
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95,000 salary, 200,000 startup.
2009-10
o Autonomous Systems/Embedded systems (potential AT)
 Creation of integrated systems hardware/software, with a possible
Assistive Technologies focus.
 Assistant II-IV
 85,000 salary, 250,000 startup
2010-11
o Autonomous systems (potential AT)
 Completing a leading group in Autonomous Systems.
 Assistant II-IV
 90,000 salary, 250,000 startup
If additional positions become available, either due to the filling of vacant positions or
the availability of more campus resources, we have as additional priorities:
o Computer system design
 Rebuilding a core CE area with one faculty loss (Madhyastha)
 Assistant II-IV
 85,000 salary, 225,000 startup
o Digital media and sensor technology
 May include biological monitoring, educational / collaborative
technologies, rich media, and sensor integration.
 Assistant II-IV
 88,000 salary, 250,000 startup
Plan for Enrollment FTE
The Department has several strategies for enrollment FTE at undergraduate and graduate
levels. The Departments current Student-to-Faculty FTE ratio (based on 18 slots) is 18:1.
The SOE average is 15:1.
At the undergraduate level, the department has had a focus on excellence and innovation
to ensure the highest quality of undergraduate education. Recent changes have included
the establishment of the two-quarter senior design course (with electrical engineering),
significant revision of our networks concentration, the introduction of mechatronics and
other robotics-related courses, and creating a new sequence in computer board design. In
the near future, we will be introducing an undergraduate track in robotics. We believe
that the responsiveness of our curriculum to rapid technological change has been a key
factor in maintaining our major and enrollment numbers near the 10-year plan level in
spite of the downturn in the Silicon Valley economy.
One of the most important issues for undergraduate majors is student retention. The
Department has recently worked to increase lower-division retention of engineering
students (all disciplines, though especially computer engineering) by creating a low-unit
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Hands-On Computer Engineering course. Because of the importance of providing
exciting introductions to computer technology early in students’ careers, we offer this
course every quarter and staff it with two faculty and many readers and tutors. During
the course, students hooked together digital logic circuits, play with robots, and use our
microcontroller microchips. We have additional foci on joining the engineering
community by taking part in student organizations, finding out about available resources,
and looking toward the future by interviewing senior design project groups. We are
beginning to investigate modifying the COSMOS summer course in control and robotics
created by Professors Dunbar (CE) and Cortes (AMS) into a similar structure.
Also related to retention, the department emphasizes the development of community
among our students. Thus, recently we have encouraged the development of a new
Engineering Honor Society (forming a community of our very stop students, many of
whom previously did not participate in student organizations) and a graduate student
eWomen organization. We continue our Computer Engineering Faculty Undergraduate
Lunches, 3-4 times a quarter, and are pleased that this innovation has now been
instantiated throughout the School.
At the graduate level, we have engaged in significant recruitment efforts to both US and
international schools, created a new brochure and poster for the department, and
collaborated with other programs to ensure admission and support of the students within
our targeted areas of excellence. In collaboration with AMS, we have introduced a threequarter graduate sequencing Control, and hope that this will form the basis of a graduate
program in this area.
We also see the need for engineering education for non-engineering majors. With a
particular focus on students interested in becoming mathematics or science teachers, we
have recently launched a new minor in Computer Technology. This minor introduces
students to the most fun material within computer engineering combined with a study of
the context of computing within society (CE80E, Engineering Ethics), technology
(CE80H, History of Modern Computer Technology, or EE80T Modern Technology and
How it Works), industry (ISM101, Management of Technology Seminar), and a
student’s major (elective). As a capstone project, students complete an essay on the
impact of computer technology within their major discipline.
In courses, due to exceptional interest we have increased the number of offerings of our
topical Introduction to Networking course, and have introduced a new topical courses in
the History of Modern Computing.
Plan for Extramural Research Support
The 2001 Computer Engineering Departmental Plan for growth in Extramural Research
Support stated:
We had a research funding decline in 1998-2001 (graph below, with estimates beginning AY01) due to
several faculty taking full or partial leaves to work in industry. These faculty will be returning to fulltime appointments in Fall 2001 and Fall 2002. Our overall target is to have a faculty member average
of $200,000-250,000 of external funding (including grants, gifts, and other forms of income), much
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higher than our current $80,000. We expect to achieve $100,000 by AY2001 (for a total of around
$2M), $200,000 by 2005 (for a total of $4.4M among 22 faculty), and $250,000 shortly thereafter.
This will result in about $6.5M in funding by 2010 among 26 faculty, higher if we are successful in
recruiting additional fee-funded faculty positions.
We have exceeded our goal for 2005, with an extramural award level of $210k per
faculty among 16 (rather than 22) faculty. That is, in the past five years, Computer
Engineering has nearly tripled its level of research funding per faculty member. In
2004-5, we saw a total of $3.4M in gifts and awards, a 65% growth over the prior year.
During the coming 5 years, we plan to similarly extend both our per-capita contribution
to the research mission of the Department and Campus, and our overall contribution. We
believe that our past performance in meeting our published goals is a strong endorsement
of our multidisciplinary, systems approach to computer engineering.
We find that our high-level achievement is particularly meritorious on consideration that
nearly one third of the permanent Computer Engineering faculty are engaged in unusually
high levels of School and Campus service, approaching full time in three cases
(Ferguson, Hughey, and Mantey).
Although our original goal of $250,000 per faculty member is still appropriate for 2010,
and expect to exceed this goal by 2010 by reaching $275,000, provided adequate faculty
resources are provided to the Department.
Our hiring plan emphasizes broad interdisciplinary research, bringing to the Department
of Computer Engineering more researchers tuned to word "hot" yet enduring areas and
broad interdisciplinary grant proposals. Thus, our recruitment plans in embedded and
autonomous systems, assistive technology, networks, computer system design and design
technologies, and computer vision and sensor technology will not just increase our
overall level of research funding, but provided sustained growth in per capita research
funding, continuing the trend of the previous five years.
A key component to our drive to increase the reach of our research program and the level
of extramural funding has been our high level of collaboration within the School and
campus, as well as with other Universities and companies. Present external
collaborations include
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UCB/LA/SD/D/R/I, UMD, MIT, UIUC, Stanford, UDel
Cisco, Sun, Intel, Microsoft, IBM, HP, Agilent, Honda, BBN, Raytheon,
Aerospace, Honeywell, SRI International, Nokia, NEC, Orion Microelectronics,
Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, Doran Center for the Blind and Visually
Impaired, Meru Networks, Xylim
Additional Measures of Success
As an interdisciplinary School of Engineering, at the graduate level we believe that an
important measure of success is the graduation rate of PhD students under the advisement
of Computer Engineering faculty (regardless of enrolled program), and success in their
placement.
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Appendix: Bioengineering
The following white paper on bioengineering across the School of Engineering was
developed by Computer Engineering Professor Roberto Manduchi and Computer and
Biomolecular Engineering Professor Hughey in collaboration with many individuals and
departments. The Department of Computer Engineering sees Macro-level
bioengineering, in particular Assistive Technologies, as a major research emphasis for the
future within Computer Engineering. Also, we see undergraduate and graduate
bioengineering to be one of the most important steps for engineering in its path to
become a full-fledged and full-service School of Engineering.
UCSC presently has 20-30 faculty members working in bioengineering and affiliated
areas. Members of this group are working to create a unified vision of research, graduate
training, and undergraduate education in the broad area of bioengineering. This paper
presents an initial gathering of ideas of some of these members, and is an evolving draft.
In the first half of the 20th century, the advent of high-speed communication and
electrification enabled high-technology engineering. In the second half of the 20th
century, the transistor and integrated circuits were the drivers of high-technology . Now,
in the first half of the 21st century, it is expected by many that advances in biosystem
understanding, measurement, and manipulation will be the foundation of 21st-century
engineering and technology.
At UCSC, the late advent of engineering has allowed us to be on the forefront of
developing trends. In 1984, we were able to focus our growth into a new,
interdisciplinary area of engineering strongly coupled with the neighboring Santa Clara
region: Computer Engineering. Now, with our focus on Biotechnology, Information
Technology, and Nanotechnology, we are maintaining a commitment to looking forward
to the advent of new hybrid, cross-disciplinary technologies. This places us at a
tremendous advantage in comparison to other schools with strongly established programs
in the older branches and subdisciplines of engineering. We were able to leap ahead of
such programs with the creation of cross disciplinary engineering programs emphasizing
the cutting edge of technology and its impact on society, as in our electrical engineering
program focused on nanotechnology and biomolecular engineering program with
worldwide recognition for its contributions to bioinformatics.
The next natural step for UCSC is bioengineering. Within the 21st-century, the rapid
advances in the biological sciences, here and elsewhere, provide the underlying
framework for a broad bioengineering program at UCSC that focuses on macro, micro,
molecular, and societal bioengineering. Engineering is not just the discipline of
technology, but one of technology in the service of society. According to the recent
report of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), The Engineer of 2020: Visions of
Engineering in the New Century,
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It is our aspiration that engineering educators and practicing engineers together
undertake a proactive effort to prepare engineering education to address the
technology and societal challenges and opportunities of the future.
At UCSC, with a strong emphasis on liberal, scientific, and engineering education, as
well as existing research and education in bioethics and the human sciences, we are ready
to combine technology, science, and society not just at the research level, but also in the
development of undergraduate and graduate academic programs.
The Whitaker Foundation provides one definition of biomedical engineering.
Biomedical engineering is a discipline that advances knowledge in engineering, biology and
medicine, and improves human health through cross-disciplinary activities that integrate the
engineering sciences with the biomedical sciences and clinical practice. It includes:
1. The acquisition of new knowledge and understanding of living systems through the innovative
and substantive application of experimental and analytical techniques based on the engineering
sciences.
2. The development of new devices, algorithms, processes and systems that advance biology and
medicine and improve medical practice and health care delivery.
As used by the foundation, the term "biomedical engineering research" is thus defined in a broad
sense: It includes not only the relevant applications of engineering to medicine but also to the
basic life sciences. (www.whitaker.org)
In this draft discussion of bioengineering, we are focused on the applications of
engineering to medicine and the biological sciences in collaboration with the exceptional
strong existing programs in the biological sciences, physical sciences, and biomedical
research at UCSC.
Our campus presently engages in bioengineering research within the biomolecular
engineering, computer engineering, and electrical engineering programs in collaboration
with the biological sciences, computer sciences, mathematics, philosophy, physical
sciences, and psychology. With existing faculty, it may be possible to create modest
graduate minors in areas of bioengineering, such as biomedical imaging, bioinformatics,
and assistive technologies. A moderate investment may enable the creation of more
general graduate and undergraduate minors in bioengineering. A larger investment will
be required to create graduate and undergraduate programs in bioengineering to serve the
needs of our students, California, and society.
At all levels, students have realized the importance of the joining of biology and
engineering into a discipline focused on using technology to better society, both
collectively and individually. Indeed, according to the NAE report, creating and
designing “technology for an aging population" is one of the four broad technological
challenges that the engineer of 2020 will face. It is only by providing a unified program
that we can effectively train our engineering graduates to solve these problems.
Growth in bioengineering has been spectacular, as technology advances enable discovery
and design of the highest impact to our aging population. Over 1999-2002, the number
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of Bioengineering BS degrees granted increased by 50%, MS by 78%, and PhD by 30%.
The formation of a new NIH Institute, the National Institute for Biomedical Imaging and
Bioengineering is another indicator of the growth and permanence of this discipline. In
the University, bioengineering programs and departments exist at 9 of the 10 campuses;
ours is the only campus without a bioengineering program.
For undergraduates, "bioengineering is one of the fastest-growing majors at many
universities" (ASEE PRISM, November 2004). At UCSC, the strong interdisciplinary
focus of much of our research can immediately enable undergraduate minors in areas
related to bioengineering, and with a few targeted faculty hires, enable a complete degree
program.
At the graduate level, there is similar growth, spurred on in part by the influx of Whitaker
Foundation funding. The University of California has recently formed a Multi-Campus
Research Unit (MRU), the Bioengineering Institute of California. Founded as a
collaboration of all of our campuses, the MRU focuses on using distance and Web
technologies to enable a broad coverage of bioengineering academics at all campuses,
and an annual UC Bioengineering Symposium. In summer 2004, the UCSC School of
Engineering and Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering hostedhthis
systemwide event.
Undergraduate and graduate bioengineering is also an exceptional opportunity for
diversity within engineering. At the undergraduate level in 2003, 40% of biomedical
engineering degree recipients were women. Presently, the School of Engineering has
fewer than 20% female students. Bioengineering also provides an opportunity for gender
diversity within our faculty; although in 2003 our School of Engineering was eighth
nationwide in percentage woman faculty, 13.6% woman faculty is not an
accomplishment that indicates that the work is complete. UCSC also has a low population
of disabled students, who are, because of the potential direct impact, often interested in
bioengineering and assistive technologies. This confluence of research directions,
societal needs, and opportunities for diversity makes the development of a bioengineering
program particularly timely.
Current and Future Bioengineering Research at UCSC
The goal of all bioengineering is societal—assisting people and society to better the
quality of living. In the "primarily macro" area, we propose continuing to develop our
current excellence in assistive technologies for the aging population. In the “primarily
micro" area, we propose a strong emphasis on bio sensors, sensor processing including
biomedical imaging, and the creation of micro prostheses, leapfrogging existing programs
with macroscopic prostheses programs. In the "primarily molecular" area, we will
continue to develop our excellence in biomolecular engineering and informatics. And
societal bioengineering, we will use our understanding of individuals and societies to
develop new technologies and seek to understand the impacts of these technologies on
individuals and societies.
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Societal Bioengineering
Psychology, Sociology, Ethics,
Education
Macro Bioengineering
Assistive Technologies for
an Aging Population
Blindness
Deafness
Mobility Impairment
Molecular
Bioengineering
Micro Bioengineering
Enabling technologies for
macro and molecular
bioengineering
Molecular Manipulation and
Understanding for Medicine
Sensors
Sensor Processing
Neuroprostheses
Protein Engineering
Bioinformatics
Functional Genomics
Foundational Areas
Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Environmental
Toxicology, Computer Science, Statistics, Robotics
and Control
Macro Bioengineering
We envision a new generation of researchers, educators, and entrepreneurs committed to
shaping the future of human–centered assistive technology. Mainstream approaches to
engineering education may not adequately take into account human factors that directly
affect the usability of new technology. The gap between engineering creativity and final
user considerations is particularly serious in the case of technology designed to aid the
disabled or the elderly. All too often, engineers are tempted to build tools and devices
“just because computers can do it”, without enough awareness of the reality and actual
needs of disabled individuals. The net result is a very limited adoption of advanced
technology by such communities.
We propose a multidisciplinary, “participatory” approach to the development of tools and
practices for assistive technology, which relies on close collaboration between
technology designers, cognitive scientists, and end–users. This approach offers great
potential for cooperation between the UCSC School of Engineering and the Psychology
Department. In addition, the establishment of UARC opens new opportunities for
research and graduate student training at the NASA Ames Research Center (ARC). In the
past, interaction between mathematical science and engineering on one end, and
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psychophysics and cognitive science on the other hand, has proven very successful, for
example in the development of theories of human vision and in the implementation of
biologically inspired algorithms and systems. The proposed cooperation also draws from
a large body of knowledge in human–centered design, pioneered by NASA ARC in the
context of engineering systems for aeronautical and space systems.
Developing technology to assist an aging population encompasses a number of research
fields, straddling across Engineering (sensor processing, human–machine interface,
robotics, hardware integration) and Psychology (psychophysical models of sensory loss,
predictive cognitive models). Specific areas of research that will be emphasized by the
Macro Bioengineering program include:
Mobility, wayfinding and accessibility for the visually impaired and mobility impaired:
Integrated and wearable mobility tools to aid safe and comfortable deambulation;
indoor/outdoor wayfinding technology; control of autonomous or semi–autonomous
wheelchairs; increased independence in assisted living environment for blind and
mobility impaired individuals. (Professors Manduchi, Tao, Elkaim, Dunbar, Nourbakhsh)
Human–machine and human–environment interfaces:
Tactile/acoustic virtual map exploration for the blind; speech recognition for deaf or
hard–of–hearing individuals; eye tracking, along with the translation of eye motion
patterns into desired actions, for human/machine interface for the mobility impaired.
(Professors Manduchi, Pang, Tao)
Cognitive models for predicting and assessing user performance:
Analysis of the influence of cognitive aging and task–coordination strategies for dual–
task performances; computational models to simulate aging effects; emotional bias in
elderly and disabled individuals and its influence on memory and attention. (Professors
Massarro, Travis, Mather)
Assistive technology for the blind at the Macro Bioengineering level ties in with research
in Neural Prosthetics, which is part of the Micro Bioengineering area. The prosthetic
retina project conducted by Prof. Liu offers opportunity for innovative sensor processing
technology and raises fascinating new questions about the psychological and
psychophysical aspects of sensorial augmentations.
Additional potential benefits of the proposed Macro Bioengineering program include the
establishment of long–term relationships with external research institutions in different
areas of assistive technology, fostering continuing exchange of experience, user studies,
and technological solutions, and providing insight into psychological, social, and day-today practical aspects of living with a disability. Even more important is the potential for
creating an open and attractive environment at UCSC for disabled students, who may
provide a unique perspective on the future of assistive technology.
Beyond the specific focus on assistive technology, we believe that students formed under
this program will represent valuable assets in many other fields of today’s professional
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world. Participatory and human–centered design are important paradigms for the creation
of really usable hi–tech products. We have received very encouraging feedback from
several companies, not necessarily directly related to Bioengineering, about job
placement prospects for students equipped with the skills developed under the proposed
program.
Micro Bioengineering
Micro bioengineering includes the development of sensors for biomedical applications,
the computational and algorithms for understanding sensors, and the creation of microscale prostheses and other devices for medical use. Presently, all three of these areas are
represented by faculty research programs, and there is some likelihood that new research
programs will involve in micro bioengineering and nanobiotechnology.
Sensor development, at the boundaries of micro and molecular bioengineering, include
"lab-on-a-chip” technology, such as that integrated optical waveguides with liquid cores,
enabling light propagation and measurement through small volumes of liquids on a chip
(Schmidt), microscopy (Isaacson), and nanopore technology (Deamer, Akeson).
Once sensed, data must be understood using statistical and algorithmic techniques.
Examples include cell tracking (Tao, Hughey, Di Blas, in collaboration with Ottemann),
signal and image understanding, and related areas.
The use of micro and nano devices to directly solve medical problems is best illustrated
in the artificial retina project (Liu) and biomimetic technology development (Liu and
Isaacson).
The continued development of robotic and high-throughput technologies for the
biomedical science and engineering, a focus of the draft document on biomedical
research at UCSC is also an area of micro-scale bioengineering.
Molecular Bioengineering
Molecular-level bioengineering includes the analysis, manipulation, and detection of
biomolecules. While the central core for molecular bioengineering at UCSC will be the
Department of Biomolecular Engineering, the area also involves many researchers within
the biological sciences, computer science, physical sciences, and electrical engineering.
Molecular bioengineering concerns three overlapping fields:
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Engineering of biomolecules, including protein engineering and synthetic biology;
Engineering with biomolecules, including biosensors, synthetic biology,
biomolecule-assisted nanotechnology; and
Engineering for biomolecules, including bioinformatics, laboratory automation,
especially for high-throughput experimental techniques.
