BSOE Graduate Student Newsletter
Announcements
Baskin Engineering PhD Hooding Ceremony May 20, 2023Spring 2023 University Deadlines
Winter 2023 University Deadlines
You’re invited! Graduate student career development survey
Project from Wright Brothers Institute
Final Call for Paid SIP Mentors: Summer Funding Opportunity for All Fields
California Public Utilities Commission Energy Division Virtual Open House - Friday, June 2nd/ Wednesday, June 7th/ Thursday, June 15th
Announcements
Baskin Engineering PhD Hooding Ceremony May 20, 2023
As part of the 25th anniversary celebration of the Baskin School of Engineering, you are invited to participate in a Baskin Engineering hooding ceremony on Saturday, May 20, 2023 at 1 pm, followed by a reception for your friends, family members, advisors, and Baskin graduate student alumni. The events will take place in the Baskin Engineering Auditorium and courtyard.
Please complete this form by April 4 to indicate your participation on May 20.
Note that the campus will host the usual commencement ceremonies in June. In addition to the May hooding ceremony, you are welcome to participate in the Graduate Division Slug Crossing on Saturday, June 17, 2023. More information is available on the UCSC Commencement website.
Spring 2023 University Deadlines
Please note the following upcoming university deadlines, and ALWAYS check the Academic and Administrative Calendar for important dates and deadlines. Bookmark this year's Academic and Administrative Calendar and refer to it regularly.
Tuesday, April 11th Graduate Student Enrollment & Fee Payment
If you have not paid your registration fees or enrolled in the minimum number of courses by this date, you will be charged a $50 late fee. Please keep in mind that pending aid (Fellowship, GSR, TA) will not credit your account until you are enrolled in at least 5 units.
Tuesday, April 11th Graduate Student Part-Time Status
This is the deadline to apply for reduced course load and fees. Part-time status forms must be approved/signed by your faculty advisor and submitted to the BSOE Graduate Advising office by the posted deadline. Part-time
Thursday, April 13th Deadline To Apply For Degree
If you plan to complete your MS or PhD this quarter (Spring 2023), the degree application needs to be submitted to BSOE Graduate Advising office. This is also the deadline to pay for filing fee, if applicable. More guidelines for graduating are available on the Graduate Advising website.
Friday, April 21st Deadline to Add/Drop/Swap Courses
This is your last day to add, drop and swap courses. You will not be able to drop or withdraw from courses after this deadline has passed. If you are enrolled in a placeholder class, you MUST drop it by this deadline. More information on how to add, drop, and swap classes is available on the registrar website.
Friday, June 2nd Grade Option
This is your last day to change your grading option for any courses you are enrolled in.
IMPORTANT: The system defaults to Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading. Instructions for how to change your grading option to letter grades (ABC) can be found here.
Friday, June 2nd Late Add with Fee Deadline
The Add by Petition form requires the signatures of both the instructor and the department adviser and needs to be submitted to the Office of the Registrar.
Friday, August 31st Leave of Absence Fall Deadline
Deadline to petition for leave of absence (LOA) beginning the next quarter. LOA forms must be approved/signed by your faculty advisor and submitted to the BSOE Graduate Advising office by the posted deadline. LOA
Winter 2023 University Deadlines
Please note the following upcoming university deadlines, and ALWAYS check the Academic and Administrative Calendar for important dates and deadlines. Bookmark this year's Academic and Administrative Calendar and refer to it regularly.
Wednesday, January 18th Graduate Student Enrollment & Fee Payment
If you have not paid your registration fees or enrolled in the minimum number of courses by this date, you will be charged a $50 late fee. Please keep in mind that pending aid (Fellowship, GSR, TA) will not credit your account until you are enrolled in at least 5 units.
Wednesday, January 18th Graduate Student Part-Time Status
This is the deadline to apply for reduced course load and fees. Part-time status forms must be approved/signed by your faculty advisor and submitted to the BSOE Graduate Advising office by the posted deadline. Part-time application forms are available on the Graduate Division's website.
