Campus Directory

Division Baskin School of Engineering

Department/College/Unit Electrical and Computer Engineering

Title Jack Baskin Professor of Computer Engineering Emeritus
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Emeritus
Director Senior Design Capstone

Affiliation Faculty

Faculty Type Emeriti

Web Site

Primary Office Location Jack Baskin Engineering Building
Room 573

Office Hours by appointment

Mail Stop Engineering

Biography, Education and Training

•  Professor Patrick E. Mantey is the founding Dean of the Jack Baskin School of Engineering. He is now Jack Baskin Professor of Computer Engineering Emeritus, Emeritus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Emeritus / Founding director of CITRIS at Santa Cruz. Professor Mantey is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a member of American Society for Engineering Education, Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Xi. In 1984, he joined the UCSC faculty to start its engineering programs, coming from IBM where he was a senior manager in Computer Science at the IBM Almaden Research Center. His extensive computer industry experience, especially in the design of computer systems for a variety of applications in government and industry, has influenced his research and professional activities. He taught at Stanford University in Electrical Engineering before and during his IBM employment. He received his B.S. (magna cum laude) from the University of Notre Dame, his M.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his Ph.D. (with an NSF Fellowship) from Stanford University, all in electrical engineering.  See https://mantey.soe.ucsc.edu/

Research Interests

• Sensor systems
• Internet of things
• Cyber physical systems
• Digital signal processing and control
• Decision support/recommender systems for real-time operations
• Renewable energy and micro grids
• Energy management
• Home activity monitoring and elder care/aging-in-place
• Geographic information systems in real-time resource allocation
• Information system architecture and performance
• Networking QoS
• Storage and multimedia streaming
• Automation, control and robotics
• Engineering management