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The Department of Biomolecular Engineering, founded upon the international
prominence of our research in bioinformatics, is one of the Schools most strongly
targeted growth area. In addition to expanding the graduate program in bioinformatics to
better meet demand (faculty advising capacity limits admission to 20% of Ph.D.
candidates), the program will continue to expand into protein engineering, synthetic
biology, nanotechnology applications in biomolecular engineering, and high throughput
experimentation and analysis.
The natural allies of these technological disciplines include molecular biology,
biochemistry, micro fluidics and all areas of micro bioengineering, computer science, and
statistics. This fundamental work at the molecular level of bioengineering will provide
the basis upon which new medicines, technologies, and procedures will be developed
within the domains of macro bioengineering and micro bioengineering.
From its start, the academic programs in bioinformatics have also cultivated relationships
with philosophy, co-creating a general education course (required for the undergraduate
mathematics degree) in bioethics, and also providing a ready stream of students to upperdivision in graduate courses in bioethics as required by the MS and Ph.D. programs. We
would like to further strengthen this relationship, in particular with collaborative research
associated with the modern ethical quandaries created by the biotechnology revolution.
Societal Bioengineering
We have begun discussions with psychologist and collaborator Dom Massarro about the
societal level of bioengineering. Although we have not fully defined this area (this would
be a topic of the bioengineering planning retreat discussed below), this area is expected to
examine the human factors, human impacts, ethics, and quandaries that our next
generation of technologies will bring to bear upon individuals and societies.
We will seek to collaborate with researchers in psychology, sociology, education, and
philosophy to develop research in this area and, most importantly, continue our
commitment to this most important aspect of bioengineering, as bioinformatics has
emphasized and required academic courses in bioethics for all undergraduate and
graduate degrees.
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SANTA CRUZ: Jack Baskin School of Engineering
Computer Science
January 14, 2005
OUTLINE: SOE DEPARTMENT/PROGRAM STATEMENTS
FOR REVISED ACADEMIC PLAN – STAGE 1
Ira Pohl
Computer Science Department
1. Maintaining and Building Excellence
2. Sustainability within Available Resources
Computer Science Program Statement
The quality of UC Santa Cruz's Computer Science Department is reflected by the accomplishments of its
faculty. UC Santa Cruz's Computer Science Department has been in existence for over thirty years and offers
four degrees: B.A., B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science, with a combined BS/MS degree currently
under development. The program includes nineteen full-time ladder rank faculty with over 130 students
enrolled in the graduate program. To date, the Department has awarded more than 220 MS and 80 Ph.D.
degrees. University-industry interaction is enhanced through the employment of computer professionals as
visiting faculty and through arrangements for students to gain practical research experience by working as
interns in nearby industrial research laboratories.
Computer Science Department Faculty
The Department is highly regarded on campus and at the national level for its excellent faculty, extramural
funding, and high quality of teaching. Of the current nineteen faculty members, ten are full professors, three
are associate professors and six (one of whom was hired this year) are assistant professors. The technical
strength and the impact of faculty research is demonstrated by their appointments to the editorial boards of
several ACM and IEEE journals, a Sloan Foundation Fellowship, two ACM Fellows, an IEEE Fellow, the
last four junior faculty received NSF CAREER awards, and participation in numerous technical program
committees and NSF panels. Computer Science faculty members have funded research projects and publish
regularly in leading technical journals. The Computer Science faculty received $2,624,000 in 2004–5 and
$11,589,000 during the past five years in extramural contract and grant funds from federal agencies and
industrial sponsors.
Computer Science Research
The Computer Science faculty conducts research in following primary areas: Computer Graphics and
Scientific Visualization, Computer Systems, Machine Learning, Databases and Software Engineering. The
following paragraphs provide overviews of these areas.
The Department of Computer Science is highly regarded for its strength in Computer Graphics and
Scientific Visualization. Three faculty members and more than 25 graduate students are actively engaged in
this area of research. Research in scientific visualization is funded by several agencies including NSF,
DARPA, DOD, and ONR. The faculty works in close cooperation with investigators from the different
scientific and engineering disciplines. Particular software interests currently include algorithms for volume
rendering and isosurface generation from volumetric data, user-interface issues, uncertainty visualization and
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parallel processing as applied to visualization. In the field of computer graphics, the faculty is actively
engaged in physical simulation. Physical techniques are useful for simulating rigid articulated bodies
representing robots, humans, and other animals, and flexible bodies such as cloth, skin, and other elastic
materials. The group is interested in exploring faster algorithms for physical simulation, in the hope of
making it interactive. Constraint and control methods are also being investigated. The group is utilizing a
variety of sensors: GPS (Global Positioning System), orientation trackers, inertial sensors, cameras,
camcorders, stereo cameras, and LiDARS to create a four-dimensional space-time visualization of geospatial
data and environment-related intelligence.
The Department enjoys great strength in the area of Systems Research with seven faculty members and 20
graduate students working in storage systems, distributed computation, programming languages, and
database systems. In storage systems, researchers are investigating key challenges in storage including
storage scalability to petabytes and beyond, new storage technologies, and long-term archiving. Through the
UCSC Storage Systems Research Center, storage researchers at UCSC receive significant funding from the
NSF, the National Laboratories, and industry sponsors. In distributed systems, researchers are investigating
how the topology of the network and the knowledge available to individual processors affects the
computational efficiency of a system of distributed processors and what functions can be computed in a
network where the processors are anonymous. They also study the use of formal logics for reasoning about
distributed computations. The programming languages group is focusing on three sub-areas: object-oriented
programming, parallel programming and logic programming. They are studying the object-oriented
programming methodology using the C++ language and are interested in the extension of language with
concurrency and in providing automatic storage reclamation. A current research project at UC Santa Cruz
involves the investigation of techniques for analyzing parallel programs and their associated execution traces.
The analysis can be used to aid in the parallelization of a program, in understanding the program, and in
debugging the program. An important part of the project is the development of a graphical browser for
viewing the results of the analysis. The group is also engaged in the implementation of a powerful logicprogramming compiler. The computer systems group is researching a range of systems-design issues
focusing on practical implementation based on sound theoretical foundations. Examples of interest include
real-time systems, computers as system components (embedded systems), special purpose processors, and
digital networks and their associated components. Other research in this field includes work in performance
prediction, evaluation, and optimization, since these are major tools for use in systems design and
modification.
The Machine Learning group at UC Santa Cruz is primarily interested in the theoretical aspects of machine
learning; in particular it has been at the forefront of research in Computational Learning Theory and has
hosted many of the major conferences in this field. Over the past eight years they have been developing a
new family of on-line learning algorithms with qualitatively different behavior than the previously known
gradient descent techniques. Work is in progress on extending this family of algorithms and quantifying the
performance differences between these algorithms and existing algorithms in various settings. One of the
most successful practical techniques for machine learning is boosting. The most successful boosting
algorithm was derived from the family of on-line learning algorithms developed at UC Santa Cruz.
Furthermore, many of the techniques used to analyze this and other learning methods were developed or
introduced at UC Santa Cruz. This group has produced some excellent graduates who have gone on to
successful careers in industry and academia, most notably Yoav Freund and Nick Littlestone, whose ongoing contributions to boosting and on-line learning, respectively, are some of the most important in the
field. After finishing Ph.D., Yoav Freund held a research position at AT&T Bell Laboratories and is now at
UC San Diego. Nick Littlestone held a postdoctoral position at Harvard University.
Software Engineering research at UC Santa Cruz is performed by three faculty members, whose research is
primarily supported by the NSF. Software engineering research focuses on developing tools and techniques
for improving the quality and evolution of large software systems. Research on model checking of software
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components and their composition promises advances in analysis of systems at an architectural level. Objectoriented design and design patterns research improves our ability to represent and reason about software
during the design phase. Projects focused on pair programming in the classroom, literate programming
technology, and software configuration management repositories aim for improvements in the activity and
control of software coding. Research on object-oriented methodology using contemporary languages such as
C++, Java, and C# yields improved understanding of how to represent complex problems in software. Static
analysis and verification research leads to improved understanding of software instabilities within large
evolving systems, as well as improved quality in new and existing software.
Database Systems research is led by three faculty members and includes five Ph.D. students. There are four
primary research areas, namely, schema mappings and data exchange, data provenance, data reduction and
approximation techniques, and self-organizing systems. Research on schema mappings and data exchange
focuses on the investigation of foundational techniques for the management of schema mappings that specify
the data exchange or relationships in a network of inter-related databases, as well as answering queries posed
in such a network. In the context of data provenance, the focus is on the investigation of
foundational techniques as well as on the development of effective tools for tracing the provenance and flow
of data in such a network. Research on data reduction and approximation explores techniques for the
effective summarization of large data stores and the computation of approximate answers for complex
queries. Finally, the project on self-organizing systems looks into the problem of building autonomous
database systems that can adapt automatically to the characteristics of their operating environment.
These research projects are supported primarily by the NSF and gifts from IBM and Microsoft, and involve
collaborations with researchers in both industrial labs and other universities, in particular, IBM Almaden
Research Center, Intel Research, University of Toronto, University of Tel Aviv, and I.N.R.I.A. in France.
3. Future Opportunities for Investment in new Endeavors
4. Synergistic Graduate Programs
New Programs and Interdisciplinary Research
UC Santa Cruz’s Computer Science Program also has a strong interdisciplinary focus, conducting research
with researchers in others areas and helping create new interdisciplinary programs. Until the recent founding
of the new Biomolecular Engineering (BME) Department, UC Santa Cruz’s Bioinformatics Program was
housed within the Computer Science Department, and a number of current Computer Science graduate
students continue to pursue degrees in this area. The Department is currently housing the UC Santa Cruz
Technology and Information Management (TIM) program. Finally, several researchers in the Department
were recently provisionally awarded $3,750,000 from Los Alamos National Laboratory to create the new
UCSC/Los Alamos Institute for Scalable Scientific Data Management.