Thursday, January 19th Deadline To Apply For Degree
If you plan to complete your MS or PhD this quarter (Winter 2023), the degree application needs to be submitted to BSOE Graduate Advising office. This is also the deadline to pay for filing fee, if applicable. More guidelines for graduating are available on the Graduate Advising website.
Monday, January 30th Deadline to Add/Drop/Swap Courses
This is your last day to add, drop and swap courses. You will not be able to drop or withdraw from courses after this deadline has passed. If you are enrolled in a placeholder class, you MUST drop it by this deadline. More information on how to add, drop, and swap classes is available on the registrar website.
Friday, March 10th Grade Option
This is your last day to change your grading option for any courses you are enrolled in.
IMPORTANT: The system defaults to Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading. Instructions for how to change your grading option to letter grades (ABC) can be found here.
Friday, March 10 Late Add with Fee Deadline
The Add by Petition form requires the signatures of both the instructor and the department adviser and needs to be submitted to the Office of the Registrar.
Friday, March 24th Leave of Absence Fall Deadline
Deadline to petition for leave of absence (LOA) beginning the next quarter. LOA forms must be approved/signed by your faculty advisor and submitted to the BSOE Graduate Advising office by the posted deadline. LOA application forms are available on the Graduate Division's website.
You’re invited! Graduate student career development survey
Are you an MS or PhD student in computer science?
You’re invited to join a research study on the career development of graduate students in computer science.
Take a 5-minute survey and enter into a drawing for one of three $50 gift cards.
Project from Wright Brothers Institute
We launched a project/challenge with Wright Brothers Institute & The T-REX Innovation Center -GEOINT – Analysis of Cause for Human Displacement
Link to challenge/project: https://www.mindsumo.com/
Could you please forward this note to students that you think will be interested? The top 10% of submissions also win from a prize pool of $2,600!
Note - students are encouraged to use their .edu IDs when logging in to make sure they pass any restrictions we have in place for non .edu solvers.
Feel free to reach out to me (isha@mindsumo.com) if you/your students have any questions and hope to see some of your students participate!
Final Call for Paid SIP Mentors: Summer Funding Opportunity for All Fields
Calling All Prospective SIP Mentors!
We are sending out a final call for SIP mentors for the 2023 Science Internship Program (SIP)! We have over 100 mentors (PhD students, postdocs, researchers, and faculty) already signed up to mentor over 300 high school interns in research projects which cover a wide range of subject areas. To name a few, this year we have projects in Linguistics, Digital Arts and New Media, Electrical Engineering, and more.
We are accepting mentors and projects from all subject areas, within and outside STEM and projects can be mentored in-person, online, or hybrid. This is a particularly great opportunity if you are looking for supplemental summer funding, would like to hone your mentoring skills, and expose high school students to research in your field of study.
Stipend information: The stipends for 2023 are $4,000 for graduate students (up to 100% summer salary in the combination of all UCSC summer appointments) and $2,200 for postdocs and research staff (in lieu of PTO). Questions about mentor stipends should be directed to SIP staff – ucsc-sip@ucsc.edu.
Please consider submitting a SIP 2023 mentor application!
California Public Utilities Commission Energy Division Virtual Open House - Friday, June 2nd/ Wednesday, June 7th/ Thursday, June 15th
The California Public Utilities Commission Energy Division is hosting Virtual Open House sessions on Friday, June 2nd, 2023 at 11 A.M. (PST)/ Wednesday, June 7th, 2023 at 2 P.M. (PST)/ and Thursday, June 15th, 2023 at 1 P.M. (PST) for interested job seekers and potential candidates.
In summary, there will be three sessions in total:
Friday, June 2nd: 11 A.M. (PST)
Wednesday, June 7th: 2 P.M. (PST)
Thursday, June 15th: 1 P.M. (PST)
If interested in attending any one of these sessions, please reply to this email with the date and time you would like to attend.
