Cal Day
April 22, 2023
Main Event Contact Information
Email: worta@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
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
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM, 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
Volumetric 3D Printing Demonstrations
Noon – 2:00 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.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Hayden Taylor
Student Groups
Student groups will be located in the breezeway between Etcheverry Hall and Soda Hall.
ASME at Berkeley
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is an international professional organization connecting Mechanical Engineers, both in the field and in academia, around the world. Here at Cal, ASME is both a pre-professional and educational organization geared towards fostering and enriching the academic experience of M.E. students at Berkeley. Our chapter has three primary focuses: Professional, Social, and Developmental. Throughout the year, we host professional events like resume workshops and career fairs.
Cal Aero SAE
10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
We spend each year designing, manufacturing, testing, and flying aircraft in preparation for the SAE International Aero-Design West competition each Spring. The rules of the competition teach our team to optimize our engineering and design abilities in a payload optimization and humanitarian themed environment against other universities from around the world.
Solar Vehicle Exploration with CalSol
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Calsol is a solar car whose purpose is to design, build, test, and race fully solar-powered vehicles. 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 and mechanical components. Join our team!
Glitch from BattleBots presented by Combat Robotics at Berkeley
11:00 AM – 3:00 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 Glitch, our Season 6 Rookie of the Year on Discovery’s BattleBots!
Formula SAE/Berkeley Formula Racing
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Formula SAE is an international engineering design competition that provides college students with the unique opportunity to enhance their engineering design and project management skills through practical application. We create a formula-style, single-seat race car over the course of a school year in order to participate in Competition every 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. The competition pushes the boundaries of conventional learning, pushing students to develop skills applicable to the professional world that are overlooked in traditional school curriculum.
Space Enterprise at Berkeley
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
At SEB, we have one goal: becoming the first collegiate team to launch a liquid bi-propellant rocket past the Karman Line. Our team is known for its fast-paced environment and its focus on low-cost innovation. In 4 years, we have conducted 17 static firing tests and have launched 10 vehicles. Our most recent milestone is the successful launch of Eureka-1, which soared to 11,000ft. 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-2, our second liquid rocket that is just months away from its maiden flight to a record altitude of 25,000 feet!
Space Technologies and Rocketry
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
We are Cal STAR, UC Berkeley’s Space Technologies and Rocketry Team and we are reaching out to you all because we are looking for amazing new members this fall! STAR boasts the longest and most successful launch history on campus, with a total of six complete vehicles engineered over our half decade lifetime. These vehicles have been completely student designed and tested, from our in-house avionics to our liquid-fuel propulsion to our array of payloads — ranging from microbial power cells to muon detectors, and even rocket-deployed aircrafts! STAR also boasts the longest competition history on campus, having previously launched as NASA Student Launch, and now participating in the ESRA Spaceport America Cup. What makes STAR special is that we are a very education focused team, and new members do not need any prior experience at all — we teach them everything they need to know! We pair all new members with a mentor and have them complete an intro project which will teach them everything they need to know to become a fully functional member of our team. We also are a community focused organization that runs outreach events with our community where we educate local Bay Area students through lectures, demonstrations, and more! We have a variety of subteams available to our members like airframe, avionics, propulsion, payload, recovery, simulations, systems, business, outreach, and media. 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
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles at Berkeley
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
UAVs@Berkeley is a student group dedicated to researching, designing, and manufacturing all things related to UAVs. This year, we are participating in an international competition, and we are building Berkeley’s largest ever drone to submit. Come visit our table to check it out!