The Institute for Scalable Scientific Data Management (ISSDM) is an education and research
collaboration with Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The ISSDM focuses on Scientific Data
Management advanced research and development topics in the areas of simulation and real
time/experimental data collection, storage, analysis, and organization management. By working
collaboratively with industry partners, LANL, and UCSC, the Institute will help solve Simulation Data
Management problems at unprecedented scale and of national importance while also supporting CCN
division, DOE/NNSA Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) program, and LANL Institutional
Computing program goals.
The Computer Science Department emphasizes the placement of its degree recipients and actively assists
them in obtaining rewarding positions. Graduates have gone on to a variety of positions in academia and
industry. A number of computer science graduates have pursued teaching careers, securing positions at
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institutions such as Rice University, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Pittsburgh, UC Berkeley,
and a recent position at UC San Diego. Placements in industry have included positions at bellwethers such as
Apple Computer, Bell Labs, IBM Almaden Research Center, Micron Technology, National Semiconductor,
Oracle, Raytheon Corporation, Sun Microsystems, Sarnoff Corporation, SGI, Veritas, Xerox, Yahoo, and
several startup companies. Additionally, some students have accepted employment at government research
facilities, including Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Naval Research Laboratory and nearby NASA
Ames Research Center. The strong placement record the Computer Science Department has compiled is not
only a reflection of the strength of its programs, but also the quality of its students.
Computer Game Engineering
We are recruiting in computer gaming in order to create a new sub-major. This is important in two regards:
computer gaming is a fast growing research area that integrates existing strengths in the department;
computer gaming is very attractive as a recruitment tool for very high quality undergraduates. Computer
gaming already exists as a pathway in the ordinary CS major. By creating a new named degree program
tentatively titled Computer Game Engineering we expect to reverse the recent decline in number of CS
majors and increase the quality of entering freshmen. UCSC will have the first such degree in the UC system
that emphasizes rigorous technical computer science.
Resource issues for this new degree are adequate for accepting 25 majors or slightly more each year. The
courses within CS for this degree already exist or can be managed when the new CS gaming position is filled
in 2006. Programs that have been contacted by us, especially digital media, economics, music and
mathematics, all welcome this initiative and readily expect to accommodate the first cohort.
Plan for additional faculty FTE, with specific areas of concentration identified.
Computer Science Hiring
The Computer Science Hiring Plan for the next nine allocated positions is:
1-2) Positions supporting the Computer Gaming initiative. This initiative is attracting great interest
from undergraduates and development is progressing forward rapidly.
Recruiting position 1 in AY2005-2006. Recruitment of position 2 is AY2007-08.
3) Position supporting Databases. The Database Systems group is becoming of increasing
importance and is essential for the planned SOE excellence in Information Technologies. An
additional hire will enable us to have critical mass in this area.
Recruitment of position 3 in AY2008-09.
4) Position supporting Software Engineering/Programming Languages. Software Engineering has
been a planned growth area in the SoE for many years and with the recent departure of Raymie Stata
to industry, we need another faculty member to sustain our critical mass.
Recruitment of position 4 in AY2008-09.
5) Position supporting Machine Learning/Data Mining. As with Databases, the machine learning
area is important for SOE's excellence in information technologies. Furthermore, many disparate
areas within the SOE are finding that machine learning techniques are useful and often essential tools
for their own research.
Recruitment of position 5 in AY2009-10.
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6) Position supporting Operating Systems. We have a very important storage systems group of three
faculty. It is very desirable to build out from this strength by hiring new faculty with related
interest.
Recruitment of position 6 in AY2009-2010.
7) A third position supporting Computer Gaming/Entertainment. The third hire in this area would
enable it to achieve critical mass.
Recruitment of position 7 in AY2010-2011.
8) Position supporting Computer Security. Security has long been an area of interest to the computer
science department, but we feel that expanding to this area is a lower priority than the above
positions. However, it would be delighted to hire an outstanding candidate in this area.
Recruitment of position 8 in 20010-2011.
9) Position supporting Computer graphics. We would like to build on our excellence in computer
graphics. This is a lower priority as we would like to see if the computer gaming hires provide
adequate support in this area before running a focused recruitment.
This would be a replacement for Jane Wilhelms.
Recruitment of position 9 in 2010-2011.
Plan for enrollment FTE—both undergraduate and graduate students.
The Computer Science department currently has 270 undergraduates (declared majors) and 140 graduate
students.
We expect to bring on board approximately 25 or more new CS gaming students a year over the next 4 years.
The anticipated minimum additional enrollments of CS gaming students: 2006 – 25; 2007 - 50; 2008 – 75;
2009 - 100 (steady state). We also expect an upturn in the major because the CS job market has recovered
from the dot-net bubble bursting.
We expect to increase our service offering in several ways over the next two years. We have a new lower
division computer gaming course CMPS80k that is expected to attract 200 students (preliminary enrollments
statics support or optimism). Our general education programming courses are gaining in popularity and are
required by the business economics major and some science majors. We expect to have 300 students in our
yearly offerings for these courses. CMPS 10, a feeder and general education course, remains very popular
and has two offering with nearly 300 students per year. We expect the graduate program to grow in
proportion to faculty growth-namely approximately 7 grad students per faculty.
Plan for extramural research support in specific areas.
GAANN, Sloan, Career Awards, Science watch measures, extramural grant and gift support.
CS Department faculty were recently awarded $3,750,000 from Los Alamos National Laboratory to create
the new UCSC/Los Alamos Institute for Scalable Scientific Data Management.
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Gift support has continued to be very strong.
GAANN has supported up to 7 graduate PhD students.
1. Interdepartmental and Interdivisional collaborations
a. Computer Gaming involves interdivisional collaboration with the arts, especially the digital
media program which itself is interdisciplinary.
b. The SSRC has members from other engineering disciplines.
c. The machine learning group collaborates with AMS and Economics. Machine learning
algorithms are foundational in several disciplines.
d. The graphics and Visualization group have collaborations with CE.
e. The software engineering group has collaborations with CE and TIM.
2. Diversity
a. GAANN award for CS graduate research, Department of Education, $250,000 annually for three
years. Among the 7 recipients are 4 women and 2 Latino’s.
b. There is a Cota Robles fellow who is a Latina.
Estimation of overall support is difficult to extrapolate. Based on current department averages, we would
expect by 2011 to be generating at least 3,6 million in extramural support. If major initiatives and inflation
are added in, this ups the projection to between 4.5 – 5 million dollars annually.
Recent Computer Science Department Highlights
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Computer Science hired James Davis in 2004 , who is in graphics systems. This greatly aids our
visibility in graphics, visualization and potentially animation and gaming. Computer Science has hired
Dimitris Achiloptas in theory. He has been awarded an NSF Career award for $400,000.
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Cormac Flanagan received the Sloan Fellowship, the only one awarded to UCSC in 2005.
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The Malvalli Chair was established and Darrell Long was its first recipient. He was made an IEEE fellow
in 2005.
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The database lab ran a weekly seminar and has achieved critical mass and national visibility. WangChiew Tan received a Career award from NSF. Alkis Polyzotis has received a Career award from NSF
and has an IBM fellowship. Phokion Kolaitis , on leave to IBM Research, has been made an ACM
Fellow in 2005.
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We have continued to expand our corporate support. We have initiatives with Microsoft Corporation to
include them in support of our CS research. Microsoft has included us as one its research university
partners. It has involvement or is funding Abadi, Long, Pohl, Flanagan, and Polyzotis. This funding
spans several research areas of importance to our program: security, programming languages and
software engineering, storage systems, and database systems. The SSRC is especially well funded by a
large number of companies, including IBM, Microsoft and HP.
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Computer Science has expanded its curriculum offerings in SE and Database at the advanced
undergraduate and graduate levels. It has modified its comp requirement and has moved to a capstone
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model for undergraduates. CEP accepted Cmps116 , CMPS161, CMPS 181, CMPS 183 and CMPS 140
as such courses. A similar offering will be available in the computer gaming area.
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Five Computer Science Faculty appear on the Science Watch List of the 250 most cited CS researchers
in 2004. This is the most of any UC campus and this is the case where the average UC CS department is
approximately 34 faculty versus UCSC with 19 faculty.
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Maintaining and Building Excellence
Since its inception in 2001, the Electrical Engineering has endeavored to advance a
research agenda in a few focused, but overlapping areas. These focus areas were
identified in our 2001 strategic ten year plan to broadly include the following:
• photonics and electronics
• VLSI, MEMS, and nanotechnology
• signal processing, communications and remote sensing.
Although we are still focused in these general areas at some level, there is significant
overlap between these areas and we have begun to emphasize life science applications in
most of the areas.
By focusing on a few strategic areas, and making targeted and synergistic hires, we hope
to be able to develop the focus that will allow us to carve out our research niche and
enable us to begin to develop an external profile. The research areas we have chosen are
relevant not only to industry in northern California, but to the nation as a whole.
Moreover, because of the interdisciplinary nature of these research areas, they allow us to
easily develop collaborations across departmental and divisional boundaries. Thus we
are able to function on a research scale like a larger, but still well focused, department.
