<p>I knew someone who did this at a UC so it is possible. For the UCs that allow it I suggest that you schedule an appt with someone (undergrad dean or advisor) in the Engineering dept at each school and visit in person. What you want to do isn’t going to be covered in a lot of detail on the web the way standard frosh or xfer applications are, and you need to get all the details right. Bring your transcript and the Catalog from UCSC so they can tell you what classes you need to take in order to apply. You’ll need to be able to enter at the junior level, so all the classes you need to get to that level you’ll need to finish by the time you’d start at the UC. They usually accept only 1 or 2 students for these types of programs each year at each campus, so the 1st thing they do to cut down the list of applicants is ruthlessly prune out anyone who hadn’t met every requirement. Hopefully your GPA and SAT scores are high.</p>
<p>Or you could just decide to go on for the MS, which might be a better path. Turns out you can apply to the CSU system for the MS program and be accepted in a classification in which you are allowed to take any missing prep classes before you are formally accepted to the MS program. This essentially amounts to taking the classes for the 2nd BS degree, then it takes the extra year for a MS. Again, I’d suggest making appts with advisors or undergrad deans to go over this. </p>
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I wouldn’t be so sure about them being easy at a CC, but I guess you’ll see if you go that route. Other options, even if you’re thinking about the 2nd degree at the UC, are to start with the MS program at a CSU campus as outlined above until you’ve taken enough classes to be junior level. And most UC campuses, on paper at least, let you take any class on campus for full credit thru their Extension program; this is subject to approval of the school and instructor, so before counting on this to get to junior level you’d need to find out if it is real or just something that exists on paper.</p>