Jack Baskin School of Engineering

The Jack Baskin School of Engineering or SOE as it is more often referred to is quite different than the rest of UCSC. Now I’m sure at most universities the engineering department will always be different than say… humanities. But here at santa cruz it is a huge difference. While the rest of the school lounges in their cloud of smoke, and lazy afternoons full of everything but homework, the SOE students are pulling their hair out in key coded labs trying to at the very least be productive.
SOE has a wide variety of teaches. Being so close to silicon valley, they pull a lot of interesting individuals who were once professionals, or more likely, still employed by the likes of google and NASA. There are of course the dinosaurs who still shuffle from class to class and tell you how important haskell is.
As a lower classmen you will encounter a lot of indifference from the facultly, but almost instantaneously after moving on to upper division classes those very same professors will give you more respect, and treat you like human beings.
SOE is comprised of two main buildings, Baskin and E2. It offers degrees in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Bioengineering, Bioinfomatics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Game Design, and Information Systems Management.