A key strength of the department and a major distinguishing feature is the research focus
on the underlying science necessary to solve important engineering problems. Our faculty
have key collaborations across divisional boundaries with colleagues in Applied
Mathematics, Astronomy, Chemistry, Physics, Molecular, Cell and Developmental
Biology, Earth and Marine Sciences, Education, both on and off campus, and with
various medical schools. Because much of the research within EE at UCSC tends to be
somewhat interdisciplinary, EE faculty members often act as advisors or co-advisors of
graduate students from computer engineering, physics, applied math, computer science,
biomolecular engineering and biology. And occasionally, faculty members from other
programs supervise EE students. Moreover, there are often faculty members from
outside the School of Engineering on the Ph.D. committees of EE students depending
upon the dissertation topic. In addition, EE faculty not only have research ties with
colleagues in all of the other engineering departments at UCSC, but also, faculty from
those departments teach courses that some of our students are required to take.
EE faculty have been recipients of numerous national and international awards, such as
the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, the Rank Prize in Optoelectronics, the Burton Medal
of the Microscopy Society of America, The Mac Van Valkenburg Award of the IEEE
Circuits and Systems Society. In addition, our faculty have been elected as IEEE
Fellows, AAAS Fellows, Packard Fellows and four of our faculty have won NSF
CAREER awards. EE faculty have played major roles (PI or co-PI) in large scale multi-
investigator, multi-institution research centers. The NSF Engineering Research Center in
Biomimetic, Microelectronic Systems (USC, lead; UCSC, CalTech) and the ONR Center
for Thermionic Energy Conversion (UCSC, lead; UCB, UCSB, Purdue, Harvard, North
Carolina State) are just two examples.
We see the intersection of the life sciences with engineering (and particularly electrical
engineering) as one of the intellectually exciting areas of the future. This is true not only
for the instrumentation arena, but also in the biomedical, environmental and materials
areas as well. The department is beginning to build up major foci in these application
areas. At present, there are three faculty who have a major effort in the
biodevice/instrumentation area, a fourth who is beginning to have part of his program
going in that direction, and a fifth looking at novel approaches to biomedical imaging.
Building on existing strengths, we are beginning to develop nano/microtechnology for a
variety of bio/biomedical applications.
Signal processing,
Communications,
Remote sensing
Electronics,
Photonics
Bio/Biomedical,
Environmental
Devices,
Instrumentation,
VLSI,
MEMS,
Nanotechnology
Electrical Engineering Focus Areas
For example, single molecule diagnostics on as chip is being developed using ARROW
waveguides and optics on a chip technology, technology for micro and nanoscale
prosthetic devices, imaging devices for the characterization of functional units in
biological systems, thermal micro-imaging devices and novel forms of image processing
and devices that have applicability to biological imaging. . With the addition of a new
junior faculty member (a search to be initiated in the 2005-06 academic year) in the
bioelectronic device area, we will have a significant nucleus of faculty to begin a
biodevice concentration program at both the undergraduate and graduate levels within
EE. We will also be developing a bio-instrumentation minor within EE and are deeply
involved in an effort to create an interdisciplinary bioengineering undergraduate B.S.
program to be jointly administered by the departments of Biomolecular Engineering and
Computer Engineering. As we get more students interested in this intersection of
engineering and life sciences, we will work with the departments of Biomolecular
Engineering and Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology to develop more course
offerings in this area. In addition, various faculty in EE are in discussions with faculty at
UCSF regarding the possibilities of joint course offerings between campuses.
We also see the intersection of the environmental sciences and electrical engineering as
another emerging area in which our faculty are getting involved. They are not only
working on both developing novel forms of remote sensors for earth and ocean
environments, but they are also investigating many aspects of the “physical layer” of
wireless communications needed to tie networks of sensors (radar, sonar and optical)
together in order to sense multidimensionally on a large scale. This work complements
that going on in the Department of Computer Engineering on the networking layer of
wireless communications. A significant effort is ongoing in the department with respect
to the transformation from traditional communications to cooperative based
communications. This effort is supported by several DOD agencies and is part of a long
term plan to combine the particular strengths of different departments (in this case EE
and CE) in order to secure large scale, long term funding. In fact, many of the wireless
technology protocols being developed by EE faculty can be thought of as being “dual
use” technologies, which have applicability not only for commercial wireless systems but
also for the increasing need to be able to monitor the environment.
With a significant program in opto-thermo-electric conversion devices, some faculty
members in the EE department are also looking at alternative methods of energy
conversion. Energy generation and its environmental impact is another of the key issues
in society and it will certainly become more important in the future as fossil sources are
depleted. As mentioned before, the EE department is already leading a multiuniversity
consortium on thermionic energy conversion. The goal of this center is to build thermal
to electric energy conversion systems with greater than one watt per square cm at 20%
efficiency. A new thrust is looking at generating electricity inside the body to power
prosthetic devices and investigate methods of using the efficiency of biological systems
to generate electric power. These thrusts are consistent with developing materials
expertise within EE that focuses on the materials science needed to solve particular
device problems.
The other exciting area in which we plan to expand (and which overlaps with the other
areas) is that of low power/analog/mixed signal circuit design. The need for such circuitry
not only in biomedical diagnostics, but also in many other remote sensing and
communication scenarios is enormous, and there is a pressing need for students skilled in
that art in the industries of northern California and elsewhere. At present we have only
three faculty members working in some aspect of this area and this limits the type and
breadth of curriculum we can pursue. We plan to hire an additional faculty member in
this area in the next several years in order to develop a major thrust in this growing and
exciting area.
Because of the multidisciplinary research of the EE faculty, the faculty is involved with
several campus research centers (the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics{SCIPP},
the Center for Adaptive Optics{CfAO}, the Center for Biomolecular Science and
Engineering{CBSE}, the Center for Integrated Marine Technology{CIMT}, the Institute
for Geophysics and Planetary Physics{IGPP} and the Center for Remote Sensing{CRS},
two of the California Institutes for Science and Innovation (the Center for Information
Technology in the Service of Society{CITRIS}, a consortium of UCB, UCD, UCSC and
UCM and the Center for Quantitative Biology{QB3}, a consortium of UCB, UCSF and
UCSC) and the new California Institute for Regenerative Medicine{CIRM}.
In the last two years, the department has made two senior hires in the broad area of
biomedical devices/VLSI/nanotechnology. And as mentioned before, in the 05-06
academic year, we plan to hire a junior faculty member in the biomedical device area.
Moreover, we realize that as we push forth our programs in photonics and electronics,
even though there may be some life science bent, the EE faculty must necessarily engage
in a significant amount of materials research in developing their devices. We will expand
these efforts and build up a “materials for devices” core. We note here that the last hire
made in EE was for a faculty member who is working on MEMS actuators for
deformable mirrors in conjunction with the Center for Adaptive Optics. Such an
expansion in “materials for devices” is consistent with the university effort to build up a
materials research core between physics, chemistry and EE; the ultimate goal being to
propose to develop a NSF funded Materials Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) at
UCSC. Towards this end, we will begin a search in 2005-06 for a faculty member (at the
associate or full professor level) who has interests not only in developing novel materials
for devices but also in taking an active role in building up this materials research core at
UCSC. If we are serious in carving a niche for nanotechnology at UCSC, we need to
concentrate at bringing in external dollars for large scale research centers where we can
take advantage of the economy of scale and leveraging which such centers allow. Finally,
EE faculty are deeply involved in building collaborations with the University Affiliated
Research Center at NASA-Ames, not only in developing joint programs, but also in the
planning of the Bio-Info Nano Research and Development Institute (BIN-RDI) to be
developed at the Ames Research Park. Such development will aid in our goal of creating
large scale research centers led by EE faculty.
In addition to research excellence, the faculty in EE are also playing leading roles in
developing programs aimed at increase the diversity base of electrical engineering. EE
faculty supervise undergraduate students in the UC LEADS program as well as partcipate
in supervising students in the NSF-REU “SURF-IT” program run by the Department of
Computer Engineering. EE faculty play lead roles (PI and co-PI) in the NSF funded
DEEP program, a $2M program aimed at creating a seamless transition between
community colleges and UCSC in engineering and increasing the number of
underrepresented graduate in engineering at UCSC. EE faculty are also involved in
outreach programs to the schools aimed at increasing the number of students going
through a STEM curriculum in the schools. In particular, we are involved with the Pajaro
Valley School District in developing STEM experimental modules in optics and
microscopy in conjunction with the Educational Partnership Center and the CaMP
statewide program.
In addition to having EE play a major role in developing a materials research effort here
at UCSC, we also are looking towards having an NSF funded ERC (or equivalent) led by
EE faculty within the next half decade. We are exploring the idea of initiating a Center
for Nanotechnology and Renewable Energies. An EE faculty member is looking at the
possibility of proposing an ERC in Adaptive Optics as the successor to the NSF-funded
STC Center for Adaptive Optics among several possibilities. Finally, we are bringing
together faculty from diverse disciplines from UCSC and NASA-Ames to look at the
possibility of putting together a proposal for a Center for the Exploration of the Limits of
Life (CELL) in the next round of NSF science and technology centers (2007). We see the
cost-effectiveness of large scale centers not only from a research point of view, but also
from the point of view of being able to allow students to participate in solving large scale,
important societal problems, and in being able fund the resources to deliver more
professional development opportunities to students (such programs are integral
components of such centers). Furthermore, such centers are able to offer more outreach
opportunities to students traditionally underrepresented in engineering disciplines.
