Which is a more important contribution to the local tech economy, graduates or early-stage technologies?
In some cases the two are inseparable, such as when alumni set up their own companies. Eighty percent of UCSD students stay on the West Coast, most of them in California, so we’re definitely providing graduates for the state’s tech companies. Is the Corporate Affiliates Program primarily a recruiting service? CAP is a membership program that allows businesses to form a partnership with the engineering school. In addition to recruiting students, they can build research partnerships where UCSD will provide matching grant money for the research. A partner’s research money can go twice as far. Is technology education at risk from the state budget crisis? I’m the liaison between industry and the engineering school. I don’t have much contact with day-to-day academics. A lot of technology seed money (off-campus) has dried up because of the budget crisis. We still have money to fund matching grants. So far that’s not been affected. What’s an intriguing technology that never made it out of the
