The best way to know if Berkeley ME is right for you is to meet us! We offer several opportunities each year to get to know us.
Cal Day – April 23, 2022
Email: rickyv72@berkeley.edu
Department: Mechanical Engineering
11:30 AM – 12:15 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
ASME Q&A Panel with Mechanical Engineering Students
12:30 – 1:00 PM, 310 Jacobs Hall
The Fire Whirl, Hesse Hall Open House
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM, Hesse Hall
A “Tornado” of Fire. Students will demonstrate fire whirls Berkeley ME researchers are making in the laboratory to help clean up oil spills.
The Human Powered Vehicle Team
9:00 AM – 2:00 PM, Etcheverry Hall Breezeway
The Human Powered Vehicle team designs, manufactures, and races a bicycle capable of achieving speeds up to 60 miles per hour. At Cal Day, we will bring a new bike and an old one to show members of the community how our vehicles are designed. Visitors can meet current members, learn about parts, and even take a seat in our prone bicycle set to break a world record this fall.
Mechanical Engineering Student Access Machine Shop
9:00 AM – 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.
Solar Vehicle Exploration with CalSol
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM, Etcheverry Hall Breezeway
Calsol is a solar car team made up of Berkeley students in all majors. We are currently building our 10th generation car Excalibur, and yes it can really drive! Come look at our past solar cars and play around with the materials we use to make our vehicles. Learn how solar cells work, the electric engineering that goes on under the hood, and the integration of all our solar components. Join our team!
Space Enterprise at Berkeley
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM, Etcheverry Hall Breezeway
At SEB, we have one goal: becoming the first collegiate team to launch a liquid bi-propellant rocket past the Karman Line. Come check out our booth at Cal Day to get an up close look at the technology we’ve developed on our journey to the stars, most notably Eureka 1, our first liquid rocket that is just weeks away from its maiden flight to an altitude of about 35,000 feet!
Berkeley Formula Racing
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM, Etcheverry Hall Breezeway
Berkeley Formula Racing is UC Berkeley’s internal combustion FSAE team. We build a single seat race car from the ground up. Stop by to learn more, including how to engineer a racecar, what is so cool about being on a competition build team at Cal, and how you can join. Our Public Reveal for this year’s car will be on Cal Day, so it’s the first time we’ll have it on display on campus!
RoboBears Combat Robotics Club
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM, Etcheverry Hall Breezeway
RoboBears is a learning-focused club that guides its members through the entire design and manufacturing process of building a 3-lbs combat robot.
HiPeRLab Tour
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM, 1176C Etcheverry Hall
Welcome to HiPeRLab. We focus on low-level research on fundamental robotics capabilities, especially for Unmanned Aerial Systems. We will give a lab tour for the incoming guests and present our recent work through a live demo or experiment videos.
Robots in Action! Autonomous Robotic Arms and Race Car Simulation
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM, 2105 Etcheverry Hall
Event Description : 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 peg-in-hole assembly and cruising in a racing simulator.
Volumetric 3D Printing Demonstrations
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM, 1176B Etcheverry Hall
Join us for a tour in the Design for Emerging and Nanoscale Manufacturing lab! We invent manufacturing processes for various applications that minimize resource consumption. We design and develop systems capable of printing centimeter, millimeter, and even micrometer scale objects. During the tour, explore the future of manufacturing: CAL (Computed Axial Lithography), with which we will print the Cal Bear and the famous Thinker in a matter of seconds.
Glitch from BattleBots presented by Combat Robotics at Berkeley
12:00 – 3:00 PM, Etcheverry Hall Breezeway
Hello! We’re Combat Robotics at Berkeley, a student organization that promotes STEM education by competing on the Discovery channel’s BattleBots. Come by to see Glitch, one of the top rookies of Season 7 with a currently undefeated record of 3-0!
ME LABS & STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS:
CalSMV
CalSMV races in the Shell Eco Marathon which competes around the globe across four continents to spread awareness of alternative fuels and to foster the ingenuity of tomorrow’s engineers.
Formula SAE
We design, fabricate, & compete with small formula-style race cars against other colleges from around the world.
HiPeR Lab
The group focuses on low-level research on fundamental capabilities for Unmanned Aerial Systems. Areas of particular focus are safety and localization; we aim to enhance the systems’ capabilities by advanced algorithms, mechanical design, and control strategies.
Mechanical Systems Control Lab
The MSC Lab focuses on designing and developing control strategies for mechanical systems. The laboratory has engaged in pioneering research in precision motion control, robot control, vehicle control and mechatronics.