Sustainability within Available Resources
The number of Electrical Engineering ladder rank faculty have been increasing at a rate
of about 8.25% per year since the department inception in 2001 (although there was no
search during the 2004-2005 period). It should be noted, that because of the leadership
roles which EE faculty play in the university, the number of ladder rank FTE’s available
for teaching is significantly less than the number of FTE’s. During this same time frame,
the number of undergraduates has increased about 18.5% per year and that of graduate
students at a rate of about 37.5% per year. Over this same time period the amount of
external research funding has almost quadrupled to over $4M per year. At present, this
amounts to about $330K per ladder rank FTE. However, this amount is not uniformly
distributed among all the faculty and we hope to be able to change this distribution in the
future. We feel that as we grow to our revised number of 18 FTE’s by 2011 (15% less
than proposed in our 2001 Strategic Plan), we can almost double the total external
funding and reach a $500K -$600K per faculty value, a number consistent with the top
ten EE departments in the country. This will, of course increase the number of graduate
students that can be supported. Furthermore, as the fraction of domestic graduate students
increases (as it has been doing since the inception of the EE PhD program), we will be
able to support more students on the same amount of money. In addition, by distributing
our research portfolio across multiple agencies (NSF, NIH, DOD and private
foundations), we will be less prone to the year to year fluctuations of federal funding.
Furthermore, we would like to increase the number of adjunct/research faculty whose
primary concentration is on research. However, the UCSC policy of having adjunct
appointments (at 0% time go through the identical hiring process as for ladder rank
faculty results in excessively long delays (one to two years) in hiring and prevents the
department from taking advantage of unique targets of opportunity. The current UCSC
policy makes it extremely difficult to bring on board esteemed researchers from industry
and government laboratories. If such hiring could be done within the purview of the
School of Engineering, we could significantly increase our research effort and thus have a
percentage of adjunct research faculty more akin to the top-ten EE departments in the
country.
There are several key issues that the department faces in the near-term and long term. The
most critical one is that of appropriate infrastructure. The School of Engineering was
initially set up with the idea that the departments would be those that did not require
significant physical infrastructure. Thus, computer science and computer engineering
became the first departments in the new School of Engineering (they were already in
existence for more than a decade before the founding of the School of Engineering).
Electrical engineering came into existence as the first new department. Initial hires were
in the signal processing. communications areas, those areas that were computationally
oriented and required little specialized laboratory space. As the EE department started to
grow in the device and nanotechnology area, more materials processing needs and
specialty spaces became essential. Moreover, some of the areas of proposed expansion
will also be heavily in such areas because those are the exciting interface areas of the
future and there will be an increasing demand for students trained in those areas in
Silicon Valley industries. Thus, there is a critical need in EE for wet chemistry, materials
processing and characterization space (much of this needs to be in vibration and EM
interference free environments).
The new engineering building (E2) is a “dry” building; that is, offices and dry labs. It is
suitable only for the computational and circuit design aspects of EE. The School of
Engineering understands this dilemma and is beginning to undergo renovation of the
Baskin Engineering Building to accommodate these needs. One lab has been recently
renovated in the basement of Baskin which will house microscopy, cell culture and
microcharacterization facilities.
In the next alteration phase of the Baskin Engineering Building, which hopefully will
start by March of 2006 when the new Physical and Biological Sciences building is
completed), we will get more renovated basement space for the MEMS, nanotechnology
efforts and two semifinished labs on the second floor. In addition, there will be a small,
900 square foot, class 1000 clean room for photolithographic processing, with the
possibility of another 1000 square feet for expansion when we get the funds to do so.
This will alleviate some of the problems we have now in device fabrication, which is all
done external to UCSC, either at Cornell, UCSB, Stanford or Brigham Young University.
However, that space is not expected to be finished until 2007. This space is critical to our
program since we cannot hope to develop a world class program in nanotechnology if all
the device fabrication and processing is performed off-site.
For this reason we would like to expand into the basement space of the Baskin
Engineering Building (which has the extremely low vibration and EM interference
characteristics necessary for nanotechnology work), but that cannot happen soon until the
university printing shop, the paint room and chemical storage facility moves out. The
characteristics of such space are essential if we are to mount any type of serious effort in
nanotechnology. In the long term, we are looking at expansion space for both applied
optics, microfabrication and processing in the old Texas Instruments building which
UCSC has recently acquired. Although the building is two miles from campus, it does
potentially allow for further process space expansion since part of that building was used
as a semiconductor microfabrication research facility. This is just in the planning stage at
present, and it could be many years before this space is actually available for use and we
can acquire the funding to renovate that space. Furthermore, there is also the long term
possibility of utilizing research space in the Bio-Info-Nano Research and Development
Institute being planned at NASA-Ames Research Park. However, that too, is still in the
planning stage.
Future Opportunities for Investment in New Endeavors
As we look at the mix of MS and PhD students in our graduate program, we are exploring
the possibility of offering another type of graduate degree, a project oriented masters of
engineering degree (MEng). The basis for this is that there are a significant number of
students enrolled in graduate courses in EE at UCSC who work in Silicon Valley. UCSC
has established the Silicon Valley Center headquartered at the NASA-Ames Research
Park in Mountain View, just 25 miles away and the School of Engineering is committed
to developing academic programs in that center. The first program planned is that of the
Systems and Technology Management (STM). At present, many EE faculty have
research ties with NASA-Ames and several faculty have offices in the UCSC Silicon
Valley Center.
The rationale for a project oriented MEng degree is that it could be completed within a
12 month time frame full time or within two years on a part-time basis and would consist
of courses and a project (not a thesis). Many part-time students in our graduate programs
work in Silicon Valley and the ability to take courses at both the Silicon Valley Center
and the UCSC main campus would be attractive to many students. Moreover, a video link
to be set-up between the Ames site and the Santa Cruz campus would allow students to
take courses at both locales. A project based degree would offer more connection
between students and faculty than a pure course oriented degree and would encourage
more industry/university interaction as well, since projects could be sponsored by
industry. Such a program would not only be attractive to students working in the valley,
but could be used as a recruiting tool for undergraduates. Students could get more
advanced technical training in their 5th year and at the end of five years would have two
degrees, a BS and an MEng. There is at present, no equivalent type of project-based
professional degree offered at Silicon Valley edcational institutions.
Of course, given that we do not have enough faculty to teach our existing courses, it is
not immediately obvious how we might accomplish this extra load. However, the courses
we would need to teach for an MEng program would be the same that we want to teach
for our MS/PhD program. Thus, we would have to bootstrap our way to develop such a
program. However, the existence of such a program would fit in well with the STM
program and the possibility of a UCSC School of Management centered at the Silicon
Valley Center. Since we anticipate that such an MEng program would attract a significant
number of students, we would then be in a position to get the additional resources to the
department which would allow these courses to be taught.
Educationally, an MEng program appears to make sense, since often there are students
who would like more technical expertise before embarking on their career, there are
workers with BS degrees who would like an advanced degree in their specialty, there are
workers who might want to retool their expertise and there are a smaller subset of
students who are not sure if the PhD research route is for them and would like the idea of
an intermediate terminal degree to test the waters before making a decision. Finally, an
MEng program would strengthen the ties between the EE program and industry in the
Silicon Valley, thus enhancing our program in the same way that the Honors Co-op
program has worked for many years at Stanford.
Plan for Additional Ladder-rank Faculty
As mentioned previously, it is planned to expand the department by five faculty in the
next five years. Although this is less than the number proposed in the 2001 Ten year plan,
and less than we think we need in order to get into the top 20 rankings of EE
departments, we feel that by concentrating on a few niche areas we can establish a world
class presence in those areas. It should be noted that although we have targeted specific
research areas in specific years as per campus policy, our plan is to constantly be on the
lookout for the best people in the focus areas in which we are concentrating our efforts.
Therefore, this hiring plan should be viewed as a guide rather than a blueprint.
In the 2005-06 period we will be recruiting a junior faculty in the area of biomedical
devices/bioelectronics. This will give us almost a half dozen faculty working in
biomedical related areas. In the same time frame we will be recruiting for a faculty
member in the device materials area, in particular, a tenured faculty who can catalyze the
materials effort at UCSC. If possible, this person would have ties to the Center for
Adaptive Optics. At present, there is no coherent materials science and engineering
presence at UCSC, even though many faculty are working in the areas of materials
research. We are coordinating this hire with the search in physics so that we may develop
a coherent materials effort at UCSC with the ultimate aim of being successful at bring an
NSF funded MRSEC to UCSC. Along with the materials efforts going on at NASAAmes and the development of a Bio-Info-Nano Research and Development Institute there
and the potential of the TI building for further collaborations, we feel we are moving in
the right track to have a successful end.
In the AY2007-2008 period we will be recruiting a faculty member in the area of
analog/mixed signal circuit design. There is a crying need in this country for engineers in
this area which affects sensors, diagnostics and wireless communication systems.
Moreover, with the addition of an additional faculty member in that area, we would be
able to teach a reasonable number of circuit design courses consistent with what is
necessary for a top tier EE department. The following year (AY2008-2009), we plan to
recruit in the signal processing area with an emphasis on biomedical imaging. Here we
hope to tie more closely the nanotechnology and applied optics groups with the signal
processing groups to address critical problems of the imaging of biological systems from
the molecular to the organismal level. Finally, (in AY2010-2011) we would make an
additional hire in the wireless communications area, bringing the number of faculty in
that area to four.
Table I
Year
2005-2006
2005-2006
2007-2008
2008-2009
2010-2011
EE Hiring Plan
Specialty
Biomedical devices /
bioelectronics
Device materials / adaptive
optics
Analog / mixed signal /
current design
Biomedical imaging / signal
processing
Wireless communications
Position
Assistant professor
Associate / full professor
Assistant professor
Assistant professor
Assistant professor
Plan for Enrollment FTE
Even though, in our new hiring plan we will only hire five new faculty through 2011, we
feel that we can become more efficient in our academic offerings, so that we may be able
to offer a wider selection of courses with fewer faculty than anticipated in the 2001
Strategic Plan. In terms of increasing the undergraduate enrollments, we have been
offering one 80 level introduction course (modern electronic technology and how it
works). We offer this course once a year in the winter quarter to about 100 students. We
will be offering a second course in this series this spring on renewable energy resources.
