Cal Day at EECS
Prof. Stuart Russell, Chair of EECS department Cal Day Presentation
Prof. Tsu-Jae King Liu, Associate Dean for Research, COE "A View from the Top and to the Future" Cal Day Presentation
Slideshow
Schedule of Informational Events for EECS and L&S Freshmen & Families
Saturday, April 18, 2009
9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Tours
9:30am - 3:00pm Tours of Soda Hall led by students, depart every 1/2 hour from 3rd floor of Soda
10:00am - 3:00pm Tours of Cory Hall led by students, depart every 20 minutes from 2nd floor of Cory
On View: Computer Animation with UCBUGG
10:00-11:00am, 306 Soda Hall
Continuous showing of graphics and animation projects produced by undergraduates in UCBUGG
Automated Robot Racing Cars
10:00-12:00pm, 240 Courtyard, Cory Hall
Students will demonstrate student-made vehicles which will race while avoiding obstacles and staying on track
IEEE Lab Open House
10:00-12:00pm, 246 Cory Hall
IEEE students will demo a project as well as talk about student life in the labs
Insect Flight Control
10:00-12:00pm, 407 Cory Hall
Demonstration of Microsystems for interfacing with insect flight systems
Gamescrafters: Undergraduate Game Theory Research
10:00-1:00pm, 310 & 320 Soda Hall
Play some of the games that freshmen and sophomores have created
Microfabrication Lab
10:00-12:00pm, 212-8 Cory Hall
See CMOS wafers and how chips are designed and made
Robot Learning Lab
10:00-12:00pm, 476 Cory Hall
Students will showcase their work on autonomous helicopter flight
Tele-Immersion Long Distance Collaboration in Real Time
10:00-1:00pm, 475 Hearst Mining Building
Tele-Immersion is aimed to enable users in geographically distributed sites to collaborate in real time in a shared simulated environment as if they were in the same physical place
Berkeley Institute of Design (BID) Lab
10:00-1:00pm, 354 Hearst Mining Building
BID's deeply interdisciplinary approach to design spans HCI, mechanical design, education, architecture, and art practice
Poster Session
10:00-3:00pm, 4th floor Soda Hall
A display of undergraduate research projects in EECS
BGESS Annual High School Science Fair
11:00-2:00pm, 430 Wozniak Lounge, Soda Hall
Come to the fair! Oakland Technical High School students, mentored by Berkeley Black Graduate Engineering and Science Students (BGESS), show off their cool science projects
Computer Animation and Film: Examples from start to finish
11:00-12:00pm, 306 Soda Hall
Detailed explanation and discussion of various animation and graphics projects produced by undergraduates in UCBUGG
A View from the Top and to the Future
12:00-1:00pm, 306 Soda Hall
Prof. Tsu-Jae King Liu will give a talk about "The Value and Impact of an Engineering Education in the 21st Century"
Intended CS Majors in L&S Information Session
1:00-2:00pm, 306 Soda Hall
Detailed information about the BA program in CS at Berkeley
Pacman
1:00-3:00pm, 125 Cory Hall
Students will showcase their localization and maze traversal demonstration
Hands on Electronic Circuits
1:00-3:00pm, 353 Cory Hall
Build electronic circuits, learn to solder, and get exposed to electrical engineering
Class Project Demo for 100/43
1:00-3:00pm, 140 Cory Hall, William Grossman
Students will demo a class project: the LED display driver. The goal of the project is to visually display sensor values. Students are given a Printed-Circuit-Board onto which they solder components. The board takes in two analog inputs and provides a linear analog display on two bar LEDs proportional to the sensor voltage level
Feedback Control Systems Demo
1:00-3:00pm, 125 Cory Hall, Bharath Muthuswamy
Students will demo two class projects. Magnetic Levitation system and the inverted pendulum. We have moved toward digital implantation of the controllers using LABVIEW. This permits students to design and implement advanced control laws for interesting application like a self-erecting inverted pendulum
Computer Science Illustrated Live!
1:00-3:00pm, 651 Soda Hall
This project creates compelling visual imagery to help teach computer science. See the Illustrations and watch the artist fill whiteboards with her art.
The STARMAC Project: Cal's Fleet of Flying Robots!
1:00-3:00pm, 240 Courtyard, Cory Hall
What's cooler than robots? Flying robots! Come see these autonomous aerial vehicles and learn about the technology that makes them tick
Anatomy of a Vacuum Hack
1:00-3:00pm, 521 Cory Hall
From the makers of the Roomba vacuum cleaner, the iRobot Create is a robotic platform used in the cutting-edge embedded systems course EECS c149. Enhancements have included range finders, laser sensors and actuators, accelerometers, Bluetooth radios, and an advanced 32-bit microcontroller. Come see a live demo of a robot that uses tilt information to navigate a hill while avoiding obstacles
Digital Design: from Video Games to Processors
1:00-3:00pm, 125 Cory Hall
A number of EECS 150 course projects using reconfigurable hardware - a flexible RISC processor (SPARC V8) implantation - Wireless video conferencing system with compression and instant messaging (hardware implantation)
Design of Simple Electronic Circuits
1:00-3:00pm, 140 Cory Hall, EE 40
Design and implantation of an electronic scale is demonstrated
Rock Band Bot
1:00-3:00pm, 531 Cory Hall
Watch or play against a robot that plays the drums in a Rock Band
Wii-mote Controlled Wireless Caravan
1:00-3:00pm, 299 Cory Hall
EECS 149 Team Rovio students demonostrate their autonomous robot project
Body Sensor
1:00-3:00pm, 240 Cory Hall
Write numbers and symbols with a robotic arm through postures using a wireless body sensor network
Major Information Session for Admitted Freshmen
2:00-3:00pm, Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center
Detailed information about the EECS/BS program at Berkeley
EECS Life from a Student Perspective
3:00-4:00pm, Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center
An open discussion with current students about the EECS and LSCS programs