Cal Day
The best way to know if Berkeley Aerospace Engineering is right for you is to meet us! Imagine seeing the most exciting, outrageous, informative aspects of Berkeley and the College of Engineering, all in one day. Join us for Cal Day, an extravaganza of events that showcase the brilliance and fun of the Berkeley campus and Aerospace Engineering program.
Cal Day, Saturday, April 13, 2024
Aerospace Engineering Facility Tour in Hesse Hall 12:45 – 2:45 pm | Meet Tour Guides at the Aerospace Engineering Table in the Etcheverry Hall Breezeway.
Welcome and Information Session 11:00 am – 12:00 pm | 310 Jacobs Hall | RSVP
Presented by Professor Panos Papadopoulos, Faculty Director, Aerospace Engineering Major. Learn about the Aerospace Engineering major and hear an overview of the aerospace program’s focus on emerging technologies, including sustainable aviation, autonomous flight and space exploration. Also, hear from a panel of current Aerospace Engineering students about their first year experience in the major with Q&A session to follow.
Student Groups
Student groups will be located in the breezeway between Etcheverry Hall and Soda Hall.
Formula SAE/Berkeley Formula Racing
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Berkeley Formula Racing – BFR is Cal’s Formula SAE Internal Combustion Engine team. Established in 2001, we have a long history of designing and manufacturing cars from the ground up for competition each summer’s competition. We are fresh off placing 2nd out of 120 teams in Autocross and 1st overall at last year’s SoCal Shootout. Talk to us about joining any of our nine subsystems: Aerodynamics, Brakes & Driver Interface, Business, Chassis, Drivetrain, Electrical, Engine, Suspension, and Vehicle Dynamics.
Cal Aero SAE- “Learn About Electric Aircraft!”
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Come visit Aerospace SAE during Cal Day to learn more about the only competitive electric aircraft building team on campus! Talk to members from our design and build teams and see previous competition aircraft components! In addition to the competitive nature of the team, we also focus on educating engineers in the skills necessary for not only building an aircraft, but for a future career in engineering.
Formula Electric at Berkeley
10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Formula Electric at Berkeley is a student organization that designs and builds an electric Formula 1 style racecar every year. We design and build the car ever year to race it at competition in 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. Come by and check out our new car for the 2024 season!
Glitch from BattleBots presented by Combat Robotics at Berkeley
11:00 AM – 2:00 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 our robot Glitch, the Rookie of the Year on Discovery’s BattleBots Season 6!
Space Technologies at California
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Space Technologies at California is a student engineering organization focused on developing innovative space technologies and research. We are student-driven and sponsored by research labs and industry partners to pursue research projects such as AI Rovers, exploratory lunar robots, biological Microgravity Experiments, quantum CubeSats, biopharmaceutical experiments, and more. Stop by our table to learn about our five project teams and talk to our members!
NewSpace@Berkeley
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
NewSpace@Berkeley is the hub for all things aerospace on campus. We are focused on space education, providing career development opportunities, and bolstering innovation on campus. Through our verticals: Community, Policy, and Education we are committed to cultivating and bringing the aerospace community together through awareness events, running the Space Tech Symposium, and providing mentorship for students interested in pursuing a career in the industry. Moreover, our organization houses a Decal course in which students learn about space from industry professionals and through project work for NewSpace companies. We’ve partnered with many different companies, like Planet, OrbitFab, RedWire, etc. and worked on a wide variety of projects ranging from business to technical.
Space Technologies and Rocketry
10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Space Technologies And Rocketry(STAR) boasts the longest and most successful launch history on campus, with a total of ten complete vehicles engineered over our half-decade lifetime! These vehicles are student designed and tested, from our in-house avionics, to our liquid-fuel propulsion, to our array of payloads — ranging from muon detectors, to even organ transport prototypes! STAR also boasts the longest competition history on campus, now participating in the ESRA Spaceport America Cup.
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
Association of Women in Aerospace at Berkeley (AWA)
9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
The Association of Women in Aerospace at Berkeley (AWA) is an association dedicated to empowering and supporting women who often find themselves in the minority within aerospace. We are here to create a welcoming and inclusive space where you can thrive academically, grow professionally, and build lifelong friendships. We are not limited to Aerospace majors; we welcome anyone interested in aerospace! Come visit our table and talk to us about joining!
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Berkeley (AIAA)
9:00 AM – 2:00 PM
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Berkeley – AIAA at Berkeley is a collegiate branch of the world’s largest aerospace technical society and leading aerospace publisher. AIAA hosts the world’s largest annual aerospace conference (AIAA SciTech) with numerous networking opportunities, scholarships, research, and publications.
Space Enterprise at Berkeley
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
SEB will be showing off parts of our previous flight vehicles, such as retired airframes and avionics hardware. We’ll also have posters demonstrating our club’s work, which explain at a high level how our systems function. Most excitingly, we’ll be presenting our new additively manufactured, regeneratively cooled rocket engine and its accompanying propellant feed system.
Main Event Contact Information
Name: Karren Bautista Tanisaki
Email: aero@berkeley.edu