And we plan next year to develop a third course in this suite relating to nanotechnology
or biomedical instrumentation. We feel, that such courses will attract students as EE
majors as well as provide the type of course needed to develop technical literacy to a
wider population of undergraduates. Moreover, these introduction course will have the
benefit of attracting more students to STEM disciplines, not only EE. Such a strategy
should benefit the entire campus population, and it will bring more resources (ie, TA’s) to
enable faculty in EE to provide a better quality of instruction. Along with this, we will be
consolidating some of our mezzanine/first year graduate courses. This will allow us to
teach to a larger set of students (graduate and undergraduate) as well as allow more
faculty for teaching upper level specialty courses which are essential for a substantial
graduate program and the existence of which will draw a higher caliber of student to EE
at UCSC.
Under discussion is also the development of more hands-on courses to potential EE
students in their first two years. We will be submitting proposals for exsternal funding to
develop experimental modules for the “introduction to modern electronic technology”
course, and are looking at the possibilities of introductory hands-on optics laboratories
that will give students the impetus to learn their physics and mathematics and to see
early-on the connection between the math, physics and engineering. Often, the major
problems with retention occur in the first two years where students take few, if any,
engineering courses.
One significant method of increasing the undergraduate retention rate in EE, thus
increasing enrollment, is to revise the advising and mentoring system to allow for more
faculty-student contact. In the past, once entering the EE major, students are assigned a
faculty advisor. However, they do not have to see their faculty advisor, ever! The School
of Engineering has a central advising office, consisting of professional staff who advise
students on their curriculum path. Many students are more comfortable with the staff
advisors. The problem with this method is that faculty-student interaction is minimized.
Although, the advising staff is quite professional and has deep experience, they must
follow the prescribed curriculum chart and they often cannot answer questions related to
career choices or which courses serve certain career objectives. As a result, one often
hears in exit interviews that students wished they had taken a different sequence or
courses, or that they had engaged in independent study, or they had taken more math, or
that they had taken their physics sequence earlier, or they had gotten more involved with
the faculty. Thus, regardless of whether students go directly to industry or to graduate
school upon graduating, they often regret not having taken advantage of faculty “advice”.
To improve this situation, beginning with the fall 2005 quarter, the EE faculty have
unanimously voted to require that all students meet with their faculty advisors on a
regular basis. We ultimately plan to enforce this requirement by not allowing
preregistration for the following quarter unless they have met this requirement. And we
will require faculty approval for their curriculum plan. This is not to say that we do not
want the students to meet with the staff advisors, but we merely want faculty oversight of
their plan, and we want the students to have more faculty interaction. The goal is to
develop a one unit seminar type course that would be required by all EE students in
which they would regularly meet their faculty advisor to discuss professional
development, academic progress and career paths.
One particular point to note in this years exit interviews is that many students wished
they had taken (or learned) more math. We had begun to offer in winter quarter 2005, an
on-line math diagnostic exam before students enter EE 135 (electromagnetics) to
pinpoint math deficiencies and provide quick review to help them increase their mastery
of the subject. However, it became apparent that this diagnostic needs to occur even
earlier in the curriculum. We find this lack of mathematical facility to be the biggest
impediment to students being successful in our program. As a point of note, it appears
that students that have learned the math “in context” rather than just symbol manipulation
appear to have a better grasp of the mathematical fundamentals. We are exploring ways
to alleviate this problem. By instituting a diagnostic exam early on, and requiring
tutorials/reviews to those that need it, we hope to solve this problem.
We are putting together various proposals to get the resources to do this. What we would
like to do is offer two tracks into EE: in one track the students who can place into
calculus in their first semester would be encouraged to begin physics (5A) their first
quarter. This set can begin to take the EE core courses in their sophomore year. With
faculty advising them, they then can pursue an adequate path to meet their career goals,
including the advice on what they need to do to get into graduate school if they so desire.
In the second track, are those students who must take pre-calculus. They are thus forced
to wait a full year to take the physics 5 series. This delays their EE core courses until
their junior year. As a result, they do not have the flexibility in their course offerings if
they want to get their degree in 4 years. We will begin encouraging incoming freshman to
take the math placement exam in the spring. If they do not place into calculus, we will
encourage them to take pre-calulus over the summer before they enter UCSC so that they
can be on the math/physics track when they arrive at UCSC.
In addition, over the longer term, we will develop a formal internship program to allow
for our students to work in industry during the summers. For their internship experience
to have some meaning, we need to carefully screen the students and look for the type of
individual who would have such characteristics.
Plan for Extramural Research Support
As mentioned previously, the present external funding per faculty FTE in EE is about
$320K per year (about $4.1 M total last year excluding gifts).The total external funding
has almost quadrupled since 2001, while the number of faculty have only increased by
44% during that time period. Thus, as our program is ramping up, the amount of external
funding per faculty FTE is increasing significantly. However, this funding is not
uniformly distributed among all faculty. While we understand that different disciplines
within EE have different funding profiles, we hope to develop a strategy which will help
those underfunded faculty build up there funding levels. This will consist of regular
meetings with the Chair to develop funding strategies as well as mentoring by the more
successful senior faculty (although it should be noted that some of our junior faculty have
more external funding than some of the more senior faculty). Our goal is to increase the
external funding level to be more like $500K -$600K per faculty by 2010, consistent with
the top ten EE departments to the country.
We plan to do this by concentrating on several approaches:
1. Developing interdisciplinary training program proposals to the NSF, NIBIB and
DofED, to name a few. These proposals will allow for multiyear promised
financial support than we can do at present. Moreover, such programs will allow
for student rotation in different labs the first year and will provide leverage for
further research grants.
2. Concentration of efforts in developing large scale externally funded center grants,
such as ERC’s, STC’s and NCRR resources.
3. Increase the diversity of funding sources to include a wider range of federal
agencies as well as private foundations.
4. Develop closer ties to the national labs and NASA-Ames (through the UARC and
the BIN-RDI).
5. By actively recruiting U.S. citizens and permanent residents to our graduate
program. This will allow us to increase the number of students per research dollar,
thus facilitating more ambitious programs to be undertaken.
As the department matures, we hope to be able to operate in the black and get the cash
flow necessary to develop the administrative infrastructure to allow the faculty to more
easily put together large scale research proposals. At present, we have faculty actively
involved in investigating the possibilities of proposals for externally funded centers on
the following topics:
1. an ERC for Nanotechnology and Renewable Energy Resources,
2. an ERC for Adaptive Optics,
3. an STC for a Center for the Exploration of the Limits of Life
4. a training program in Imaging Across Scales
5. an Institute for Air Traffic Management (with the UARC)
6. a Materials Science and Engineering Research Center
7. a Center for Innovative Materials, Sensors and Systems
It needs to be mentioned again, that a crucial aid in allowing to pursue these various
pathways is the ability to be able attract esteemed research/adjunct faculty. UCSC needs
to be able to streamline the process in which we get adjunct appointments. This is not
only a problem for electrical engineering, and engineering as a whole, but will also be a
program for the proposed School of Management.
1/13/06
Technology and Information Management
5-year Plan: 2006-2011
Program Overview
The domain of this program is the management of technology and innovation, with
emphasis on analytic methods and information systems and services. Management of the
development and commercialization of technology is a continuing challenge to successful
enterprises in competitive “high-tech” businesses. To rapidly respond to changing
markets, executives and engineering managers must have an understanding of
technologies as well as the analytical skills to develop viable solutions that may be
theoretically sophisticated but can be implemented in a timely fashion.
Designing and managing complex systems in technology contexts requires a range of
skills that includes knowledge of the relevant technologies and an understanding of the
operational, financial and marketing dimensions of the business enterprise. In addition,
managers must develop leadership skills and skills in human interaction, including the
skills to communicate with and manage individuals from different backgrounds and
cultures and in diverse (and geographically distributed) teams; and the skills to market
new ideas and developments within the organization.
Traditional management (MBA) programs typically do not prepare their graduates to deal
with this new technology effectively. TIM program strives to fulfill this critical gap and
need faced by the industry today.
Building and Maintaining Excellence
As a new program, Technology and Information Management (TIM) is committed to
maintaining and building excellence over the next five years and beyond. Our program
emphasizes interdisciplinary teaching and research, with the aim of producing graduating
students who will have a deep knowledge of engineering analytics, as well as the broader
knowledge of how to use these analytics to solve problems and create value in today’s
fast changing technology and business climate. This distinctively interdisciplinary
mission, combined with our program’s world-class faculty and our proximity to all the
innovative high-technology businesses of the Silicon Valley, position us well to achieve
excellence and impact in our research, as well as to graduate outstanding researchers and
practitioners.
Our strong and growing faculty strength will be the key for our program to build maintain
excellence in our new program in the next five years. Today we have 4 ladder-rank
faculty and 1 adjunct faculty member developing our program of teaching and research,
and in the next five years the number of ladder rank faculty will grow to eight. Our
current diverse faculty have graduated from internationally renowned institutions in US,
India, China, and New Zealand including Berkeley, Stanford, CMU, I I Sc (Bangalore),
and Tsinghua University (Beijing). We have 4 male and 1 female faculty and we are
committed to building excellence through diversity. Currently our program is directed by
a senior Computer Science faculty member and steered by a senior Computer
Engineering faculty member which helps us to build close ties with these two
departments.
In addition, we benefit from the close involvement and collaboration of many other
faculty in the School of Engineering (Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Applied
Mathematics and Statistics) and Division of Social Sciences (Economics, Psychology,
Sociology, Environmental Science, Anthropology), and Sciences (Biology).
We expect that our proximity to Silicon Valley can be instrumental in our program’s
plans for building excellence. Our faculty has several years of industrial experience with
resulting in a number of funded research projects. Further strategic well-planned
investment in Silicon Valley Center will be critical in establishing longterm corporate
relations with industry that is likely to benefit campus as a whole. These relationships
will enable us to attract working professionals into our graduate degree program, help
build summer internship programs and research collaborations, and industry-sponsored
funding.