Please visit the California Public Utilities Commission Energy Division website for more information.
https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/about-
Please note: the Energy Division currently has open positions which are suitable for graduate students, PhDs, and those with some experience.
You may also email us at EnergyDivisionRecruiting@cpuc.
Jobs
Software Engineering Research Opportunity
We are looking for a software engineer, who wants to contribute to our Phased Array technology at Yektasonics. Our Phased Array is a hardware-software co-designed system, which is an order of magnitude lower cost than other Phased Arrays in the market with performance breakthroughs. The technology has applications in a wide range of medical and non-medical fields. In medicine, Focused Ultrasound is a revolutionary medical therapy, which uses harmless sound waves to cure cancer with no chemo-therapy or surgery, and brain treatment without opening the skull, to name a few. Our technology drives the transducers, which generate these sound waves at ultrasound frequencies, with fine phase and power control. We have launched our Power Module successfully, which is the power stage of our Phased Array.
Yektasonics has received numerous awards and recognitions, such as a recent award from the National Science Foundation - Innovation Corps program in 2023, a second prize from the UC Santa Cruz chancellor at launchpad 2022, being a finalist of American Heart Association in the Bay Area in 2022, being a finalist of the University of California Big Ideas Competition in 2021, and being part of UC Berkeley Incubator Citris Foundry in 2020, to name a few.
Our Phased Array consists of different software modules, such as our embedded computing interface, our Yektasonics OS, our feedback processor, and more. A strong candidate will mostly code in C/C++ in our challenging environment. If you are interested and ready for the next level in your career, please email your resume with your transcripts to Navid Gougol at gougol@yektasonics.com. The work place will be at Baskin with possible remote arrangement. Compensation arrangements will be made mutually.
Navid is the the CEO/Founder of Yektasonics. You can check out the company website for more information at www.yektasonics.com.
Postdoc Opportunity
Jennifer Doudna <https://doudnalab.org/> and Benjamin Rubin
<https://www.therubinlab.org/> are recruiting a jointly supervised postdoc
to work on in situ DNA editing of microbiomes at UC Berkeley. The candidate
will join a highly collaborative team of researchers in the two labs, who
are tightly integrated with the broader Innovative Genomics Institute’s
Precision Microbiome Editing Initiative
<https://innovativegenomics.or
will build on proof-of-principle community editing experiments
<https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.g
modification of microbiome members. This work relies on developing and
using novel CRISPR-Cas editing systems, sequence-based tracking of edits,
and next-generation tools for in situ control of edited organisms. The
postdoc will collaborate with a multidisciplinary group from UCSF, LBNL,
JBEI, and Cedar-Sinai to apply microbiome editing to understand and control
impactful microbial communities such as those in the human gut, cow rumen,
and the rhizosphere. Potential projects range from identifying and
modifying microbes with causal roles in inflammatory bowel disease and
asthma, to mitigating methane emissions from livestock.
If you are interested you can find more information and apply here
<https://aprecruit.berkeley.ed
Molecular Biologist/Biochemist - Tenure Track - Rhode Island College
Job Description: 2023B_MolecularBiologist_Poster.pdf
Cellular Biologist/Biochemist - Tenure Track - Rhode Island College
Job Description: 2023A_CellBiologist_Poster.pdf
Optimization Engineer
https://jobs.lever.co/
Opportunity for Advanced Graduate Students & Postdocs
I write with a course development and teaching opportunity that may be of interest to advanced PhD candidates or postdocs in your department. I am looking specifically to have a number of lower-division courses developed over Summer and Fall 2023 terms, and taught in Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 terms. These courses will be based on professional certificates offered by Coursera, in the following areas:
- Google IT Support
- Google UX Design
- IBM Cybersecurity Analysis
- Meta Front- and Back-End Development
These are an asynchronous online course and will be taught entirely remotely. The stipend to develop each course is $5,760. The stipend to teach each course section is another $5,760.