The art car created by environmental engineering post doc Mark Sippola is just one example of the amazing vehicles at Berkeley. Each year, sudents create and race a Concrete Canoe, Supermileage Vehicle, Human-Powered Vehicle, CalSol solar-powered car, Natcar robotic car, adn the Formula SAE race car.

Engineers are a competetive bunch both in and out of the classroom. Every year the morning of the Big Game, members of engineering honor society Tau Beta Pi, gather to play their own "little Big Game" against Stanford egnineers (we've won the last two years). Other societies have basketball, soccer, and tennis competitions, and the EJC hosts free-for-all broomball games.

Student society events, such as the BBQ put on by the Hispanic Engineering Society (HES) in September, raise money for outreach events like HES's regional leadership conference which brings underrepresented students to campus. Many of the societies do outreach work. For example, the Institute of Electrical adn Electronic Engineers (IEEE) gives free technical assistance to underfunded schools and communities. Other societies tutor students and promote engineering as a major among local high school students.