Future Opportunities for Investment in New Endeavors
With the unabated off-shoring of manufacturing, IT, and engineering jobs, it becomes
critical to maintain US productivity through innovation. TIM program is a solution to
U.S. loss of jobs and pre-eminence, in a service and knowledge economy-based world.
This provides future teaching and research opportunities for TIM.
The teaching opportunity is to produce enterprise leaders/managers who would utilize
information systems and technology resources to manage enterprises in the knowledge
economy. Our students should be able to act as bridging people who can speak more than
one language (business, technology, social-organizational change, deep industry
knowledge, IT solutions knowledge, etc.). To achieve this goal, TIM will enrich the
current curriculum by covering more areas through collaboration with other departments
in UCSC as well as industry leaders. More specifically, TIM will keep on bringing deep
industry knowledge onto campus by inviting leading experts, such as current and ex
executives in high tech companies in Silicon Valley, to give seminar talks or as join as
adjunct faculty.
TIM faculty will carry out cutting edge research in business intelligence, service
engineering, knowledge engineering, risk engineering, new product development,
innovation management, enterprise integration, and application of knowledge and
emerging technologies to business enterprises. More specifically, we have identified
service science and knowledge engineering as the most exciting opportunities for
the near future. Our prior research work and on going collaboration with silicon valley
companies, such as Cisco, IBM, Yahoo, HP, have given TIM a major advantage in
business knowledge engineering. We will sustain our excellence in this area, especially in
the context of service economy.
There are several future opportunities for investment in new endeavors including
1) Robotics for business
2) Knowledge engineering in health system or biology
3) Information Management in Social Networks
4) Managing Innovation
These new endeavors provide significant opportunities for interdivisional collaborations
with many departments within School of Engineering and Division of Social Sciences.
We are extremely well poised to take advantage of campus schemes to promote
interdivisional collaboration.
Synergistic Graduate Programs
UC Santa Cruz’s Technology and Information Management (TIM) program is being
developed as an interdisciplinary program with strong ties to computer science, computer
engineering, electrical engineering, applied mathematics and statistics, biomolecular
engineering, economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, biology and
environmental sciences. We have submitted a proposal for MS and PhD degrees in TIM
with an expected launch date of Fall 2007. Students in TIM can take classes from all of
the above programs, and the program faculty are also engaged in interdisciplinary
research across these program lines. The graduate programs in TIM have an emphasis on
technology management, analytical decision making, information management, and can
benefit significantly with synergistic collaborations with many social sciences programs
that are likely to result in new degree programs after the TIM graduate degrees are
approved. The new degree programs will contribute to the other campus programs in the
above related fields, creating valuable synergy across multiple disciplines. TIM expects
to be a significant partner providing the vital innovative content of information,
knowledge, and technology management that is revolutionizing the field of traditional
management disciplines that are inadequate to meet the challenge of the 21st century
information technology. TIM is engaged in the feasibility study for a school of
management at UCSC, and is poised to provide leading partnership opportunities as a
graduate management program is developed.
Plan for Faculty FTE
We have grouped our hiring into three categories: Essential (2006-2011), High Priority,
and Priority.
1. Essential: It is critical that we make a minimum of four hires in the next five years
to develop our strength broadly in the technology management area, and to be
able to offer a viable program. Key areas include :
a. Financial engineering, especially with a technology emphasis, where
feasible,
b. New Product and Services Design, Development, and/or Management,
c. Innovation Engineering and Management (including products, services,
processes, systems),
d. Knowledge Services and Management (including data mining, text
mining, and search, with potential implications for internet marketing and
business process outsourcing)
Because these are emerging areas, with very high salary premiums, we will
continue to pursue of strategy of hiring the best who possess the necessary skills
and industry exposure, or have demonstrated an ability to span area boundaries
and are fast learners. Depending on an outcome of a current search, we expect to
hire one or two faculty (one full professor and one associate professor) during
AY2006-2007, one (assistant professor) during 2007-2008, and one (assistant
professor) during 2009-2010.
TIM will also be using industry-savvy adjunct faculty, as needed, to deliver the
promise of Silicon Valley Center of recruiting working professionals as graduate
students and establish research collaborations with the industry.
2. High Priority: It is important that we support current faculty through 4 additional
faculty hires immediately after building the foundation. One of the high priority
areas is Mechanism Design. This quick follow through will be necessary to build
and maintain significant industry relations that will be helpful not only to TIM but
to other campus programs.
3. Priority: To develop TIM program as truly interdisciplinary, TIM has a high
priority to build divisional and inter-divisional collaborations. We propose
development of campus-incentive programs where 2/3rd faculty FTE is housed in
one department while 1/3rd FTE is housed in TIM or vice-versa. If this program is
floated, TIM is extremely keen in having a total of 3 to 5 FTE depending upon
campus plans, for example, offering 1/3rd FTE to 9 departments. Possibilities
include computer science, computer engineering, biomolecular engineering,
electrical engineering, applied mathematics and statistics, biology, psychology,
economics, sociology, anthropology, environmental policy.
Plan for Enrollment FTE
The graduate program (both M.S. and Ph.D.) in TIM is scheduled to be launched in fall
2007. Already there are several classes being offered by TIM faculty, and several
students engaged in research under their mentorship. The initial offerings of graduate
classes will focus on the core TIM areas, while later classes will branch into more
specialized research classes. The enrollment projections are presented in the table
below.
Table 1. Projected Enrollments in the Proposed Graduate Program in TIM
Grad
2005-06 20062007200820092010Enrollment
07
08
09
10
11
Faculty
4
5
6
7
7
8
FTE
Adj.
Faculty
M.S. in
TIM
1
1
2
3
4
4
5
7*
11
18
26
29
Ph.D. in
TIM
6*
9*
15
22
26
29
Total
•
11
16
26
40
52
58
Students enrolled in other programs performing research with TIM faculty
Undergraduate Program: The ISTM department currently has approximately 66
undergraduates.
We are currently engaged in an intensive undergraduate outreach program that includes
both junior colleges such as De Anza, Foothill, and Cabrillo as well as colleges within
UC Santa Cruz. Our program promotion consists of four parts: (1) information
dissemination to a large body of relevant influencers and decision makers (e.g., college
faculty and students) (2) presentations to college deans, faculty, and advisors, (3)
meetings with faculty, advisors and counselors, and (4) meetings with students. We hope
that this promotion effort will lead to a compound 10-15% increase in enrollment over
the next 3-5 years.
We would like to increase our service offering in several ways over the next 2-3 years.
Currently, our core faculty is engaged in offering the basic required TIM courses mostly
for TIM students, and also engaged heavily in administrative tasks due to very small size
of our current program. Our basic undergraduate course offering, ISM 50, is extremely
popular among the business management economics students, and we hope to increase
our service offerings next year to increase the overall course enrollment in our program.
Last year (2004-2005) we had a very successful internship program with Seagate
Technology, the world leader in disc drive technology. Out of approximately 16 students
who did internships at Seagate, six were offered permanent positions. We intend to
maintain an active internship program with Seagate and other leading companies as an
important experience for our students as well as an important feature to attract
prospective students to our program.
Plan for Extramural Research Support
The five TIM faculty is actively engaged in seeking extramural research support. With
only 1 senior faculty (mostly tied up with administration and service) and 3 junior faculty
with average time at UCSC being less than 1 year, and 1 adjunct faculty (who is teaching
4.2 classes a year and shouldering several responsibilities including undergraduate
directorship and SVC infrastructural development and outreach), we believe TIM has
made excellent progress. Successful funding in the past couple of years include two
NASA projects funded through UARC competition, and research projects funed by HP
and Cisco.
2003-2004 was the first year for TIM with Professor Ram Akella being the only faculty
with the mission of building the program and no extramural funding was obtained this
year. During 2004-2005, Professor Ram Akella has obtained $64,000 from HP, $15,000
from Cisco, and $132,00 from NASA for a total of $216,000. During this period, Prof.
Kevin Ross obtained $31,958 from NASA/UARC funding. Thus, the total funding
received by the TIM program during 2004-2005 was $243,000 approximately. Prof. John
Musacchio joined in January 2005 and Professor Yi Zhang has joined in Fall 2005.
TIM faculty is engaged in writing a NSF CAREER grant, 2 or 3 collaborative NSF
grants, grants in collaboration with CE and Economics faculty. We have also submitted a
grant to Samsung in collaboration with the SOE Dean. TIM is interested in participating
in IGERT grant and is looking to campus leadership to articulate some principles (such as
no more than 2 chances to one group) so that every group can get a fair chance of
participating in these grants which are limited to 2 per institution. TIM faculty is actively
pursuing several industry contacts with many companies including IBM for research
funding.
Campus funding for seed projects involving interdivisional collaboration will also prove
very useful to TIM faculty.
Measures of Success
Traditional quantitative measures of success used at the School of Engineering, UCSC,
UC System, and the State level are enrollment and extramural funding. Qualitative
measures of success include publications and citations.
Technology and Information Management (TIM) is an area that develops principles and
concepts that impact managers and executives, rather than engineers alone.
Consequently, TIM is an area where the following measures of excellence are
appropriate:
-- Placement of Undergraduate and Graduate Students;
-- Alumni Support (an area that school of Engineering must build and emphasize;
we like to nurture our undergraduate and graduate students through active mentoring;
many of them are likely to hold executive and managerial positions down the road);
- Impact of executive courses on industry to be evaluated through evaluation
questionnaires,
-
Impact of our research on industry practice and executive impact to be evaluated
through industry survey on a long term (for example, five-year) time scale.