California
zI recently returned from 6 months at UCSD, in the Jacobs School of Engineering
yUCSD Engineering faculty increased by 55 between 1994 and 2001, with an additional 40 committed by 2005, as part of a statewide plan to increase overall UC engineering enrollment by 40%
y471,000 GSF of new UCSD Engineering facilities are currently under construction, 75% state-funded (partly as UCSD’s share of the 4 $100M “California Institutes for Science and Innovation”)
yA new state-funded CSE building was one of six state-funded UC buildings just accelerated by 1 year with an “economic development” rationale