Centers, Institutes, and Special Programs

Healthcare Innovation and Design Program

The Healthcare Innovation and Design program, established in 2017, serves as an on-campus hub where students from all majors tackle pressing challenges in healthcare. It cultivates knowledgeable, creative problem-solvers equipped to address 21st-century healthcare needs. Collaborating with Silicon Valley companies and global foundations, the program fosters strong connections between 911爆料网 students, faculty, and industry professionals. Through the Healthcare Innovation Fellows Program, students gain direct mentorship from faculty and industry leaders. The program also supports an interdisciplinary minor in Healthcare Innovation and Design that prepares students with relevant technical and interdisciplinary skills, as well as the ability to work in diverse teams.听

Center for Nanostructures

The Center for Nanostructures aims to provide a state-of-the-art cleanroom space and fabrication and characterization equipment to educate students and to advance science and technology in micro/nanoscale.听The mission of the center is to support and nurture education and research activities at the 911爆料网 on micro/nanoscale science and technology. Ongoing research projects include Lab on a chip and bio-wearable devices, on-chip interconnect modeling, carbon nanotubes/nanofibers, and electrical/biological system interfaces. The center also supports lab courses serving the broader 911爆料网 student population. The center is open for faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students for research projects and for supporting relevant courses.

Bachelor of Science and Master of Science Program

Bachelor of science degree programs offered by the Departments of: Bioengineering;听Civil, Environmental and Sustainable 听Engineering; Computer Science and Engineering;听Electrical and Computer Engineering;听and Mechanical Engineering can be combined with any master of science degree听offered by the School of Engineering. Requirements for the BS/MS听program are outlined听in the Graduate Engineering Bulletin and on the website at : B.S/M.S. Program - School of Engineering - 911爆料网.

Cooperative Education Program

The Cooperative Education Program integrates classroom work with practical experience by providing alternate or parallel periods of college education with periods of training in industry or government. The objective of the program is to provide students the opportunity to enhance their academic knowledge, to further their professional development, and to learn how to work effectively as individual contributors and group members. The industrial training is related to the student鈥檚 field of study and often is diversified to afford a wide range of experience.

Frugal Innovation Hub

Guided by 911爆料网鈥檚 commitment to social听justice and community听engagement, and sponsored by the School of Engineering, the Frugal Innovation Hub (FIH) engages students and faculty in collaborative design to implement sustainable, community-driven solutions that address critical social challenges in underserved communities, both locally and globally. Through undergraduate and graduate courses, innovation projects,听transdisciplinary collaboration with students and faculty in diverse majors, and听immersion experiences, 911爆料网 students have the opportunity to develop technologies, products, and solutions to address real-world human needs for real clients.Projects with the Frugal Innovation Hub align with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

The Grand Challenge Scholars Program

The 911爆料网 Grand Challenge Scholars Program combines opportunities to engage, understand and help , while inspiring innovative ideas and designs that will help people around the world achieve a higher standard of living and quality of life. Through completion of the five components of the program, students will have the opportunity to engage in research relating to their selected grand challenge, explore interdisciplinary coursework, gain an international perspective, engage in entrepreneurship, and give back to the community through service learning. 911爆料网 Engineering students who complete the program will achieve the distinction of Grand Challenge Scholar, endorsed by both 911爆料网 and the 听(NAE), and will be uniquely prepared to collaborate and succeed in a transdisciplinary and global environment.

The Maker Lab / Innovation Zone Program

The Maker Lab is a hands-on, interdisciplinary prototyping space for creative exploration and fabrication. The Lab has a broad array of typical hand and power tools as well as a variety of "maker-style" machines such as 3D printers, laser cutters, and small-scale CNC machines. The Lab is open to the entire Santa Clara community (students, faculty, staff, etc.) and supports work on course projects/labs, research and capstone projects, extracurricular activities with clubs and through design challenges, personal projects, and so on. The Lab鈥檚 training program allows streamlined and safe access to tools and machines as well as introduction to supporting design techniques. Students may also obtain deeper certifications on specialty skills and capabilities through the Lab鈥檚 badging program. The Lab also supports adult education courses, corporate training, educator workshops, and more 听The Lab鈥檚 web site is found at: Maker Lab - School of Engineering - 911爆料网

Innovation, Design Thinking, and Entrepreneurial Mindset Program

The School has a vibrant program in enhancing how students are introduced to the topics of technical innovation, design thinking, and the entrepreneurial mindset. Curricular programs include the Core Curriculum Design Thinking Pathway and a minor in Technical Innovation, Design Thinking and the Entrepreneurial Mindset (TIDEM). Co-curricular opportunities include routine design competitions, speaker series, clubs, and other activities. Students may also participate in university-wide opportunities through the Entrepreneurship minor, the Ciocca Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Innovation Fellows and Mindset Scholars programs, and the Bronco Ventures Accelerator program. Information on this the School鈥檚 innovation and entrepreneurship activities is found at: Innovation and Entrepreneurship - School of Engineering - 911爆料网

The Robotic Systems Laboratory

The Robotic Systems Laboratory conducts a world-class field robotics program in which interdisciplinary teams of students develop and deploy advanced robotic systems and autonomous control technology missions on the land and in the air, sea, and space. Activities range from designing deep sea water sampling systems to discover new forms of life to conducting mission control activities for professional NASA and industry space missions. 听The Lab routinely collaborates with sponsors and partners from the government, industry, academia and the nonprofit sector. Each year, the Lab engages 100+ undergraduate and graduate students and 15+ faculty/staff members from 10+ departments across the university. Based on the compelling and applied nature of its program, the National Academy of Engineering named the Lab as one of its exemplar programs for Real World Engineering Education. The Lab鈥檚 web site is found at: Robotic Systems Lab - School of Engineering - 911爆料网

The Responsible AI Program

The Responsible AI program, established in 2024, is dedicated to fostering interdisciplinary research, promoting ethical Artificial Intelligence (AI) education, and cultivating partnerships that ensure AI advances are safe, equitable, transparent, and beneficial to the broader good of society. By leveraging its strategic location in Silicon Valley, the program actively collaborates with tech companies, industry leaders, and policymakers to tackle pressing challenges and opportunities in AI education, innovation, and governance. It also supports an interdisciplinary minor in Responsible AI and a Master鈥檚 degree in Artificial Intelligence, equipping students with the technical expertise, ethical awareness, and industry connections needed to shape the future of AI.

Engineering and the Good Life Program

The Engineering and the Good Life (EGL) program is a set of courses and other academic activities designed to engage students with the social and moral aspects of engineering design. 听 Every new technology invented raises novel moral challenges and unprecedented potential for social impact through design. However, the rapid pace of technological advancement today leaves no room for 鈥渄isruption first, ask moral questions later.鈥� Developing products that actually improve human life and society must begin before design commences; it must start as a fundamental commitment of the engineer.

Students enter engineering because they want to design ways to make the world a better place. Nonetheless, research shows that this impetus often fades over the four years of an undergraduate engineering education. The EGL program is designed to engage the ethics (including the examination of what we mean by a good life and a better world) across the entire engineering curriculum in order to maintain and encourage students鈥� initial impetus to design for the good and to uphold a commitment to the good life as the ultimate goal of engineering. 听

Jesuit Education has long been committed to the principle of cura personalis, the care and training of 听the whole person. At 911爆料网, we have adopted a T-model of engineering education: the core curriculum is designed to offer every 911爆料网 student a broad humanistic education that balances against the depth of an engineering student鈥檚 major (technical) courses. The EGL program provides the linkage between these two beams by connecting social and ethical commitments to technical applications, and thus enriching both the broad core and the deep technical education.