Cal Day 2007
Schedule of Informational Events for
EECS and L&S Freshmen and Families
Saturday, April 21, 2007
9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Tours
9:30-3:30pm
Tours of Soda Hall, departs every 1/2 hour from 3rd floor of
Soda
10:00-3:00pm
Student led tours of Cory Hall, departs every 20 minutes from 2nd floor of
Cory
[Map of northeast campus buildings: Soda, Cory, and Bechtel Engineering Center]
Robot Racing Cars
10:00-12:00pm, 240 Courtyard Cory Hall
Professor Ron Fearing
and students will demonstrate student-made vehicles racing a 100-meter course under computer control, avoiding obstacles and staying on a track.
CITRIS High Definition Time-Lapse Project
10:00-12:00pm, 3rd floor, Soda Hall
Continuous showing of the time-lapse movies capturing the multi-year construction of the new CITRIS building across the street from Soda Hall.
Magnetic Levitation Experiment
10:00-1:00pm, 212 Cory Hall
What is feedback control, and how can you accomplish magnetic levitation? See what
Electrical engineering students found out as they walk through their experiment
Computer Animation with UCBUGG: An example from Start to Finish
10:00-11:30am, 306 Soda Hall, Hewlett Packard Auditorium
Continuous showing of graphics and animation projects produced by undergraduates in Berkeley's
Undergraduate Graphics Group.
Computer Animation with UCBUGG: An example from Start to Finish
11:30-12:00pm, 306 Soda Hall, Hewlett Packard Auditorium
Detailed explanation and discussion of various animation and graphics projects
Produced by undergraduates in UCBUGG
Gamescrafters - Undergraduate Game Theory Research
10:00-1:00pm, 310 Soda Hall
Play some of the games that freshmen and sophomores have created and added to the ongoing Gamescrafters research project.
Major Information Session for the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Freshman
1:00-2:00pm, Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center
Why choose EECS at Berkeley? Faculty will discuss this exciting major and answer your questions.
Intended CS Majors in the College of Letters and Sciences
1:00-2:00pm, 306 Soda Hall
Learn How to get into the major, along with other information on the BA program in CS.
Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences Major Student Panel
2:00-3:00pm, Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Honor Society
(HKN) and
Letters & Science Honor Society (UPE) students will present an open
discussion of the major with questions and answers sessions
BGESS Annual Science Fair
10:00-3:00pm, Wozniak Lounge, Soda Hall
Black Graduate Engineering and
Science Students Science Fair. Local high school students,
mentored by UC Berkeley graduate students, display their cool science projects.
IEEE: Build A Circuit
10:00-3:00pm, 246 Cory Hall
Circuits are the building blocks of the electronics we rely on every day. Come to the lab and
build simple circuits with members of the
Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).