Cal Day
April 13, 2024
Main Event Contact Information
Email: civello@berkeley.edu
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Information Sessions
Mechanical Engineering Welcome Session
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM, 310 Jacobs Hall
Learn about exciting research in mechanical engineering, hear an overview of the undergraduate program, and discover why mechanical engineering is such a dynamic, versatile discipline.
Please RSVP via this link: https://forms.gle/yZS1dZkeaCLidfrf7
ASME Q&A Panel with Mechanical Engineering Students
2:45 PM – 3:30 PM, 310 Jacobs Hall
Tours/Lab Presentations
Mechanical Engineering Student Access Machine Shop
9:00 AM – noon, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM, 1166 Etcheverry Hall
The Department of Mechanical Engineering’s Student Access Machine Shop provides engineering students with a well-equipped, safe working environment in which those students can design and manufacture their projects for engineering classes, research, and several student-led competition teams through on-site technical guidance. The shop provides essential safety training and technical guidance as well as machine operation instruction for the purpose of providing hands-on experience which seeks to balance and compliment the strong theoretical education.
MSC Lab: Robots in Action! Autonomous Robotic Arms and Race Car Simulation
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM, 2105 Etcheverry Hall
Our lab focuses on intelligent automation for robots such as robotic arms and cars. Our robots use control and machine learning technologies to perform various tasks. Come visit us at Etcheverry Hall 2105 and check out our robots performing manipulation and cruising in a racing simulator.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Masayoshi Tomizuka
Berkeley Fire Research Lab Fire Tornado!
10:00 AM – 3:00 PM, – 60 Hesse Hall
The Berkeley Fire Research Lab will be open for visitors to see exciting fire research experiments including materials testing in space, wildfire spread, smoke generation, and a demonstration of the fire tornado!
Principal Investigator: Dr. Michael Gollner
Student Groups
Student groups will be located in the breezeway between Etcheverry Hall and Soda Hall.
Formula SAE/Berkeley Formula Racing
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Berkeley Formula Racing – BFR is Cal’s Formula SAE Internal Combustion Engine team. Established in 2001, we have a long history of designing and manufacturing cars from the ground up for competition each summer’s competition. We are fresh off placing 2nd out of 120 teams in Autocross and 1st overall at last year’s SoCal Shootout. Talk to us about joining any of our nine subsystems: Aerodynamics, Brakes & Driver Interface, Business, Chassis, Drivetrain, Electrical, Engine, Suspension, and Vehicle Dynamics.
Cal Aero SAE- “Learn About Electric Aircraft!”
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Come visit Aerospace SAE during Cal Day to learn more about the only competitive electric aircraft building team on campus! Talk to members from our design and build teams and see previous competition aircraft components! In addition to the competitive nature of the team, we also focus on educating engineers in the skills necessary for not only building an aircraft, but for a future career in engineering.
Formula Electric at Berkeley
10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Formula Electric at Berkeley is a student organization that designs and builds an electric Formula 1 style racecar every year. We design and build the car ever year to race it at competition in June. The competition is comprised of dynamic events to test the vehicle’s performance and reliability and static events to test the rigor and feasibility of the engineering design and business strategy. Come by and check out our new car for the 2024 season!
Glitch from BattleBots presented by Combat Robotics at Berkeley
11:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Hello! We’re Combat Robotics at Berkeley, a student organization that promotes STEM education by competing with 3lb, 15lb and 250lb combat robots. Come by to see our robot Glitch, the Rookie of the Year on Discovery’s BattleBots Season 6!
Space Technologies at California
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Space Technologies at California is a student engineering organization focused on developing innovative space technologies and research. We are student-driven and sponsored by research labs and industry partners to pursue research projects such as AI Rovers, exploratory lunar robots, biological Microgravity Experiments, quantum CubeSats, biopharmaceutical experiments, and more. Stop by our table to learn about our five project teams and talk to our members!
NewSpace@Berkeley
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
NewSpace@Berkeley is the hub for all things aerospace on campus. We are focused on space education, providing career development opportunities, and bolstering innovation on campus. Through our verticals: Community, Policy, and Education we are committed to cultivating and bringing the aerospace community together through awareness events, running the Space Tech Symposium, and providing mentorship for students interested in pursuing a career in the industry. Moreover, our organization houses a Decal course in which students learn about space from industry professionals and through project work for NewSpace companies. We’ve partnered with many different companies, like Planet, OrbitFab, RedWire, etc. and worked on a wide variety of projects ranging from business to technical.
Space Technologies and Rocketry
10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Space Technologies And Rocketry(STAR) boasts the longest and most successful launch history on campus, with a total of ten complete vehicles engineered over our half-decade lifetime! These vehicles are student designed and tested, from our in-house avionics, to our liquid-fuel propulsion, to our array of payloads — ranging from muon detectors, to even organ transport prototypes! STAR also boasts the longest competition history on campus, now participating in the ESRA Spaceport America Cup.
We welcome all majors and backgrounds! Visit us at: https://stars.berkeley.edu/index.html and https://rocketry.gitbook.io/public/. We ask all perspective members reach out to us via our email: ucberkeleystar@gmail.com
Association of Women in Aerospace at Berkeley (AWA)
9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
The Association of Women in Aerospace at Berkeley (AWA) is an association dedicated to empowering and supporting women who often find themselves in the minority within aerospace. We are here to create a welcoming and inclusive space where you can thrive academically, grow professionally, and build lifelong friendships. We are not limited to Aerospace majors; we welcome anyone interested in aerospace! Come visit our table and talk to us about joining!
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Berkeley (AIAA)
9:00 AM – 2:00 PM
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Berkeley – AIAA at Berkeley is a collegiate branch of the world’s largest aerospace technical society and leading aerospace publisher. AIAA hosts the world’s largest annual aerospace conference (AIAA SciTech) with numerous networking opportunities, scholarships, research, and publications.
Space Enterprise at Berkeley
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM