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Cal Day 2006
Schedule of Informational Events
for EE and CS Freshmen & Families

Saturday, April 22, 2006
9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of California, Berkeley

Tours
9:30-3:30 p.m. Tours of Soda Hall, departing every 1/2 hour from 3rd floor of Soda Hall
10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Student led tours of Cory Hall, departing from 2nd floor of Cory Hall
Major Information Sessions for admitted freshmen, 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Admitted EECS Freshmen: Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center

Intended CS Majors in the College of Letters and Science: HP Auditorium, 306 Soda Hall

Welcome to Cal! Learn all about the exciting field of EECS from faculty and staff.
Don't know which one to go to?

  • If you were admitted into the College of Engineering, go to Sibley Auditorium in Bechtel
  • If you were admitted into the College of Letters & Science and would like to major in Computer Science, go to the HP Auditorium in Soda Hall.

Student Panel, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center

A panel of enrolled students from HKN and UPE (EECS and LSCS honors societies) will present an open discussion of the majors with a question and answer session for prospective students and their families. Get the answers here!

Computer Animation Talk: An example from Start to Finish, 11:30 a.m.-12 Noon
Hewlett-Packard Auditorium, 306 Soda Hall

Hear a detailed explanation and discussion of various animation and graphics projects (including "The Play" from the 1982 Cal - Stanford football game) produced by students in the  UC Berkeley Undergraduate Graphics Group (UCBUGG). With Dr. Dan Garcia and members of UCBUGG. 

If you are not able to attend the talk but want to see the footage of the project, continuous showing of the animated version will play in Soda Hall from 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

BGESS/EECS Annual Science Fair, 10:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Wozniak Lounge, 4th Floor Soda Hall 

Black Graduate Engineering & Science Students Science Fair.  Local high school students, mentored by UC Berkeley graduate students, display their cool science projects.  

Robotic Racing Cars, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 Noon
200 Cory Hall Courtyard (enter through 240 Cory)

Professor Ron Fearing & students will demonstrate student-made vehicles racing in a 100-meter course under computer control, avoiding obstacles and staying on a track.

Gamescrafters-Undergraduate Game Theory Research, 10:00 - 1:00 p.m.
310 Soda Hall

Play some of the games that students in the the Gamecrafters research group have created and added to the ongoing Gamescrafters research project. 

Virtual Museum, 10:00 - 12:00 pm
320 Soda Hall

Undergraduates will be showing results of having used various technologies for building digital libraries of artifacts and materials objects, such as those found in museum collections.

Cal Robotics, 12:00 - 1:00 pm
HP Auditorium, 306 Soda Hall

Watch undergraduate students demonstrate various robust and reliable robots.

Bipedal Robotics, 10:00 - 1:00 pm
Hogan Room, 521 Cory

The demo will show case a bipedal walker along with a short talk about biped research in the EE department. This projuect is part of the nonlinear electronics (NOEL) lab (http://nonlinear.eecs.berkeley.edu/).

BErkeley AeRobot (BEAR), 10:00 - 12:00 pm
Wang Room 531 Cory

Watch exciting vidoe clips and see a cutting-edge research UAV of Berkeley Aerobot Team (http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/bear).

IEEE Open Lab, 8:00 - 3:00 pm
204A Cory

Come build simple circuits in the IEEE Lab!